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| The Life Cairn Fire |
Throughout human history, cairns have been built as
landmarks to help guide a journey, to memorialize fallen comrades, for
spiritual or shamanic practices, or simply to indicate a reverence for the
natural world. The Life Cairn is a powerful new version of this tradition
established in England
by Reverend Peter Owen-Jones and Andreas Kornevall and assisted by Vanessa
Vine, to memorialize species rendered extinct by human activity. The mission of
The Life Cairn Project is to promote and catalyze the creation of Life Cairns
as memorials to species that have become extinct due to human impacts on the
environment, and to sound urgent alerts about critically endangered species,
cultures and island nations.
A Life Cairn is more than a static memorial; through repeat
visits to add stones and express our grief when another species disappears
forever, a Life Cairn becomes a crucial touchstone for our sacred
interdependence. As board member Diana Lightmoon puts it, "Grieving for
the loss of a fellow creature of creation is an act of acknowledging what is
happening right now. From this place of acknowledgement, we may be able to find
a new way of being in this world with each other and with all species." To
learn more about constructing Life Cairns and what you can do about our Earth
Community's suffering, visit the Life Cairn Project website.
