Faith, Fern and Compass

Welcome back to Faith, Fern & Compass for the Season Two premiere!

In Episode 201 – Water Connects Us, we launch our new season’s theme: relationship and interconnection. Throughout this season we’ll be exploring our deep bonds with the natural world that gave birth to us and sustains us. We’ll take a deeper look at how we form relationships, how we connect to particular places, how we experience specific times in our lives, and what shapes our experiences. In nature-centered spirituality, water is both a metaphor for our deep interconnection, and a physical and spiritual example of it. In this episode we follow the trials and tribulations of a drop of the Colorado River, and visit the caffeine-laced shores of the Pacific Northwest; we marvel at underwater sculpture gardens and take a close look at the health of our oceans, as we explore our complex relationship with the waters of the Earth. In our Pro extension, we go deeper into the spiritual significance of water in Hinduism and how our relationship with purity shapes our expressions of religious devotion.

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• The River: Chasing a Drop Down the Colorado
• Pacific Northwest coastal seas found to be highly caffeinated
• The Flames of Ocean Acidity
• Jason de Caires Taylor’s Underwater Sculptures Create Incredible Living Coral Reefs
• Kate Dodd’s ‘Water: Illusions of Purity’ Installation Addresses the Environmental Destruction Caused by Bottled Water
• Artist Creates Temporary Graffiti Wall From Water And LEDs
• Review: ‘Garden in the Sea’ an eloquent study of art and ecology
• Samsara official website
• Introducing the Ocean Health Index
• The Purest of Them All

• The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, by David Suzuki
• Hindus Find a Ganges in Queens, to Park Rangers’ Dismay
• Hinduism and Water

• Opening and closing theme: “Dragonfly” by Brian Boyko
• “White Oak” and “Long Nights I,” by Daniel Bachman

• Original photography by Alison Leigh Lilly
• Thanks to ~ Essence of a Dream ~ for the background texture!

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