Tom Brown Jr. - Tom Browns Guide to Healing the Earth

Guide to Healing the Earth is about Grandfathers vision that each (individual) person who chooses to do so can become an effective agent of change in restoring balance in natural environments disrupted and stressed by modern society. To Grandfathers way of thinking, each act of caretaking, no matter how small, makes a difference. The positive energy of each and every act of a caretaker is felt by the natural world. Each positive act sends a form of healing energy to the (Earth and) environment around you in ever-widening circles. It is too overwhelming to try to address all the ways humankind is destroying and polluting our planet. The primary focus of this book is about what one person can do. Ive presented numerous ways of how to be a caretaker in this book so one can learn ways to interact with the natural world in a healing manner and create areas of balance through action.

This book is to encourage each person who reads it to embrace the fact they can make a difference. You become part of the solution when embracing the role of a caretaker and healer of our Earth Mother. Grandfather led me to understand that nothing can move in nature without affecting everything else around any action, be it a crows alarm call or the step of a fox in the brush.

Grandfathers vision of leading people back to the Earth was a fundamental part of his life. Throughout his sixty years of wandering throughout North and South America and during the years I was fortunate enough to spend with him, he was constantly exploring new ways to interact with his environment, constantly experiencing awe at the simplest acts in nature. Grandfather would sit with a blueberry bush for hours, watching a single flower as it opened and bloomed. He would place a single grain of sand on the tip of his finger and hold it in the sunlight, marveling for hours at the different patterns that the sunlight revealed as it moved across the sky. This book is my attempt to convey Grandfathers philosophy of life and state of consciousness when acting as a caretaker and healer of the Earth. Throughout the book Ill include some of my stories, experiences and specific examples of Grandfathers ways of caring for what he referred to as our Earth Mother.

Grandfather, through his actions, taught me about approaching the natural world from the perspective of a caretaker. He continually encouraged Rick and me to expand our awareness in every environment. Grandfather taught us to see, on the one hand, the big picture and, on the other hand, the tiniest details of each ecosystem we encountered.