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Excerpts from an interview with John P. Milton, outlining the basic principles behind the founding of the Sacred Passage and The Way of Nature programs:
"My professional ecological background has focused on ecological studies, ecological and economic development issues, national and international environmental policies and on saving the planet's rapidly vanishing wilderness. After immersing myself in creating major environmental initiatives for many years, I became convinced that political, legal and economic approaches did not go deep enough. These outer initiatives could not alone bring about the penetrating changes in human culture that we need for people to live in true harmony and balance with the Earth. The next great opening of ecological view would have to be an internal one.
 Reflecting on the profound internal changes that I, as well as others I had taken into the wilderness had experienced from nature solos, I knew that this process could help provide human culture with the deep inner communion with both the Earth, and Universal Source, that would be necessary for living in true integrity with Nature. Beginning in the late 1950's, and through the 1970's, I took friends on wilderness solos once or twice a year. By the 1980's, first the NatureQuest, and then the Sacred Passage and Way of Nature Programs became a way to make this experience more widely available. In many ways, I see the Passages as a form of Deep Ecology training and opening, a profound union of inner and outer Nature. Many who have done Sacred Passage have gone on to help in the healing and protection of the Earth."
Since the 1980's, the Sacred Passage and Way of Nature programs and teachings have grown in popularity, and John continues his work, organizing and leading Passages and Pilgrimages all year-round, both domestically and abroad. |
