Three Aunties, Inc., a new Florida not-for-profit corporation, received its IRS determination letter on September 14, 2012, informing us of its 501 (c) (3) tax exempt public charity status.
Below is the background information and mission statement for our new organization. We look forward to letting you know what our progress is on the projects we are planning.
PHILOSOPHY
The Three Aunties, the maiden, mother and crone, symbolize
the three-fold relationship we have with one another and our environment as we
spiral through time in the multiverse.
• First
we are nurtured with untold blessings from nature and our ancestors, so that we
come into the world in a state of gratitude.
• Next
these blessings blossom and come to fruition in our creative expression and
work.
• Finally,
we participate in our community through sharing our wisdom, and by providing an
empowering example of harmonious living.
The relationship we have with our environment is
mutual. As we pollute the environment, our
bodies and consciousness become polluted.
As we destroy the ecological integrity of our environment, our personal,
physiological, spiritual, and cultural integrity is destroyed. As we attempt to separate ourselves from our
environment, we lose our connection with nature. As a result, we lose our sense of being part
of something immensely powerful, enduringly nurturing, and unfathomably
complex.
People have an innate need to
be cradled in the arms of nature.
Without this, we become insecure, and begin to do things that are self-destructive. The outcome is a population of miserable people
who feel disconnected with our land, our community, our loved ones, and parts
of ourselves.
The words health, healing, whole, holy, wholesome, hallow,
heath, heathen, and holistic all come from the same Indo-European word root: kailo. The meaning of the root word is complete,
unharmed, and untilled or wild. People
are designed to live on the Earth, and the Earth is designed for people. We are not complete without the complex
relationship that naturally occurs between ourselves and the Earth.
GOALS
Even at this late hour, most of the problems people have
created between themselves and nature can be healed. As people spend time listening, watching and
experiencing nature, they learn how to live in a good way, and how to engage in
a mutually-beneficial relationship with nature.
Our work through Three Aunties will be to listen, watch and experience
nature, and in obedience to the revelations received, to use this knowledge to
guide us on this three-fold path:
1.
Spirit:
To nurture healthy relationships between people and their natural
environment by providing opportunities for interactive experiences, by conducting
scientific research, and by sharing information about, and experience within,
natural systems relating to natural cycles, interactions, and
interdependence.
2.
Mind: To
provide programs, activities, conferences, events and educational materials
connecting people with natural history, ecology, environmental health, and
alternative healing; and,
3.
Body: To
garner material support for, setup, and to enrich, manage, monitor, and expand
biodiversity preserves that also serve the needs of people;
THE PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES OF THREE AUNTIES ARE:
- To nurture healthy
relationships between people and their natural environment. Three Aunties will provide people with
rich, enlightening, and rewarding experiences that promote understanding,
mutually beneficial interactions, and commitment between people and
nature. Three Aunties will
introduce people to alternative ideas and behaviors, and will nurture the
spiritual connection between people and nature that can promote long-term
relationships between humans and the environment that have a positive
ecological outcome. Specifically,
Three Aunties will hostess activities, ceremonies, and events in the
natural environment. In addition,
Three Aunties will publish materials designed to make nature more
accessible, hospitable, and understandable to people. Furthermore, Three Aunties will foster
and conduct scientific research to determine the most appropriate ways for
people to interact with nature, and will share information on natural
systems and cycles that likewise informs interactions.
- To support people in their
understanding of nature, ecology, natural history, biology, environmental
health, energy medicine, and alternative healing with natural herbs and
foods. Three Aunties will seek to
enlighten through encouraging education, understanding, and research about
the consequences of the actions of people in nature in the past, present
and future. Three Aunties will
inform people about the condition of the environment and its significance
regarding ecology, toxicology, land use, environmental health and
biodiversity. Specifically, Three
Aunties will perform environmental consulting, research, and reporting,
and environmental education for land managers, land stewards,
decision-makers, educators, and the public. Furthermore, Three Aunties will provide
educational materials, programs, activities, conferences and events
connecting people with nature on all levels, mentally, spiritually,
emotionally and physically.
- To take action in
sustainable and right living that is mutually beneficial between humans
and nature. Three Aunties will
provide an opportunity for people to contribute to the creation of
biodiversity preserves. They will
be given an opportunity to donate time, energy, land, and money, and
participate in preserving, monitoring, managing, enriching, expanding, and
bio-diversifying natural habitat in Florida and the southeastern US. Specifically, Three Aunties will garner
material support for the purpose of setting up and enriching, monitoring,
managing, and expanding biodiversity preserves for healing the land and
the people. Furthermore,
biodiversity preserves will be integrated with the wider landscape through
things like wildlife corridors and compatible sustainable and mutually
beneficial human activity including primitive hunting and gathering,
ecological farming, ranching, and environmentally-sound occupation.
SUMMARY
In sum, the threefold mission of Three Aunties is to garner material
support for, set up, enrich, manage, monitor, and expand biodiversity preserves
that also serve the interest of people; to provide, programs, activities,
conferences, ceremonies, events and educational materials connecting people
with natural history, ecology, environmental health, and alternative healing;
and to nurture healthy relationships between people and their natural
environment by providing opportunities for interactive experiences, conducting
scientific research, and disseminating information on natural systems, cycles,
interactions and interdependence.
These services, opportunities, and information sources will
serve the general public by facilitating improved public health and quality of
life through changing how people do things as a result of improved environmental
awareness and a spiritual connection with nature.
PROGRAMS OF THREE AUNTIES
The purposes of the Three Aunties are promoted through
research, education, and conservation programs to benefit decision-makers, land
managers, land stewards, educators, and the public at large. To further its stated purposes, Three Aunties
will create conferences, symposia, workshops, educational events, outdoor
activities, reports, and publications in various media. Three Aunties will also engage in scientific research,
environmental consulting, environmental and health education, land acquisition,
and management. The services,
opportunities, and information sources provided by Three Aunties will serve the
general public by facilitating improved public health and quality of life
through environmental awareness, self-awareness, and spiritual connection with
nature.
