Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # The Fifth Sacred Thing ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://fifthsacredthing.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [The Fifth Sacred Thing Update – December 2014](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2014/12/03/the-fifth-sacred-thing-update-december-2014/) - It has been quite a busy summer and fall for us as we continue to move The Fifth Sacred Thing project forward, and we have some exciting updates to share! First, Starhawk has continued to wow our team with her amazing creative output, and has now delivered the final draft of the TFST sequel, City of Refuge. No spoilers - [Producer Spotlight: Eric Watson](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2015/03/18/producer-spotlight-eric-watson/) - We are very pleased to announce the addition of a new member to The Fifth Sacred Thing production team, Eric Watson. Eric is a producer, writer, director, and committed environmental activist. His filmography includes several groundbreaking and critically acclaimed cinema classics including Pi, Requiem For A Dream, and The Fountain. After acting as a friend of the project for several - [The Doomsday Channel.](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2015/04/12/the-doomsday-channel/) - The Doomsday Channel Anyone else concerned about how dark our tv shows and movies are getting? I’m sitting here watching a series called The Fall, which shows steely X-Files alum Gillian Anderson chasing after an obsessed sex crime killer in Belfast. In the first season, after writers juxtaposed a strangulation scene with an explicit one-night stand scene frame - [Mother’s Day Grounding](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2015/05/06/mothers-day-grounding/) - When was the last time you put your feet on the earth? This seems like an easy answer, but when you actually think about it, I bet it’s been some time. I was trained as a massage therapist over 15 years ago, and for years, clients would seek my help for inflammation and chronic illness. I started asking my - [E.A.T. – Take a Dream and Make It Real!](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2013/11/30/e-a-t-take-a-dream-and-make-it-real/) - Permaculture—a design science, and a set of practical tools and principles for creating a future we want to live in! Do you dream of a world that is beautiful, healthy, just, and balanced? Where everyone has fresh food, clean air, flowing water, and thriving community? Permaculture gives us the tools to create it, to heal - [Update from the International Permaculture Convergence](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2013/12/07/update-from-the-international-permaculture-convergence/) - Starhawk’s been in Cuba for two weeks at the International Permaculture Convergence. She will be home in a few days to give us all the exciting news, but in the meantime, she sends this update: “I’m here in Cuba at the IPC, with amazing people who are doing incredible work all over the world! I’m - [What does Earth Day mean now?](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2014/04/22/what-does-earth-day-mean-now/) - Many know that the Earth Day movement first began in 1970, but few have heard the idea behind it. The Earth Day founder, then U.S. Senator Nelson, had recently witnessed a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara. The year was 1969, seven years after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring became a New York Times bestseller, and in the height - [Safe places to settle.](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2015/07/25/safe-places-to-settle/) - Our Fifth Sacred team is all about community. But when we think about community, the 2015 version is debating where to settle, so that our communities won’t have to relocate due to climate change. Thanks to the industrial revolution and short-sighted civilization planning, we are in the midst of a big problem that will affect everything: sea level rise, rising temperatures, drought - [Starhawk’s post-election blog](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2012/11/16/starhawks-post-election-blog/) - Starhawk posted her post-election follow up blog — and as she says within, “We have a lot of organizing to do!” Coming up here in the month ahead: The Fifth Sacred Thing artist features, character portraits, another City Tour, and more! Stay tuned. - [“(It’s) The Fifth Sacred Thing — happening now in Brittany!”](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2012/11/19/its-the-fifth-sacred-thing-happening-now-in-brittany/) - Starhawk sent a note to the rest of the production crew, excited to share this story from one of her Earth Activist Training grads from England. In Brittany, there is a stranger-than-fiction, real life stand being taken by activists who for three years have occupied a wild and abundant 4000-acre landscape. Their purpose? To oppose - [TFST Artist Feature: Andrew “Android” Jones](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2012/11/22/tfst-artist-feature-andrew-android-jones/) - Android Jones is a true modern artist, one who works ceaselessly to find the voice of his time, using the tools from the frontier of a designer’s imagination and taking all elements in hand as a visionary to seek the living frontier. He stands in a short list of artists as the heir apparent to - [Check out a new film: Electronic Awakening (feat. Starhawk)](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2012/11/27/check-out-a-new-film-electronic-awakening-feat-starhawk/) - Maybe your preferred dance mode is the spiral dance…or perhaps you bounce to more modern electronic beats. Either way, fans, we think you’ll enjoy Electronic Awakening, a new film from director Andrew Johner, co-produced and partially edited by TFST’s own Philip “Mouse” Wood. Electronic Awakening is an ethnographic documentary film that investigates the spirituality of Electronic Dance - [Follow up: Android Jones prints now available](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2012/11/29/follow-up-android-jones-prints-now-available/) - Last week we told you about Android Jones, one of the artists on The Fifth Sacred Thing film. We’re so excited to have his work and enthusiasm joining this project. We’ve just learned that his site has added a shop where you can purchase prints of his stunning works. Pay him a visit and feast your eyes! - [TFST Artist Feature: Karen Cusolito](https://fifthsacredthing.com/2012/12/11/tfst-artist-feature-karen-cusolito/) - Artist Karen Cusolito has worked in many media, from painting to assemblage to the mighty large-scale metal humanoid sculptures that prowl like so many praying giants in the yard at American Steel Studios. Karen is also the founder at the massive Oakland, CA workshop; it is home to painters, glass artists, fabricators, soapmakers, a compost ## Pages - [Write for Us - General](https://fifthsacredthing.com/write-for-us-general/) - Write for Us — FifthsSacredThing.com Thank you for your interest in writing for FifthsSacredThing.com! We’re a community built on curiosity — where insightful ideas, meaningful stories, practical advice, creative perspectives, and thoughtful discussions come together. We welcome contributors from all walks of life who have something valuable to share. Whether you write about lifestyle, inspiration, - [NEWSLETTER](https://fifthsacredthing.com/newsletter/) - Get the newsletter, and you don’t ever have to miss a thing that’s happening with the project! We’re just beginning to build momentum, and we want to keep you involved. Our newsletters will recap the blog posts, updates from our Kickstarter campaign, the latest new images and musical concepts, and much more… All the highlights and - [KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN](https://fifthsacredthing.com/kickstarter-campaign/) - The normal way of making a big movie is to sell the idea to a studio and give up control. Even the screenwriter has little say over the finished project—and the author of the original work is rarely allowed to write the screenplay. We want to do it differently. But will we be able to - [ABOUT](https://fifthsacredthing.com/about/) - They say that movies are collective dreams. If so, we’re heading for a nightmare—for there are very few films that show a positive future on earth. We want to change that. How can we create a thriving, just and balanced future if we can’t even imagine it? We want to bring alive a vision - [VISION](https://fifthsacredthing.com/vision/) - In the eighteen years since its publication, hundreds of thousands of people have read The Fifth Sacred Thing and been moved by its imagery and drama. Now, at this time when our future seems so precarious, we want to bring it to the screen and to a whole new generation who are more visual than - [STORY SYNOPSIS](https://fifthsacredthing.com/about/story-synopsis/) - The Fifth Sacred Thing A Feature Film Based on the Novel by Starhawk Screenplay by Starhawk Bird is a magically gifted musician raised in the green and flourishing city San Franciscans have built out of the social and political breakdowns of the early 21st century. African-American, he’s grown up in a culture without divisions of - [PRODUCTION CREW](https://fifthsacredthing.com/about/production-crew/) - The Producers Starhawk Starhawk is the author of The Fifth Sacred Thing and eleven other books, including the prequel, Walking to Mercury, her feminist spirituality classic The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, and her latest, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups. She has written, consulted and coproduced five feature documentaries for ## Categories - [Artist Feature](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/artist-feature/) - [Android Jones](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/android-jones/) - [Electronic Awakening](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/electronic-awakening/) - [The Fifth Sacred Thing](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/the-fifth-sacred-thing/) - [Starhawk’s](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/starhawks/) - [Safe place](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/safe-place/) - [Mother’s Day](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/mothers-day/) - [Earth Day](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/earth-day/) - [Doomsday](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/doomsday/) - [Producer Spotlight](https://fifthsacredthing.com/category/producer-spotlight/) ## Tags - [Sculpture](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/sculpture/) - [Karen Cusolito](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/karen-cusolito/) - [Environmental Art](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/environmental-art/) - [vision](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/vision/) - [protest](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/protest/) - [freedom](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/freedom/) - [Fifth Sacred Thing](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/fifth-sacred-thing/) - [Earth](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/earth/) - [development](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/development/) - [dedication](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/dedication/) - [community](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/community/) - [collaboration](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/collaboration/) - [change](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/change/) - [Starhawk](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/starhawk/) - [politics](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/politics/) - [Negative Electrons](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/negative-electrons/) - [Mother's Day](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/mothers-day/) - [Mother Earth](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/mother-earth/) - [Grounding](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/grounding/) - [Free Radicals](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/free-radicals/) - [Environmental Knowledge](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/environmental-knowledge/) - [Electrical Body](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/electrical-body/) - [Earthing](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/earthing/) - [Antioxidants](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/antioxidants/) - [Update](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/update/) - [The Fifth Sacred Thing](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/the-fifth-sacred-thing/) - [movie](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/movie/) - [growth](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/growth/) - [artists](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/artists/) - [permaculture](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/permaculture/) - [interaction](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/interaction/) - [fundraising](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/fundraising/) - [Earth Activist Training](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/earth-activist-training/) - [diversity](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/diversity/) - [video](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/video/) - [imagination](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/imagination/) - [energy](https://fifthsacredthing.com/tag/energy/)