Meet Lior (they/any)
i am an artist whose primary creative practice is devotion to the divine. i paint, i write, i pray, i listen, i create, i care, i steward, and i share wisdom i’ve come to through my own lived experiences. i’m not an expert — i’m here to connect with you in our shared, messy, vulernable totality.
my art, writing & spiritual care is rooted in the more-than-human world
i use the phrase “more-than-human world” (coined by eco-philospher David Abrams) to describe the sensuous tapestry of life we find ourselves in relationship with. a world full of diverse, living beings with their own spirit and agency: plants, animals, fungi, minerals, elements, ecosystems, and spirits. i believe it is part of our sacred responsibility to reconnect and repair our relationship with the more-than-human world. to me, this phrase removes humans from the top and center, and places us back into a web of relationship with life.
“Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.”
My Values & Guiding Principles
i value spaciousness, consent, and deep listening more than urgency, solutions, or productivity. i move more at the speed of plants and stones than clocks and gregorian calendar.
slowness & presence
even in the face of political violence, late-stage capitalism, climate catastrophe, and oppression, i believe that this is a life worth living. i believe in centering hope, joy, and sovereignty in our fight for a better future.
life-affirming
i believe care for the self, the collective, and the Earth are interrelated and intertwined. i see all beings as part of the same interconnected web of life. what happens to you, matters to me, because we are connected.
interconnectivity
our sacred Earth
i find the sacred in the soil and waters of the Earth and in the flesh of our bodies. material reality is not something to be transcended, but something to be deeply with.
relationship
i seek to root my life in consensual exchange and relationship, where giving and receiving is in balance for every being involved. where i am not in balanced relationship, i move with humility, patience, and listening to grow into authentic relationship.
it is my intention for all my offerings to be accessible, disability-aware, trauma-informed, decolonial, rematriating, and liberatory. if there are ways that i can improve, please let me know.
accessibility & care
My Offerings & Approach
I believe that everything carries spirit, agency, and wisdom, and that our deepest healing as humans comes when we remember our sacred place inside this larger, interconnected web of life. As humans alive at this time, I believe it is our sacred responsibility to remember and to repair the damages both done in our lifetime and by the ancestral lineages we hold.
My life’s path has woven through diverse threads — ecology, agriculture, public health, art, spirituality — which shape the work I do today. I have lived with chronic illness for years, which has brought me into deep intimacy with slowness and other ways of sensing time. In becoming still, my body began to see, hear, feel, and know the more-the-human world around me as alive, inspirited, and full of wisdom.
Through my offerings, I aim to help people to reconnect with the Earth through both the sacred and the practical. We must heal our personal, intimate relationship to the Earth and show up in material and practical ways to repair the ancestral harms and personal harms we have been complicit in.
My Spiritual Formation
I relate to my spirituality as a living, decolonizing, animist practice: a way of being that honors Spirit in all things, centers relationship, and works to heal the inherited wounds of white supremacy, colonialism, and patriarchy within my own lineage and body.
My personal spiritual practices are rooted in Judaism, Buddhism, and Earth-based traditions. As an interspiritual and interfaith minister, I have been trained to work with people across all spiritual traditions and backgrounds, including those who don’t identify with any path or faith. I am interested in the common threads across all traditions and being able to relate to one another through what we share, without collapsing the unique diversity and richness of our individual paths and traditions.
Before devoting myself to this calling, my work was rooted in ecology, agroforestry, public health, and humanitarian aid. In 2021, I experienced a sudden health collapse and an initiation into disability, chronic illness, and stillness. That rupture was the portal I entered to a life of creativity, spiritual connection, and a commitment to serving the Earth in a deeper way.
Since then, I have completed the following spiritual trainings: a year-long program in energetic ecology and ancestral reconnection with Marika Clymer; mentorship in psychic development, evidential mediumship, and trance with Sheryl Wagner; additional study in conscious channeling; and a deep two-year formation in interspiritual and interfaith ministry through One Spirit. I consider my own journey with chronic illness as well as my journey of caregiving for my elderly parent part of my formation as well.
Across all of this, I continue to learn from my own ancestral traditions, the lineages of my teachers, the land that holds me, and the more-than-human connections that shape my days.
Honoring my Teachers
I came to remember my connection to the Earth through Indigenous teachers. I am deeply grateful for my teacher, Dra. Rosales Meza, Xicana/Mexicana Seer and initiated medicine woman on the Ñusta Paqo path in the Q’ero Inca lineage, for her mentorship and offerings, and for teachings I received from Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) Diné elder and adoptee of the Lakota spiritual way of life as part of my interspiritual formation at One Spirit.
I am grateful to the incredible Black, Brown & Indigenous elders and teachers who guide my personal journey of unlearning racism and decolonizing my mind, body, and spirit. I have been particularly moved by Audre Lorde, adrienne maree brown, Resmaa Menakem, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Prentis Hemphill, Lama Rad Owens, Mariama Kaba, Valeria Kaur, and rev. angel Kyodo williams.
I am grateful to my community of teachers at One Spirit; the community of EcoDharma at One Earth Sangha; the movement of anti-Zionist Jews and our Bundist ancestors for sowing seeds of a liberatory Jewish future; my childhood synagogue for raising me collectively; and my family for their continual love and support