Meet Lior (they/any)
i am an artist, writer, and spiritual practitioner who will be ordained as an interspiritual & interfaith minister in june 2026. as an animist, my work is in helping people to reconnect to their sacred center and to remember their relationship to Earth with integrity, humility, and care.
i offer art, writing & spiritual guidance 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 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 see my spirituality as a living, decolonial, animist practice—one that honors Spirit in all things, centers relationality, and seeks to heal the inherited wounds of white supremacy, colonialism, and patriarchy within my own lineage and body.
My spiritual path has been shaped by many streams: a childhood rooted in Reform Judaism; years of meditation, yoga, and interfaith exploration; training in mediumship and intuition; teachings from Earth-based traditions; and a deep two-year formation in interspiritual ministry rooted in sacred activism.
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.
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.
Before devoting myself to this calling, my work was rooted in ecology, agroforestry, public health, and humanitarian aid. In 2021, a sudden health collapse stripped me of my career and physical capacity, initiating me into profound stillness. That rupture opened the doorway to 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.