Roots, Stones, and Knowing with Kim Baker

Message us Mermaids 🧜🏼‍♀️The moment Kim Baker says the trees move at a different pace, you can feel the room settle. We invited Kim, Professor Emeritus with a PhD in literacy education, a Usui Reiki master, and a high priestess initiate, because her life bridges scholarship and sacred grounding. She opens up about childhood out-of-body experiences, the quiet power of daily gratitude, and the day ancient sites turned intuition into touchable energy. From Avebury and Glastonbury to the oak that’s watched three centuries pass, Kim shows how place can be teacher, mirror, and home.DetailsWe follow her path from reading the Ogham tree alphabet to serving on a local Mohawk Hudson land conservancy board, where preservation becomes practical. Her story pivots to animal guides—a blue heron that once trailed her days and the hawk she found inside her screened porch. With gardening gloves and a calm voice, she carried it back to open sky, accepting that guides change as we do.Kim offers a reframing that sticks: we aren’t destroying Earth, we’re destroying our own habitat. Trees and plants have endured five mass extinctions; they want us to make it, too. We talk forest bathing and childhood wonder, tree communication and fungal networks, “invasive” species and the cycles that turn loss into shelter and food. She shares what claiming the crone title feels like—less stamina, more presence—and why intentional vegetarianism aligns with caring for land while honoring the life in plants and animals. The throughline is simple and fierce: compassion, connection, and gratitude are choices we can make today.If this conversation roots you like it did us, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a walk among trees, and leave a review so more listeners can find their way back to wonder.ReferencesChione, Chloe and Kim met each other in a Sacred Wild Priestess container held by Elyse Welles of Seeking Numina (www.seekingnumina.com)Canyon Ranch - Wellness Resorts, Health Spas, & Retreats - Canyon RanchJohnathon Ellerby - Jonathan Ellerby PhdSteven Farmer - Dr. Steven FarmerEckhart Tolle - Teachings EckhartBraiding Sweet Grass, Author, Robin Kimmerer WallThe Third Plate, Author, Dan Barber Support the showShameless PromotionsChloe Brown is the graphic artist behind all of the Mermaids’ delightfully whimsical branded reels, stories and picture posts on social. Contact her at [email protected] for artistic consultation and design work. SponsorshipsWe do not advertise nor accept sponsorships so that your listening experience remains free of distractions.  If you are as passionate as we are about supporting spiritual seekers, consider buying us a coffee at:  https://buymeacoffee.com/mysticalmermaidlounge.Please feel free to email us with positive and constructive ideas, questions or comments at [email protected] you for listening! Please follow and rate/review if you love us. Blessed be.