Cameron Trimble is a pastor, author, pilot, and leadership coach whose work blends spirituality, resilience, and community. She is the founder of Piloting Faith, a daily newsletter offering reflections that help thousands stay rooted in wisdom and courage. This year, Cameron’s presence has been a guiding light for Pachamama Alliance—most recently in our Resilience and Possibility series, where she offered one of the most honest, inspiring, and grounded conversations we’ve shared.

Like a clarion call, Cameron’s voice breaks through the noise of these times, reminding us of the practices and perspectives that help us navigate collapse, creation, and the call to spiritual maturity.

Attunement: Listening as a Way of Life

“It seems to me that we are now living in a world that is not seeking so much answers as it's seeking deep attunement.”

In a culture obsessed with solutions, Cameron pointed instead to listening and recalibrating ourselves to life. Cameron presents attunement as one of the central practices for this time. She believes the world is less in need of quick answers and more in need of people who are deeply attuned—to Spirit, to creation, to one another.

She links it to contemplation, saying that staying spiritually grounded requires tuning oneself honestly and regularly. For her, attunement is the foundation of trustworthy action: it is how one discerns what is real, reliable, and aligned.

Her call to reorient through listening finds living expression in Earth Listening Circles, where people gather to seek guidance from Earth, from each other, and from within. Through this practice, listening becomes not just something we do, but a way we live together.

Accompanying Collapse with Courage and Compassion

“What we can do is accompany collapse. That’s actually a kind of relational maturity that's being asked for I think right now from humanity.”

For years, Pachamama Alliance has used the metaphor of hospicing the old story of separation and exploitation, but Cameron’s language of accompaniment struck a different chord. This reframe to place collapse and creation side by side invites us into the paradox of both, as twin realities we are called to walk with. 

She speaks of releasing illusions of control and instead growing into spiritual maturity, imagination, and courage. Her background in aviation becomes a metaphor: when systems fail, the task is not panic but presence. Follow the checklist. Trust the training. Lean on support. 

“I think right now from humanity is a sense of growing up that we need to do so that we can accompany this creation as we all go through these pretty huge changes.”

Collapse, she suggests, can summon unexpected artistry—in leadership, in spiritual practice, and in fierce, protective love. She names Kali energy—holy rage that halts injustice without mirroring it—as a sacred form of action.

Prayer as a Verb

“Prayer is a verb. Prayer is a thing one does with one's feet as much as it is [what] one does with one's words or one's intentions.”

We were reminded that spirituality is the ground of action. Without inner attunement, outer work corrodes. With integrity of being, action nourishes. Contemplative practice (prayer, silence, listening) steadies the nervous system and roots choices in integrity. Contemplation is never retreat. 

Abraham Heschel once said that marching feet could pray. Cameron adds that Kali’s fierce energy, summoned only in the presence of profound harm, is also a form of sacred action.

Contemplation and action, she insists, are not opposites but partners. Deep grounding makes possible a strong, trustworthy activism, one that resists injustice without replicating harm. Listening itself becomes prayer: to one another, to Earth, to Spirit. 

Heartbreak as a Teacher

“There's something about having your heart ‘broken open’ as opposed to ‘broken closed,'”

Cameron named heartbreak not as something to avoid, but as something to learn from. To be broken open keeps us tender and available to life. To be broken closed narrows us into bitterness or denial. These times don’t require us to shield our hearts—they ask us to let them stretch wide with compassion.

She reminded us: we were made for this moment. Not to fix everything, but to walk with one another and with Earth through this age of collapse and creation. This is not the resilience of bouncing back—it’s the faithfulness of staying present. Of listening deeply. Of letting heartbreak make us more human.

Cameron’s voice is a clarion in the chaos. Please enjoy her Piloting Faith writings as she calls us toward sacred responsibility, spiritual maturity, and the possibility still unfolding.

Want to practice this kind of listening?
Join an Earth Listening Circle or start your own small gathering. The work begins with showing up—to one another, to Spirit, to the moment we’re in.

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