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Peace Through Music 15 y
You Gotta Listen to this Music!! "If you're a fan of world music, then you're in for a treat with Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls' Playing for Change: Peace Through Music, a film that premiered at the 7th Annual Tribeca Film Festival."
It isn't really a documentary as much as a global concert film, recorded on the streets of New Orleans, Barcelona, South Africa, Tibet and elsewhere, as the filmmakers (Johnson being an award-winni... read more Alliance with Plant Spirit 15 y
I saw my plant spirit medicine practitioner today for a healing session; she answered my questions about how plant spirit medicine works. After the session, Spirit answered more of my questions about plant spirit medicine.
I asked my practitioner how she works with plant spirits. She told me that her relationship with plant spirits developed through shamanic journeying. She conveys the plant spirit to me through the ... read more Plant Spirit Medicine 15 y
I have been seeing a practitioner of Plant Spirit Medicine for 3 sessions now. She trained and worked with Eliot Cowan for years; he is often credited with bringing the knowledge of Plant Spirit Medicine to the attention of the West (Indigenous peoples have been practicing plant spirit medicine in the Americas for thousands of years, but Westerners, AKA non-indigenous peoples, knew next to nothing about it.) Cowan's book, "Plant Spirit Medicine, The Healing Power of Plants", is a favorite of mine. At the time I first read it, I had never heard of Plant Spirit Medicine. Following are brief explanations of plant spirit medicine. Follow the links for more in-depth information.
”What is Plant Spirit Medicine? Humans and plants have lived together for countless generations. We are family. Our plant relatives are generous and helpful, offering us food and medicine. Like us... read more Plant Spirit Poetry 15 y
Had a treatment with plant spirit medicine for increased energy. These two poems came through me immediately after.
In All Things
The Divine is found in all things--
shells and acorns, nuts and seeds
plant matter and animal flesh
human smiles and human habitations
In all things,
from the ti... read more Video:Taino Prayer 15 y
Taino spiritual leader Miguel Sobaoko Koromo Sague, the Beike Bo (spiritual leader) of the Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle demonstrates the Caney Circle tradition of prayer and meditation at the Caney Teaching Lodge site in Verona Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh
"The meditative pose assumed by the Caney Indian Spiritual Circle shaman is derived from the images created by the ancient Tainos. In these images the individual is shown holding his or her h... read more Taino Spirituality Today 15 y
The Taino are the indigenous peoples first encountered by Columbus when he "discovered" the West Indies in 1492. Once decimated by the Spanish Conquest, Taino culture and spirituality today are experiencing a revival: "The Caney Indian Spiritual Circle is an organization devoted to the path of shamanic enlightenment as it was trailblazed by ancient mystics and wise elders of the Taino Native people in the Caribbean islands over four thousand years ago."
The following are excerpts; to read in their entirety, go to the webpages cited:
"Our tradition is inspired by the combined prophesies of Aurasurey of Boriken and Guaricheanao of Kuba. It is bas... read more Columbus's Shame 15 y
When Columbus "discovered" the West Indies in 1492, a peaceful, agrarian, and matrilineal people who called themselves "Taino" populated the region. Within 50 years, almost all of the Taino tribes were decimated by the Spanish. Today, descendants of the Taino are calling for recognition of their tribe.
Finished reading an excellent children's book called "Anacaona-Golden Flower" by Edwidge Danticat about a woman leader of the Taino tribe who is a well-known historical figure in Haiti but little k... read more WhaleDreamers, the DVD 15 y
Just rented this newly released DVD, a fascinating and moving documentary focusing on the Mirning people--declared "extinct" by the Australian government in the 1950's but whose descendants still keep alive the vestiges of their ancient whale dreaming culture--and the 1998 Gathering of 85 Indigenous Elders from around the world to greet the whales and to share their ceremonies and spiritual traditions.
from the DVD jacket:
whaledreamers
A Julian Lennon Production
Winner: Best Film Monaco International Film Festival
Winner: Best Documentary Fantasy Worldwide Film Fes... read more Indigenous Chiropractic Care 15 y
Teresa, a young American woman with a spinal cord injury, is receiving Mochica healing treatment in Peru. She posts an article about the method and the practitioner on her blog: "A thousand year-old Mochica method astounds Europe by curing cervical, dorsal and lumbar hernias as well as injuries to the spinal column, without surgery or medicine."
http://peruvianproject.blogspot.com/
A thousand year-old Mochica method astounds Europe by curing cervical, dorsal and lumbar hernias as well as injuries to the spinal column, without surgery or... read more Prayer:White Moccasin Flower 15 y
Waynonaha Two Worlds, Native American elder, gifts us with a beautiful poem/prayer
White Moccasin Flower http://www.manataka.org/page1331.html
Creator let me walk in a way that I too may leave only soft tracks on the face of my Earth Mother.
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In 2003, women of civil war torn Liberia, insisting on a peaceful settlement, locked the male leaders in their meeting room until they made that peace. This momentous event was not reported in the New York Times or the Washington Post. The film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" documents this story.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abigail-e-disney/liberias-peace-women-trib_b_102875.html
The Huffington Post
Abigail E. Disney
Liberia's Peace Women: Tribeca 2008 Remembers What the Wo... read more Organic White House Garden!! 15 y
I posted a tongue-in-cheek story, "Madam President", that included a reference to a White House organic garden. There's a push to encourage Pres. Obama to replant an organic garden at the White House that historically had been there from the 1800's! Another example of life imitating art...or is it the other way around?
From the Organic Consumers Association:
Growing Organic Food on the White House Lawn
View a YouTube video:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_16579.cfm
From 1800 up unt... read more Art:Flowers & Lizard 15 y
Watercolors inspired by nature: Flowers and Lizard
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Flowers
Water Color and Ink
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Lizard
W... read more Art:Peruvian Rainforest 15 y
Art inspired by my trip to Amazon Rainforest in Peru
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Frog Woman
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Frog Woman Birth... read more Heart of the World 15 y
Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco peoples of Colombia's Sierra Nevada region believe that the sacred mountain Gonavindua peak is the Heart of the World. These indigenous peoples are concerned with the environmental degradation of not only their homeland but the survival of the entire planet.
KOGI, ARHUACO, WIWA PEOPLES OF THE SIERRA NEVADA
"The Gonawindua Tayrona Organization was founded on January 21, 1987 by the Kogi, Arhuaco, and Wiwa peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta..... read more Madam President 15 y
On TV, watched the swearing in of our new president. Lots of people kept talking about what a historic day it was, having the first African American President. I couldn't help but think that things will REALLY be historic when we elect the first openly gay female environmentally-aware Native American. Below are my musings for a "normal day in the (Greened) White House"
A Normal Day in the (Greened) White House
Madam President wakes up as the Light of a New Day comes streaming into her made-from-recycled-glass bedroom window. She roles over and gives her spouse... read more Keepers of the World 15 y
The Kogi, Arhuaco, and Wiwa peoples of the Sierra Nevada in Colombia continue to practice their earth-based spirituality, 500 years after the Spanish Conquest
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature3/ Introduction by Wade Davis Text and photographs by Stephen Ferry If they protect their sacred mountain home, the Indians of northern Colombia be... read more |