Original Medicine 4-Part: Tending the Fertile Ground of Chaos to Find Peace at the Threshold of Uncertainty by Mbali Marais
"Earth symbolizes the mother on whose lap everyone finds a home, nourishment, support, comfort and empowerment." - Malidoma Some
We carry a greater earth story consisting of those who came before and includes all of the elements, other worlds, and beings. How we love the earth and others is a reflection of how we love ourselves. What we love, we protect. When we let the world in, not turn away from it we gain vision, rather than anxiety, a deeper sense of belonging not isolation, courage not fear. One can only give from a place of centeredness, and rootedness. The earth is calling us to remember to blossom and bloom. If we don't have a healthy body, where will we live?
In a radically changing world there is a call for a communal initiation, a call to show up not only for ourselves, but also for our community, the next generation, and our beloved earth.
Martín Prechtel says, “We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. For this, we need all peoples: our poets, our shamans, our dreamers, our youth, our elders, our women, our men, our ancestors, and our real old memories from before we were people.”
Mbali invites us to explore together a deeper relationship and responsibility to our common good as stewards of the earth.
"Earth symbolizes the mother on whose lap everyone finds a home, nourishment, support, comfort and empowerment." - Malidoma Some
We carry a greater earth story consisting of those who came before and includes all of the elements, other worlds, and beings. How we love the earth and others is a reflection of how we love ourselves. What we love, we protect. When we let the world in, not turn away from it we gain vision, rather than anxiety, a deeper sense of belonging not isolation, courage not fear. One can only give from a place of centeredness, and rootedness. The earth is calling us to remember to blossom and bloom. If we don't have a healthy body, where will we live?
In a radically changing world there is a call for a communal initiation, a call to show up not only for ourselves, but also for our community, the next generation, and our beloved earth.
Martín Prechtel says, “We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. For this, we need all peoples: our poets, our shamans, our dreamers, our youth, our elders, our women, our men, our ancestors, and our real old memories from before we were people.”
Mbali invites us to explore together a deeper relationship and responsibility to our common good as stewards of the earth.
"Earth symbolizes the mother on whose lap everyone finds a home, nourishment, support, comfort and empowerment." - Malidoma Some
We carry a greater earth story consisting of those who came before and includes all of the elements, other worlds, and beings. How we love the earth and others is a reflection of how we love ourselves. What we love, we protect. When we let the world in, not turn away from it we gain vision, rather than anxiety, a deeper sense of belonging not isolation, courage not fear. One can only give from a place of centeredness, and rootedness. The earth is calling us to remember to blossom and bloom. If we don't have a healthy body, where will we live?
In a radically changing world there is a call for a communal initiation, a call to show up not only for ourselves, but also for our community, the next generation, and our beloved earth.
Martín Prechtel says, “We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. For this, we need all peoples: our poets, our shamans, our dreamers, our youth, our elders, our women, our men, our ancestors, and our real old memories from before we were people.”
Mbali invites us to explore together a deeper relationship and responsibility to our common good as stewards of the earth.