Live the Truth Today
Live the Truth Today
Pachamama Alliance
Travel to the Amazon Rainforest
Pachamama Journeys are purposeful, transformative travel immersions that go well beyond traditional eco-tourism or adventure travel. We journey at the request of our Indigenous partners who invite us to visit and learn from their cultures and pristine rainforest so that we may carry their knowledge and message home.
For more information regarding trips, click the link below.
https://pachamama.org/journeys/south/dates
Earth Based Wisdom from Arkan Lushwala
The Earth Based Wisdom E-guide Series consists of four parts, excerpted from Arkan Lushwala's 2018 book Deer and Thunder: Indigenous Ways of Restoring the World.
Download the PDFs to discover
the power we can regain by remembering we are Earth People
how observing, listening, prayer, and community are fundamental to being both human and "wise"
how the modern world's obsession with labeling "good" or "bad" reinforces the false fences that separate us
how to interact with "The Sacred"
Part I: Earth People
Part II: Earth Wisdom
Part III: Separation
Part IV: Reconciliation
Seeds of Wisdom (formerly The Sacred Fire Foundation)
The Wisdom of the Past is the Seed of the Future
We partner with Indigenous communities and grassroots organizations around the world on projects and programs that strengthen and revitalize the worldviews, sacred teachings and lifeways under threat from a wide range of issues including the climate crisis, globalization, and continued colonization. When Indigenous communities are strong, we all benefit.
For Further information about the mission and work of the Sacred Fire Foundation please go to https://www.seedsofwisdom.earth
The Sacred Fire Community
In times of challenge and uncertainly, the essence of Fire helps people
find connection, courage and life purpose.
Vivemas Adventures
Focused on creating trips for personal experiences to be touched and enchanted by the places you visit.
Maria Apaza, Quchua, and Panchita Mapuche Machi
More images and videos coming soon.
Starhawk
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Declaration of the Four Sacred Things
The Earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.
Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.
To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standard by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.
All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance; only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.
To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.
To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.
–Starhawk
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
