Message excerpt from my journey
Mothers gathering.
It started by opening the heart to new friends. Taking a moment to explore and share experiences, and it led to a gathering of really authentic and friendly people, I met honest people from all regions and all with a common voice. A compassion to share and sing and spend time together with heartwarming people that really can look past the origin, background and with a real smile whenever it is asked for. I met a new family away from my family and I felt more at peace with myself than with at times with my own family and relatives. Everyone was concerned for the future of our home, Mother Earth.
This journey, started with the encounter into envision festivals fire circle, and it led into another roots gathering, and then on into medicine without frontiers. During the journey, I encounter such unique Improvisations of music, and with more laughter, compassion and tears. I embarked onto a journey to meet people that really are unique and that no longer use money or status or power to connect with people and neighbors, there was no longer a sense of cultural or language barriers, as we continue on this journey, we rejoiced and joined travelers with such an authentic sense of being, Call it spiritual, call it soulful, in the end I can call it traveling with authentic people, who have a soft and beautiful creatures of this land, global citizens with a passion to save our world from commercial destruction and an awareness to stop the destruction of our natural resources. People that know that they are indigenous like any Native American, with a strong sense of being connected, for a bigger cause and purpose in life, college graduates, entrepreneurs, handy men, writers, singer,s performers, yogis, photographers, high school drop outs(bless their souls too) , all walks of life reuniting, to just simply share love and compassion and join as a nomadic tribe ready to encounter the majestic world.
That spirit is what led our young spirits into colombia and beyond. We embarked on a journey and moved into the farthest corners of Colombia, in the discovery of the unknown, and the most unimaginable, We find more of ourselves in this soulful journey. This mother gathering brought out the most vulnerable sense in ourselves, and helped us rejoin into the essence of what we are. living and beautiful souls, living and experiencing a unified journey with the natives of our Mother Earth.
The tribes, and shamans, and emotional healers, and guides, all shared a profound knowledge and teaching that cannot be compared with a book or a movie, but more importantly teach us once again to be humble, to share our sense of being, to be present when our fellow neighbors speak( my neighbors that I am fortunate to have as a brother and sister,) whom I share this infinite hug and dear memories of smiles and yearning to see again.
The journeys took us into chants of the past, sceneries I the most beautiful gardens and jungles of Colombia and Ecuador, rejoining local communities in remote locations, and more importantly. Reconnect with fellow strangers, communities and humanity at large. We share pictures with the border patrol, the ppl selling local delicacies, and other festival goers, and we became alive rejoicing in the countryside and campsites. We simply lived uniquely as we are and healed ourselves from hidden fears from our past , and learned to grow in our own journey.... That is just an example of we can call a retreat or a spiritual journey. But in all in truth, it's simply a sense of being a sense of ourselves and in a sense of being our truest selves once again, without looking in what our pocket or status can bring. Simply in this nature world, we are siblings of the family of Mother Earth, and everyone in this journey has sensed this infinite connectedness. Might as well remind ourselves, we all had come from different and diverse labeled background as Buddhist, Catholic, Cristian, American, Australian, black, reggae, Canadian, French, aristocrat, etc. we just simply became human again, and we never forget where we came from because it brought us more appreciation for our diversity and uniqueness.
Landing into Colombia, is landing into the heart of a great culture. With such an authentic and untouched sense for happiness in mankind alone. Welcoming Colombians, vibrant music for salsa to merengue, to the music of the different indigenous tribes, from musicas, to koguis, to the cofans to the guitarists and more. Just an endless amount of love and compassion.
Salva Tierra...
Each fire ceremony in the evening has brought Ina new lesson and more and more, we grow in a sense of being together Ina more profound way.
I've never imagined, I could open in such short time of less than a month, to such authentic beings that otherwise would take me a decade or longer.
Cacao has become my favorite nut in the world, and more I've grown to appreciate fruits and veggies like never before. And all the sceneries encountered in Colombia, makes me even more nostalgic on the life beings of this planet.
Mother Earth, wanted us to know that it is alive, as much as we are, and wanted for us to know that we are part of it. And if we keep leaving out trash, and wasting water, and polluting with combustion fuel, there is no chance that our offsprings can cherish the same treasures that we encounter and take for granted. Our love for this earth is ever more acknowledged when we realize that we can sing to her, and it receives our voices, in its memories inside its barks and leaves and prairies.
Mother Earth, is the source of our life, and we as humanity, need to understand and realizes that we are not different from our ancestors nor our lands, nor from our history. The only history that is factual and real and able to truly relate to, is that. We have the history of mankind as a living walking and intellectual being, All other segregation, is simply a passport nationality or monetary wealth that has been fabricated to alienate us from our truest essence. The essence of being a raw human being sharing this Mother Earth in this grand world of endless hills, prairies, rivers, waterfalls, flowers, mountains, beaches, and it's living creatures in between.
All wildlife has a voice of its own, and we are here to acknowledge our sense that we are a part of it, and we are just tailoring it like a farmer, for our communities.
Mother Earth is calling for us to rejoice and join in this love again for what we are born to be and pass on for future generations, as guardians and protectors of this holy grounds. Mother Earth is our unique universe that holds our breath and recycles and makes the best of our infinite mammal being.
Mother Earth is part of us as much as we are a part of earth.