This month's forum article is authored by 2130 Partners' Associate Lee Traband. In addition to Lee's work with 2130, she is also very active supporting the non-profit organization Pachamama. In this article Lee shares her personal experience and calling to be a leader for this cause. To read more about Lee, go to the Meet Us section of our web site - http://www.2130partners.com/leetreband.html
Pachamama – Mother Earth *
I’d like to share with you my awakening from my belief or view of the world that we are separate from one another and our planet to the possibility that we are one.
Nothing in my upbringing could have prepared me for this way of experiencing the world. Though I’ve always loved nature, “it” existed outside of me. When Earth was spoken of as our mother to whom we belong I heard the Feminine Principle and women’s rights. Through my connection to the Pachamama Alliance and its founders, Lynne and Bill Twist, I’m opening to a different reality or dream wherein all differences, between genders, races, belief systems or species disappear along with their companions: comparison, competition and judgement.
The Pachamama Alliance was founded in ’96 in response to a call from an indigenous dream culture, the Achuar (Ah-chwar) tribe of the Amazon basin of Ecuador and Peru. Some would say it was a call from the spirit of life itself for partnership in preserving the rainforest, “the lungs of the planet”, to all who could hear and respond to it In the words of an indigenous elder, “If you’re coming to help us don’t waste your time, but if you’re coming because your liberation is bound up with ours, then let us work together.”
The work with the Achuar was very successful in that they now have legal claim to 5 million acres of the most pristine rainforest in the world and have formed powerful alliances with neighboring tribes. When Lynne and Bill asked what else Pachamama could do, they replied, “You need to change the dream of the North, the modern industrial world, from the belief that the Earth belongs to humans as a resource to the recognition that we belong to the Earth and that what we do to the Earth we do to ourselves.”
In response, a full day Symposium, “Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream”, was developed and first presented in March, ’05. Participants are invited to examine the impact of our dream of continuous economic growth and unlimited consumption based on the assumption that Earth will provide endless resources for us and are empowered to take actions in their daily lives to “create a human presence on the planet that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just as a guiding principle of our time.”
Since the Symposium was first offered, 4500 people have taken it in 7 countries. I am privileged to be one of 220 facilitators who lead the program.
For more information and a calendar of upcoming Symposiums see: www.pachamama.org
* Pachamama is a word in the Quechua (Kee-chwa) language which means “the sacred presence of the Earth, the sky, the universe and all worlds and all time.”
Pachamama – Mother Earth *
I’d like to share with you my awakening from my belief or view of the world that we are separate from one another and our planet to the possibility that we are one.
Nothing in my upbringing could have prepared me for this way of experiencing the world. Though I’ve always loved nature, “it” existed outside of me. When Earth was spoken of as our mother to whom we belong I heard the Feminine Principle and women’s rights. Through my connection to the Pachamama Alliance and its founders, Lynne and Bill Twist, I’m opening to a different reality or dream wherein all differences, between genders, races, belief systems or species disappear along with their companions: comparison, competition and judgement.
The Pachamama Alliance was founded in ’96 in response to a call from an indigenous dream culture, the Achuar (Ah-chwar) tribe of the Amazon basin of Ecuador and Peru. Some would say it was a call from the spirit of life itself for partnership in preserving the rainforest, “the lungs of the planet”, to all who could hear and respond to it In the words of an indigenous elder, “If you’re coming to help us don’t waste your time, but if you’re coming because your liberation is bound up with ours, then let us work together.”
The work with the Achuar was very successful in that they now have legal claim to 5 million acres of the most pristine rainforest in the world and have formed powerful alliances with neighboring tribes. When Lynne and Bill asked what else Pachamama could do, they replied, “You need to change the dream of the North, the modern industrial world, from the belief that the Earth belongs to humans as a resource to the recognition that we belong to the Earth and that what we do to the Earth we do to ourselves.”
In response, a full day Symposium, “Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream”, was developed and first presented in March, ’05. Participants are invited to examine the impact of our dream of continuous economic growth and unlimited consumption based on the assumption that Earth will provide endless resources for us and are empowered to take actions in their daily lives to “create a human presence on the planet that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just as a guiding principle of our time.”
Since the Symposium was first offered, 4500 people have taken it in 7 countries. I am privileged to be one of 220 facilitators who lead the program.
For more information and a calendar of upcoming Symposiums see: www.pachamama.org
* Pachamama is a word in the Quechua (Kee-chwa) language which means “the sacred presence of the Earth, the sky, the universe and all worlds and all time.”
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