Triad leap 1/3 - Wisdom Listeners part I

Stories.

We are all defined by STORIES, how we have lived, what have been the meaningful moments in our lives, the miracles of synchronicity, the living anecdotes –both beautiful and disturbing – that have shaped us in body, mind and soul. Stories about how we have confronted our obstacles and challenges and about our efforts to overcome them, the gifts we have received from the universe without our asking, the connections which appear to be accidents or coincidences, but as we all know, are an integral and timely part of our journey.

We are as different as snowflakes in a pile glistening like stars in the morning sun and melting into the afternoon shadows of an overcast day. When we share our stories, we share our lives and strengthen our communities, the circle of life, and our places in it. 

Rights of nature

LIONESS OF SENEGAL

I grew up in the Mayan southern territories of Yucatán, Mexico. Both my parents taught me from my early childhood and then later, in adolescence, the responsibility we had towards the people who were the most marginalized by the system model in which we all lived or survived. 

As soon as we moved to Mexico City and I entered high school and different faculties of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, I began frequenting the social & political movements that “fished” among the rank of students for those who would be loyal supporters and members of the coming administrations and economic monopolies that rule and run our country.

“When Ousmane told me he had a grandmother in Africa who was more than one hundred years old, I jumped at the chance to meet her and instantly made plans to come for a visit. I had no idea what she looked like or who she was, but when I met Adja Cumba Chebbe Chan I was not disappointed.”

Adja Cumba Chebe Chan is a lioness. She has lived more than a century in a remote desert area of northern Senegal and remembers when lions roamed West Africa. 

biomimicry

My journey of awakening began in the heart of the concrete-jungle-capitalist-empire, New York. Born in Israel and raised in Canada, I moved to the fast-paced, overpopulated city in my early 20s. I was working in communications for a creative consultancy helping Fortune 500 companies perpetuate the consumerist epidemic. Feeling suffocated, I would escape on weekends retreating upstate to immerse in Nature. It was the result of the stark contrast of my environment that I awakened to the intelligence, wisdom and healing potential of Nature. By the grace of the Divine I learned about Biomimicry, an approach to innovation that uses Nature for inspiration…

permaculture

I grew up playing in the woods. Building forts, making trails, catching turtles, stashing treasures. My best friend Joey and I would spend hours running the streams between our houses, blocking the flow of the tributaries, watching how the water moved, exploring changes after a big rain. It was our own little world.  We were landscape engineers, shaping the environment to create habitat for more frogs, encouraging blackberry bushes, and expanding deer trails to accommodate our slow footed rubber boots. There is an idea in permaculture that “everything gardens”, that we all shape our environment to meet our needs…

safeguarding nature

The Earth is dying and birthing something new. We are living in times of awakening… and my call to service is towards this new dawn. I believe that we come from the stars and that we are beginning to remember our origins and that our mission is to caretake the Earth. But somewhere along the way, as humanity, we have forgotten. Like a blindfold over our eyes, we are clumsily walking through life, immersed in the karmic wheel of suffering and creating suffering for others. 

MYSTICISM INTO THE EVERYDAY

Mysticism is a superpower like kindness, authenticity and openness. Something that is only found within you, and that you can cultivate.

It began in my dreams when I was a child. Strong and vivid glimpses of stories untold. As a kid it was a weird and overwhelming experience. The fact that I was born a “fruit salad” confused me further: a mix of bloodlines, from indigenous Mapuche to Italian, Spanish and Swiss ancestry. I am an indigenous mutation, a hybrid, constantly shapeshifting.