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May 20, 2005
"You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world" --Margaret Mead
The Eagle & The Condor
Indigenous tribes in the Andes have long predicted a period of great imbalance in which the highly intellectual and material Eagle people would wipe out the spiritual and heart-centered “Condor” people to the edge of extinction until a new era was born with the Eagle and the Condor flying together. This myth is at the heart of the Pachamama Alliance, in which the Achuar people of Peru are learning the language and ways of modernization in order to preserve their ancestral rainforests from destruction, while teaching the West to once again cultivate a relationship with the very source of biological life, the Earth.
BE THE CHANGE
Sit by a stream or river, and imagine if it were your sole source of water. How would you treat it? What would you do to protect it?
