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This Sacred Earth: how to reconnect with Nature and one another

April 22, 2012 By

This Sacred Earth: The 2012 Phenomenon shows you simple ways to reconnect with Nature and others as humanity’s Golden Age unfolds. Shamans and scholars participate. Billie Dean and Andrew Einspruch direct this uplifting documentary.

The film is now streaming on various platforms as 2012: This Sacred Earth. The DVD is available at the film’s website.

Befriending Nature

“Nature is really, fundamentally, a relationship,” says Andras Corban Arthen, founder of the EarthSpirit Community.

It’s crucial to heal our relationship with Nature, Arthen says. Humankind’s problems originate in “the deliberate separation of human beings from direct participation in the natural world,” he believes.

“Mother Nature is yearning for us and we are yearning for her,” says Karen Ward, author and Irish-Celtic shaman. “We just have to get out and be. It’s that simple.”

Walking outdoors every day, sending love to the sun every morning and evening, and thanking the plants and animals that make up our meals are simple ways to begin. Irish-Celtic shaman John Cantwell notes that Nature can help us heal depression, stress and overweight.

Down to earth

Connecting with tree, animal and plant spirits has been “incredibly practical and useful,” says scholar and Celtic shaman Dr. Geo Athena Trevarthen. She feels she’s become a better mother, wife and friend.

Living simply doesn’t mean moving into a cave. It means living with less. Buying more “stuff” doesn’t bring happiness or fulfillment, insists author and past life regressionist Dolores Cannon. Watch less television, advises druid author Philip Carr-Gomm.

Grow a garden and share with others, suggests Lucy Cavendish, Australian author and white witch. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for us to fall back in love with this planet, our home, to fall back in love with each other,” she adds.

The New Human arrives

“Homo Luminous is the new human that’s appearing today. We’re taking a quantum evolutionary leap,” shaman and author Dr. Alberto Villoldo believes.

He sees our natural human lifespan as 150-200 years. The new species will grow, heal and die differently. We will create “psychosomatic health” rather than psychosomatic illness, he says. Extraordinary relationships, spirituality and psychic abilities will become commonplace.

Villoldo recommends that we live peace and joy as a daily practice. “You act from courage not from fear. You act from love not from reactivity or rage. You act from truth, and not from a set of lies that we’ve internalized and confused with reality,” he explains.

“For me it’s like being rewired,” says Ward. The way we think, feel, live and love are continuously evolving.

 Preview of the Golden Age

The world after December 21, 2012 will still contain horror and beauty, says Haleaka Solari Pule Dooley, a Hawaiian Kahuna. We each decide what to tune into. It’s a time when “our true priorities will be brought forth,” she says.

“Inner change is happening today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow,” says Villoldo. The New World will be as different from this world as this world is from Neanderthal times, he notes.

The Golden Age will be filled with “spontaneous mind-to-mind, heart-to-heart communication, anticipating events before they occur, living synchronistically so you’re living in the symphony of creation,” he notes. Negativity and trauma will be replaced with beauty and wonder, says Cannon.

Co-creating a new world

The 2012 turning point gives us “a deadline to make important changes, and to change how we’re relating to the Earth,” says Lucy Cavendish, Australian author and white witch.

“With awareness, I think this truly is the Golden Age,” says Trevarthen. “What we focus on expands,” according to Billie Dean, shaman, author and co-director of the film. “So if we want a different kind of world, then we have to think about the sort of world we really want.”

Spiritual practice

Ward envisions accessing our ancestors’ wisdom, knowledge and ancient ways. “Bring it into a modern context, evolving as a spiritual community.”

Praise and bless what’s true and beautiful in the world now, advises Trevarthen. Shamanic ceremonies are shown in beautiful, natural surroundings.

Embrace and create change

We can turn our world around with a light heart, creativity, imagination, pride and audacity, Cantwell notes. Optimism and hope comprise this world view.

Grassroots people create change by following their hearts. World people are already standing up to injustice by saying: “We won’t allow this.”

Life as spiritual art form

“Doing your work is about forgiveness,” Dean notes. It’s about loving yourself, loving others and the Earth. It means walking the Earth with impeccability and “making life a spiritual art form.”

Aliens won’t be swooping in to save us, says photojournalist and investigative reporter Paola Harris. Meaningful change must come from within.

We must live with intention and reverence. Those who don’t change will simply become extinct, Villoldo cautions.

 

Be peace

Overall This Sacred Earth is very mature, heartfelt and insightful. It simplifies spirituality with humor. It opens with a remarkably clear summary of the 2012 galactic alignment and related issues. Excellent music includes the song Spiral Dance by David Pendragon and Tribe World Ensemble.

“Be peace. Be love. Be beauty. And walk in beauty,” says Dean. (4.5 out of 5 stars)

If you like This Sacred Earth: The 2012 Phenomenon, you might enjoy:  Earth Whisperers; 2012: The Odyssey; Anima Mundi.

 

This Sacred Earth  /   2009  /  NR  /  53 min

Cast Overview:  Dr. William Bloom, Dolores Cannon, John Cantwell, Philip Carr-Gomm, Lucy Cavendish, Andras Corben Arthen, Billie Dean, Haleaka Solari Pule Dooley, Paola Harris, Anne Hassett, Minmia, Janet Ossebaard, Dr. Geo Athena Trevarthen, Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Karen Ward, Robert Wakeley Wheeler, Angelika Whitecliff

Directors: Billie Dean and Andrew Einspruch

Genres:  Documentary, Nature, Spirituality

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Contemporary Mayans wage sacred activism in time of prophecy

April 3, 2012 By

Mayan voices fill 2012 The Mayan Word, a unique opportunity to hear contemporary Mayans tell their story as they interpret Mayan prophecies about 2012. Melissa Gunasena directs.

The documentary raises awareness as it focuses on contemporary Mayan struggles. Mayan spirituality, sacred ceremonies and activist marches are shown.

The film is streaming free online courtesy of the filmmaker. You can support the film at the 2012 The Mayan Word website.

Sacred activists step forward

The Maya have survived repeated attacks since the Spanish invasion of the 16th century. Today, Mayans organize and carry out activism to resist multinational takeover of their land. They face police and military action. Assassinations have been reported.

Mining, dams and industrial agriculture exploit the land but do not preserve it for future generations. For many Mayans, land is still the center of their identity and spirituality.

Mayans see activism as an outgrowth of their love for Mother Earth. Cosmic vision, spirituality and politics are part of preparing for the changes of 2012, they say.

Leery of commercialization

Contemporary Mayans are noticeably absent in international conferences, books and films about the Mayan 2012 prophecies. Several Mayans have sharp words for Western tourists. “Neoliberalism wants us to disappear,” says Silvia Cime Mex of the Chichen Itza Artisan Collective, Mexico. “They want our culture to remain, but without us.”

“The whole system is interested in talking a lot about the Mayans of the past, the Mayans in museums, but they don’t want to know anything about us Mayans that are alive today,” says Pedro Uc Be, a teacher of the Maya Jornalero Collective, Mexico.

Tourism provides little benefit to Mayan indigenous communities, says Filiberto Penados, Founder of the Tumul K’in Center of Learning in Belize. In fact Mayan artisans are chased away from sacred ceremonial sites built by their ancestors. The Mayans are fighting for the right to administer those sacred sites.

Mayans view the world

Mayans “concentrate not so much on economic growth, but on well being,” Penados explains. “That well being comes from my relationship with my fellow man, with Mother Nature and with the cosmos.”

Mexican anthropologist Jose Luis Vera Poot leads us into a sacred Mayan cave. “Some call them dimensional gateways, and through them they had their visions, they traveled through time and space.”

“In our spiritual practice, we sustain the earth, we sustain the energy of the cosmos, we sustain our life,” says Juana Basquez, a spiritual guide from Guatemala. “Everything is interconnected and is sacred,” says Penados. There is “a sense of community, a sense of reciprocity, a sense of responsibility for each other.”

Talking with Nature

Martha Gonzalez, educational advisor from the Honduras, speaks of the ceremony offered when corn is planted. “Mother Earth also needs nourishment.”

How do you approach a medicinal plant? Felix Armando Sarazua Raxtunn, a Guatemalan spiritual guide, explains, “It’s not like you just cut a twig and make a tea and drink it. Just ask permission and tell it what you are going to use it for,” he advises. “They say the guides talk with the animals. All human beings have this perception.”

“This simple knowledge is what can still save us,” he believes. “And it is precisely what we need to take back to prepare ourselves for the next era.”

Views on Mayan prophecies

Efrain of the Chichen Itza Artisan Collective says, “The Mayans didn’t speak about the end of the world. They spoke about the end of a cycle.”

“No specific date is important,” he believes. “What’s most important is the moment where we can make a change in the human system, in the mind and in the heart.”

Earth changes are already upon us, says Juana Batzibal Tujal of the National Maya Coordination and Convergence. Heavy rains, drought, earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions have claimed many lives.

The Earth’s feminine energy is ascending in 2012, says the film. As Mayan women march, a protestor holds up a sign: “The Earth is not for sale.”

Raising awareness and hope

“In the western world, if they lived a more simple life, it automatically takes the pressure off the resources, our resources,” says Ronaldo Lec Ajcot of the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute.

This era may bring “more harmony, which means peace, equilibrium, more justice,” Basquez notes. “It’s the responsibility of human beings to transform so that the positive prevails.”

Painting in many colors, artist Rene Dionisio of Guatemala observes, “We are really lucky to be in this time, right?” (4 out of 5 stars)

If you like 2012 The Mayan Word, you might enjoy: Thrive; Timewave 2013.

 

2012 The Mayan Word  /   2011  /  NR  /  1 hour, 4 min

Cast Overview:  John Major Jenkins, Juan Ixchop Us, Elias Jimenez, Maria Amalia Mex T’un, Ramiro Batzin, Juana Batzibal Tujal, Juana Basquez, Miguel Angel Amaya, Ana Laynez Herrera, Pedro Uc Be, Filiberto Penados, Ronaldo Lec Ajcot, Juan Rojas

Directors:  Melissa Gunasena

Genres:  Documentary, Spirituality

Language:  Spanish with English subtitles

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Timewave 2013: master time as you live in the present moment

March 3, 2012 By

We can master time in a world without limits, according to Timewave 2013: The Future is Now. Part two of director Sharron Rose’s documentary 2012: The Odyssey delves into Mayan prophecies and ideas of time.

As Rose visits the Q’ero, shamans and healers descended from the ancient Incans, you can hear their guidance. The DVD is available from Sacred Mysteries Productions.

Rare visit with the Q’ero

Rose meets the Q’ero in the Andes Mountains of Peru. They fled the Spanish Conquest some 500 years ago. The Q’ero live in the present moment. They do not own televisions, computers or cell phones.

With clear perception, the Q’ero have mastered time. This allows them to travel to the past and present. Seeing Earth’s future allows them to share prophecies. Anthropologist and psychologist Dr. Alberto Villoldo translates for the shamans.

Despacho ceremony purifies

Shamans Don Umberto Sonco and Dona Bernadina Sonco perform a Despacho ceremony to help release negativity and change the future. The Despacho is a mandala made with objects that symbolize beauty, endearment and humor. Cookies, candies, roots and flowers are used here.

The Q’ero place all negative thoughts and feelings into the objects. The shamans blow prayers into coca leaves and add them to the Despacho.

Vision of the future

The ceremony becomes a metaphor for purification and renewal throughout the film. Rose blows her prayers into the coca leaves “to dispel the wars and suffering that is the story of this age just ending.”

Rose sees a new world “built around the idea of partnership and cooperation” where “Nature would be restored and men and women live together in peace.”

Finally the bundle is thrown into a fire, symbolically burning up negativity and sending prayers into the world.

The Q’ero pray and prophesy

The Q’ero share wisdom from the ancient Incan prophet Pachacuti. “The world, which has gone into chaos, will be turned right side up again, and a new human will be born,” says Rose. New humans are seen in bodies of light.

Disasters will affect many areas of the world, says Don Umberto. “We must make our prayers to the feminine, to the Mother. We must come back to the ways of the feminine, of stewardship, of protection.”

“The United States has a great power, it has great brilliance, great resources. It is up to the United States to take leadership in the world. To bring peace, to bring balance back to the planet,” Don Umberto says.

Nature of time is changing

Western linear time is founded on cause and effect, says Villoldo. Time turns like a wheel for indigenous societies. Based on synchronicity, shamanic time allows us to influence the past and future.

“When we’re able to engage a different form of time, we’re not only the result of an earlier cause,” Villoldo explains. “The future can reach back like a giant hand and bring you forward into who you are becoming. So we can be informed by who we are becoming.”

Age of the Great Lie

“We live in the age of the great lie,” says Villoldo. We distrust politicians, medicine and the media. “It’s a conspiracy of mediocrity,” he believes. Philosopher and scholar Jean Houston adds, “It’s like every shadow that ever existed has risen to be faced so that we can make the next step.”

Author Whitley Strieber believes that extinction events will mark 2012. Others say that profound evolutionary shifts are unfolding within us. “What is probably more likely going on is that we are in the grip of a gigantic change” as “the old ways are dying,” explains producer and author Jay Weidner.

An Age of Peace

“Ancient texts and traditions say that we are preparing for 1,000 years of a peaceful coexistence in this world,” New York Times best-selling author Gregg Braden tells Rose. “Sometimes our greatest strengths become apparent when we face the greatest challenges together,” he adds.

“We have this window of opportunity to make a really radical and fast transition to a different social paradigm and a different sustainable infrastructure,” says author and producer Daniel Pinchbeck (2012: Time for Change).

“We are heading toward a singularity in history in which yesterday looks nothing like today, and today looks nothing like tomorrow,” says Houston.

A view of enlightenment

Enlightenment is a way to free ourselves from the “cultural trance” of the modern world. “The whole change of the world has to start with you,” Rose told Awareness Magazine. “If you want a world of beauty and connectivity, you have to start with yourself.”

“You will be firmly grounded in the material world, and from this place, bring your expanded knowledge and perception into your every action,” she noted. “As you bring this expanded energy into your physical body, your whole body will begin to become lighter. You will heal. This is what they mean by enlightenment.”

As in part one, Timewave 2013 includes esoteric discussions about alchemy and astronomy.

Living love the best way to prepare

We nurture life-affirming or life-denying feelings every day, says Braden. Western science has shown that feelings do change our body chemistry.

“If we can reconcile our fears and our judgments and our bias, our jealousy and our anger as well as all the love, and accept the forgiveness and the tolerance and the compassion that comes our way every day. . . . we have already prepared for whatever eventuality,” Braden maintains.

“Compassion and forgiveness are the path towards true liberation,” says Villoldo. “The year 2012 is not only a purging but also an embrace of all that is really important to us.” (4 out of 5 stars)

If you like Timewave 2013, you might enjoy: 2012: The Odyssey; 2012: Time for Change; Thrive.

 

Timewave 2013: The Future is Now /   2008  /  NR  /  1 hour, 28 min

Cast Overview:  Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, Riane Eisler, William Henry, Jean Houston, John Major Jenkins, Rick Levine, Dennis McKenna, Terence McKenna, Don Martine Pinedo, Vilma Pinedo, Daniel Pinchbeck, Sharron Rose, Umberto Sonco, Bernadina Sonco, Geoff Stray, Whitley Strieber, Alberto Villoldo, Jay Weidner

Director: Sharron Rose

Genres:  Documentary

 

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Sharron Rose dances through change, mystery in 2012: The Odyssey

January 14, 2012 By

In 2012: The Odyssey, filmmaker Sharron Rose investigates humanity’s much-heralded 2012 evolutionary turning point.

Catastrophe or ecstasy?

Rose interviews visionary scholars about 2012 as she travels across the country.

New York Times best-selling author Gregg Braden says that the end date of a Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012 signals the sun’s alignment with the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This occurs once every 26,000 years.

Earth’s magnetism reaches its lowest point at that time, says Braden. The magnetic fields will then shift 180 degrees. The North Pole will become the South Pole, and vice versa.

Braden believes that we will not experience the physical devastation or “apocalypse” that many predict.

Creating change from within

A shift is happening now within each one of us, Braden asserts. “People are truly ready for a change, for an end to the suffering.” As we make “life-affirming or life-denying choices, we’ll either experience the rapture or the ascension.” He calls it a “beautiful yet painful unfolding.”

We can align with these new energies “by living lives consciously with intent, by being kind to one another, by acts of kindness.”

In the Golden Age everyone lives by love and heart-centered values like compassion, say spiritual teachers. This replaces the world’s Iron or Patriarchal age with its emphasis on power, money and status.

Divine Feminine perspective

As 2012: The Odyssey opens, Rose decides to stop watching television news. She spends more time in nature “to think about who we are, the way we relate to the earth, and to the people around us.”

Commercialism and technology contribute to a “cultural trance,” says Rose. By breaking free of this mindset we can remember how to live an “epic life.”

From a perspective of honoring and love, Rose reveals wisdom and reverence across cultures. This documentary may be the only feature film about 2012 directed by a woman.

A window of opportunity

Braden tells Rose that “We all play a vital role in where we’re going.” According to quantum physics, “If you change your life you’ll change your body, and if you change your body you’ll change your world.”

The world around us, Braden says, is “nothing more, nothing less than a mirror of what we have become collectively from within.”

This time is “a window of opportunity,” he says. “We’ll be more of ourselves than we ever have been before, without the magnetism of the Earth holding our perceptions and our beliefs and our preconceptions and bias in place.”

Iron Age turns to Golden Age

When you align with love and service, the darkest possibilities of millennial change don’t have to happen, says Braden. Right now “we’re re-writing the code so disaster doesn’t have to occur.”

Earth’s magnetic reversal has happened “only 14 times in the last 4.5 million years,” said Braden. “Magnetic fields also act as the glue in consciousness. As the glue gets weaker, we have greater opportunities to transcend beliefs.”

You can see the new age unfolding with increasing unrest as “things not in integrity collapse upon themselves,” he says.

Post-modern world lives

Psychologist and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo tells Rose that “We live in a post-modern world of sustainability, of deep ecology, of great reverence for the Earth.”

The modern world, he says, was founded on “greed, on ever-increasing economies and growth, on readily renewable resources.”

We align with Divinity

“It’s really an initiation of the Western world,” says author and teacher Jose Arguelles. “The real nature of the Divine is synchronicity. It’s a metaphor for us in our limited ego states coming back into connection with our Divine, eternal selves.”

Arguelles says we “must dissolve all the old identifications and attachments about who we have to be to be successful.” He predicts we’ll experience the Noosphere or “telepathic mind of the earth” between December 2012 and December 2013.

“The human experience is the main event,” author Terence McKenna says. “I believe what is in fact going on is that we are burning our bridges one by one, freeing the mind, empowering the imagination.”

Indigo children

Rose interviews a friend named Jewel who holds her baby Armand. Armand, who will be 7 years old in 2012, smiles, shouts and looks directly into the camera. He seems to underscore each point his mother makes.

An indigo child is “a powerful, intelligent, independent child who is believed to have an important spiritual impact” according to Dictionary.com. Indigo children challenge authority, Jewel says. They are system-busters.

Deep mysteries

“The global currency of our planet is four things: earth, air, fire and water,” says Rose. The “buy now, pay later” practice has threatened the sustainability of life on Earth.

Watching 2012: The Odyssey invites you into deep mystery. It is a mystical film that “changes” every time you watch it, giving you deeper insights and perspectives.

More adventures

Producer and author Jay Weidner speaks about alchemy, masons and the great Gothic cathedrals throughout Europe. Traveling Incan elders pray and share a message.

Rose visits the Georgia Guidestones (known as the “American Stonehenge,”) and reads the message left by the mysterious R.C. Christian in modern and ancient languages.

“Avoid petty laws and useless officials,” it says in part. “Balance personal rights with social duties.” “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”

Both McKenna and Arguelles have died since this film was made. The teachings of McKenna, Arguelles and others interviewed are posted online.

The Odyssey continues

Rose is the author of The Path of the Priestess and a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in World Mythology, Religion, and the Sacred Arts of Dance, Music and Theater.

Film represents “the dance of light” in our times, Rose says. (4 out of 5 stars)

If you like 2012: The Odyssey, you might enjoy: 2012: Time for Change; Thrive; Timewave 2013: The Future is Now.

 

2012: The Odyssey /   2007  /  NR  /  1 hour, 39 min

Cast Overview:  Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, John Major Jenkins, Terence McKenna, Sharron Rose, Geoff Stray, Moira Timms, Alberto Villoldo, Jay Weidner

Director: Sharron Rose

Genres:  Documentary

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