by Rubina Cohen | Dec 16, 2015 | Awareness Building, Blog, Earth Stewardship, Ritual and Ceremony
Five Indigenous Elders Share their Wisdom Blog by Rucha Chitnis The wisdom of the past is the seed of the future. This sums up a key nugget of the philosophy of Sacred Fire Foundation that is guided by the knowledge that ancestral wisdom is key to solve many of the...
by Rubina Cohen | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
By Lawrence I. Messerman Featured photo by Rick Harrow Recently, traditional wisdom received some high-level acknowledgement in an area where it rarely gets much credibility. That’s because the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three people including China’s...
by Rubina Cohen | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog, Language, Art and Culture
By Rucha Chitnis This is part one of our series on the role of philanthropy to preserve endangered native languages by resourcing Indigenous-led groups that are on the frontlines striving for cultural survival. Language extinction can lead to cultural annihilation....
by Rubina Cohen | Aug 18, 2015 | Awareness Building, Blog
By Larry Messerman The 2015 Ancient Wisdom Rising (AWR) gathering is over, but I will continue to savor the rich experience of being with over 180 kindred spirits for two days as we enjoyed the wisdom of several prominent Elders from around the world. There were so...
by Rubina Cohen | Jul 15, 2015 | Blog, Earth Stewardship, Ritual and Ceremony
Blog by Rucha Chitnis Photo by Rucha Chitnis “When the spring is dry, that’s a sign of an unhealthy world.” — Chief Sisk “I come from a long line of teachers of rivers, who did not live in big cities and traffic,” shared Chief Caleen...
by Rubina Cohen | Jun 26, 2015 | Awareness Building, Blog, newsletter
By Scott Sheerin What’s so rare as a day in June? The birds in North Carolina sang the song of the world as Marcy Vaughn asked us to breathe in and then allow our outbreath to form sacred syllables of the Bön tradition of Tibet. With each outbreath the connection...
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