Ethiopian Healers Convene
In light of global environmental changes and The Healers Project convenes a five- day gathering of local, select regional and international indigenous Elders in the Gamo Highlands of southern Ethiopia. Ethiopia holds the wisdom of our beginnings and is essential for integrating lost, forgotten and crucially important insights and understandings.
Identification of – ancient family ties, common language roots, and the interstice of oral histories. Young emerging healers and Elders will discuss and plan for future generations of indigenous practitioners. Ways of maintaining the renewed connections will be defined and an action plan for going forward agreed upon. The process will be held within a larger framework of critical, unfolding global issues and the central role of indigenous wisdom and knowledge.
Kyrgyzstan
From 2005 to 2010, WISN and Kyrgyz Elders reignited the Uluu Ot, or fire ceremony, historically suppressed for more than eighty years. For the first time in modern history, Central Asian Healers together with the wisdom of their lands were linked in a network of indigenous practitioners around the world to:
- Provide protection and support for Healers in danger of political or religious persecution or suppression.
- To put together tribal-specific oral histories and knowledge
- To flame a new vision of cultural and Earth healing long predicted by the Ancestors.
Research on the story of Nishikitobe
- Tracing the voyage of one of Japan’s last women shamans who fled invading forces by sailing the Black Current. Re-tracing her life and journey connects indigenous cultures of Japan with those of the North Pacific Rim and recovers lost spiritual practices, wisdom and traditions.
- Identifying and linking with Japanese spiritual practitioners (Jōmon tribe)
- Providing venues for the wisdom of Jōmon indigenous ways to flow to other indigenous circles.
- Expanding the cross cultural use of social media, indigenous gatherings and indigenous sacred practices to enhance and promote the understanding and appreciation of Jōmon wisdom and its relevance for the challenges of today.