Filmed by Varial* Produced by Edith Soto.
Featuring Mindahi Bastida Muñoz

The time has come for us,
it is a great opportunity,
this systemic crisis that affects everyone
has been created by us,
it is not anyone else fault.
What happens over there is affecting me,
and what happens to me here
is affecting others over there.
We are all woven, intertwined,
and it is time to call humanity to unity,
not to homogeneous unity,
but to unity in diversity.
And diversity is a beauty,
because it allows us to recognize ourselves in difference.
That is why the time has come to remember,
to transmit through the voice that we are human,
that we have made mistakes, and that we must ask for forgiveness.
We can turn poison into medicine.
If we want to transcend, let’s recognize who we are.
As human beings,
we come into this world to take care of life,
not take advantage of it.
As human beings
we come to learn, not to impose,
we come to learn from each other , and in every one of us is the key to happiness.
Because every culture, every expression,
every song has its place in this world.
The more diverse we are, the richer we will ll be.
We all have to cooperate,
because we all have made mistakes
and have behaved badly.
We are here to remind ourselves
that we must think and feel,
but not any feeling or any thought,
We must think and feel properly,
We must “feel-think”.
As the Ancestors say,
humans are here since the beginning of life,
and we were left entrusted to take care of Mother Earth.
We must learn from the Native People,
from the indigenous peoples of the world.
Because we know how to interrelate with nature.
We have sacred and ancestral knowledge.

Please see our website for direct links to each of the speakers websites and fundraisers. https://treesisters.org/grow-yourself… We heard Jo Overton from Protect Native Elders speak directly about the horrendous conditions inside Native American Reservations – details that I for one had no idea were so bad – and the multi-generational and cultural threat posed by the death of their Elders. Native peoples are 10 times more likely to contract Covid, and 4 times more likely to die. Why? It’s all within the first 30 minutes of the call. Atossa Soltani of Amazon Watch and Patricia Gualinga of the Kichua people of Ecuadorian Amazonia spoke about the radical rise of lawlessness in the Amazon sparked by lock down. The increase in illegal roads, mining, murders alongside the complete lack of any government support or access to health care for tribes within the forest. We heard how Covid could wipe out the peoples of the Amazon. Jyoti from the Centre for Sacred Studies spoke from profound depth about the wisdom traditions being threatened, the prophecies that speak of this time and our role in the unfolding. Her guest Alexis Bunten from Bioneers spoke to the depth and the statistics of struggle for basic survival occurring across the First nations peoples of North America, Haru Kuntanawa, wife Hayra and Ruda called in directly from Brazilian Amazonia and shared about the multi layered issues facing their tribe and the need they have to create sustainable food sources now that their river and fish are poisoned. (Please note the first two minutes of the call were missed on the recording.)

Guardian of Life gathered elders and leaders from indigenous cultures from around the world to talk about how to live in harmony with nature, ourselves and mother earth. How can we expand our perspectives and mindsets and start caring for all life on earth?
guardianoflife.org

Produced by Visionary Films Stockholm