THE PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE

To heal our planet we must create multiple avenues of connection and mutual support. But not everyone can travel to the Rainforests of Central and South America to build collaborative connections. With this reality in mind, the Pachamama Alliance has a two-fold strategy for transforming the consciousness of citizens of the industrialized world.

But not everyone can travel to the Rainforests of Central and South America.  With this reality in mind, the Pachamama Alliance has a two-fold strategy for transforming the consciousness of citizens of the industrialized world.  For those who are ready and able to venture forth into Ecuador’s Achuar tribal region, the Alliance offers a guided journey into the Rainforest through its Pachamama Journeys program. To get a hint of the transformative power of engaging in such a pilgrimage watch the following video.

Journey to the Amazon with Pachamama Alliance (4:07)

For those unable, or not yet ready, to travel to the Amazon, the Pachamama Alliance also offers an opportunity – right in our home communities – to awaken from the nightmare aspects of our culture’s dream of supposed success. Through its “Awakening the Dreamer” Symposium the Alliance brings the realities of life in the Amazon to gatherings of concerned citizens.  As the destructive impacts of unregulated resource extraction – in concert with cultural intrusion upon isolated forest communities – are brought into painful awareness, hearts are opened. And as citizens of indigenous communities are understood to be our partners in global healing, a commitment emerges in workshop participants to join with these residents of the forest in order to co-create a pathway into a world that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just.

At the Pachamama Alliance website the group explains its origins:

“The Pachamama Alliance was born out of an invitation from the Achuar people to work in partnership with them to preserve their land and culture while bringing forth a new worldview that honors and sustains life.”

The perspective of the Pachamama Alliance – and of the Awakening the Dreamer symposium – is rooted in the realization that we humans have reached an undeniable and unavoidable choice point. That choice point is articulated quite simply and clearly in this brief video.

A Better Future is Up to Us! (3:16)

The “Awakening the Dreamer” program teaches that “environmental sustainability, spiritual fulfillment and social justice – rather than being three separate issues – actually are three interrelated facets of one profoundly connected whole.” This program was created through the working partnership of the staff and volunteers of the Pachamama Alliance and indigenous leaders of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Rainforest based Achuar community.

The Pachamama Alliance originally asked the Achuar elders “How can we help protect your lands and your way of life?”  The elders answered “You will need to change the Dream of the North – the dream of the modern world”.  The nightmare aspect of that dream in need of change, said the elders, is the dream of dominating Nature in the pursuit of endless consumption and the acquisition of goods, without any regard for the well being of our planet – the dream fantasy that joy can be found in the competitive struggle to gain ever greater piles of “stuff”.

With the guidance of the Achuar elders, and the insights of modern scientific findings, the Pachamama Alliance created the “Awakening the Dreamer” symposium. The full weekend program – available now throughout the USA and in some parts of Europe – teaches a simple and fundamental truth in an experiential format. That Truth is this: “We are not separate, but rather we are profoundly connected.”  Realization of that Truth transforms consciousness and empowers planetwide revitalization!

Here is a video that explains the “Awakening the Dreamer” program.

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream (7:07)

To help yourself and others “Change the Dream”, travel on to Imagine Peace and Plenty’s Amazon Conservation Team page.