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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

By: Martín Prechtel
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 Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s realization that human survival depends on keeping alive the seeds of our “original forgotten spiritual excellence.”

Prechtel relates our current state of ecological crisis to the rapid disappearance of biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and shared human values. He demonstrates how real human culture is exterminated when real (not genetically modified) seeds are lost. Like plants that become extinct once their required conditions are no longer met, authentic, unmonetized human cultures can no longer survive in the modern world. To “keep the seeds alive”—both literally and metaphorically—they must be planted, harvested, and replanted, just as human culture must become truly engaging and meaningful to the soul, as necessary as food is to the body. The viable seeds of spirituality and culture that lie dormant within us need to “sprout” into broad daylight to create real sets of cultures welcome on Earth. Environment Nature & Ecology Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Outdoors & Nature Science Conservation Shamanism Plant Science
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Listening to this book spoken alive in the voice of the author is a gift of immeasurable beauty.
The words Excuvating the dry and deadend soil of our parched hearts, and planting a true seed of remebering within our souls hidden reaches.
May the emptiness of modern, recycled, generational dullness be wash clean by the waters of these words in timely seeing. May a generation of vessels able to sit once more in the landscape of remebering, be enkindled a fresh in the inseparable weave of cycle, rhythm and collective sense of place in all direction of lineage.

A book of exquisite beauty

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Fantastic work, calling humans back to their origins. Great to hear the author reading.

powerful and moving

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Abundant with knowledge and teachings. I love listening to Martín read his books. It adds so much to hear his words read allowed in is own voice. This is one of the best books, a required read/listen for anyone looking or longing for their own indigenous soul. People as plants, our forgotten agreements with the holy in nature. And how to begin remembering. This book will change your perspective/ understanding of who you are and what you are doing on this beautiful earth, so listen closely and enjoy!

Listen closely and enjoy this brilliant book!

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What a joy, sadness and beauty. Poetry with hope for past, birth and rebirth (seeds)

Beautiful

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