Feb 27, 2013
Dear Friends, After 23 years of practice and prayer, our final Earth Treasure Vase pilgrimage is finally coming to pass. This journey to Australia, June 12 -25, will mark the completion of the global mandala we have seeded all over the planet to bring healing and protection to the Earth. It will bring us full […]
Aug 11, 2012
On Saturday, August 4, Cynthia Jurs participated in the Spiritual Activism and Nuclear Guardianship panel at the Vision Without Fission Conference, produced by Nuke Free Now in Santa Fe. We invite you to watch the video of this very moving panel, created by Brad Laughlin of Corelight. Brad also served as the facilitator of the […]
Aug 11, 2012
A movement is in the making! In April 2012, Alliance for the Earth (AE) journeyed to D. R. Congo to produce valuable video documentation of the current political, social and environmental landscape. We conducted citizen journalism trainings and documentary interviews, and collected visionary statements from women in partnership with local activists. The women of Congo […]
Jun 22, 2012
Alliance for the Earth carried a Unified Message of Solidarity to the women of Congo in April from members of the Women in Peacebuilding Network in Liberia. Please view and then share this powerful message widely!
Feb 23, 2012
On February 21, Christian Bethelson, the field coordinator of the Liberia PeaceBuilding Project, was featured on Outlook, a BBC podcast program reporting extraordinary personal stories from around the world. Click here to enjoy the story until March 20:
Feb 10, 2012
One of the final four Earth Treasure Vases is now bound for Avebury, England, June 23–29, through a collaboration between the ETV Global Healing Project and Wisdom University. Register today! In the company of leading thinkers and visionaries in their respective disciplines, “The Avebury Experience” will offer a rich exploration of geomancy; crop circles, subtle […]
Feb 9, 2012
We invite you to an evening of sacred activism with Cynthia Jurs at Yogaworks in Larkspur, California, on Sunday, February 26 from 6:00 to 8:30 pm. Experience: • a deeply relevant answer to our times • inspirational stories of sacred activism • unique meditation and ceremony with prayers for restoring the Earth • profound healing […]
Jan 5, 2012
Christian Wolo Bethelson, dear friend and the field coordinator of our Liberia PeaceBuilding Project is the subject of an article in this month’s Yes! Magazine. Please click here to enjoy the full article. The piece was beautifully written by Seth Biderman for the Academy for the Love of Learning, a nonprofit based in Seton Village, […]
Dec 20, 2011
We received word from Christian Wolo Bethelson who recently visited Ganta, where Alliance for the Earth is supporting the construction of a palava peace hut in early 2012. Bethelson writes: “I spent some time with the ex-combatants, elders and city mayor along with the county inspector, Hon. Jimmy Kamara. We also discussed the same good […]
Dec 19, 2011
Many of us have sacrificed our own needs for the sake of the work that calls. The need to restore balance personally, as well as collectively, is something that is true for just about everyone. With the Earth Treasure Vase for Hawaii, our intention is to make this need conscious and spoken, knowing that it […]
Dec 19, 2011
In a cloak and dagger (and camel!) adventure, our friends from Corelight buried the 25th Earth Treasure Vase near the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau. Corelight’s co-founders, Leslie Temple Thurston and Brad Laughlin, kept us abreast of developments as they unfolded. Read about the twists and turns, and how, ultimately, the holy vessel was […]
Dec 19, 2011
The Earth Treasure Vase Project will journey to the Democratic Republic of Congo in April, 2012. Long exploited for its natural resources, Congo seems to embody our collective shadow as greed fuels lawless war and reigns terror on women, children and nature. Read on to hear more about the intent of our pilgrimage and about […]
Oct 21, 2011
In March 2011, we returned to Liberia to water the seeds of peace. Read the full story and watch the video journal here:
Sep 8, 2011
In the company of our peacemaker friends from Liberia, “Uncle Jake” and Christian Bethelson, we will: come into balance; clarify our direction, release our obstacles, and step into living our vision; empower the last 6 Earth Treasure Vases to complete our global mandala in the next year; experience the power of ceremony to effect change; […]
Aug 31, 2011
Join General Christian Bethelson, William “Uncle Jake” Jacobs and Cynthia Jurs at the Upaya Zen Center on Wednesday, September 14 at 5:30 pm as they take up the topic of “Engaged Buddhism in Liberia.” In December 2009, the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project was hosted by hundreds of people from three countries who gathered […]
Aug 31, 2011
We invite you to join us for a wonderful evening in support of the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project and our peace building efforts in Liberia on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 6:00 pm. We will be joined by special guests, ex-combatant rebel general Christian Bethelson and former refugee William “Uncle Jake” Jacobs, who […]
Aug 31, 2011
We’ve created a new page on Facebook! Please join us there, as we tend to the global mandala; steward the last 6 Earth Treasure Vases to their rightful homes by December 21, 2012; strengthen peace building efforts inspired by the Earth Treasure Vase in Liberia, West Africa; and tell a new story through film, social […]
Jul 22, 2011
Dedicated to Spirit, the current issue of World Pulse recognizes that spiritual practice can provide the foundation for effective activism. Cynthia was honored to be one of seven spiritual “heroines who are just a handful of the powerful women guiding us to a better world.” To download the issue and read the article (pp 38-41)… […]
Jul 22, 2011
Due to human encroachment and fences, Southern Africa’s elephants are losing their habitat, and scientists believe some elephant populations have grown too large. Methods of elephant population control have included culling (killing) and translocation (anesthetizing and moving them to less populated areas). The Greater Makalali Private Game Reserve in Limpopo Province, South Africa, in collaboration […]
Jun 25, 2011
We recently returned from South Africa, where we buried the 24th Earth Treasure Vase at an ancient altar in the Blyde River Canyon. I believe I speak for all of the pilgrims on the journey when I say that there is much to integrate and hold in reverence and gratitude. I, for one, am brimming […]
May 6, 2011
The Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project and a wonderful group of pilgrims have left for South Africa to plant the 24th Earth Treasure Vase at the base of the Nilotic Meridian on the full moon, May 17, at 1:09 pm in the afternoon (5:09 am Mountain Time). This full moon is known as the […]
Apr 21, 2011
Through the generous support of the Frost Foundation, the ETV Project journeyed to Liberia in March to tend seeds first planted when we buried an Earth Treasure Vase in Voinjama, Lofa County, on the 2009 winter solstice. Joyfully, we returned to participate in the community dedication of a Peace Hut constructed at the site where […]
Mar 14, 2011
Peace Refuge To Be Inaugurated In conjunction with the Equinox, Cynthia will be returning to Liberia on March 22 with sangha member Burke Denman to inaugurate the peace refuge/palaver hut, recently completed in the village where the Liberia Earth Treasure Vase was buried on the 2009 winter solstice. This is a powerful outcome of our […]
Feb 28, 2011
Learn a practice of sacred activism transmitted by a 106 year-old Tibetan lama living in a cave in Nepal when he was asked, “What can we do to bring healing and protection to the Earth?” Dharmacharya Cynthia Jurs will lead a guided meditation and ceremony that invites participants to share their prayers into earth treasure […]
Feb 4, 2011
For the very first time, the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project is offering the opportunity to participate in two group pilgrimages to accomplish two of the last seven Earth Treasure Vases. We are journeying to: — South Africa, the cradle of humanity, in dedication of Ancient Wisdom and Animal Protection; and — Uluru, Australia, […]
Feb 4, 2011
Join the Earth Treasure Vase Project for a rare evening of film and story as we present “Vessels of the Holy: A Conversation with Eco-Philosopher Joanna Macy.” In “Vessels of the Holy,” Macy speaks poignantly about her experience with planting an Earth Treasure Vase at the Tritium Facility at Lawrence Lab, UC Berkeley; Nuclear Guardianship; […]
Nov 22, 2010
Australia: Uluru and the Aboriginal Teachings of Kanyini The Australia Earth Treasure Vase has found its rightful host and home! At the invitation of Uncle Bob Randall, custodial elder of Uluru (Ayers Rock), we will journey to the center of Australia and the sacred heart of the Aboriginal ancestral homeland in dedication to the Kanyini […]
Sep 3, 2010
The 24th Earth Treasure Vase has been initiated and will be dedicated to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Along with our prayers, we offered earth collected from the ETV burial site in Liberia to the vase — making a symbolic bridge from Liberia to the DRC and directing healing energy from a region that […]
Sep 3, 2010
On August 7, 2010, Juan Manuel Santos assumed the presidency of Colombia. Prior to the official swearing-in ceremony in Bogota, Santos, his wife and three children journeyed to the “Heart of the World” to take a spiritual oath of office before the Mamos — indigenous leaders from the Koguis, Wiwas, Arhuacos and Kankuamos nations. An […]
May 6, 2010
In the mountains of Colombia, a Kogi elder quietly buried the vase delivered to him by Arhuaco activist, Asdrubal Torres and long time friend of Open Way Sangha, Shannyn Sollit. Story and pictures coming soon!
