Los Alamos, New Mexico
This location is considered to be the center of the entire Earth Treasure Vase global healing mandala. There is a cave above Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, where one of the first vases was buried with the help of the Gyumed monks.
When Cynthia first asked the 106-year-old lama Charok Rinpoche about what to do to bring healing and protection to the earth, her concern was motivated by the presence of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the ongoing production of nuclear weapons, as well as the radioactive waste that is poisoning the earth.
“…The Health of Our Peoples, Cannot be Separated From the Health of Our Environment…” –Faith Gemmill- Gwich’in Nation Alaska
Generations ago came a wave of trauma
Crashing on Turtle Island antiquity
In tides of occupied violence
Finely cultivated from endlessly burning
Their feminine spirit at the stake
Rolling across oceans with shackles of intention
That would bind creation
Into following a path polluted with pain
Systematically
Architects of invasion created racialized boundaries
Of power and militarization
No longer could we cross the line
Step freely on ancestral land
Over to the embrace of our elders and language
Denying people their diverse identities
Disrupting the balance of acceptance
Forced enrollment into our own culture
Internalized, colonized behaviors co-created
Matriarchal societies and young girls mutilated
Forced celebration of oppressors and imposed brutal history
Denial of duality that enabled deadly manifest destiny
Laid the foundation for planetary domination
And for that gun to shoot into her womb generationally
Like white coats with biological weapons
Bombarding bacteria into our seed sisters
Rendering them sterile, unable to pass on their memories
Coerced situations that twisted her self-worth
Manipulated the weapon to her own head
Poisoned her land and added explosions to her landscape
Offered her up to multiple addictions and tragedy
That blocks life from her star with mountains of grief
Stories of resilience and survival
Flow through our remembrance as we search
For springs of wellness within our homes
Opportunity that reflects our cultural strengths
Poor, struggling families
Polarized into focusing only on jobs
Destructive industries that split them away from their first relationship
Their first environment of woman
Furthering agendas of disconnection, decimation
Continued dislocation to land, air, and forever
Testimony from grandmothers releases our tears
Speaking what was silenced decreases our fears
Earthen embrace of forested wisdom
Asks for our collective grief
To untangle our relatives from their mistakes and tribulations
Energy cleared for the 7th generation of healers
We are battling for the reclamation of memory
An end to cycles of damage that begins
With violence towards our Mother
And ends with violence towards her daughters
Relationships need to align once again
As we remember our shared purpose
Fulfill our roles of connection
As wisdom and knowledge keepers
Seed savers and life givers
Keepers of the way things were and could be
In balance with reciprocity and shared abundance
Take up the morality of our shared truths
Fight the oppression that cages her dreams of peace
And keeps her children from hope
Take your fist from her bloodied body
And let her heal, let her breathe again
Replenish sparkling waters
So that the world can give birth to global prosperity
For eternity, in cosmic unity
Never again denied existence
Never again threatened by violent persistence
Cycles of clouds that dance with her children
Two-spirits entwined and alive with perfection
Restored alliances, not competing with brethren
Equally thriving, surviving, securing self-determination
Let us hold the way open with linked arms of awareness
For the spiral of illuminated moment is approaching
To guide us on the path to gentle rains
Compassion and peace erasing generations of pain
Indigenous women uprising on rainbows
Singing songs of color and braiding our strengths
Vibrations of a blue world finally at liberty
To hold her children close in joyful reunion
Unconditional absolution, sacred revolution
Forming new ways of being alive with all our relations
Remembering what it is, to be a spiritual, human being
Protecting her, from ever being hurt again.
-Beata Tsosie-Peña c. 2012 (All Rights Reserved)-
Beata’s Bio:
Beata Tsosie-Pena is of mixed ancestry from Santa Clara Pueblo, and El Rito, NM. She has degrees in Early Childhood and Elementary Education. She is a Green For All Fellow, is certified in Infant Massage and Permaculture Design, and is also a poet and musician. She is currently serving on three community boards, and is busy as a mother and wife, while homeschooling her kids along with her husband, Luis. For the last four years she has worked with the local non-profit, Tewa Women United, in their Environmental Health and Justice Program. She facilities a bi-monthly community focus group who works to address local environmental issues, with a focus on nuclear weapons contamination. This work is balanced within the group by the creation and participation in community gardens, seed saving and collaborative “artivism”.
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