Earth Treasure Vase: Global Healing Project
Linking our world in a practice of planetary protection & renewal.

BBC Features Liberia Peace Builder

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:    

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Register Today for the Avebury Experience & the Burial of the 28th ETV, June 23 – 29, 2012

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 […]

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2.26 Evening of Sacred Activism in Larkspur, CA

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 […]

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YES! Magazine Features Christian Bethelson and Liberia PeaceBuilding Project

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, […]

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Liberia Peacebuilding Project Update

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 […]

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Winter Solstice Burial of the 26th ETV on Maui, Hawaii

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 […]

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25th ETV buried in Giza, Egypt on 11.11.11

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 […]

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ETV Pilgrimage to the Democratic Republic of Congo in April, 2012

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 […]

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New video journal of our March 2011 return to Liberia

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:

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Watering Seeds of Peace: The Earth Treasure Vase Project Returns to Liberia

Oct 21, 2011

Through the generous support of the Frost Foundation, the ETV Project journeyed to Liberia in March 2011 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 […]

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9.23 – 9.25 Coming Into Balance: A Retreat For Mindful Changemakers with Cynthia Jurs

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; […]

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Dharma Talk at Upaya Zen Center on September 14 at 5:30 pm

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 […]

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2nd Annual ETV Project Benefit

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 […]

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Join us on Facebook!

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 […]

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ETV Project featured in current issue of World Pulse

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)… […]

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New Video on the Elephants of Makalali

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 […]

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24th ETV Buried in South Africa

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 […]

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South Africa ETV to be buried on the May Full Moon

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 […]

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ETV Project Returns to Liberia for Peace Hut Dedication

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 […]

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Equinox Return to Liberia

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 […]

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Cynthia to share Earth Treasure Vase practice in California

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 […]

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The Liberia Peacebuilding Project

Feb 17, 2011

“We will create a space where the truth is sacred, and renew our peacebuilding efforts to heal fractured communities. I am prepared to be the first to appear before it, to say what I have already said, to challenge untruths, to say what I have done and what I have not done and to demonstrate […]

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Excerpt from “Stories of Belonging,” edited by Kelly Wendorf, with Uncle Bob Randall

Feb 11, 2011

In Stories of Belonging, edited by Kelly Wendorf, Tjilpi Bob Randall writes: “To understand belonging, you have to understand the system of connection that has supported my people for over sixty thousand years. Belonging to all things was and is our way of life. As an Aboriginal person, you belong to much more than just […]

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Register Now! Seeking Fellow Pilgrims to steward Earth Treasure Vases to South Africa and Australia, May 2011

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, […]

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Film Premiere of “Vessels of the Holy” on February 12 at 7 PM

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; […]

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Australia ETV Finds Its Rightful Host and Home

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 […]

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24th ETV is initiated and designated for the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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 […]

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Sungi Appeal for Flood Relief in Pakistan

Aug 20, 2010

Sungi Appeal for Donations 05Aug2010

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Another Vase is Buried!

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!

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Our 1st ETV for Africa was Buried in Liberia

May 6, 2010

Thanks to our friends with Everyday Gandhis in Voinjama, Liberia we successfully buried our 23rd ETV on the winter solstice 2009. 500 members of the diverse community in the worst fought area of the civil war participated in the final ceremony to fill the vase with prayers and offerings for peace.

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