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

Dtao Dum Forest, Thailand

The Earth Treasure Vase buried in a vast and wild forest near the Burmese border in Thailand, was stewarded by renunciate monks in the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chaa. Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro of Abhayagiri Monastery in Northern California requested the vase to protect this pristine forest under siege from drug trafficking, potential […]

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Tritium Lab, Berkeley CA

“Vessels of the Holy” The work of mentor and advisor to the Earth Treasure Vase global healing project, Joanna Macy, has been a profound inspiration to Cynthia from the beginning. Joanna buried a vessel in the grounds of the University of California at Berkeley where there is a laboratory working with Tritium, one of the […]

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Kosovo

The Treasure Vase was taken to Kosovo by our dear friend Fran Peavy and Jan Hartsough of the non-profit organization Crabgrass as well as the Women in Black who were working in the former Yugoslavia to bring peace and healing to the women post war. Carefully packed in its special copper-lined basket made by Anne Wilson […]

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Il’ca’bama, Ecuador

Taken to Ecuador by Elly Richards, this Treasure Vase was originally planned for burial in northern Ecuador on a sacred mountain whose waters flow into the Amazon where there has been much devastation from the oil companies. That turned out not to be the case and the sacred valley of Il’ca’bama was chosen instead. Il’ca’bama is […]

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Oaxaca, Mexico

After a tremendous hurricane devastated the coast of Oaxaca, a vase was taken into ceremony between the equinox and the solstice with local curanderas and healers, then buried on the sacred land of the Punta Cometa. As the group asked Spirit for an indication as to where the vase should be buried, a whale breached […]

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Headwaters Redwood Forest, CA

Old growth redwood trees — “the ancient ones” — threatened by logging, called for protection in the Headwaters Forest in Northern California. One of the earliest vases to go out beyond the Rio Grande bioregion went into the depth of this primordial forest, stewarded by our dear friend and dharma sister Wendy Johnson. This is […]

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Hudson River, New York

One of the first Treasure Vases to go out beyond New Mexico was stewarded by Ann Dunn who was strongly called to place a vessel in upstate New York for the protection of the Hudson River. She chose the Harriman State Forest which is close to the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

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Mt. Chicoma, New Mexico

Anchoring the western point of the original mandala in the Rio Grande bioregion of northern New Mexico, Mt. Chicoma is a sacred site for the Tewa people and rises above many of the pueblos in the area. Part of the Jemez mountain range, hundreds of thousands of years ago these volcanic mountains were as high […]

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Mt. Baldy, New Mexico

The highest mountain in our Rio Grande bioregion received one of the first Treasure Vases, anchoring the eastern point of the original mandala. Pictured here is David Bacon who crafted many copper-covered hardwood boxes to contain the Treasure Vases for burial. We chose copper because it is said to conduct energy within the earth.

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Mouth of the Rio Grande at the Gulf of Mexico

Our intention in burying a vase at the mouth of the Rio Grande was to anchor the entire bioregion and direct our prayers out into the Gulf. This location marks the southern point of the four directions of the original mandala that began this practice. When the B.P. oil spill happened in 2010, this location […]

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Source of the Rio Grande, Creede, Colorado

The first Treasure Vase to be buried was stewarded by Leslie Larsen to the headwaters of the Rio Grande, bringing blessings to the entire bioregion watershed that stretches all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. We chose this location because according to tradition it is said that burying vases at sources of rivers allows for […]

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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 […]

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