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www.grandmotherscouncil.com

www.forthenext7generations.com

www.sacredstudies.org (for more on intentional community)

www.cssministryofprayer.org

Kayumari is an international community in operation since 1995, currently based in Black Mountain Retreat, Cazadero, California. In 1998 the vision for the Grandmother Project started to catalyze their teachings and led to eventual creation of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers in 2004. In 2002 the Center for Sacred Studies (CSS) was formally recognized as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and it currently serves as the umbrella group for the Grandmothers Council. In its alliance with the Grandmothers Council, the CSS continues to raise the funds and organize their Council Gatherings as well as facilitating intra-council communication and outreach to the world.

Jyoti is an internationally renowned spiritual advisor with a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, which includes two-and-a-half years of postgraduate study at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She is one of the founders of Kayumari, one of the conveners of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers (www.grandmotherscouncil.com), and the Spiritual Director of the Center for Sacred Studies (www.sacredstudies.org). She travels the world and is dedicated to bringing unity to the planet by developing alliances between the guardians of indigenous culture and traditional medicine. Her Web site is at www.cssministryofprayer.org.

Ann Rosencranz, MA, is an ordained minister, translator, singer, and writer, holding an MA in Philosophy and Religion. Ann is one of the conveners of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and the Program Director for the Center for Sacred Studies Grandmothers Program. Ann oversees all the operational and developmental responsibilities of the Council and travels with them nationally and internationally to walk a prayer of peace and cultivate alliances between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

The Ultimate Miracle Worker

JALAJA BONHEIM

How shall we live in these times? How shall we respond to the awareness of what is happening in our world?

Perhaps the first step is to acknowledge honestly: we don’t know. We may have our guidelines, our intentions, our beliefs about what is helpful and what is not. But do any of us see a clear path from the mess we’ve created on our planet to a peaceful sustainable world? No, we don’t.

We don’t, because we can’t. The process we’re involved in today is not one that the human intellect is capable of penetrating. Like the dance of subatomic particles, it’s multidimensional, mysterious, and impossible for our minds to grasp.

Once we come to grips with this fact, we can let go of the crippling assumption that we should know what to do—or that, at the very least, someone should know. Since nobody does, this can leave us feeling panicky and overwhelmed.

I believe that solutions do exist to our problems. But will we find them? That’s another question. As Einstein said, problems can never be resolved at the level at which they were created. The environmental crisis was caused by the human mind—or more accurately, by the ways in which we habitually use it. But problems created by the mind cannot be resolved by the mind.

We are used to turning to the mind for guidance, and when it can’t make out the path, we tend to feel hopeless. Yet if we can make peace with the fact that our mind is not in control of this journey, then we can open to the possibility of what some might call a miracle. We usually think of miracles as events that contradict the laws of nature, as when Jesus turned water into wine. But the kind of miracle I’m talking about here does not contradict nature. Rather, it’s guided by the intelligence of nature herself, who is the ultimate miracle worker.

Of course, life is a continuous miracle, in the face of which we can’t help but bow down in gratitude and