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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

By: Martín Prechtel
Narrated by: Martín Prechtel
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 Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s realization that human survival depends on keeping alive the seeds of our “original forgotten spiritual excellence.”

Prechtel relates our current state of ecological crisis to the rapid disappearance of biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and shared human values. He demonstrates how real human culture is exterminated when real (not genetically modified) seeds are lost. Like plants that become extinct once their required conditions are no longer met, authentic, unmonetized human cultures can no longer survive in the modern world. To “keep the seeds alive”—both literally and metaphorically—they must be planted, harvested, and replanted, just as human culture must become truly engaging and meaningful to the soul, as necessary as food is to the body. The viable seeds of spirituality and culture that lie dormant within us need to “sprout” into broad daylight to create real sets of cultures welcome on Earth. Environment Nature & Ecology Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Outdoors & Nature Science Conservation Shamanism Plant Science
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Every man would learn from this . Beautifully narrated with humility , these are messages to manhood , of how we can live .

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The depth of reciprocal relationship that the author holds with all aspects of the natural world, of the wild. The deeper meaning of our connection to food…all quite amazing and so worthwhile to sit with and listen to deeply. I’m really grateful for Martín’s wisdom and experience, his help in finding connective meaning and indigeneity that is in all of us to foster back into life.

Beautiful reciprocal relationship with the wild, the natural and those longing for it.

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