Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet

The native peoples, the red people, were entrusted with the guardianship of the Earth, the teachings of the plants, foods, and healing herbs. The yellow race carried the knowledge of air, of spiritual advancement through knowledge of the sky, wind, and breath. The black people were given knowledge of the water, the most adaptive and yet most powerf

This does not mean there is a lack of critical thinking, only that thinking about the experience while in the moment stops the experience.

The extraordinary women of the Grandmothers Council were first drawn together by an American woman named Jeneane Prevatt (who goes by the name Jyoti). Her doctoral studies had taken her to the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, where she became interested in the contributions indigenous traditions could make in “helping people to discover their innate

The number thirteen is also considered a sacred number in each of the Grandmothers’ traditions. During ancient times, the year was divided into thirteen months because there were thirteen full moons in a year, and a woman’s cycle is intimately linked with the cycles of the moon. In those times, women were greatly honored because their bodies were s

Rituals powered by intention focus concentration, enabling access to more rarefied levels of the mind for communication with the spiritual realms for prophecy and guidance and to influence events. That is how knowledge of the healing powers of plants was first gained, how understanding was developed about the importance of honoring the four directi

Grandmother Agnes believes the ceremony opened a space for the healing energy of the Creator by offering prayers of gratitude to the Salmon People for giving up their lives to feed humanity. “I am trying to teach reciprocity,” she says. “We two-leggeds are always taking and rarely giving back. Without reciprocity, the balance of nature is thrown of

Most indigenous teachings hold that it is in the heart of a thing that its spirit can be found, and within that spirit is the very essence of the Creator, or whatever one wants to call this divine force. It is believed that the simple act of picking up a stone and holding it in silence changes a person in subtle and profound ways.

sharing their visions, prophecies, and ancient healing and nurturing ways, the Grandmothers hope to inspire others to more consciously partake in the unfolding of Creation. As carriers of their tribes’ traditions, all these women elders are powerful; they are fierce in the best sense. Their deep knowledge and reverence make them poets of life and g

Prophecies of each of the Grandmothers’ traditions state that we are entering the Purification Times. The purification process is a natural cleansing of all the accumulated negativity caused by being materially instead of spiritually oriented.