Mindahi Bastida - Ancestors

https://thefountain.earth/ [email protected] ANCESTORS Divine Remembrances of Lineage, Relations and Sacred Sites The full scope of our ancestral legacy extends far beyond blood relations. Our family of origin links us back to motherlands; we “inherit” these territories and all sentient forms of life in these locales. The consciousness of ancestors is interwoven through the web of time and space. In the present, it includes our parents, grandparents and others who have formed who we are. Sit around the fire with us and listen to the stories of when a living or deceased relative passed down great wisdom or traditions in a mystical way. Or how doing ancestral work to resolve family patterns led individuals to reestablish a spiritual connection with someone in their lineage. Walk with us as we visit foreign lands through the eyes of our authors who felt its welcome and remembered who they truly are. Feel the healing in these stories of when a significant figure from one’s ancestry showed in their dreams or energy work to help them heal past, present or future family karma. Our featured author, Mindahi Bastida, shares his own deep bond with his (and the topic of) ancestry. His wisdom will inspire you to open to the possibility of Divine remembrances in your own life. Mindahi Bastida Mindahi Bastida is a caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi-Toltec peoples, an Otomi-Toltec Ritual Ceremony Officer, Director of the Original Nations Program of the Fountain, and a UNESCO consultant on sacred sites and biocultural issues. MINDAHI BASTIDA is Director of the Original Nations Program of the Fountain, a caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi-Toltec peoples, and an Otomi-Toltec Ritual Ceremony Officer. He is a consultant with UNESCO on issues related to sacred sites and bioculture. Mindahi has also served as Director of the Original Caretakers Program at the Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York; and General Coordinator of the Otomi-Toltec Regional Council in Mexico. Born in Tultepec, Lerma, Mexico, Mindahi holds a Doctorate of Rural Development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and an M.A. in Political Science from Carleton University, Canada. He has written and published extensively on biodiversity, Indigenous knowledge and related topics, and has taught on subjects ranging from sustainability, ethics and earth spirituality to Indigenous voices, communitarian links and intellectual property rights. Mindahi frequently lectures on Indigenous Peoples-Nation State relationships, intercultural education, sustainability and Indigenous peoples, cosmologies and philosophies of indigenous peoples, and biocultural sacred sites. He is also deeply involved with the Biocultural Sacred Sites for Humanity, Original Peoples proposal, UNESCO, the Timekeepers Program and the Process of Unification in charge of the Latin American and the Caribbean region. Mindahi is also President of the Mexico Council of Sustainable Development, a member of the Steering Committee of the Indigenous Peoples’ Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative, and has served as a delegate to several commissions and summits on Indigenous rights and the environment.