FOUR YEARS AGO a woman known as Jyoti, founder of the Center for Sacred Studies in Sonora, California, an organisation dedicated to preserving Indigenous ways of life and prayer, convened a meeting of an impressive group of women from around the world. For many years, Jyoti and other members of her Kayumari community had been inspired by the vision of a circle of women, all elders, who would come together to bring guidance and healing to the planet.

When Jyoti travelled to Africa and the Brazilian Amazon in 2002 and shared this vision, first with Bwiti elder Bernadette Rebienot in Gabon, and ...

 

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