Incan Messengers brought the music and vision of the South American Condor to the Gathering of Eagles at the Sedona Creative Life Center.

“We will only have a future to the degree to which we can imagine a sustainable and peaceful future,” states Ralph Abraham in IN SEARCH OF THE FUTURE.

Sean Ahearn, Director of the 30-year old Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, came from California. Pamela Rolfs, daughter of visionary philanthropist Henry Rolfs, and a founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, came from Virginia.  The local visionaries and others each contributed their input to the mosaic of ideas that began a process of envisioning the peaceful, joyful, abundant future that is our birthright. A perfect ear of Hopi blue corn was passed around as a “talking stick” and each member of the forum gave his or her vision of the future.

“This forum intended to bring each person’s piece of the puzzle together to form a picture of the future we cannot see yet and won’t see until we each rise into our highest selves and come together and in the words of Grandmother Kitty, Nakota Elder, ‘Fit the pieces of the hoop together and create the hoop of life,’” states Marlow, long-time creator of forums for visionary Native American Elders.

Marlow has been creating these forums since 1990 when she first came in contact with Wallace Black Elk, Lakota Elder. "When we come together with the indigenous peoples as equals, as family,” continues Marlow, “and we each open our hearts and our minds to the other, the melding of our gifts will bring a new perspective that is invisible at this time. This new perspective will allow us to see the path to true unity, peace and freedom."

The forum began on a clear, cold January morning with a blessing ceremony in the Peace Garden at the Sedona Creative Life Center. The group gathered in front of a large bronze replica of Mother Earth and a four-direction pole asking for Peace on Earth in several languages. Incan dancers brought ancient song and blessings from their land.

<< Sakina Blue-Star asked that we each remember that we are one with the Creator of all life.