Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit 2015

The second annual Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit 2015 (GIWS) is a powerful 3-day no-cost event taking place November 17-19 -- online and on the phone -- where thousands of Indigenous brothers and sisters and their kindred relations from around the world are gathering to learn how the human family can overcome our challenges and walk a unified path of healing and sacred action.

Some of the world's most esteemed Indigenous voices will share prayers, sacred songs, prophecies, spiritual teachings and pathways to healing. They'll also highlight concrete examples for birthing a new era -- one in which ALL beings are treated with respect, understanding, compassion and justice.

On Day 3, the summit will be hosting an exciting "Festival of the Americas" Video Day, featuring interviews conducted at The Indigenous Summit of the Americas in Panama. Through these powerful interviews, Indigenous leaders are able to share their sacred wisdom with our global community and ignite entire generations to launch a culturally and spiritually-based movement of unprecedented, unified action.

When you sign up for The Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit, you'll be inspired by the many positive and constructive aspects that are coming to fruition based upon sacred Indigenous principles. You'll also discover why NOW is the time to start co-creating a harmonious world that can fully realize the unlimited potential of the human family -- both individually and collectively. And it's all absolutely FREE! Get all the details, and sign up here: www.indigenouswisdomsummit.com.

A Shaman's Perspective on Western Civilization

Davi Kopenawa has been dubbed the Dalai Lama of the Rainforest and is considered one of the most influential tribal leaders in Brazil. The Yanomami number about 30,000 and occupy a vast territory stretching across northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. They only made full contact with the west in the 1950s when their lands were overrun by thousands of gold prospectors and loggers. After waves of epidemics and cultural and environmental devastation, one in three of all Yanomami, including Davi's mother, died.

Davi's experience of white people has been dreadful but he is unusual because he trained not just as a shaman but also worked with the Brazilian government as a guide and learned western languages. In the past 25 years, he has traveled widely to represent indigenous peoples in meetings and, having lived in both societies, he has a unique viewpoint of western culture. With the help of an anthropologist, Bruce Albert, who interviewed him over several years, he has written his autobiography The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman. It is not just an insight into what a Yanomami leader really thinks, but a devastating critique of how the west lives, showing the gulf between primordial forest and modern city world views. By way of his autobiography, and other conversations, the Guardian News recently compiled several of Kopenawa's observations. Read More.