Modern Spirit, Inc.

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit the Modern Spirit Reciprocity Project, and any donation will help make an impact.

The Reciprocity Project provides ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for Native Americans at no cost. Many enthusiasts of the psychedelic renaissance have discussed possible Indigenous reciprocity projects, as they are looking for ways to express gratitude to ancestral cultures that gave rise to these healing ways. Our project is a direct and potent way to practice reciprocity! We've seen inspiring results in treating issues such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD. We are currently raising funds to put ten more people through the program and continue growing and expanding this service.

More information about Modern Spirit, Inc.: Modern Spirit is dedicated to demonstrating the value of spiritual healing in modern healthcare by illuminating the intersection of biology, emotion and spirituality. As a non-profit dedicated to scientific research, educational programs, and community building, we are expanding our culture's capacity to heal trauma.

Greetings, we are raising money to support the work of Xochi Bucuru and her team at Cultural Tras La Huella based in Sasaima, Colombia. The ceremonial space at the spiritual center Nuevo Amanecer, the Kusmy Jari Saya-The Healing House, was originally built piece by piece, from struggle and divine grace. This Healing House has welcomed people from all over Colombia and all across the world. The original simple structure was built with the intention of celebrating the surrounding natural world and honoring ancestral tradition.

Last year, unusually strong winds blew through the territory and overwhelmed the Healing House. For over a year, in a remaining portion of the fallen roof, Xochi and her colleagues have continued gathering, sharing, contemplating, and healing. The time has come to rebuild the Healing House. We are now raising funds to reconstruct The Healing House, stronger than ever.

The Healing House and the team at Cultural Tras La Huella have provided wonderful educational opportunities for so many grateful individuals. We ask for your assistance to rebuild the Healing House and to secure a vehicle to further facilitate its growing potential.

Modern Spirit, Inc. is acting as fiscal sponsor in support of this project and Cultural Tras La Huella. GoFundMe does not yet work directly with Colombian nonprofit organizations.

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit Modern Spirit, Inc., as we support Cultural Tras La Huella (CTH). CTH is a Colombian-based non-profit organization focused on promoting cultural education in support of traditional/indigenous knowledge among native, rural and urban peoples. CTH develops groundbreaking media and content to promote their goals and related artistic processes.

 

This fundraiser will support the completion of the powerful documentary, Kumanday: Way of the People. Cultural Tras La Huella has been working on this film project for several years and completed filming in 2021. Initial screenings have been very well-received. We are now raising money to complete post-production for the film's international release this July.

 

Kumanday: Way of the People

In a current social context where indigenous people face an irrepressible modernity, that endangers ancestral memory and the global environment, this documentary portrays an unprecedented meeting of 6 indigenous Colombian communities, who, despite all of the adversity, have initiated an intercultural exchange through a formal mutual agreement. They have formed the Council of Ancestral Spiritual Authorities of Colombia (CAAENOCANM). These communities are now working together to preserve and strengthen native language, cosmology and ancestral traditions, and in doing so, they offer wisdom and inspiration to the world.

 

CAAENOCANM was formed in 2016. In 2017, the Chilean filmmaker Jordi Goya (co-founder of CTH) joined the cause as a volunteer, registering and documenting the processes and agreements made by the council of elders. Together with indigenous healer Xochi Bucuru (director of CTH), guided closely by some of the council's elders, including Arhuaco elder Mamo Lorenzo Izquierdo, Misak elder Ignacio Morales, Sikuani elder Clemente Gaitan and Pasto elder Ramiro Estacio, they came up with the idea for this documentary, a film that could share and make visible the purpose of the council, as well as facilitate interaction between the elders and their communities (amidst the very difficult financial and social conditions in which Colombia finds itself currently).

 

Learn more about the film here:

Kumanday Cultural Tras La Huella

 

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