Your Donation Is a Prayer for the Earth

There is a mountain in Glacier National Park where a single raindrop touches three oceans.

Triple Divide Peak is a hydrological apex of North America — one of two points in the world where water flows simultaneously to the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Arctic. What enters the earth here disperses outward in every direction, carried by rivers to every shore. In the most literal sense possible, this is the heart of the continent.

The Rocky Mountains that rise at this peak are known to the Indigenous peoples of this land as the Backbone of the World. They run without interruption from the North American Arctic to the tip of South America — a single living spine unifying two continents, north to south, across every border human beings have drawn across it.

Those divisions are the wound this ceremony addresses.

On August 12, 2026, during the solar eclipse, I will carry an Earth Treasure Vase near the summit of Triple Divide Peak and then bury it in the earth in a sacred location. This act is not symbolic. It is medicine — placed at the hydrological heart of a continent that was never meant to be divided, on land whose peoples were never meant to be separated from each other or from this ground.

The Blackfeet Nation has lived in relationship with this landscape for 12,000 years. Across the Canadian border, their relatives the Blackfoot Nation hold the same unbroken connection. The border between them — like all colonial borders drawn through Indigenous territory — cut through a living relationship. To the north, Snow Dome marks another hydrological apex where three oceans meet. These two peaks are sisters, holding the same geography, separated only by a line drawn by colonization. The buffalo are already coming home and crossing that line. This vase also carries prayers for their continued return and the full success of the Iinnii Initiative.

Along the route of this pilgrimage I will visit Sage Wall — a Neolithic stone structure similar to those found in Peru, thought to be evidence that the peoples of this backbone were connected across vast distances long before any nation-state existed. The continuity of human relationship with this land runs deeper than any border. The vase will also descend into deep caverns, meet the sanctuary and nursery for Townsend's big-eared bats, touch the geo-thermal waters, and several other meaningful Blackfeet locations to gather final blessings.

About The Earth Treasure Vase Tradition:

The Earth Treasure Vase comes from an ancient Tibetan Terma tradition — sacred treasures concealed by great masters in the 8th century, hidden until the moment humanity needs them most. The moment is now.

I entered this lineage through Lama Cynthia Jurs. In 1990, she received a direct assignment from Kushok Mangden Charak Rinpoche: revive this ancient practice to bring healing to the world. She has carried this ancient technology around the world for over thirty years. Through her I became steward of this vase - made by my own hands under the guidance of Tewa elder and master potter Marian Naranjo. I have carried it to sacred sites and ceremonies. I have tended it and listened to it. This February it asked to go to work. August 12th under the New Moon Solar Eclipse, she will be ceremonially buried and her medicine will begin.

Your donation is a prayer. Every dollar contributed becomes part of what goes into the ground — literally woven into the ceremony, into the intention of healing and reconciliation placed at the heart of the continent.

I am hoping to raise $3,500 of the total cost of this pilgrimage — guide, travel, lodging, and sacred site offerings along the route. I am funding the rest myself.

About Me:

My name is Julie Brams. I am a psychotherapist, author of The Nature Embedded Mind, Forest Therapy guide, and meditation teacher. For thirty years my work has been rooted in one conviction: we are not separate from Nature. We are Nature. This pilgrimage is that work carried into the wild, all the way to the place where the waters divide.

If this stirs something in you — if you believe the Earth deserves our devotion, not just our worry — I would be honored to have you walk this with me.

With gratitude,

Julie Brams, MA, LMFT