A movement is growing through these “Transformative” music and art events in the Pacific Northwest.

A movement is growing through these “Transformative” music and art events in the Pacific Northwest. This one is called “Imagine” and last weekend was its third annual manifestation on Orcas Island in Puget Sound, Washington. My experience was ecstatic and profound.The workshops were highly inspiring and had a strong emphasis on envisioning the future in a very clear-minded way. One of them involved group meditation activities focused on recognizing and honoring all of our ancestors and everything they have been through, including the European colonists who came to the New World. This group in particular was led by a Native American woman named Pulxaneeks, a local activist whose family tribe is native to the island we were on. She said that its important to understand that colonization has deeply effected not only the indigenous peoples, but also the descendants of the colonists. Because so many people here in America, young people especially, feel as though they do not have a culture. And that, she says, is because those colonists lost their culture over time when they came to the New World. They lost their tribal roots, their healing arts and shamans, and the teachings of their elders that brought their ancestors into adulthood in centuries past. In a cultural sense they, too, were colonized.There was a very intense emotional feeling that swept through the group when this was acknowledged. She went on to say that she has been working through the healing process on her ancestors behalf, and paving the way for the forgiveness on their part that will help to mend the wounds of not only her own people, but of the entire country.There is something brewing here that is hard to explain.I met so many people  who are open and focused. I left with a sense of responsibility to carry this forward and continue to inspire people to push through these dark and confusing times as much as I can. -- source link

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