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“The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is like one of the seeds Martín Prechtel describes. When planted in fertile ground, the words and thoughts and images and prayers will grow into a life-giving complexity. This is a wondrous and powerful book.”—Derrick Jensen, activist and author of Dreams and Endgame“A brilliant writer, Martín Prechtel bears gifts from our ancestors, gifts that are essential to awaken a wayward humanity to the need for a spiritual ecology."—Michael Harner, author of The Way of the Shaman“Prechtel’s words are like the wildly colored heirloom kernels of corn born of ancestral knowledge that traditional Maya farmers prayerfully place into the holy earth. Once planted, the author waters these sacred seeds of the Indigenous Soul with heartfelt compassion for a spiritually disconnected humanity in this period of global transformation. May these sprouts of indigenous awareness flourish and produce vital seeds for a collective return to an awareness of our oneness with nature.”—Robert Sitler, director of Latin American Studies at Stetson University, Florida, and author of The Living Maya“A haunting and enchanting prose poem that encompasses a shattering earthquake, the rapacious disaster capitalism that fed on it, and the resilience of an indigenous culture whose authenticity carried it through those dark times.… Martín Prechtel's deep wisdom has given us a model that can be replicated everywhere, so that from the moral bankruptcy and collapse of global capitalism a true human culture, in union with the wild, can emerge.”—Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden“It is very important, especially nowadays in the face of the monsters of GMO agribusnesses, that someone speaks out so clearly and eloquently about saving the pure and strong seeds that nature itself brought forth. And, of course, Martín Prechtel is also right about the seeds we carry within us, given to us from our age-old culture.…”—Wolf D. Storl, author of The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners"Martín Prechtel has seen it all: He grew up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, was apprenticed to a Guatemalan medicine man and settled in the United States after fleeing the Guatemalan civil war. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive (North Atlantic Books) relates the preservation of seeds and plant life to the similar seeds of spirituality in human life as he chronicles his own life journey." —Indian Country"The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive reflects the author's experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation and his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, returning to the U.S. after fleeing the country's civil war ... Real human culture is exterminated when the non-genetically modified seeds of plants that feed us are lost - and this appraoches the issue both metaphorically and spiritually, discussing how such seeds of spirituality and culture need to be cherished, replanted, and harvested. Collections strong in tribal insights, ecology, spirituality, and autobiography alike will find this a moving, passionate work." —Midwest Book Review
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About the Author
A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel is a writer, artist, and teacher who, through his work both written and spoken, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony, and premodern vitality hidden in any living language. A half-blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, he left New Mexico to live in the village of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, eventually becoming a full member of the Tzutujil Mayan community there. For many years he served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rites of passage. Once again residing in his native New Mexico, Prechtel teaches at his international school, Bolad’s Kitchen. Through music, ritual, farming, sacred architecture, ancient textiles, tools, and story, Prechtel helps people in many lands to remember their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul.
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Product details
Hardcover: 476 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books (January 31, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1583943609
ISBN-13: 978-1583943601
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.5 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
28 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#390,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
"Like victims of an ancient spiritual and cultural shipwreck, we have been adrift for four thousand years, floating on people-centered rafts of provisional civilizations that have convinced themselves they are the real thing and the cutting edge of human evolution, while designating our true magical origins of deep small cultures as some dirty, half-evolved, grunting, primitive past.But no matter how far we’ve drifted away from those real indigenous shores, the spirits of our last happy, intact, indigenous ancestors from before we began to drift are effortlessly coursing right along with us. Having merged with the vastness of the natural wild tossing sea we so fear to drown in, they follow each of us like a pod of giant sea turtles, their big sweet scaly heads thumping up under us, trying their best to get our attention and tow us home to our real selves, knocking on the hull of the lifeboat of today’s assumed culture, while we drift along figuring that the anxiety of civilization’s never-ending feeling of emergency is normal."This passage is from page 310 of the book. It sums up Prechtel's almost-desperate thesis; help is available to those who ask. Indigeneousity is a fundamental capacity of humans; what is forgotten is not lost. There's a fierce hopefulness to this book, overtaking the beauty and grief found in Prechtel's previous texts.This is Prechtel's longest and most literal and prescriptive book. Whereas his past book have been written for a general audience, this book is very clearly aimed at his students in his school—Bolad's Kitchen. For these reasons, it also took me longer to read than any of his other books.As the title suggests, the central theme of the book is the interconnected co-existance of plants and people. To take a plant discussed heavily in the book—what we are maize and maize is us? What if these two species are part of a kind of reciprocal maintenance, where each is sustained and evolves with the other? The Maya lived in such a world, and there’s a lot we’ve left behind by stepping out of such a story, to a place where food could be a commodity rather than a peer.A subtext surrounds the importance of authenticity. There is merit to the hipster inclination towards provenance. We like to turn away from stories which displease us. “I can’t afford those handmade pants,†is the sort of statement you might hear, speaking of some artisanal denim from California or New York. But the speaker is unlikely to disavow pants altogether. They will purchase handmade pants—made by the hands of an eleven-year-old in Malaysia getting paid a dollar an hour. There’s a reason you don’t see the label “Handmade in China;†we don’t like to think about those hands, the hands that we are unwilling to pay enough to afford basic human dignity. Prechtel explores this thread by discussing a “House of Origins,†a place where we can tell the complete story of everything inside. How many objects in your life hold this significance? One facet of the sacred is a familiarity so deep that something becomes a part of ourselves.If you sometimes find yourself picking at the chinks in the wall of Western culture, you will find this book a fortifying tonic.
First of all, I would have rated it as 5 STARS if Martin had listened to his editor(s) and shortened some of his sentences to a more reasonable length. Since the end of his sentences relate to how they started, I found myself getting lost and having to go back to the beginning of many sentences to figure out what the end of the sentence was talking about. Martin just puts way too many "and"s in his sentences, making them go on and on and on until a sentence becomes an entire paragraph and the paragraph fills an entire page.Aside from that, Martin Prechtel has something very worthwhile to say. If you're on a spiritual path, you'll just have to remain tolerant and patient until you finally "get it". Hang in there, because you will.Just like many native teachers, Martin talks in circles. In this book, Martin speaks in circles within circles within circles. One story may begin with something and goes off on what appears to be a tangent, only to return to the initial subject in a way where the "tangential" information makes a lot of sense. He does the same thing in linking one story to another with "tangential" stories in between. By the time you get to later chapters, the stories told there relate back to the first chapter and you finally "get it" and you understand why he brought up seemingly unrelated threads within his stories. EVERYTHING IS RELATED.Martin's perspectives on seeds and how they relate to humans and vice versa are very eye opening and explain a lot regarding the indigenous mind and their way of thinking. He even explains some of the ceremonies and traditions described in his previous books and how they came to be. The birth and death rituals are a case in point. There's way too much for me to give detailed examples, and attempting to give any would short change what Martin was saying. Note that I did not say "what Martin was *trying* to say." Martin said it in multiple ways that did not come across as redundant, so if one story or explanation confused you, another one will relieve your confusion."The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic" is going to occupy a special place in my life and on my bookshelf, and I'm going to buy more copies for special spiritual friends who can appreciate what Martin Prechtel has to say.I can hardly wait for spring -- seed planting season !FYI, "Cuchumaquic" is the name of a Mayan village in Guatemala that was destroyed by an earthquake. Even though the survivors were starving, they were unwilling to eat their last remaining pouch of seed corn.
This is an amazing book for people who like to feel the spirit speaking through the words. The author uses his "delicious words" to share the lives and reality of a people and mindset that we could all benefit from living. It's a beautifully written book as are all of his other books. I highly recommend all of Martin Prechtel's books.
I did not like this book and have not been able to finish it. The style of writing is very difficult to read, with long rambling sentences. I found myself reading some of the sentences two or three times to parse the meaning. There are some good thoughts here, but from what I have read so far they could have been said more succinctly and more effectively.
Now and then when you read something, you just know that the information is deep and clear. There is great wisdom here to help us heal as a society. The challenge is in internalizing the wisdom through action and reflection, not just reading the book. It comforts my soul to know that this source is here for those ready to do the work and heal themselves and and their people.
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