Science and Nonduality

It’s impossible to have your eyes open and not have your heart broken @gabormatemd

True compassion doesn’t turn away from pain — it feels it.
To see clearly is to grieve deeply, and that grief is not weakness. It’s the pulse of our shared humanity responding to a world in crisis

Join activist, author, and restorative justice trainer Kazu Haga @kazu_haga for a powerful gathering on Fierce Vulnerability — an embodied exploration of how to meet trauma, collapse, and systemic harm with presence, courage, and compassion.

In this moving moment from Mauri, Tohe Ashby reminds us that healing begins with remembering our place in the living world. The trees, the soil, the rivers — they are not resources, but relatives. To enter the forest without reverence is to forget who we are. 🌱

In this beautiful moment from Mauri, Mark Kopua and Tohe Ashby speak on the sacred meaning of tā moko — the Māori tattoos that are far more than art. Each mark carries ancestral lineage, purpose, and cosmic alignment.

In this highlight from Mauri, Matenga (Tenga) Rangitauira speaks to the profound healing power of ancestral knowledge — how returning to the old ways not only reconnects us to spirit but also clears the traumas carried through generations.

In this powerful moment from Mauri, Awhitia Mihaere  reminds us that healing is never isolated — it is a sacred act of reciprocity across generations. The work we do in this lifetime softens the burdens of those who came before and strengthens the path for those yet to come.

In a highlight from our new film Mauri, Atarangi Murupaenga shares her wisdom on ancestral healing — reminding us that balance is not something we chase, but something we remember.

Mark Kopua shares how traditional Māori tattoos are not merely designs, but celestial maps — living stories that guided his ancestors across vast oceans. Each line, each curve, a constellation of memory and navigation, mapping the body back to the cosmos. 🌊🌌

A wisdom keeper from our newest film Mauri, Dr, Diana Kopua speaks on the urgent need for language that truly reflects Indigenous realities — words that honor spirit, land, and relationship rather than pathology.

✨ Kapa Haka — the heartbeat of Aotearoa.

Performed by Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue, this traditional Māori dance carries the stories, strength, and spirit of the ancestors.

In the film, Tohe Ashby shares how colonization tore into the heart of Māori life: the confiscation of land, the prohibition of their language in schools, and the attempt to sever culture from its roots. 

Join us for the Global Premiere of Mauri  theeternalsong.org/mauri/

In our recent community gathering, “From Surviving to Thriving: Decolonial Healing and Liberation,” Dr. Thema Bryant reminded us that joy is not the absence of pain—it is the sacred art of being fully alive within it.

Raised among his elders in Mangatuna, Mark Kopua carries the ancestral wisdom of his East Coast tribes As a master carver, moko artist, and co-director of Te Kurahuna, he continues to weave stories of whakapapa (lineage) and cosmic kinship

Mauri is a cinematic invitation into the healing traditions of Aotearoa, carried by Māori healers, elders, and knowledge keepers who tend to intergenerational wounds through land, language, and ceremony.

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With gratitude and respect, we offer the theatrical release schedule for Mauri, a film braided through the wisdom and generosity of Māori healers who shared their stories, presence, and practices with us

Mauri – Film Release 

Mauri is an intimate, visually stunning testament to the land and people of Aotearoa (New Zealand)—a culture that has endured colonization, displacement, and erasure, yet continues to shine with resilience and ancestral healing.

https://theeternalsong.org/mauri/

Please join us for "From Surviving to Thriving:
Decolonial Healing and Liberation"
A Community Gathering with Dr. Thema Bryant @dr.thema

WHEN:Oct 4 • 10:00 – 11:30am PDT

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At our recent gathering ALTÆR Ancestral Bone Mapping & Healing, Iya Affo invited us to honor the body as shrine, the bones as living scrolls. She reminded us that deep lineage wisdom is not lost it waits in our very structure carrying rhythm grief and guidance across generations

In this moving clip, Lyla speaks to the sacred role of elders: guiding us through trauma not with blame, but with the gentle strength of those who remember who we are. Their compassion becomes the medicine that helps us return home.
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We’re honored to reopen access to The Eternal Song—the first film in our 12-part documentary journey, alongside eight potent conversations with Indigenous knowledge keepers, healers, and accomplices in transformation.

 TheEternalSong.org

We’re reopening access to the film + 8 powerful conversations with wisdom keepers, healers, and cultural guardians.

🎥 Donate any amount—even $0—to watch The Eternal Song and these talks from Sept 10–18.

🔗 Join us at TheEternalSong.org or via the link in bio.

Join us for a powerful ceremonial gathering guided by Culturalist and Historical Trauma Consultant Iya Affo. Through rhythms of beauty, grief, and intergenerational wisdom, we’ll explore how the body holds ancestral memory—and how bone, breath, and ritual can guide us home.

At The Eternal Song 7-Day Gathering, Mohawk midwife and cultural leader Katsi Cook reminded us that the womb is the original watershed—where the health of land, body, and culture flow together.

Reposted from the Museum of Science Boston ❤️🌎

"what is nature isn't a resource to extract, but a gift to honor?"

a powerful reflection from Robin Wall Kimmerer on shifting from transaction to gift mentality to increase our mutual responsibility and care for the ecosystem

Ashira Darwish offered a powerful prayer—a call to alchemize our heartbreak and fury into sacred action.

As a journalist, healer, and survivor, Ashira spoke from a place of embodied wisdom. She reminded us that the genocide in Gaza demands not only our mourning—but our movement.

Dr. Shahd Abusalama offered a soul-piercing poem—a lament for Palestine that carried the weight of generations.

When language fails, feeling remains.
When the world looks away, we bear witness.

Osprey Orielle Lake, at The Eternal Song Gathering 7 day gathering, shared that when systems lose their balance, it is up to us to act as antibodies—naming what is toxic, tending what is wounded, and protecting what is sacred.

🎥 Watch the film  TheEternalSong.org

We’ve put so much distance between ourselves and Earth—even in the simplest ways, like never walking barefoot anymore. We’ve closed the channels to our origins.

Donald Del Laverdure reminded us that disconnection isn’t just philosophical—it’s physical.

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Please join us for a reckoning; a collective refusal; a gathering of those who cannot stay silent while genocide is being livestreamed.

In a moving conversation, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters speaks with raw honesty about Gaza, the collapse of Western moral frameworks, and the urgent need for conscience in the face of empire.