International Spiritual Experience is proud to announce that we will be cosponsoring the Return of the Ancestors Gathering in Eureka Springs, Arkansas with Fire Om Earth Retreat Center to honor and align with those tribal elders who are coming together in Arizona and worldwide. During this time, Fire Om Earth will be having The Herbs and Botanical Retreat and we will also be holding ceremonies to respectfully connect the grid and our intentions and prayers with those in Arizona and around the world. We are also honored to be holding space for these ceremonies with Jim Two Feathers, Coyote Medicine, Wolf Clan.

Jim Two Feathers

Return of the Ancestors & Earth Day 2009
Written by Athyna Rock and Adam Yellowbird

500 years ago the Mayan Ancestors wrote out on stone prophesies for the upcoming years creating the Mayan Calendar. With only four years left of the Mayan Calendar, many people fear the end of the world, but it is not predicting the end of the world in 2012, but the start of a new era. To usher in this new era The Institute for Cultural Awareness is holding a sacred pilgrimage in Northern Arizona beginning Earth Day Weekend, April 18th – 28, 2009. Indigenous Elders and Future Wisdom Keepers are coming from every corner of the world, from the highest peaks of the Andes Mountains to the Plains of Africa. They are coming to share their wisdom and prophesies with the world to help us heal it and to follow in their ancestors footsteps as prophesized, creating new guide stone tablets of prophesy for the upcoming 500 years…the world has awaited a renewed life’s plan.
It was Adam Yellowbird, Spiritual Guide and the Founder of ICA in Sedona, had the vision of the Return of the Ancestors as he sat with the Elders in a sacred circle on the shores of Lake Titicaca in Peru. This vision was not just his own, but also of the Tribal Elder of Guatemala, Don Alejandro Cerilio Axla Perez. Don Alejandro had spoken of a great gathering of peoples from the Americas. During that time on Lake Titicaca, Adam knew that it was time for this great gathering, “It is time for the return of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine,” Yellowbird announced. “It is time for the prophecies, the cultures, the languages, the history and herstory of all people to come together as one. It is time to release ancestral memory that doesn’t serve us and replace it with a new healed ancestral memory and consciousness that give inspiration for the future, beyond 2012. “We are the future we fully intend to be…And it begins now.”

This gathering is fulfilling a great Mayan prophecy, “When the Eagle once again flies with the Condor, a lasting peace will reign in the Americas and will spread throughout the world to unite humanity.” Beginning Earth Day Weekend, April 18th 2009, throughout Northern Arizona the heart of the gathering will also be the 4th reunion of the Continental Council of Indigenous Elders and Spiritual Guides of the Americas. Here 72 or more global spiritual/cultural leaders and 28 youth council leaders will share a harvest of harmonic wisdom and understandings that will enable the world to fulfill the prophecies of the ancestors. This gathering's commitment to ceremony as a focal point offers pilgrims of the world the privilege to witness councils sharing wisdom from their ancestors, songs and sacred ceremonies. This intention is to bring inspiration to the world thus birthing clear decisions and manifesting a conduit of hope for our children, the future wisdom keepers of the world.

No fee for the Return of the Ancestor Gathering Ceremonies, although donations are welcome.
Herbs and Botanical Retreat- $40 per day includes all workshops. See FireOmEarth website link below for full schedule and details about the Herb and Plant Retreat. You are welcome to come to the retreat or just the ceremonies for the Return of the Ancestor Gathering or both!



Location: Fire Om Earth Retreat Center
872 Mill Hollow Road
Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Contact : Lorna or Craig at 479-363-9402 or Gina at 479-754-8273

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To register for the FireOmEarth Herb and Plant Retreat
fireomearth.com/workshop_events.htm
To read more about the Return of the Ancestors "parent" event in Arizona April 18-28
ICA Ancestor Event in Arizona