The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is like one of the seeds Martin 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 <br> A brilliant writer, Martin 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 <br> 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 <br> 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.... Martin 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 <br> 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, Martin Prechtel is also right about the seeds we carry within us, given to us from our age-old culture.... --Wolf D. Stor