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JAPAN JOURNEY JOURNAL #2, SACRED MOUNTAIN (聖山)

7/29/2022

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MEETING ANCIENT AND NEW FRIENDS

I met Fatima-san (Suomi Sekiya) in Findhorn about 5 years ago.  She joined our 1001 Angels mosaic creations on our first day of the project, and her last day of a two-week stay in Findhorn.  By some good fortune our paths just crossed.  I was immediately curious about her, since she had so uniquely expressed two cultures I also felt a part of, namely a Sufi tradition in Japan.  I felt we have so much to explore together, but at that time we had very little time to invest in our explorations.  When the opportunity presented itself to visit her in Nagano prefecture, I approached her.  I was delighted to know that she could take a day off her work, which happened to be her birthday, to be with me and her partner Yaqin Nirdosh (Yuya Sato), and the Sacred Mountain of Hijiriyama, which she is a guardian of.  Both her name and her partner's name, Yaqin evoke deep feelings for me, as they are from my native tongue, Farsi.  Yaqin means certainty, Fatima, purity.  So together they speak of Pure Certainty to my soul.

Meeting Fatima and Yaqin at the Hijiriyama, which literally means Sacred Mountain, felt like a chord of destiny's been tugged.  I also found out they are both web-creators.  Since I've been looking for web-masters for Trees for Hope, I asked them if they could make our website, which they delightfully said yes!  My heart did a little dance at the top of the hill where we were standing to admire the view of the expansive North and South Japan Alps Mountains in Nagano.

Later on her birthday she took me to a remarkable restaurant called Momo, which means peach.  There she gave me her meishi, business card.  On it she lists a few things she offers the world as a way of her unique expression.  They include : Herbalist, Psychic Healer, Holistic Therapist.  As well she lists Meditation and Prayer, Deep Ecology, Permaculture, Co-Creation with Nature.  

Yaqin offers on his meishi (business card) : Meditation and Co-Creation Space.  His business name is Nirvana Lab.  I feel like I have just connected with two dear kindred spirits, on my last day in Japan!

http://nirvana-lab.com
http://devafatima.com
http://libernaturae.com
http://nuuralanuur.com
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Soil, not Oil Holds The Future For Humanity (Vandana Shiva)   طرح ملی خاک

1/9/2019

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What I love most about life, is the alchemical process of transformation.  What is the secret of our rubbish becoming rich and fertile soil again?

I salute the village and residents of Darabkola in Northern Iran for initiating the village-wide movement to turn their kitchen waste into compost.  Our project, Soil Alchemy, started in December 2017.  It has been a beautiful start with the village folk bringing their kitchen rubbish along with their love and labour to make the community compost.  The village municipality supplied us with gloves, straw, cow manure, lime, and water.  Trees for Hope invested in the forks needed to turn the compost.  A third local NGO, Children of the Good Earth, informed and gathered the local residents.  This project ran for six months and fell asleep for the time being.

I think the Soil Alchemy project needs to wake up at a nation-wide scale.  Why?  When the Soil Alchemy project is awake and operating, it not only helps to transform our waste to rich soil, the base of our true wealth and health, it transforms our social and mental diseases to pure cultural gold.  Compost making then becomes a sacred act.  An activity worthy of our lives, of every hour we dedicate to this transformation.  This is why I think the Soil Alchemy needs to wake us up, all over the place 🥰. 

​© Pupak Haghighi

a weekly celebration of life~transforming sorrow to joy

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how to make soul compost

1/3/2019

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My workshop, Chrystal, is situated right next to the Original Garden, here in the Findhorn Community.  

We are at 57˚N latitude, which means 'At this latitude the sun is visible for 17 hours, 53 minutes during the summer solstice and 6 hours, 43 minutes during the winter solstice' (wikipedia). It also means it can get quite cold, practically any time of the year, except for a few days when I could wear a light summer dress.  

In our cold climatic conditions it takes me considerable time and energy to heat up Chrystal to work there.  I therefore need to prepare myself and the space, warming up inside, as I warm up Chrystal to make a work of art, singing with the colours of the soul.

On this cold autumn day, I had an appointment to speak with one of my Soil Alchemy partners in Northern Iran.  Soil Alchemy is our village compost project, the aim of it being transforming all the kitchen waste of the entire village of about 3000 residents to rich and fertile compost.  I switched off the heater, brought my work to completion for the day, turned off the light, and left Chrystal for my contact with Aref.  By the time I reached my home, Chrystal was resting back in the autumn cold and darkness.
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deep inner listening, stained glass, made in Chrystal, Findhorn. Joined art work, Pupak & Yuko, with help from Yasko & Daniela, 2018 Photo by Caitlin Caddy

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Soil Alchemy in Darabkola, Iran. A project I have been nurturing to come into being for more than 15 year.

understanding each other

When I reached home, in time for my call with Aref, I was shocked to be hung up on the call.  'Something's come up, can't talk to you right now,' read the text on my phone display.  I felt a space that was warm and receptive, indeed as divinely creative as Chrystal is to me, closed down.  And then came the breathlessness of death.  My relationship with Aref died with this missed appointment, with the missed opportunity to communicate truly.  I felt I lost a friend and colleague I loved as dearly as my own beloved son.    

from death comes life, or
how to make soul compost

What is the essence of compost?  A handful of compost might contain the very secrets of universe : infinite space/time, the heart of the mystery of life/death/life.  

In a loving relationship, I visualise the other and myself in the infinity symbol, our relationship going through the creative source of the universe.  In this way both myself and the other are free to be true to our essence.  I release all that is dead back to the source.  I wait for the miracle of life to show me signs of love, beauty, and hope.  And when I receive the signal in my heart, I make soul compost, a work of art, in Chrystal, my beloved workshop right next to the Original Garden, here in the Findhorn Community.

​© Pupak Haghighi
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infinite space, the essential ingredient of a loving relationship. quotesgram.com/galaxy-forever-quotes
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soil alchemy

12/27/2018

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A year has passed since we begun our Soil Alchemy project in Northern Iran, in Darabkola, a village in Mazandaran.  

Soil Alchemy is a project to transform the kitchen waste of the entire village, a population of 3000 residents to rich and fertile compost.

I am proud and grateful to our Soil-Focalisers in Darabkola, Parvin and Faeze.  Also grateful to our Soil-Alchemy partner, Aref.  They are doing one of the most loving acts for the land, their village, and our country.

​May their weekly compost making acts grow and blossom year on year.
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Love & Fear

12/18/2018

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There are only two feelings.  Love and fear.
There are only two languages.  Love and fear.
There are only two activities.  Love and fear.
There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two results.  Love and fear.
Love and fear.

A Common Prayer, Leunig

The Soil Alchemy, a project to transform our food waste to compost in Northern Iran, is on my mind.
This quote by Leunig sums up my experience with our project.
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I am not a foreigner, من بیگانه نیستم، ben ecnebi degilim

5/27/2016

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I hear the land 
and understand people
here in Tatvan
I delight in a language
born as a twin to my mother tongue
then the two languages, Farsi and Kurdi
flowed down the river of time
changing in accents 
​sounding sweetly familiar in my ears
my heart is here
I belong to the earth
and one with her people
I am not a foreigner
there are no foreigners
we are one people
belonging to the earth

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message in a bottle : water is life, let it be free

8/28/2014

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in preparation for Law of One, little Homecoming 2014, Findhorn. Photo taken after a conversation with Thanasis.

I have adopted a policy and practice and want to invite you to join me too. My policy is water should be free for all. So I don't buy water, especially bottled water in a plastic, or any other drinks in a plastic bottle either. This way I take responsibility for my consumption and contribution of plastic to the environment. I also refuse to buy water and make sure that my water bottle is filled wherever I go. I share this message with people in shops and restaurants and get a lot of smiles when I talk about water being free. People everywhere agree with me. I hope we can practice this together.  Why don't you get hold of your own bottle of water and make your water free too.
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natural regeneration

8/18/2014

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Glen Strathfarrar, 20th July, 2014

Notice the difference between the right and left side of the fence.  The area on the left is protected from deer and sheep grazing and young trees are regenerating naturally as the land heals itself.  Outside the fence, on the right, overgrazing by deer and sheep prevents the growth of any new trees and the land is held static in a state of  suppressed ecological succession and greatly reduced biological productivity.  

This area on Glen Strathfarrar inspired Alan to fence off large areas on Glen Affric to naturally regenerate and Trees for Life was born in 1989 with help from Findhorn Foundation and the Forestry Commission.
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