2017 Geography of Hope: Becoming Native to a Place

Brooke Hecht, Lyla June Johnston, Nicky Finney, and Ilarion Merculieff speak at the 2017 Geography of Hope Conference. This year's theme was “Ancestors & The Land: Our Past, Present, and Future" held in Point Reyes, California. The conference is a partnership of Black Mountain Circle, the Center for Humans and Nature, Point Reyes Books, and the US Forest Service.

[@JoeDobronski]

Thank you Lyla, you are so strong and beautiful

[@bernywinters7158]

I am Dine and Ojibwe (Turtle Mountain). Ahehee, baa aheehnisin, nizhoni yee. I am so humbly proud of you Ms. Lyla June. I am also so thankful for Cultural Teachings and Knowlewdge of all Nationality and Ethnicity. Blessings in ten-folds.....

[@charlottedillard8523]

This is one of the most powerful things that I’ve ever seen or heard! This is the key to transforming humanity. Thank you!

[@thommyers3080]

Tears of gratitude for hearing the deep wise teachings. I'm here to make reconciliation , along the lines of some of my European ancestors did. The Indigenous ones got through...you got through

[@docm4544]

Lyla June is one of the most profound, beautifully gifted souls there is! A true impact and genuine soul of leadership and pushing the boundaries further!🙏🙏💜💜🌏🌏

[@kbeetles]

This was pure magic.....(from a European....Hungarian....Hun, Magyar, Iazig....) for all our ancestors!

[@bethsanchezyoga55]

this is about the most powerful thing I have heard in a long long time.

[@Merlin-ur1dz]

Bringing Dine here living you'll with you'll here have been honor for me to be here with you all and love you all makes me who I am and kind of knowing that great people living among us we all together the people and listening to what you have to say about our people and do respect to you all ❤❤

[@TheBella2u]

Thank you all for making me cry 😢 from my souls as it is cleansing!

[@reiniergamboa]

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing these valuable stories. Love and blessings to all.

[@SpiritualAuthor]

I'm so surprised there aren't more comments here! In agreement with Beth Sanchez below, this is about the most powerful thing I have heard in a long time too. Thank you to all participants for speaking your stories for the betterment of all of us. Beautiful.

[@jandunn169]

Thank you Lyla for discussing how European women of the Old ways were tortured....Genocide happened in Europe as well. I am part German, part Jewish......part Spanish and part Taino, Columbian, Peruvian. There is much grief I carry for my Jewish and Taino and other indigenous ancestors. It was the indigenous and Pagan ways that were a threat to the people in power...Thank you thank you.......

[@JohnWilmerding]

I think your observations about "Russiagate" allude to mega-tragic truths about the international white supremacy movement or cabal. Thank you.

[@wilka171]

​@@JohnWilmerding Lol, white supremacy? Are you anti white or something? Are you a communist? We all know the tribe that controls the banks, subsequently everything else and they are not white.

[@wilka171]

@@JohnWilmerding Also when was "Russiagate" ever mentioned in the video?

[@Doctor_Subtilis]

What tribe? The Rockefellers, the Morgans? Banks are just where the Powers go to deposit their blood money and finance their wars, this is how the banking dynasties you speak of(which certainly aren't all the banking dynasties) got their start. It's the European, anglo-american, industrialists and royalty doing most of the killing, that's where power comes from and not control of banks. You do not understand how power works or the true evils of banking for that matter, get a clue. All these lies do is shield the powers from the truth and unleash more atrocities on the world.

[@e-maikey4543]

🙏💜🌴🌴💜🌴🌴🌴💜🙏 Sharing is Caring.... Thank You! Gracias! Obrigada! Mesi... We are ☝ ... Please listen with that important muscle 💜....Massachusetts sends you Joy... Peace... Harmony Namaste 🌳🙅

[@allisonguthrie8257]

Maarsii kiiyawow poor tii moo-iwaaw. Lii Michif gishkeeyihtenaan chi-shikii-gishchiiteyiyaahkok toot not paraantii-inaanik. Aashkaw toot lii moond kashkitaawuk chi-kishinamaakeyaahk. Thank you guys for your words. The Métis know that we should respect all our ancestors (both Europeans and First Nations). All people have the ability to teach us sometimes.

[@forogafold]

Respect from another being from Magyarorszåg. I very much wanted to attend this conference in Point Reyes but had another engagement the same time. I happened to find this video by chance and very glad I did. Thank you all, for sharing your spirit and stories.

[@lyndamonchak4072]

As a person of Hungarian ancestry Lyla June Johnston's presentation was truly a revelation to me! I thank you ❤️ Lyla June for educating me about my own ancestors!

[@rul4522]

Extremely moving to me right now!

[@marymoloney4897]

Go for it, great work! Coming home to ourselves and our own real story and the story of our ancestors is so important. Also knowing the place where we actually live with i it’s ecosystem And it’human community It’s critical to our well-being.

[@e-maikey4543]

🙏💜🙅🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴 Thank You so much. We know the pain and understand... We are ☝... 🙏🐺🐱🐭🐹🐰🐸🐧🐑🐘

[@pamelachippewa6301]

I am so grateful I have found Lyla June on u tube .I have been given new hope thru your songs and messages. ChiMiigwetch Lyla

[@strangerTimesStill]

Incredible

[@jivanvasant]

SINCERE TRIBUTE TO LAURENCE GARDNER R.I.P. Lyla June defines returning "home" as returning to your true self, your true identity, your original source and ultimately your cosmic place of soul nativity. She cites information that Laurence Gardner, researcher, historian and author, published in his books that resurrected the Universal Goddess, the Divine Goddess, the Divine Feminine that was suppressed and destroyed by the Abrahamic people of the book, with especial focus on the Royal Davidic bloodline, that was descended from ancient Tiamat and her Royal Family in Mesopotamia, which in turn descended from King David to Jesus the Man and his wife, Mary Magdalene the Woman, and to the Desposyni, and then eventually to the Welsh and Scots of the present day who have continued at great personal risk to support and defend the Nazarite Essene Christian social and moral teachings of Jesus and the Sangrael (Blood Royal and Sacred Grail aka Holy Grail) spiritual matrilineal descent throughout human history on planet Earth.

[@JohnWilmerding]

Interesting! I know Lyla June, and that she teaches universal truths, voicing them through her own reflections upon her own deeper self. Her life is a lesson on what 'self' really is.

[@jeffgarrison7056]

Phenomenal. Thank you. Bless You. Bless Us All

[@gradualuprisintheory]

I enjoyed this.

[@MK-hd8ev]

That was so good. Thank you so much. Greetings from Germany ,we all need to remember.

[@MeshelleSeaShelle]

Wow! I love this and them.

Wonderful, thank you.

[@josephschaumberg4136]

Awesome

[@adonai9181]

Hurting oneself is to hurt another..

[@aaaa-xx3yx]

💜

[@alicedossantos7084]

🙏🤟✊❤🌏

[@itzleooouwu2607]

I know a lot about native now . I am Navajo I talk

[@Geoluvsjesus]

Cousin I am Hawaiian and I understand some of the sounds you make. I am Anuenue mahalo

[@JohnWilmerding]

Viewers of this video should also see Lyla June's music video 'Mamwlad'. She wrote it a short time after she participated in this program. It is about the Europeans' mass-extermination of their woman leaders and healers.

[@charlottedillard8523]

Can someone tell me if the other season were taped? IIarion Merculieff mentioned that he would be speaking in other seasons. I would love to view more. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@jeffgarrison7056]

The systematic destruction of the divine feminine is yet another tragic part of history. However, although they tried and had taken the lives of so many women who were deeply connected with knowledge of spirit, earth, and humanity, they had not completely succeeded and the divine feminine is alive and well in more and more women everyday. They had inverted the meaning of all that symbolized good. But we are remembering and inherently knowing more and more everyday. Love is the key... not sex, not desire, not want, it's not physical... it's Unconditional Love. Forgiveness, respect, non-judgment, kindness, compassion... These are specific forms of Unconditional Love. It's calling us all, it's calling us all to forgive ourselves, ask for forgiveness for our indiscretion, encroachments, and misguided intentions from our families, friends, acquaintances, strangers, opponents, mother earth, and father time, then, forgive all that hurt others. Unconditional Love. Peaceful Noncompliance. Bless Us All Namaste

[@jeanmarshall3610]

Is there a transcript?

[@HumansAndNatureOrg]

We've uploaded the transcript and you should be able to download it now. Thank you!

[@christinamorales6887]

The burning times of women accused of being witches and other indigenous tribes plus the druids and other Celtic tribes in Europe were tortured by the Romans. I am indigenous and my mother is German, English, Welsh, and Scottish and I have Celtic ancestors and Scottish ancestors. My father is indigenous from Mexico and Apache.

[@Merlin-ur1dz]

Let's all make a sure things great steps into the her responsibility of what's right and it's on to you my child to lead my heart is you all my heart child 😂if you haven't work up you are with me all the ends 😂days and you are within my heart ♥ and love every hurts ❤

[@KREN12623]

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[@adonai9181]

Feeling surgery on my self while sitting alone in a room...

[@alvinbissonette8401]

I have a story

[@adonai9181]

Wisdom neckless helps teaching the young ones..

[@firstnationfall5451]

Can't believe this indigenous woman is sympathizing with and making excuses for people who committed genocide against our people!!!!! Crying for them?!!!!! People on the Navajo nation don't even have running water!!!! Wow!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

[@Doctor_Subtilis]

A wise woman, sympathy goes a long way unless your goal is to become the thing that you hate :')

[@firstnationfall5451]

@@Doctor_Subtilis They didn't have sympathy for my ancestors when they Massacred them. I don't hate anyone but I will not sympathize with my oppressors. Sorry if you want to be an a.....kisser. Go ahead. Many of our people have become weak minded and subservient. Not me.

[@fawnzyG5D]

We have natural springs and ways of living that might seem like we live in poverty. we are so blessed you have no idea !

[@firstnationfall5451]

@Fawn Genius You are another brain washed dellusional Native. Go tell tgat to the Lakota and Navajo people living in poverty!