The Temple of Understanding, in collaboration with Marble Collegiate Church, presents Chief Arvol Looking Horse to Open FORUM2022Science, Spirituality, Solidarity: Weaving Interconnections for ChangeDistinguished 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White...
Indigenous Peoples
FORUM2022 Science, Spirituality, Solidarity: Weaving Interconnections for Change
The Temple of Understanding, in collaboration with Marble Collegiate Church, presents FORUM2022Science, Spirituality, Solidarity: Weaving Interconnections for ChangeFORUM2022 is a call to action on the global crisis facing humanity and all life on planet Earth....
On Building a Sustainable, Regenerative Ocean Economy
Official virtual side event of the 2022 UN Ocean Conference Can Harnessing Blue and Thematic Bonds Build a Sustainable, Regenerative Ocean Economy? Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 1:00-2:30 pm ET by Zoom The Temple of Understanding is proud to co-organize this event as a...
Let’s Go Organic: Empowering Local Food Systems
Let's Go Organic: Empowering Local Food SystemsJoin Dave Chapman and the Real Organic project as we explore two spiritual traditions of farming, one from the Biodynamic system and the other from the Buddhist Zen tradition. This Dialogue centers on how local...
Women’s Leadership on Climate Change: Coastal Ecology and Native Wisdom
Photo credit: Grove Harris This CSW66 Parallel event, on Monday, March 21st at Noon ET, was led by Native American women to discuss survival and relationship to the natural world Click HERE to watch on Facebook Click HERE to watch on YouTube Discernment will be...
“What the world religious leaders are doing about the climate crisis” Dialogue with Harper & McGurk
Temple of Understanding ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL Dialogues presents: What the World Religious Leaders Are Doing About the Climate Crisis Dialogue with Rev. Fletcher Harper & Rev. Brian McGurk Rev. Fletcher Harper and Rev. Brian McGurk will dialogue about the recent...
Dr. Vandana Shiva on Sacred Food
Dr. Vandana Shiva "I'm so happy to join the Forum 2021 on Sacred Food and Blessed Earth. We have forgotten that food is sacred and what we have forgotten is that sacred food comes from a blessed earth and goes back actually to bless the earth. It's not that humanity...
Grandmother Mona Polacca on Traditional Hopi Ecological Knowledge
Grandmother Mona Polacca "I'd like to greet each and every one of you, I'm happy to be here. This is a good day. This time that we are taking to acknowledge the blessing of our nourishment that is given to us by Mother Earth, as part of the, Sacred Food ~ Blessed...
Chief Oren Lyons on Instructions from the Great Peacemaker according to Haudenosaunee Tradition
Chief Oren Lyons "I began with our instruction. Now I'm just talking specifically about the Haudenosaunee, Six Nations, Iroquois Confederacy. I can't speak for the whole Indigenous Peoples' of North, Central and South America, although we are very, very similar on...
Chief Arvol Looking Horse Prayer for Sacred Food ~ Blessed Earth
Chief Arvol Looking Horse "I pray today. Like every morning we get up in the morning with a good mind to pray for the health and the wellbeing of all nations, that we are in a time of a global disasters. We are the crossroads and we need to pray and heal together for...










