Raising Consciousness
Earlier this year, Tibet was the focus of South African headlines when the Dalai Lama was denied a visa to attend The South Africa Peace Conference and the Tibetan quest for a solution to its half-century long battle with China was revived in the minds of South Africans. Natasha Marrian reports on the grave human rights violations and religious persecution taking place in Tibet…
Many cultures consider earth as “mother”. In Sanskrit, the word for “mother” and “earth” are the same – MATA. In ancient Egypt, the syllable MA not only stood for mother but it also meant “to see”, and the hieroglyph was that of an eye and its meaning was “truth”. The words earth, mother and truth have powerful shared roots and this idea of earth as the “womb of all life” is so strong it’s no wonder she’s heralded as the archetypal goddess, Gaia or Bhumi…












