A guiding principle for La Ceiba Milenaria por Laura González Carranza In the modern world, we tend to understand and address reality through standardized parameters. These parameters are generally established by larger structures and applied to almost every aspect of our lives: to the food we consume and to the ways in which we attempt […]
A few weeks ago, we planted seeds from several fruits and vegetables, including radishes. Some of the seeds had been purchased from stores selling chemical agricultural supplies, while others came from seeds left over from crops we had previously grown. All of them were planted without any distinction. Yes, it is a bad season for
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by Laura González Carranza At this moment in history, humanity is going through an unprecedented crisis: climate change. A scenario that is only beginning to reveal the consequences of all the devastation caused largely by human factors. There are debates around this issue, about how much we are responsible and how much what is happening
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by Laura González Carranza The rupture between humanity and the Whole did not occur suddenly, nor can it be understood as the result of a single historical event. Rather, it has been constructed progressively through political, economic, spiritual, and cultural processes that reorganized human existence according to the logic of the coloniality of power. These
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From here in Ecuador — this beautiful and complex territory that, through the many turns of history, eventually came to be known as Ecuador — it becomes possible to reflect upon a broader Latin American reality that has deeply shaped the way we understand life, society, and our relationship with the Whole (a concept we
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by Laura González Carranza A long time ago, our ancestors maintained a deep and sacred relationship with the stars, the planets, the mountains, the water, the living plants, and nature. Everything was considered as a Whole. This way of relating to the world was profoundly different from the one we experience today. For them, each
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