Ton: I am back in Portimão, a harbour town in the Algarve, and have just been in Monchique, at a Tibetan Buddhist Center at the mountain of Monchique. I heard that the Arabic name is Munt Saqir, which means ‘sacred mountain’. It made me want to tune in to this sacred place. It is very double here: the nature is very beautiful, but the housing and culture seems kind of poor and there is – what I sense in all of Portugal – a sort of a curse hanging over the place. Like some doom and gloom. It doesn’t reflect the gorgeousness of nature, which is also there. So I tune in.
“We are the guardians of this sacred place. We are elemental beings, earth and water and fire, crystals, specific elements as sulfur, gold, and it is this amazing combination of all these elements that created this sacred place. The nature elements created an abundance, a beauty, a living paradise of animals and trees and plants and flowers.
And then the humans came. First they explored the area, they lived from nature, they honoured nature with ceremonies. The Celtic people were in connection with the spirits of nature, with the elements, and we were seen and heard and acknowledged and honoured. Then slowly decline set in and humans started to abuse the nature elements, started to extracts millions of liters of water from its sources, and started to mine certain elements from the earth, as well as stone quaries.
And although nature is still powerful and abundant, human beings have become a sort of poison to the place, because they are not aware, they are not connected to the source. They don’t know about the Great Mother and that She is sacred. She is the source of this mountain. She, who has been there from the beginning and will always be there. But she is suffering under the weight and under the ignorance and abuse of humankind.
So instead of extracting the minerals and using this place for your pleasure, please honour the sacredness of it. Do again your ceremonies. Make a ceremony on November 20th, to honour Mother Earth, to honour the sacredness, both in nature and in yourself. Because that is how you’ll thrive and how you’ll find your own roots, your own beauty, your own power, your own abundance. By being in connection with her, not by suppressing her or abusing her. Make it a ceremony for Mother Nature, but also for Portugal. Honour this land, honour the ancestry, honour the power, and most of all honour your soul. Because if you honour yourself, you will understand that Mother Nature is speaking through you.”
(4/5/2025)
