PURITY

The umbilical cord once connected us to a vast universe called "MAMA". At birth, this connection was severed and breathing began, which in turn connects us to another enormous universe; to "PACHA_MAMA" or "MOTHER EARTH". 

In the womb, there is no isolated self. The baby truly exists only as a biological unit with the mother. The father can sense and feel this unity and support it in the best possible way. At birth, the baby leaves the mother-child unit and, through breath, enters into unity with the cosmos. From this moment on, both parents are physically separate from the child. Through sensing and feeling, they accompany the child, and later the teenager, in earthly existence, powerfully exploring this unity of self and cosmos.

The child, in turn, learns the conditions and strategies for being loved or at least receiving attention as an individual (I) from the community (WE), for feeling a sense of belonging, and for manipulatively boosting its self-esteem within its social environment. Initially, the baby communicates primarily through basic emotions. If it is not heard, perceived, regulated, or nursed, it increasingly focuses on survival strategies within the dividing structures between the I and the WE. Relationships become functional based on a scarcity mindset. The natural unity of I & COSMOS, fundamentally always present through breath, is increasingly disregarded.

Humanity is currently on the cusp of a great rebirth: We are collectively in the process of no longer conceiving of community from the perspective of the separation between self and cosmos (me and the world or me and the cosmos), both functionally and strategically. While this separation is still evident in many forms of scarcity thinking and in all kinds of struggles for survival, humanity is now facing the crucial challenge of experiencing communal connection from an atmosphere in which self and cosmos once again form a unity. In this context, there is no longer an EITHER-OR mindset, but only a BOTH-AND feeling: The self as a separate, individual entity does not truly exist. There is only the self, which simultaneously experiences a present-day WE (as a partnership, family, work team, humanity, etc.) and the COSMOS in its own unique way.

Indigenous peoples did not have the concept of NATURE. Because they experienced themselves mentally as part of nature, nature was not a separate object of observation. Thus, there was no need for a separate term for it. 

But this fact shouldn't be romanticized either! The sense of community among indigenous peoples was mostly tribal and regionally oriented – just as civilized peoples tend to think in terms of nations and economic spheres. Through civilization and industrialization, as well as the colonization of indigenous peoples, a profound mental separation from nature arose. Today, however, technology and globalization offer us the opportunity to reconnect with nature and to experience the community (the WE) as a boundless and unconditional oneness of self-cosmos: This is R -UNITY . This is unconditional love. This is MUNAY . And SONQO – CELEBRATE LIFE! – stands for this renewal of boundless interconnected existence from authentic R_unity as WE (social) and simultaneously as COSMOS (ecological).