Light is stronger than darkness and greatest is the light that comes from darkness. The sages of wisdom traditions teach that the healing that becomes possible in a life-crisis is always in direct proportion to the magnitude of the crisis.
Close to 3, 000 people from over 50 countries and a number of different religious backgrounds were murdered on September 11, 2001. The particular nature of this tragedy has created a possibility for a giant forward leap in human awareness.
But it is not going to happen without us.
The intention of the 9/11 Bowing Project is to contribute to a more meaningful public dialogue about the roots of violence, encouraging the co-creation of a kinder earth- community.
Though I have strived to hold tight to the sense of possibility of that 16 year old, through much of my life I remained pretty clueless about changing my own circumstances let alone fixing the ills of the world.
And then something extraordinary happened. I didn’t get something I wanted.
It wouldn’t have been all that extraordinary because at 42 the experience of not getting what I wanted wasn’t unusual for me. Except that this time, Life said, no! to something I wanted more than I ever remembered wanting anything before. A child.
And the next extraordinary thing that happened was that after searching high and low for someone to help me conceive the inconceivable child. I found that the most reliable guidance arrived from a most unlikely place. The place which poet Mary Oliver once called the “heart’s little intelligence.”
For the last 25 years fertility activism has been a calling that gave birth to a community of caring and sharing aka fertileheart.com.
With FertileHeartedHuman.com I hope to answer a second calling, applying the lessons of my fertility work to birthing a more child-friendly earth.
I am not quite as old as the wise actress I met years ago, but I do know this: as long as we live and breathe, whether we’re in our 90’s or twenties, every single one of us has what it takes to contribute to the evolution of our—scared and brave, cruel and kind, greedy and supremely generous FertileHeartedHuman clan.
A Welcome Note from Founder
Julia Indichova
In my sophomore year of high school a tall, dignified, octogenarian actress came to speak to our class about the Russian theater. After the talk, the elderly woman turned to my teacher and said: If I were your age and knew what I know now, I could change the world…
A Welcome Note from Founder
Julia Indichova
In my sophomore year of high school a tall, dignified, octogenarian actress came to speak to our class about the Russian theater. After the talk, the elderly woman turned to my teacher and said: If I were your age and knew what I know now, I could change the world…