Although the world might beat us down, we are lucky to live in a city that is dotted with places that can lift us up. We all struggle with pain and loss, and grief and stress at some point in our lives. It’s an incomplete list, and after you read it, I hope you will help me fill it out. It includes a glass chapel in the trees, a perfectly shaded stream, a labyrinth, and a mountain observatory where, nearly a century ago, astronomers first discovered our place in the universe. “If you can’t find it inside, then you go to a holy place.”īelow is a list of holy places I’ve found in my journeys in and around Los Angeles. “If we have peace in ourselves, then we can carry it anywhere, but first we need to find it,” said Swami Sarvadevananda, the spiritual leader at the Vedanta Society in Hollywood. From Mount Washington to Malibu, churches, temples, monasteries and New Age centers have created sacred spaces accessible to people of all religions (and no religion), to help us find solace and fill our spiritual cup when we’re depleted. is home to the most diverse assemblage of spiritual practitioners in the world. His Indigenous soul dreams of frybread, sweetgrass, bamboo in the breeze, and turtle lakes whose poetry is peace.Alongside its natural beauty - the solidity of its mountains, the vastness of its beaches, the quiet of its dusty canyons - L.A. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine through independent research with Tibetan doctors and trekked to the base camp of Mt. Jaiya is a former National Science Foundation fellow, and holds doctorate and master’s degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on intergroup and race relations. Once you have your toes in the water and your toes in the sand, theres no way you are ever. He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University, and has spoken to over a million people worldwide and audiences as large as several thousand. Hold our drink while we do our best Faith Hill impression. Jaiya writes, narrates, and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of Freedom Project, a global initiative reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social healing and liberation. He is the author of numerous books, including Fragrance After Rain, Daughter Drink This Water, and, Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression that has donated thousands of Jaiya’s books in support of social healing, and offers grants and scholarships to displaced and vulnerable youth. Jaiya John was orphan-born on Ancient Puebloan lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized freedom worker, author, and poet. And we treat the sickness of racial and cultural supremacies wherever they exist. We support the healing and freedom journeys of historically dehumanized populations and cultures. In an often dehumanizing world, Soul Water Rising is a global rehumanizing mission. I am grateful to carry out the humanitarian work of feeding souls the bread and breath of Love, compassion, and hope. Food, water, and shelter are nothing if the one being fed, watered, and sheltered is immersed in the profound suffering that is poverty of the soul. My lifelong calling and work is freedom from the sickness of supremacy and inferiority. Both of these would inhabit every human soul and space, forever. Fear, being restless and insecure, mutated into two other spirits, supremacy and inferiority. In the beginning, two spirits roamed every soul.
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