The Mayan Path

Just like plants, human beings are only as strong as their root system. The Mayan Path takes us on a holistic journey to the heart of ancestral wisdom and medicine. It offers us a colourful glimpse into a way of life which is in alignment with who we truly are and encourages us to be the best kind of fractal for humanity. 

The Mayan path is not a religion. It is a way of living.

There are twenty-one Maya languages in Guatemala alone, and within each linguistic group, there are nine inches of knowledge.

Some of the ancestral wisdom has been lost, but not everything. Today, more than ever, people everywhere are realising the importance of reconnecting with their roots. The Mayan path is there to offer us guidance. 

Summarised in three words, it forms: coexistence, harmony and respect.

That is to say, we all have our gifts, our role to play in this life, and when we come together, the whole is greater than the parts. 

Then, when we understand our place in society and stop wishing to be anyone else, we start finding harmony within our being. Aware of the perfection that we are, we can now play our own tune, and that is felt around us. 

Finally, as we do so, we begin accepting everyone else without judgment, recognising our Oneness.

Mayan elders remind us that if we learn to keep our body, mind, feelings and spirit in balance, we become the right kind of fractal for our community and, ultimately, for humanity.

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“Fire Speaks” (70 min, 2024): Official Trailer. A documentary film by Kairi Kivirähk. Co-directed by Sarine Arslanian. Produced by Anu Veermäe-Kaldra/Menufilmid

Premiered in Tallinn (Estonia) at Artis Cinema on June 25th, 2024.

Mayan Medicine

We are all responsible for keeping ourselves in balance. This is how we maintain health. 

Unlike most Western doctors who understand the human body from the perspective of matter only, Mayan healers take energy into account. 

In Mayan medicine, wellbeing is as physical as it is emotional, and thus the one suffering is made responsible from the start. He or she becomes an active participant in his or her own healing process. 

The hardest part to grasp for most Westerners is that, unlike oncologists who read many books in order to learn something, Mayan elders, healers and spiritual guides rely on oral traditions and wisdom which have been passed down from one generation to the other, as well as on the universal library they connect to through meditations, ceremonies, intuitions and dreams. They recognise that the largest amount of knowledge is within, because we carry it in our DNA, and all the knowledge about plants and healing is stored energetically in the universal library.

The Mayans remind us that we are now surrounded by an open air, natural pharmacy, especially those living close to nature. Even so, many young people are forgetting the old, holistic ways which consider energies, time of day, consent and other secret elements of great importance, when collecting medicinal herbs. 

For those who are keen to learn, the learning phase takes time, but it is empowering. It gives one the tools to be more independent and connected to the natural and spirit world. And to truly understand Mayan medicine, one needs to understand the cosmovision. 

Mayan Cosmovision

With the use of the sacred calendar in a Mayan astrology reading, it becomes possible to work out one’s life mission and talents, as well as identify the challenges coming with it. Since society has programmed us to accept a set of ideals and careers as what we should be aiming for, not everyone follows their true calling. The reading addresses this issue by pointing us back in the direction that is most aligned for us. Mayan wisdom reminds us that when we measure our self-worth according to what others say, we lose the meaning of who we really are in relation to who everyone else is. It reminds us that we are unique and valuable, all made from the same particles.

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Watch “Who are the Mayans of today?” (44min, 2019) — Kairi Kivirähk’s Master's Project for the Faculty of Religion, University of Tartu (Estonia) on which I assisted as translator and script editor.

The film: youtube.com/watch?v=ExRgtNFcF_c

Mayan wisdom reconnects us with ourselves, first, and reminds us that all healing comes from within. Being mindful that everything that comes out of us comes back to us, that is the Mayan way of living.

After Turbulent Times; a Revival

One of the abuelas (grandmothers) has said that when an elder dies, it is like losing the equivalent of the great library of Alexandria, and Guatemala has been through a turbulent time. Starting from the time of the Spanish conquest, there has been 500 years of suppression of indigenous culture, culminating with the genocide during the Guatemalan civil war and the apparition of strict and right wing evangelical churches which quickly gained in popularity. It is only after 1996, when the peace accords were signed, that it became possible to make ceremony freely without the police or the military coming in and taking you away. Even so, many remained scared to practice Mayan spirituality. 

Today, we are witnessing a time of growth. People are slowly taking an interest in the indigenous ways again. In San Marcos la Laguna, we witnessed the first initiation after thirty five years in the village!

And it is not only the Mayans being initiated. People from all around the world are moving to Guatemala to take on the path, to listen to the prayers in languages they do not understand, to work with the sacred fire. There, too, there is a learning, and that is to listen with your heart, instead of analysing the words or being frustrated because you do not understand with your conscious mind.

Since the new cycle began in December 2012, elders have been receiving messages that the time to begin to build bridges to share the knowledge they have been guarding for centuries has arrived. Many cite the Popol Vuh to say that the bridge people coming from all over the world will be the ones to help Mayans awaken to build the spaces where knowledge can once again be shared with the world.

A great wake up happened, and that is a wake up within the Mayan culture, as much as in any other culture, to understand that the only way to go forward and grow strong is to reconnect with our roots.