22 August 2025 - Friday The Fire That Remembers the Land - A Ceremonial Offering from Conrad, Nab’eysiil of the Tz’utujiil People
22 August 2025 - Friday
The Fire That Remembers the Land - A Ceremonial Offering from Conrad, Nab’eysiil of the Tz’utujiil People
“I Carry the Mountain in My Breath”
A Ceremonial Introduction to Living Within Two Lands
from the Earth Remembers Series
Today’s material: “The Fire That Remembers the Land - A Ceremonial Offering from Conrad, Nab’eysiil of the Tz’utujiil People,” will cover no other blogs for the next seven days until Friday 29 August 2025 when I will begin exploring the “Presence of the Living Light within the Heart of Joy.”
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Opening Blessing
Oh, Presence of Kimoon K’uxlaal —
the weaving of many into the One Heart —
we open this moment in gratitude.
To the volcanoes, the mountains, the lake,
to the forests and the cornfields,
to the moonflower blooming quietly at night —
we give thanks for your whispers,
your threads of remembering.
To the fire that moves through earth and body,
through storm and silence,
through destruction and renewal —
we honor your presence,
not as danger alone,
but as medicine,
as light,
as the quiet intelligence of balance.
Great Grandmother of Light,
Rilaj Maam,
ancestors and allies of the subtle and outer worlds —
hold us now,
that we may listen deeply
and live rightly
within this offering.
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The First Weaving of Light - A Receiving of Kimoon K’uxlaal
Explore today this image above, of the inner cellular light
is a sacred reflection of Kimoon K’uxlaal —
the great weaving of many into the One Heart.
Focus of this image is “The Fire That Remembers the Land - A Ceremonial Offering from Conrad, Nab’eysiil of the Tz’utujiil People,”
Receive the breath within your heart center emerging into a flowing softness.
Receive the light behind your eyes as being gentle.
Receive the memory of who you are
Through the flow of the light within kindness.
Open to Receive the inner cellular light of the Heart Within your center chest area of your body,
with the Heart Within the Seven Sacred Landscapes
of the Tz’utujiil Maya world:
• The Three Volcanoes
• The Lake
• The Forest of Trees
• The Cornfields
• The Spirit of the Moonflower
• The Cloud Forest
• The Mountains
And it is the weaving of both of these
into the Heart Within Voice 1 —
the quiet place beneath the pain, the ache, the suffering.
The part of Voice 1 that is still willing to receive light.
This is the first wave of weaving:
It begins not with thought, but with a simple act of asking to receive. Where we can begins to feel within our cellular light can be weaved within the Light within the Heart of the Land that holds our inner light for the Renewal of our Voice 1 dialogues.
Place your hand gently over your heart.
Let the skin feel the warmth of your own presence.
Breathe.
And whisper this from the inside:
“Heart Within me,
I am ready to receive
the cellular light
of these sacred landscapes.
Let your weaving come into me.
Let your light be known in my bones.
I welcome the light of the land
into the heart of my body.”
Speak it once.
Then rest.
Rest in the quiet knowing
that the weaving has already begun.
That the light from the Lake,
the breath from the Cloud Forest,
the deep stillness of the Mountains,
the gentle root of the Cornfields,
the heat of the Volcanoes,
the bloom of the Moonflower,
the standing wisdom of the Trees —
—is already entering and awakening your cells.
This is Kimoon K’uxlaal:
Not an idea, but a living act of being woven.
Of letting the many forms of Heart
gather into one sacred body of light.
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Saturday 22 August - Introduction
The Fire That Remembers the Land
is not simply a collection of words.
It is a ceremonial path,
born from a lineage of tending
to the light that moves through all things.
In these writings, Conrad —
as Nab’eysiil of the Tz’utujiil people —
speaks to the living presence of Kimoon K’uxlaal,
not as an idea,
but as a subtle world ally of light and fire
that oversees the weaving of unknown possibilities
into the soul,
the culture,
and the country.
This material rises from the deep listening
that comes through ceremony:
listening to the land,
to the subtle allies,
to the nine senses of the body
that awaken as threads of the One Heart.
The world around us is in disturbance:
fires out of balance,
waters rising and drying in extremes,
soils losing their memory of fertility,
and the body of humanity aching
with separation from its deeper belonging.
But fire,
and the land itself,
are not lost.
They are whispering for us to return.
For us to remember the reciprocal relationships
that indigenous peoples tended for thousands of years —
relationships of ceremony,
gratitude,
and ongoing communication
between the human and the more-than-human worlds.
These writings invite us to step back into that remembering.
To feel fire not only as danger,
but as presence,
as teacher,
as the weaver of endings and beginnings.
And to hear within that whisper
the quiet emergence of the Heart Within Voice 1 —
the inner stillness that rises when we allow
the Great Grandmother’s Light
to enter the places of our despair.
Again, go back today and explore today this image above, of the inner cellular light
is a sacred reflection of Kimoon K’uxlaal —
the great weaving of many into the One Heart.
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Sunday 23 August
The Fire That Remembers the Land
A Ceremonial Offering from Conrad, Nab’eysiil of the Tz’utujiil People
Kimoon K’uxlaal — Living Presence of Light
Kimoon K’uxlaal is not an idea.
It is not a philosophy.
It is the living Presence of Light in the subtle world —
a great weaving angel of fire and thread
that holds the loom of the One Heart.
This Presence oversees the light of unknown possibilities —
the seeds waiting to be born
through the uniqueness of a soul,
through the dignity of a culture,
through the voice of a country that remembers
how to live in reciprocity with life.
Kimoon K’uxlaal is the quiet intelligence
behind every breath of restoration.
It is the subtle hand that opens the way
for the Heart Within Voice 1 to rise
from the heavy storms of despair
and begin to speak once again.
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Whispers in the Time of Disturbance
We are living in a time when the Earth trembles
under the weight of our forgetting.
The climate shifts,
waters rise,
fires rage without balance,
soils lose their light,
and the bodies of animals, plants, and people
are tangled with toxins
and the grief of separation.
What we see in the patterns of weather
is a mirror of what has dimmed within us.
A parallel loss of Light —
a forgetting of how to live as one
with the subtle and outer worlds.
But the Earth has not abandoned us.
She still whispers.
Through the volcanoes, the forests, the cornfields, the lake,
through the quiet bloom of the moonflower in the night —
the Earth is whispering:
“Return. Remember. Begin again.”
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Enter Nawal Mosbel Joloom
And so she comes —
not with fire,
but with silence.
She does not silence you.
She sits beside your Voice 1.
She places one hand
on the back of your skull.
A wind enters.
Not a storm —
but a soft flowing breath
through the inner corridors of your mind.
“Let your breath enter the back of your skull,”
she whispers.
“Let it soften the stone of despair.
You do not need to believe in hope.
You only need to open.”
And as the skull breathes,
the light behind your eyes begins to pulse.
Not with belief —
but with remembering.
A memory of who you are
beyond politics,
beyond anguish,
beyond the illusion of powerlessness.
She carries with her the Bundle of the Martin
and walks in the lineage of the Rilaj Maam,
their threads woven into her own,
so that the sweep of her hand
is not only your memory returning —
but the land’s memory as well.
You feel something awaken —
not a solution,
but a center.
It is the Heart Within Voice 1.
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Again, go back today and explore today this image above, of the inner cellular light
is a sacred reflection of Kimoon K’uxlaal —
the great weaving of many into the One Heart.
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Monday 25 August 2025
The Heart Within Voice 1 Speaks
“Even as I feel broken,
even as I ache,
even as I see what should never be done to another human being,
or to the land,
there is something inside me
that is still whole.
There is a light behind my eyes
that has never dimmed.
I don’t have the answers —
but I am willing
to receive the light of the land,
to remember fire as it once was,
to feel again the way the forest knew
how and when to burn,
and how to rest.
I will remember fire’s many voices,
and not only its scream.”
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The Reciprocity of Living Light
This is what our ancestors knew.
This is what the old ones carried
through thousands of years of ceremonial cycles —
a living relationship of reciprocity.
They understood that the health of the body
and the health of the land
were not separate.
That tending to the soil,
to the seeds,
to the fires,
to the waters,
to the breath —
was tending to the Light that sustains all life.
Now, in these times of forgetting,
we are called to remember again:
to live as a Gaian Being that is human,
to walk in the ceremonies that are written
in our bones,
our blood,
our breath,
our very cells of light.
Through Kimoon K’uxlaal,
the nine senses awaken as threads of weaving —
seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling,
feeling the warmth and coolness,
listening even to pain,
moving with the Earth,
finding balance again.
Through these senses,
we can feel the whispers of reciprocity returning,
the weaving of inner and outer worlds
into the One Heart.
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Closing Ceremonial Blessings
May the heart within your body
stay connected to the heart within the land.
May your senses remember the language of fire —
not only its danger,
but its medicine.
May every place now touched by flame,
by drought,
by flood,
by winds of forgetting —
receive the light of unknown possibilities,
so that what is burning,
what is breaking,
may find its way back to wholeness.
May the threads of the One Heart
be strong in you,
and may you walk knowing
that you are part of the tending,
part of the remembering,
part of the restoration.
Go carrying this ember in your chest.
Go carrying this seed in your hand.
Go as the weaving,
and know you are never alone
in the fire’s renewal.
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Again, go back today and explore today this image above, of the inner cellular light
is a sacred reflection of Kimoon K’uxlaal —
the great weaving of many into the One Heart.
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Tuesday 26 August 2025
Here is a ceremonial guide shaped as a daily and weekly practice for sustaining the reciprocal relationship between your body, the Earth, and the Presence of Kimoon K’uxlaal, as spoken through Conrad, Nab’eysiil of the Tz’utujiil people.
It integrates the emergence of the Heart Within Voice 1, the nine senses, and the subtle–outer reciprocity that restores the weaving of the One Heart.
Ceremonial Guide: Weaving with the Living Light of Kimoon K’uxlaal
I. Opening the Practice
Each day or week begins with a pause — a conscious step into the subtle presence of Kimoon K’uxlaal.
This moment is not about ritual perfection; it is about relationship, about showing up with a willing heart.
Opening Words (speak aloud or within):
“Kimoon K’uxlaal, Weaving of Many into One Heart,
I open my breath to you.
I open my body to you.
I open my senses to the whispers of the Earth.
Let the light within me remember the light within all things.”
(Pause for three slow breaths through the nose, feeling the chest and spine expand and soften.)
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II. Daily Practice — Weaving in the Moment
This can be done in 5–10 minutes in the morning or evening — or longer, as you are able.
Step 1: Breath of Presence
• Inhale slowly through the nose, drawing breath into the base of your skull.
• Exhale slowly, letting the breath move down into your heart and then outward, as if weaving light into the space around you.
• Repeat this for nine breaths to awaken the nine threads of the senses.
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Step 2: Awakening the Nine Senses
Each breath focuses on one sense, bringing it alive.
1. Sight — Inhale light into your eyes; exhale, offering vision to the Earth.
2. Hearing — Inhale sound into your ears; exhale gratitude for the whispers you hear.
3. Smell — Inhale the subtle fragrance of the air; exhale a thread of remembering.
4. Taste — Inhale the quiet taste in your mouth; exhale gratitude for sustenance.
5. Touch — Inhale the sensation of air on your skin; exhale presence into your body.
6. Temperature — Inhale the warmth or coolness around you; exhale balance.
7. Pain — Inhale any ache or heaviness; exhale it into the Heart Within Voice 1 to be held.
8. Movement — Inhale awareness of your body’s position; exhale a thread of groundedness.
9. Balance — Inhale the sense of your center; exhale a thread of harmony into the One Heart.
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Step 3: Listening to the Whispers
Choose one landscape — outer or inner — and simply listen:
• A memory of the volcano’s quiet strength.
• The stillness of the lake within your breath.
• The hidden nourishment of the cloud forest.
• The continuity of the cornfields in your body.
• The strength of the trees in your spine.
• The delicate, mystical presence of the moonflower blooming in your heart.
• The endurance of the mountains rising within you.
Offer gratitude — even a single whispered “thank you” — to acknowledge the relationship.
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Step 4: The Heart Within Voice 1
Bring awareness to the emotions or inner dialogues that have been present today.
• Inhale them gently, drawing them into the quiet center of your heart.
• Exhale light, allowing those emotions to be held — not erased, but woven — into the greater wholeness of the One Heart.
Whisper softly:
“Even in my heaviness, there is light within me that has never dimmed.”
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III. Weekly Practice — Deep Weaving
Choose a longer time once a week — 30 minutes to an hour — for deeper reciprocity.
1. Create a Living Altar
• Gather a simple offering: a flower, a handful of earth, a small bowl of water, a stone.
• Place them together with intention — not as objects, but as presences.
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2. Walk or Sit in the Landscape
• Go to a natural place if possible: a park, forest, field, or even a small garden.
• If you cannot go outside, sit near a window or with an image of one of the sacred landscapes.
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3. Ceremony of Breath and Silence
• Begin with nine breaths, awakening the nine senses as in the daily practice.
• Enter a period of silence, listening for the subtle whispers.
• Let your heart rest in the quiet presence of Kimoon K’uxlaal.
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4. Offering of Reciprocity
• Offer your gratitude aloud.
• You might say:
“I return my thread of light to the One Heart.
May the light of my breath join the light of the land.
May we remember together.”
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IV. Closing Blessings
Whether daily or weekly, always close with a blessing.
Closing Words (speak softly):
“May the heart within my body
stay connected to the heart within the land.
May my senses remember the language of light
and the quiet weaving of reciprocity.
May I walk this day as part of the tending,
part of the remembering,
part of the restoration of the One Heart.”
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V. Living the Reciprocity
This practice is not separate from your daily life.
Every meal, every conversation, every decision can carry the awareness of “Kimoon K’uxlaal as a living weaving.
Each time you return to the breath, to the nine senses, to the quiet center of the Heart Within Voice 1, you are strengthening the thread of light that holds body and Earth together.
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Again, go back today and explore today this image above, of the inner cellular light
is a sacred reflection of Kimoon K’uxlaal —
the great weaving of many into the One Heart.
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Wednesday 27 August 2025
Here is a seven-day ceremonial cycle designed to deepen your relationship with the Presence of Kimoon K’uxlaal, the Heart Within Voice 1, and the reciprocal weaving of the One Heart through the nine senses and the seven sacred landscapes of the Tz’utujiil Maya.
This rhythm is gentle, spacious, and adaptable. Each day focuses on one landscape as a living ally, while weaving the senses and breath into the practice.
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Seven-Day Cycle of Weaving with the Living Light
Each day begins with three intentions:
1. Presence – Arrive fully, with breath and body.
2. Reciprocity – Offer gratitude for what you receive.
3. Weaving – Let the light of your heart return to the One Heart.
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Day 1 – The Volcanoes
(San Pedro, Atitlán, Tolimán)
Theme: Courage and Rootedness
Opening Breath:
• Nine slow breaths, imagining the warmth of volcanic fire rising through your spine.
• Inhale strength; exhale steadiness.
Nine-Sense Activation:
• Touch the earth or floor beneath you, feeling grounded.
• Hear the quiet around you; imagine the volcano’s stillness.
Reflection/Whisper:
• “I stand rooted. Even in uncertainty, there is courage in my bones.”
Act of Reciprocity:
• Offer a small stone, seed, or whispered prayer to the land.
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Day 2 – The Lake
(Atitlán)
Theme: Depth and Reflection
Opening Breath:
• Nine breaths, imagining your breath moving like water — rising and falling.
Nine-Sense Activation:
• Look into water if you can, or into a reflective surface.
• Hear the quiet rhythm of your breath as the lake’s whisper.
Reflection/Whisper:
• “I receive the depth of silence; I return the light of my heart.”
Act of Reciprocity:
• Offer gratitude with a cup of water, pouring it to the earth with reverence.
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Day 3 – The Cloud Forest
Theme: Tenderness and Hidden Nourishment
Opening Breath:
• Nine breaths, softening your body as if covered by mist.
Nine-Sense Activation:
• Smell the air deeply, even indoors; imagine the freshness of rain and moss.
• Touch your arms or chest with care, honoring your body as part of the forest.
Reflection/Whisper:
• “Even in my quiet, nourishment finds me. Even in stillness, I belong.”
Act of Reciprocity:
• Place a small green leaf or plant cutting on your altar as a thank you.
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Day 4 – The Cornfields
Theme: Sustenance and Community
Opening Breath:
• Nine breaths, imagining golden threads weaving from your belly into the land.
Nine-Sense Activation:
• Taste something simple — a grain, a piece of fruit — slowly and with gratitude.
Reflection/Whisper:
• “As the cornfield feeds the body, my heart feeds the One Heart.”
Act of Reciprocity:
• Share food today with someone else, even in a simple way — an offering of sustenance.
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Day 5 – The Forest of Trees
Theme: Strength and Belonging
Opening Breath:
• Nine breaths, straightening your spine as if you are a tree rooted in earth.
Nine-Sense Activation:
• Place your hand on a tree if possible, or imagine the sensation of bark under your fingertips.
Reflection/Whisper:
• “I belong to the forest, and the forest belongs to me.”
Act of Reciprocity:
• Offer water or a whispered blessing to a tree or plant near your home.
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Day 6 – The Moonflower - (Toloache)
Theme: Healing and Mystery
Opening Breath:
• Nine breaths, slow and soft, imagining moonlight entering your chest.
Nine-Sense Activation:
• Smell something subtle — a flower, herb, or even the night air — and let it awaken your sense of presence.
Reflection/Whisper:
• “Even in darkness, light blooms within me.”
Act of Reciprocity:
• Light a small candle at night, holding gratitude for the hidden light that lives in all things.
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Day 7 – The Mountains
Theme: Perspective and Endurance
Opening Breath:
• Nine breaths, visualizing your breath traveling up and over a mountain peak.
Nine-Sense Activation:
• Look up at the horizon or sky; let your eyes rest in the vastness.
Reflection/Whisper:
• “I carry the quiet strength of the mountains; my light is steady, my heart is vast.”
Act of Reciprocity:
• Offer a prayer of gratitude to the sky, the air, and the vastness that holds us all.
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Closing the Seven-Day Cycle
At the end of the week, take time to sit with your altar or in your chosen space.
Closing Blessing (speak softly):
“May my body remember the light of the land.
May my senses weave the whispers of the Earth.
May the Heart Within Voice 1 guide my choices,
so that my living becomes a thread of repair and renewal
for all life, seen and unseen.
May the One Heart be bright within me,
and may I walk as a Gaian Being that is human.”
Again, go back today and explore today this image above, of the inner cellular light
is a sacred reflection of Kimoon K’uxlaal —
the great weaving of many into the One Heart.
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Thursday 28 August 2025
Summary of these Writings
1. Kimoon K’uxlaal — Presence, Not Idea
Kimoon K’uxlaal is a living intelligence of light.
It moves through the subtle world,
holding the loom of the One Heart.
Its presence invites the unknown possibilities
of healing, balance, and renewal
to enter into our lives and choices.
2. The Disturbance of Forgetting
The climate crisis, the toxins in soil and body,
and the isolation of modern life
are not random misfortunes.
They are reflections of a collective forgetting
of our reciprocal relationship with Earth and her subtle forces.
3. The Return of the Ceremonial Threads
Through ceremony —
through breath, silence, movement, and offering —
we can return to those relationships.
We can hear again the whispers of the landscapes:
the courage of the volcanoes,
the reflection of the lake,
the tenderness of the cloud forest,
the sustenance of the cornfields,
the belonging of the trees,
the healing mystery of the moonflower,
the endurance of the mountains.
4. Enter Nawal Mosbel Joloom
Nawal Mosbel Joloom enters not with fire,
but with silence.
She touches the skull,
softens the stone of despair,
and awakens the quiet remembering
of the light behind our eyes.
From this stillness,
the Heart Within Voice 1 rises,
allowing us to meet the world’s pain
without collapsing into it.
5. The Heart Within Voice 1 Speaks
From that center,
we can begin to live in alignment again.
Not with quick answers or hollow hope,
but with a grounded willingness
to receive the light of the land,
to honor the many voices of fire,
to tend the subtle and outer worlds
as a Gaian Being that is human.
6. A Call to Reciprocity
Every breath,
every act of gratitude,
every moment of listening
becomes a thread of restoration.
In this way,
we remember that the healing of our bodies,
our communities,
and our Earth
are one and the same weaving.
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Closing Blessing
May your body remember the language of fire.
May your senses awaken to the quiet light
within the landscapes around you
and the landscapes within you.
May the Heart Within Voice 1
rise again and again in your choices,
so that your living becomes
a thread of repair,
of healing,
of tender strength.
May the Great Grandmother’s Light
and the presence of Kimoon K’uxlaal
weave you into the One Heart
where nothing is ever truly lost,
and where all life is held
in the great renewal of love.
Go carrying this ember in your chest.
Go carrying this seed in your hand.
Go as the weaving,
and know that you are never alone
in the fire’s restoration.
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Again, go back today and explore today this image above, of the inner cellular light
is a sacred reflection of Kimoon K’uxlaal —
the great weaving of many into the One Heart.
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