October 9, 2021 – Mindahi Bastida and Geraldine Patrick share the cosmovision of Mesoamerican cultures, where multiple simultaneous worlds are understood to exist. They draw from different representations of such worlds and also share personal experiences where they have had a glimpse into such alternate dimensions.

Geraldine Patrick, PhD, (Mapuche descent) has been a professor at the Intercultural University of the State of Mexico for courses on Ethnoecology and Biocultural Ethics (2007-2010), and at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Lerma (2012-2015) for Interdisciplinary Studies, Complex Systems and Mesoamerican Calendars. Since 2016 she has started study groups in four communities in Mexico and Guatemala with teachers, university students and organized farmers and women interested in revitalizing their culture and traditional ways of living with the land.

Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz, PhD (Otomi-Toltec) is the Director of the Original Nations Program at The Fountain and a member of the Mother Earth Delegation. He is an executive member of the Alliance Guardians of Mother Earth and a spokesperson of the recently created Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor. He is also the General Coordinator of the Otomi Regional Council of the High Lerma River Basin, Mexico, that promotes the rights of nature and Mother Earth as well as the rights to self- determination of original nations.

Length: 2 hours