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When the sacred mountains feel silent after losing an elder

My grandmother always said the mountains were alive and watching over us, but after she died last year I look at the Andes and feel nothing but cold stone. I used to feel their presence so clearly and now I wonder if I've lost some essential part of myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The death of a spiritual guide has severed a felt connection to ancestral ways of knowing, leaving behind doubt about one's own spiritual capacity.

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