Email:carol.hiltner@gmail.com
Website: www.AltaiMir.org & www.AltaiBooks.com

Dear fellow Peacemakers!
I am writing to you from the Altai Mountains, in the exact center of Eurasia. Ancient traditions call this magical place “Earth’s umbilicus”—the place where cosmic nurturance enters our planet. The Siberian winter has decked the forests here with diamonds. Even the air glitters. In this energy field, the New Earth is already manifesting itself, and I am giddy with wonder.

For ten years I have traveled here at every opportunity. Each time, I have come away healthier and more centered. I have devoted my life to finding ways of leveraging this benefit, both for the planet and for the local culture. The Altai people—ancient stewards of this land—are a gentle and generous people. At the same time that global forces are acting to strip these lands from them, they are looking outward to share their blessings and deep-founded wisdom—through their phenomenal throat-singing, powerful shamanism, unique healing herbs, and pure wildflower honey.

I arrived just yesterday, with three intentions for the next month: to continue painting the visions that I access here; to organize further leadership exchanges between Native Americans and the Altai people to share their ancient wisdom traditions for world-wide benefit; and to continue a global campaign to legally secure traditional Altai lands for Altai people under new Russian land laws.

In doing these things, I myself am a part of the New Earth that is emerging here. My “right-brain” painting is a direct manifestation of cosmic energy as sacred archetypal images, while my “left-brain” development work holds open a door for this “new” energy to flow around the whole Earth.

Many Peacemakers have encouraged and generously supported my efforts through the years, as I have devoted my entire Being to this work. I thank you, and invite you bring the “Altai energy” into your own life through your meditations and/or through exploration of the resources I have put on-line at www.AltaiMir.org and www.AltaiBooks.com. The above photo is of Carol here in Altai.

On 10 January, 2009 Carol will be the first recipient of a new international peace award for continuing citizen diplomacy, from the National Peace Foundation in Washington DC.
The award name is "Peace Quilts Award," inspired by two magnificent peace quilts Carol made in the 1980s, signed by hundreds of citizens and government officials in the US and the USSR.