About the Author - Maria J. Andrade, M.F.T.

Maria J. Andrade, MFT

Maria J. Andrade, M.S. M.F.T., is a psycho spiritual therapist and poet. She was born in Ecuador, South America and raised in New York and California. In 1989 she was initiated in Andean Shamanism by Amazonian and Inca medicine healers of Peru. She uses poetry, stories and ceremony in her work. Her poetry and articles on social justice has appeared in the nationally awarded winning, bilingual newspaper, "La Oferta Review" and "Vistazo" San Jose, California as well as in "La Opinion" Newspaper, Los Angeles.

Maria is a social and human rights activists who helped establish organizations such as Habitat for Humanity in Pomona, CA and FACTS (Families to Amend California's Three Strikes Law) Los Angeles Chapter. She worked with Peace and Justice, a political activists group based in La Verne, CA and for 25 years served on the Board of the Carl Jung Society of Claremont as Program Coordinator gathering speakers and programs which bring transformative visions for the new millennium. She is founder of the "Heart Magic" workshops based on her book Heart Magic, Keeping Love Alive & Well. This book focuses on important fundamental principles and communication techniques for sustaining a loving and lasting partnership.

She lives in California and has a private counseling practice with her husband Sy Cohn.

I See A World

I see a world

in which source flows through us in its fullness,

and there is no separation between you and me,

only the refracted beauty of Creation's pleasure,

and there are no outer enemies except poverty, homelessness,

and loveless ness.

I see a world where children are nurtured tenderly

like the seeds of the earth,

where they worship once again outside walls,

among trees and groves, beneath sun and moon,

as in the ancient days

where they call the Deity in themselves

through scent of flowers,

through song,

through sacred dance,

through each other's eyes.

In such a world

the earth is loved as our own bodies

and it is healed of the blood of ages,

so that nature is no longer stricken.

Instead daily it is revitalized by reverence

and the water's diamond face is seen again

and the wind that weaves its path through lungs

and rock caverns is pure again.

And all life communes with all life.

The language of trees is remembered again

and the beasts

of land and air and water

can trust their spirits to us again.

In such a world there are no nations,

only one world

with beings who recognize each other as the Self.

Make strong the fields of harmony round the earth.

Then the long awaited vision of Archangels

will come to pass,

the world turned right side out.

I see this world.

It can happen.

It can happen, if you see it too.


© 1996 Maria J. Andrade All Rights Reserved