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The Cycle of Giving / Hoops of Reciprocity
Written by Will Grant and Mary Beth White, friends of Maria Michael
While part of this website focuses on the healing Maria offers to people as clients, it’s also important to tell the story of the work Maria does in the world as a gift. People ask how they can support Maria’s service in ways that are appropriate.
Maria gifts thousands of hours to the world by supporting marginalized communities and social justice movements via prayer circles, marches, talks and gatherings. For example, she brought a winter truckload of supplies to Standing Rock and spent 5 months there doing actions and ceremonies. Maria began a GOFUNDME for the Diné Bá (the Navajo people), initially to support the Diné while they were disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. It has become an ongoing relief fund to address the severe poverty and inequities on Navajoland.
As a healer, she works individually with hundreds of people around the world each year for free, to meet their need for healing and guidance.
Maria does this because it supports Life. Maria serves. She listens to the Spirits when they call her and is quick to respond, day or night.
People often recognize and are amazed by Maria’s gifts to the world. They want to support her but don’t know how – and even wonder what is appropriate.
In traditional times, someone like Maria would have lived in a community where her service work was supported. The community would have balanced her work in the Spirit world by helping to meet her needs in the material world, such as providing food and housing. It was a natural part of life.
These “Hoops of Reciprocity” have been broken by modern culture and the modern economy. If people want to give support, many are not sure what is culturally acceptable. They wonder if money is too material and “not spiritual.” Traditional societies understand that material needs are part of life. A gifted blanket is wonderful, though it doesn’t help to put gas in a healer’s car when they drive to a ceremony. Traditional communities gift their healers with material goods to support their spiritual work, knowing that it becomes energy that supports spiritual work. When it is given as a gift, instead of an exchange, material goods are part of the cycle of gifting that recreates the Hoops of Reciprocity that regenerate the world.
If you are interested in supporting Maria’s work – her ceremonies, sweat lodges, prayer circles, healing justice work, donation drives – your gifts of time, skills, goods, and money will all feed and support her ability to give to others.
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