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@alexander-and-rama
Alexander Schieffer and Rama Mani are co-founders of Home for Humanity, a global movement and foundation dedicated to fostering integral human development and planetary regeneration. Together they lead the One Home Journey, a seven-year global pilgrimage bringing together communities across cultures to co-create a more just, peaceful, and regenerative world.

Channeling & Divination
We had literally a moment of download which took hours, where we felt like antennas were being charged. In this moment everything was implicitly spoken. Everything was clear. And the One Home Journey was born literally in this moment. Everything else is then an articulation and an expression of what was given in this moment. Alexander writes downloads, you could say this divine poetry every morning, that's his morning connection to the earth and the heavens, and usually his poetry brings us that strand of clarity that we are seeking, which is not from the mind.

Mentors & Teachers
Our beloved closest friend, our mentor, and the co-chairperson of Home for Humanity is Jean Houston. Jean, that's what she's done. I say, forget your pathologies, you are meant to be so much, you are. So grow into that, and when you grow into that you will be in flow, and it's service to all of life, then you will feel the true juice of being alive because you are serving life. She's been a key factor for me of Theater of Transformation, for us, of knowing that something as big and as crazy, as epic, as historic, and yet as simple and obvious as the One Home Journey was coming forward.

Self-Reflection
This big wakeup call came in 1999, discovering that actually the suffering, the injustice, the oppression we see in the world is a reflection of what's inside, and I needed to start with that transformation. This agency, your inner home, and then building new local homes, and then serving together an earth's home, is at the very center of the impulse that we call Home for Humanity as a movement. We noticed that sometimes in just three days of being in nature and being asked these deep questions of becoming one another, stepping into each other's skins, allowing yourself to dream again, this metamorphosis, literally seeing the cocoon breaking, and these butterflies of human beings coming through.

Community & Connection
Working purpose-based, culture-rooted, social-context-rooted together, to be true to the common purpose that we are holding as a species. We have a beautiful fellowship called Youth for the Future, and women who are emerging from violence and oppression, Women for the Earth. So while everything we do is for everyone, there will be this special time that we spend mentoring, catalyzing women and youth coming out of marginalization, oppression, and then connecting them all with each other so that everyone steps into their highest purpose, potential, passion, to become the future builder.

Be Courageous
We've practiced a gifting culture within the Home for Humanity movement. We've lived our lives as a gift over the last many years. So any small amount of money we get from teaching or seminars, it has all been poured, all of our savings have been poured into this movement. We've seen how, when we live our lives as a gift of service, which we feel privileged that we were even given the opportunity to realize we could live our lives as a gift, of giving and trusting that enough to meet our needs will come. In the simplest way with absolutely the minimum of means, trusting that at every step we will get just enough to move through, country to country.

Surrender
We said, we're not going to look for it in a rational way, in a strategic way from the outset that may follow, but we are listening. It's been this surrender of the rational mind, and each time we realize we have too much in the planning mode to actually just sit back and surrender and listen, and then it becomes so clear. It's pain, then tuning in, and it becomes so clear. When we think, oh my God, it's too much, we just tune in again, and then it feels like we can step into the flow of life, and it's beautiful. Trust, and if you follow the purpose there will be so much meaning in life that everything you need will be attracted to support that.

Traveling
The One Home Journey, seven years for seven generations, going to each and every country, connecting to each and every cultural voice of the planet. We have committed our lives to be the threads that connect this necklace, this necklace of humanity. But in every country we travel to, and each time we see it as a necklace, we would go around earth so that people who join us virtually and on the ground can recognize, that's who we really are as humanity. In every country, it's our local partners who will be the ones, the gems, the beads, who will shine light on what they think their culture, their being, their stories of the past, the present, and the future can be.

Traveling
The One Home Journey, seven years for seven generations, going to each and every country, connecting to each and every cultural voice of the planet. We have committed our lives to be the threads that connect this necklace, this necklace of humanity. But in every country we travel to, and each time we see it as a necklace, we would go around earth so that people who join us virtually and on the ground can recognize, that's who we really are as humanity. In every country, it's our local partners who will be the ones, the gems, the beads, who will shine light on what they think their culture, their being, their stories of the past, the present, and the future can be.

Traveling
We had literally a moment of download which took hours, where we felt like antennas were being charged. In this moment everything was implicitly spoken. Everything was clear. And the One Home Journey was born literally in this moment. Everything else is then an articulation and an expression of what was given in this moment. Alexander writes downloads, you could say this divine poetry every morning, that's his morning connection to the earth and the heavens, and usually his poetry brings us that strand of clarity that we are seeking, which is not from the mind.

Stillness
We have these year-end retreats. Usually the year is closed and the new is opened with two weeks of silence, and we dedicated this period to deeply listening, what is the next purpose loop? What is it that wants to come next? We will never forget this moment because under the tree under which we were married, on our lands, sitting there, it was the 7th of January 2023, and we were sitting there really asking the question, what is it that we need to serve, what's the next to come? And we had literally a moment of download which took hours, where we felt like antennas were being charged. In this moment everything was implicitly spoken. Everything was clear.

Life-Changing Event
And the One Home Journey, seven years for seven generations, going to each and every country, connecting to each and every cultural voice of the planet, bringing all of the experience that humanity has built up, past, present, future, in terms of how do we live as humanity in unity with all of life, at a crucial time where our life is on the stake. I truly believe that our own purpose journey more and more aligned with what we feel is also the purpose of humanity, to grow up, to move up, to shift up to our full capacity embedded within creation, serving Mother Earth, serving the divine purpose for which we have come here. Literally, by going to every country on earth, and making the global south realize that their purpose has been so important to shape our lives in the past, in the present, and the future, and to really see that now it's everyone living their purpose, and being co-authors and co-creators of a truly common future.

Focus On Something Bigger Than Yourself
When I think about when and how I discovered my purpose to be, I think about all the unfolding iterations. This big wakeup call came in 1999, discovering that actually the suffering, the injustice, the oppression we see in the world is a reflection of what's inside, and I needed to start with that transformation. What I love about this journey of finding one's purpose is how, when one realizes the first time, it is the most difficult, which it definitely was for me, but it was so compelling, the wakeup call, there was no saying no to it. And when that yes, how it just unfolds and unfolds. The biggest gift has been, even many years after Alexander and myself fulfilling our purpose together, we now received, a year and a half ago, the true, the ultimate purpose, not just of our individual lives, but of our collective life, and of what is the common purpose of all human beings who are conscious and concerned about the situation.