How Wide the Heart: The Roots of Peace in Palestine and Israel

by Marko Pogačnik

In 2001 Marko Pogačnik and Ana Pogačnik set out on a pilgrimage with a group of people interested in geomancy and looking for ways to achieve lasting peace. They traveled along the archetypal path that leads from the Pyramids across the Sinai Peninsula to Jerusalem. Along the way, they visited the holy sites of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam―the three world religions descended from Abraham. By meditating and tuning in to the vital energies of those ancient sites, they were able to decipher the emotional and spiritual dimensions of each location and put into place impulses for healing and regeneration. How Wide the Heart provides an overview of the planetary role and the true identity of the Holy Land. The authors affirm the capacity of the landscape of Israel and Palestine to communicate messages that have, so often in the past, been turning points for human history. The second part of the book contains messages that Ana received from the deep source of love and wisdom that Westerners generally call “Christ energy.” Those messages call on us to look more closely at our individual lives and encourage us to follow our chosen path with increased consciousness and equanimity. A parallel level of these communications describes the process that humanity has experienced over the course of history and reveals important points in that process―moments that determined our common path together and provide impulses for our whole future evolution. The central purpose of the book is to help reestablish a bridge to the landscape. The authors describe ways that life energy is anchored in a specific energetic structure in the landscape surrounding the Sea of Galilee, revealing the important role that this area plays and reflects. This is a timely book for an understanding of the deeper importance of the Holy Land and the events and people of the region.

216 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2006

About the author

Marko graduated as sculptor on the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana 1967. With his family he lives in Sempas, Slovenia.
Since 1979 he has been engaged in geomantic and Earth healing work. In the mid 80s he designed a method of Earth work similar to acupuncture, by using carved stone pillars positioned on acupuncture like points of the given landscape. He calls it lithopuncture.
From 2005 he dedicates much of his work creating Geopuncture Circles, a world wide lithopuncture project to enhance communication and healing with the Earth, that he builds together with his collaborators from given countries. In 2013 he started to teach GaiaTouch exercises, developed by him during the last decade.