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    ✒️ "To put it more succinctly, we can only reg ✒️ "To put it more succinctly, we can only regenerate that which we already know, live, and remember. So, let’s flip the script and write one that can’t be greenwashed, one that outlives all attempts at betraying its meaning." 📖 - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality" ------------------------------------------ "Para decirlo de manera más sucinta, solo podemos regenerar lo que ya conocer, vivir y recordar. Entonces, volteemos el guión y escribamos uno que no se puede lavar de verde, uno que sobrevive a todos los intentos en traicionar su significado." - Del Ensayo, "No existe el cacao de grado ceremonial"
    ✒️ "The word [Ghos-ti] and its embodiment woul ✒️ "The word [Ghos-ti] and its embodiment would have spoken into the world a relationship between guests and hosts that wasn’t self-serving, that nourished something more important – the community, home, and hospitality itself." 📖 - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality" ------------------------------------------ "La palabra [Ghos-ti] y su encarnación habría hablado al mundouna relación entre huéspedes y anfitriones eso no era egoísta, que alimentó algo más importante - la comunidad, el hogar y la propia hospitalidad ". - Del Ensayo, "No existe el cacao de grado ceremonial"
    ✒️ - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospi ✒️ - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality" 📖 "Ghos-ti was a way of ensuring that whether or not these people were kin, whether or not they were in each other’s lives temporarily, that their manner of being there, together, had enduring consequence far beyond their own. It rooted people in place and became a way of acknowledging the diversity in the world." ------------------------------------------------------ "Ghos-ti era una forma de asegurar que si estas personas eran parientes o no, si estaban o no en el otro vive temporalmente, que su manera de estar allí, juntos,tuvo consecuencias duraderas mucho más allá de las suyas. Arraigó a las personas en su lugar y se convirtió en una forma de reconocer la diversidad en el mundo ". - Del Ensayo, "Ghosti: Hospitalidad Radical"
    ✒️ - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospi ✒️ - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality" 📖 "Today, guests and hosts are so often reduced to servants and the served, to buyers and sellers. Thank the Gods it wasn’t always this way. Thank the Gods it isn’t this way everywhere." ------------------------------------------------------ "Hoy en día, los huéspedes y los anfitriones a menudo se reducen a los sirvientes y los servidos, a compradores y vendedores. Gracias a los diosxs, no siempre fue así. Gracias a los diosxs, no es así en todas partes" - Del Ensayo, "Ghosti: Hospitalidad Radical"
    🐦 Read our new original essay, "Ghosti: On Radi 🐦 Read our new original essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality," available on the OPS website. 👽 Link in Profile -> Blog
    May the times we’re in not be strangers to you. May the times we’re in not be strangers to you. Likewise may they not have become too burdensome on your days. We imagine that such hope and such petitions might sound impossible, given the circumstances, but perhaps there’s a glimmer in there. Somewhere. Solidarity, perhaps, among the estrangement. This letter is half ask, half invitation. If you care to support OPS from afar, you can do so now by donating to the organization via the website. 🙏❤️🙏 To read the post in full, visit the Link in Profile -> Blog -> "The Ask: Help Support Oaxaca Profundo via Donation"
    🍫 From the Essay, "There is No Such Thing as Ce 🍫 From the Essay, "There is No Such Thing as Ceremonial Grade Cacao" 🍫 "Out at the edges of the forest where cacao leans towards the edges of the village, farmers are tending to their trees, they are ensuring that a lineage thousands of years old is rooted and nourished by their willingness to remember them. There is nothing overtly ceremonial about it, nothing that modern people would recognize as such, and yet, these farmers feed the spirits of local cacao Gods and ancestors in a manner that would put modern cacao ceremonies to shame... and do. ________________________________ En los bordes del bosque donde el cacao se inclina hacia los bordes del pueblo, los campesinos cuidan sus árboles, se aseguran de que un linaje de miles de años esté arraigado y alimentado por sus voluntad de recordarlos. No hay nada abiertamente ceremonial al respecto, nada que la gente moderna reconozca como tal y, sin embargo, estos campesinos alimentan los espíritus de los dioses y antepasados locales del cacao de una manera que avergonzaría las ceremonias modernas del cacao ... y lo hacen. - Del Ensayo, "No Existe Tal Cosa Como Cacao de Grado Ceremonial (Parte 2)" #cacao #ceremonialgradecacao #chocolate #cacaoceremony #cacaoceremonies #oaxaca #deeplearning #oaxsessions ##cacao #ceremonialgradecacao #chocolate #cacaoceremony #cacaoceremonies #oaxaca #deeplearning #oaxsessions ##oaxacaprofundooaxacaprofundo
    🍫 - From our new, original essay, "There is No 🍫 - From our new, original essay, "There is No Such Thing as Ceremonial Grade Cacao" 🍫 "Unless we start there - with our poverty and not with ceremonializing for the sake of it, we will soon enough be calling everything “ceremonial.” As a result, everything ceremonial will become entirely unrecognizable to those who we would properly be making ceremony for - the light-eaters and two-leggeds, the dead and the divine, and the more-than-human worlds." ___________________________________ A menos que comencemos por ahí, con nuestra pobreza, y no con ceremonializar por ello, muy pronto llamaremos a todo "ceremonial". Como resultado, todo lo ceremonial se convertirá en completamente irreconocible para aquellos a quienes nos gustaría estar haciendo correctamente la ceremonia para - los comedores de luz y bípedos, los muertos y lo divino, y el mundo más que humano. - Del Ensayo, "No existe el cacao de grado ceremonial" #cacao #ceremonialgradecacao #chocolate #cacaoceremony #cacaoceremonies #oaxaca #deeplearning #oaxsessions #oaxacaprofundo
    🍫 - From the Essay, "There is No Such Thing as 🍫 - From the Essay, "There is No Such Thing as Ceremonial Grade Cacao" 🍫 "The consequence of the ceremony itself arriving pre-packaged means that there is no ceremony. It implies that the work has already been done and you are not needed in any such respect. 'Ceremonial grade' ensures that nothing happens. It ensures that there is no ceremony." _________________________________ "La consecuencia de la llegada de la ceremonia pre-envasado significa que no hay ceremonia. Significa que el trabajo ya se ha realizado y que no se le necesita en tal sentido. El 'grado ceremonial' asegura que no ocurra nada. Asegura que no haya ceremonia ". - Del Ensayo, "No Existe Tal Cosa Como Cacao de Grado Ceremonial (Parte 2)" #cacao #ceremonialgradecacao #chocolate #cacaoceremony #cacaoceremonies #oaxaca #deeplearning #oaxsessions #oaxacaprofundo
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    ✒️ "To put it more succinctly, we can only reg ✒️ "To put it more succinctly, we can only regenerate that which we already know, live, and remember. So, let’s flip the script and write one that can’t be greenwashed, one that outlives all attempts at betraying its meaning." 📖 - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality" ------------------------------------------ "Para decirlo de manera más sucinta, solo podemos regenerar lo que ya conocer, vivir y recordar. Entonces, volteemos el guión y escribamos uno que no se puede lavar de verde, uno que sobrevive a todos los intentos en traicionar su significado." - Del Ensayo, "No existe el cacao de grado ceremonial"
    ✒️ "The word [Ghos-ti] and its embodiment woul ✒️ "The word [Ghos-ti] and its embodiment would have spoken into the world a relationship between guests and hosts that wasn’t self-serving, that nourished something more important – the community, home, and hospitality itself." 📖 - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality" ------------------------------------------ "La palabra [Ghos-ti] y su encarnación habría hablado al mundouna relación entre huéspedes y anfitriones eso no era egoísta, que alimentó algo más importante - la comunidad, el hogar y la propia hospitalidad ". - Del Ensayo, "No existe el cacao de grado ceremonial"
    ✒️ - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospi ✒️ - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality" 📖 "Ghos-ti was a way of ensuring that whether or not these people were kin, whether or not they were in each other’s lives temporarily, that their manner of being there, together, had enduring consequence far beyond their own. It rooted people in place and became a way of acknowledging the diversity in the world." ------------------------------------------------------ "Ghos-ti era una forma de asegurar que si estas personas eran parientes o no, si estaban o no en el otro vive temporalmente, que su manera de estar allí, juntos,tuvo consecuencias duraderas mucho más allá de las suyas. Arraigó a las personas en su lugar y se convirtió en una forma de reconocer la diversidad en el mundo ". - Del Ensayo, "Ghosti: Hospitalidad Radical"
    ✒️ - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospi ✒️ - From the Essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality" 📖 "Today, guests and hosts are so often reduced to servants and the served, to buyers and sellers. Thank the Gods it wasn’t always this way. Thank the Gods it isn’t this way everywhere." ------------------------------------------------------ "Hoy en día, los huéspedes y los anfitriones a menudo se reducen a los sirvientes y los servidos, a compradores y vendedores. Gracias a los diosxs, no siempre fue así. Gracias a los diosxs, no es así en todas partes" - Del Ensayo, "Ghosti: Hospitalidad Radical"
    🐦 Read our new original essay, "Ghosti: On Radi 🐦 Read our new original essay, "Ghosti: On Radical Hospitality," available on the OPS website. 👽 Link in Profile -> Blog
    May the times we’re in not be strangers to you. May the times we’re in not be strangers to you. Likewise may they not have become too burdensome on your days. We imagine that such hope and such petitions might sound impossible, given the circumstances, but perhaps there’s a glimmer in there. Somewhere. Solidarity, perhaps, among the estrangement. This letter is half ask, half invitation. If you care to support OPS from afar, you can do so now by donating to the organization via the website. 🙏❤️🙏 To read the post in full, visit the Link in Profile -> Blog -> "The Ask: Help Support Oaxaca Profundo via Donation"
    🍫 From the Essay, "There is No Such Thing as Ce 🍫 From the Essay, "There is No Such Thing as Ceremonial Grade Cacao" 🍫 "Out at the edges of the forest where cacao leans towards the edges of the village, farmers are tending to their trees, they are ensuring that a lineage thousands of years old is rooted and nourished by their willingness to remember them. There is nothing overtly ceremonial about it, nothing that modern people would recognize as such, and yet, these farmers feed the spirits of local cacao Gods and ancestors in a manner that would put modern cacao ceremonies to shame... and do. ________________________________ En los bordes del bosque donde el cacao se inclina hacia los bordes del pueblo, los campesinos cuidan sus árboles, se aseguran de que un linaje de miles de años esté arraigado y alimentado por sus voluntad de recordarlos. No hay nada abiertamente ceremonial al respecto, nada que la gente moderna reconozca como tal y, sin embargo, estos campesinos alimentan los espíritus de los dioses y antepasados locales del cacao de una manera que avergonzaría las ceremonias modernas del cacao ... y lo hacen. - Del Ensayo, "No Existe Tal Cosa Como Cacao de Grado Ceremonial (Parte 2)" #cacao #ceremonialgradecacao #chocolate #cacaoceremony #cacaoceremonies #oaxaca #deeplearning #oaxsessions ##cacao #ceremonialgradecacao #chocolate #cacaoceremony #cacaoceremonies #oaxaca #deeplearning #oaxsessions ##oaxacaprofundooaxacaprofundo
    🍫 - From our new, original essay, "There is No 🍫 - From our new, original essay, "There is No Such Thing as Ceremonial Grade Cacao" 🍫 "Unless we start there - with our poverty and not with ceremonializing for the sake of it, we will soon enough be calling everything “ceremonial.” As a result, everything ceremonial will become entirely unrecognizable to those who we would properly be making ceremony for - the light-eaters and two-leggeds, the dead and the divine, and the more-than-human worlds." ___________________________________ A menos que comencemos por ahí, con nuestra pobreza, y no con ceremonializar por ello, muy pronto llamaremos a todo "ceremonial". Como resultado, todo lo ceremonial se convertirá en completamente irreconocible para aquellos a quienes nos gustaría estar haciendo correctamente la ceremonia para - los comedores de luz y bípedos, los muertos y lo divino, y el mundo más que humano. - Del Ensayo, "No existe el cacao de grado ceremonial" #cacao #ceremonialgradecacao #chocolate #cacaoceremony #cacaoceremonies #oaxaca #deeplearning #oaxsessions #oaxacaprofundo
    🍫 - From the Essay, "There is No Such Thing as 🍫 - From the Essay, "There is No Such Thing as Ceremonial Grade Cacao" 🍫 "The consequence of the ceremony itself arriving pre-packaged means that there is no ceremony. It implies that the work has already been done and you are not needed in any such respect. 'Ceremonial grade' ensures that nothing happens. It ensures that there is no ceremony." _________________________________ "La consecuencia de la llegada de la ceremonia pre-envasado significa que no hay ceremonia. Significa que el trabajo ya se ha realizado y que no se le necesita en tal sentido. El 'grado ceremonial' asegura que no ocurra nada. Asegura que no haya ceremonia ". - Del Ensayo, "No Existe Tal Cosa Como Cacao de Grado Ceremonial (Parte 2)" #cacao #ceremonialgradecacao #chocolate #cacaoceremony #cacaoceremonies #oaxaca #deeplearning #oaxsessions #oaxacaprofundo
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    • star rating  We started our 5 day adventure in Oaxaca with the chocolate and Maize tour by Chris. We had 2 teens... read more

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      Kirsten D
      3/18/2020

      star rating  we really appreciated our experience with Chris today during our chocolate and maize session. we... read more

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      2/28/2020

    • star rating  It was a pleasure to be guided by Chris around Oaxaca, learning about the significance of cocoa and maize to Oaxacans and how it is consumed and grown. I have... read more certainly developed a new found appreciation for the two and will take what I've learned with me moving forward. I highly recommend this experience during your trip to Oaxaca :)

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      jenspassport
      11/14/2019

      star rating  Our day trip to Benito Juarez to meet Jose, May and their family was wonderful. We learnt about the importance of their maize and cocoa ceremonial drink and how it... read more is made. They were welcoming and kind. Chris was a great host also, spiritual and knowledgable. I would recommend this trip to all.

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      rosieclayden
      11/13/2019

    • star rating  I’ve gone on many walking and tasting tours but no one has taken me for such a deep dive into the anthropology of the subject matter like Chris. ... read more If you only want to taste a lot of chocolate this is not the tour for you. Big you want insight into the legend and lore of maiz and cacao you will find this a fascinating experience

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      Relax00902104700
      11/12/2019

      star rating  Highly recommend the Food of the Gods Tour! Chris has curated a journey through the story of chocolate and maíz. We very much enjoyed listening to the local perspective and... read more international expertise he has acquired on these foods. All while enjoying many delicious dishes, samples, lunch, and strolling through beautiful tour.

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      tegglita
      11/12/2019

    • star rating  Loved it. I learned a lot about chocolate and maiz and how sacred they are to the people of Oaxaca. Thank you Chris for a great session!

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      Trindiful
      11/12/2019

      star rating  It was a pleasure to be guided by Chris around Oaxaca, learning about the significance of cocoa and maize to Oaxacans and how it is consumed and grown. I have... read more certainly developed a new found appreciation for the two and will take what I've learned with me moving forward. I …

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      jenspassport
      11/01/2019
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