Pupak Haghighi-Brinch

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In 1990, with a friend, I set up a ‘New Age Centre’ in Sydney Australia. This was a culmination of a response to my experiences of the year before, and my own path of exploring the vibrations of the New Age.

In 1991 I left Australia and married my first husband, Douglas Fir, in Japan. Together we created an institute called ‘Earth Stewards Institute’ with a vision and purpose of creating an educational environment to teach/learn earth stewardship, environmental guardianship, and hands on experiences of having a self-reliant life-style. This was a difficult experience indeed. Bear in mind the cultural dimensions here. Douglas being an American was a puzzle piece for me. In 1994, when we faced our divorce, there was but one way forward for me. To move to America, to study the culture of that great continent, and try to understand the people and their ways in the United States. And there was more to what I was seeking.

I feel very fortunate that I could participate in the Sunday meditations and activities of L/L (Love/Light) Research in Louisville Kentucky. I am forever grateful to Jim and Carla McCarty who provided a haven for seekers like me, weary of life and the world, to look for and find the authentic self to meet the world. The time that I was privileged to spend at L/L, marks a period of intensive metaphysical seeking and growth in my life.

My son Ocean-Rama was born in 1996 in London. Hence began a new chapter in life, in my exploration of being a mother and settlement in the British culture.

1997 marks the beginning of ‘pomegranate’ in Tokyo. ‘Pomegranate’ started as an intention to bring beauty, light, colour, to the environment and empowerment and healing to the people. This intention has grown and taken roots and branches over the last ten years. I feel the flowering and fruits of this intention in the artistic work that I do with people. The process of enquiry and creation is a flowering of the work. Many art-pieces have come into the world to hold and support the space as a fruit of our work.

1998 saw my returning and resettlement in England. It is also a year that opened up my world to the world of storytelling at Emerson College in East Sussex. In 2000-2001 I worked as artist in residence at the college. I also started my studies and investigation in biodynamic agriculture.

2001 I visited Iran, after 17 years of living abroad. I went back to the places I knew in my childhood. Everything had changed, of course, but not for the better. I could sense the acute suffering of the land and the life-forces. When I returned to England, I resolved to focus my energies to offer healing ways for the land and the people, thus the impulse to plant ‘Trees of Consciousness’ has begun. Four years later in 2005 I returned to Iran to initiate the project.

Also in 2005 I married Peter Brinch. We decided to settle in England for the time being. We continue to work on the land, raise my son, and face the challenges and gifts of our times.

Life for me does not progress in a linear fashion, I see life cycles spiralling from phase to phase. Looking back at my life cycles I discern an essence of my life to be about cultures, it is about coming together and integration of diverse cultures. How can that be done? Art – novel creations. I feel blessed to have been born in a family that has given me the foundation for my life work, right from the start. Another aspect of my life is about healing and working with the earth. I had created situations in my youth to have to face and live through the absurdities of war, and I searched intensely for remedies and answers. Again I’ve been blessed by teachers who helped me find my own wholeness and experience the oneness of life in its true and tangible realm.

One more thing I’d like to add to this brief biography is the meaning of my name Pupak or the hoopoe bird. My Japanese name, Madoka means a circle. The hoopoe bird is my totem animal and spirit helper. In myths and legends she is a messenger, her job is connecting worlds and making peace. The art of circle-making is mysteriously embedded in the hoopoe’s calling. Through pomegranate’s work, I intend to re-establish the ‘sacred hoops’ for the individuals and communities as an aid in realising our wholeness, oneness, and love for each other and our beloved planet Gaia.

2007 PHB

 

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