Sunday Matinee in Tamera – October 5, 2025
The Sacred Alliance of All Beings – A Vision of Interconnected Life
On October 5th 2025, the Aula of Tamera opened its doors for a Sunday Matinee dedicated to a theme that lies at the core of Tamera’s peace research: Cooperation with All Beings. The speakers, Tamera elders Barbara “Bori” Kovats and Heike Kessler, have been engaged in this research field for decades. Their work explores how human beings can live in conscious relationship with animals, plants, elements, and invisible forces — and how peace can only emerge when all forms of life are recognised as part of one shared creation.
The talk addressed the exit from the anthropocentric, imperialistic and colonial worldview, which has shaped modern civilisation for centuries. Instead of placing humanity at the centre, the Sacred Alliance of All Beings is a paradigm in which life is understood as an indivisible network of relationships. The vision of a world without fear stands at its heart — a world where trust, not control, forms the basis of coexistence.
It was emphasised that human beings are part of a complex system where everything is interconnected. The separation between human and nature, subject and object, observer and observed, is an illusion that has led to the current ecological and social crisis: If humans continued killing one another in the way they kill animals, humanity would be eradicated in ten days. The violence directed outward always returns inward.
One of the central lines of the talk captured the essence of this shift in perception: “We don’t talk about other beings; we communicate with them on an equal level.”
This non-violent and egalitarian approach defines a new epistemology — a new way of knowing. It invites a movement from talking about life to speaking with life. Communication, in this sense, is a conversation between consciousness and the living field itself.
The question is whether we as human beings are open to the idea that communication with animals and invisible beings is possible. From Barbara and Heike, it is a clear „yes“: This form of inter-species communication is researched and practiced in Terra Deva, known in Tamera as the „metaphysical hectare“ — a landscape dedicated to contact with the more-than-human world. In this area, communication between species is not regarded as fantasy but as a natural dimension of reality, accessible through inner stillness and openness.
Barbara said that life becomes incredibly interesting when one enters this paradigm. During a trip to Mallorca, together with Heike Kessler and Anna Breytenbach, the well-known animal communicator, the idea arose to write the story of Pella, a wild boar living near Tamera. Inspired by their experiences and by Breytenbach’s approach, Bori and Heike plan to create a children’s book about Pella, showing through storytelling how trust and understanding can arise between species.
Heike Kessler shared her relationship with Pella and recounted how contact and mutual recognition grew between them. The animal, initially cautious, began to respond to human presence without fear. Through patience and respect, a dialogue developed beyond words. From her long experience in the project Cooperation with Animals, Heike has observed that animals respond directly to the inner state of humans. When humans are calm and authentic, animals trust. When humans carry fear, tension or control, they withdraw. This observation reveals a universal principle: trust cannot be enforced; it emerges naturally where fear dissolves.
The philosophical depth of the Matinee lay in its understanding that interconnection is not a metaphor but a structural reality of all existence. Every atom in the body of a human being once belonged to a star. Every breath contains the exhalation of trees, oceans, and other living beings. Life is a continuum — not a collection of separate entities but an ongoing conversation of energy and form. The human mind, when conditioned by separation, tends to categorise, dominate, and analyse. Yet underneath this fragmented perception, existence operates as a coherent whole.
To recognise this is to undergo a shift of consciousness. In such awareness, ethics arise from relationship rather than rule. Compassion ceases to be a moral obligation and becomes a spontaneous response to the felt reality of unity.
The Sacred Alliance of All Beings is a practical framework for restoring coherence to a civilisation that has lost touch with the foundations of life. Within this worldview, science, art, and spirituality no longer stand apart. Observation becomes participation; knowledge becomes relationship. The human task is not to control evolution but to consciously cooperate within the interconnectedness of life.
This understanding also reframes the idea of peace. Peace is not the absence of conflict or the restraint of violence but a state of resonance within the living system. It begins in the invisible field of perception and radiates outward into social, ecological and planetary harmony. The cultivation of peace therefore depends on the restoration of relationship — between humans, animals, spirits and elements, and the deeper field of consciousness that holds them all.
To enter this paradigm is to recognise that the world is alive, intelligent and responsive. Every being — from the smallest insect to the largest ocean — participates in the continuous unfolding of creation. Humanity’s role is not to stand above this process but to join it consciously, as a partner and fellow guardian of our planet Earth.
