Discover With Me

My story and my ancestral roots begin approximately 10,000 years ago in the Sumerian and Mesopotamian region.

Some 2,500 years ago, under the Emperor Cyrus the Great, that world expanded across three continents and over twenty nations — perhaps the first and only true United Nations in human history. Within it lived many religions, languages, cultures, and ways of life. Cyrus abolished slavery. He wrote the Declaration of Human Rights in 500 BC — a document now displayed at the United Nations building in New York. Citizens were free to practice their own religions, speak their own languages, keep their own Kings and Queens, set their own wages, and hold their leaders accountable if they felt mistreated or persecuted.

At the same time, the first monotheistic religion existed in that same region , Zoroastrianism. Its followers protected Earth, air, and fire as sacred. Their mantra was simple and remains unmatched:

Good Thoughts. Good Words. Good Deeds.

That was 2,500 years ago.

Fast forward to 57 years ago, when I arrived at the scene.

I was abused, forced to conform, beaten, and persecuted for beliefs I didn’t hold and a mind that worked differently than those around me demanded. Like so many neurodivergent people , those labeled ADHD, dyslexic, and everything in between ,I had no recognition, no guidance, no protection, no representation, no community and no financial means.

I came to Canada over 40 years ago. One would have thought it would be uphill from there.

They would be wrong.

But this is not about me. It’s about you.

Tired of the mistreatment, the underrepresentation, the marginalization that followed me even here , I have decided to attempt something that hasn’t been done, at least not in the last 2,500 years.

Not a religion. Something more fundamental.

An organization of sorts for the ones who don’t fit into a box. For those who believe in protecting our food, our soil, our air, our water. Not just for us, not just for egotistical humans, but for every inhabitant that calls this planet home. Just as those early beings understood thousands of years ago.

What does Nura mean?

Nura draws from ancient roots meaning light and nurture. It does not belong to any single culture, because it was never meant to.

Who is Nura for?

Nura is for you if traditional organized religion was never designed with you in mind, yes even if you are an atheist. Because wanting clean water, clean food, and clean air should require no faith declaration. Wanting the freedom to believe in nothing after this life should cost nothing.

Nura is for you if you have been misjudged because of how differently your brain is wired. If you were passed over because you refused to conform to someone else’s idea of who you should be. If you were persecuted for a body that is entirely your own.

Nura is for the left-out. The cast-aside. The ones the systems never cared for.

What Nura is not:

There is no high priest or priestess here. I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know everything. I am forever learning and evolving. Age and wisdom are not automatically connected, I learn daily from people many decades my junior.

I simply want to start something that covers those who were never covered. Together, united, we can create an alternative to the one-size-fits-all, which, as we all know, fits none.

There is no membership fee. There is no doctrine to sign. There is only this:

Good Thoughts. Good Words. Good Deeds.

Welcome to Nura. Welcome Home!

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