> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.importantcontext.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality - URL: https://www.importantcontext.news/exxon-heiress-aims-to-regenerate-the-earth-with-spirituality/ - Published: 2026-10-05T17:57:19.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-05T18:25:51.000Z - Description: The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor. - Author: Walker Bragman - Tags: Dark Money October 17 marks the kick-off of a global event aimed towards “regenerating the Earth through the power of collective human consciousness.” *Origin* will draw participants from multiple continents and countries and will feature “a synchronized moment of collective remembering” and parapsychology. Its website says it will be “the world’s largest synchronized gathering of ceremony, music and regenerative action.” Behind the whole affair is a fossil fuel heiress. Lamara Heartwell identifies as a “regenerative philanthropist, wealth-holder activist,” and the great-granddaughter of an Exxon “co-founder.” Specifically, she is a descendant of William Stamps Farish II, a prominent 20th Century oil executive who led Standard Oil New Jersey, which eventually became ExxonMobil—one of the largest fossil fuel companies in the world and a major driver of climate collapse. Business filings indicate that Heartwell is a [director](https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/corporationsearch/SearchResultDetail?aggregateId=domnp-n98000006925-3dbed844-bcb3-43ef-b0f0-a64cd25bd0ed&directionType=Initial&inquirytype=EntityName&listNameOrder=CORBETTENTERPRISES+L010000121160&searchNameOrder=CORBETTFAMILYCHARITABLEFOUNDAT+N980000069250&searchTerm=CORBETT+ENTERPRISES+INC&ref=importantcontext.news) of the Corbett Family Charitable Foundation along with other [descendants](https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9B04E5DF163AF933A1575AC0A9619C8B63.html?ref=importantcontext.news) of Farish. Heartwell presents herself as something of a black sheep, and has said she became interested in planetary sustainability after discovering where her family’s money came from during her college years. In a [video](https://youtu.be/48Rif%5Fy249E?is=0wymj17lg%5FZ3JFRi&ref=importantcontext.news) posted to YouTube four years ago, Heartwell said she initially tried to get the company to change course, but felt powerless after her pleas led nowhere—and got pushback from her family. She said she tried again after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, attending a shareholder meeting and calling on ExxonMobil to lead the way in renewable energy, which [hasn’t](https://rextag.com/blogs/blog/why-are-oil-giants-backing-away-from-green-energy-exxon-mobil-bp-shell-and-more?ref=importantcontext.news) happened. Heartwell [said](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaGQwlKoBgh/?igsh=MThkc2d3b2llcjhtMA==&ref=importantcontext.news) her latest project—*Origin*—came to her “as a vision a few years ago” and “would not leave me alone.” *Origin* comes the month after the United Nations Environment Programme [announced](https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/unep-world-set-cross-15degc-global-warming-can-still-limit-adapt-and?ref=importantcontext.news) that the planet was set to cross the Paris Climate Agreement’s 1.5-degree Celsius global warming threshold, which scientists say will result in more extreme weather globally and continued species die-off. The event website noticeably sidesteps the issue of climate policy, focusing instead on individual actions people can take at home, including planting kitchen herbs, collecting rainwater, making herbal infusions, and installing low-flow taps. In an Instagram [video](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdUFp3Mye%5FK/?stkn=MWJkZjZxNjI0bmJyNg==&ref=importantcontext.news) posted last month, Heartwell said, “We’re wanting to spark a social revolution where we shift the mainstream narrative of the doomsday messaging to thriving.” *Origin* will open with a mass-prayer “composed of lines contributed by Indigenous Elders from many Nations around the world” on the specific date Heartwell says coincides with when “indigenous prophecies” predict a global rebirth. The prayer will begin in Aotearoa, New Zealand, “the first land to meet the sun,” before “traveling across the world.” Afterwards, participants will “gently touch the ground, stone, or plant and speak three words or short phrases that reflect their vision for a new world.” Vague as *Origin*’s mechanisms for largescale planetary revival are, its fundraising goals are quite clear. Organizers want to raise $10 million for two groups: Farmer’s Footprint, which is focused on promoting regenerative agriculture through stories, and its parent organization, Project Biome. The founder of Project Biome is Heartwell’s event-partner for *Origin*, Dr. Zach Bush. A physician-turned-New Age wellness-influencer, Bush famously eschews germ theory in favor of “terrain theory,” which holds that humans’ internal microbiome determines whether or not they get sick, and characterizes viruses as a mechanism for a "constant, genetic upgrade" akin to a software update. Bush[ claims](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFJezg4SbSV/?igsh=MWxkeWlueWdvNTE1dQ==&ref=importantcontext.news) breathing clean air, bathing in natural bodies of water, and touching soil with one’s bare hands and feet will make Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases disappear. He famously downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19\. In a June 2020 piece co-authored with New Age mogul Deepak Chopra, he[ wrote](https://worldbusiness.org/rethinking-the-virus-and-the-future-by-deepak-chopra-md-and-zach-bush-md/?ref=importantcontext.news) that the pandemic represented “the continued effort of the four-billion-year-old microbiome seeking to put things right.” “The virus is not our enemy—if we let it, it will be our greatest teacher,” they claimed. Bush has spoken out against vaccines, including the mRNA COVID vaccines and flu shots. Last year,[ claimed](https://youtu.be/NrTH9d-T1kY?is=H3V3EqV2pID2%5Fl0M&ref=importantcontext.news) “we don’t have data to suggest” that there has ever been a successful vaccine. On his website, Bush sells mineral supplements he claims heal damage from “toxin exposure.” In 2021 he appeared on Robert Kennedy Jr.’s podcast before Kennedy became Health and Human Services Secretary. *Origin*’s website lists a number of other partner organizations, including the HearthMath Institute, a group focused on the supposed relationship between the electromagnetic activity of human hearts and Earth's magnetic field, and its Global Consciousness Project 2.0\. The Global Consciousness Project was a parapsychology experiment launched at Princeton University in 1998 to test whether collective human emotion interacts with physical systems during major global events. On his personal website, Bush [notes](https://zachbushmd.com/pages/origin?srsltid=AU7gw4U1lRjE2bGT8JXN2PYeT9AG9tRy%5Faf3-lh9lu4NaGZXHt6YTH9%5F&ref=importantcontext.news) the “science partnership” between the project and *Origin*, explaining that “the hypothesis is being tested in real time.” *Origin* is not the first wellness project Heartwell has founded premised on healing the planet. One Body is a charity focused on meditation and dance with yoga instructor and hypnotherapist Magnolia Rasak. It is partnered with a UK-based reforestation charity and promises “Every time you sign up for a One Body program, 100 trees will be planted in your name.” The link to those programs is broken. On One Body’s website, offerings include a “monthly movement journey for women” (on pause), a “Body Intelligence Quiz,” and a purchasable online “Body Intelligence course” taught by Heartwell herself. One Body appears to be affiliated with another wellness nonprofit called Inspiratia. Our email inquiry to Heartwell was answered by Rasak from an Inspiratia email address, asking for more information. The wellness industry has emerged as one of the fastest growing in the world, on track to reach $9.8 trillion globally by 2029\. The industry exploded thanks to the New Age movement of the 1970s and 80s, which emphasized supplements and eastern and indigenous spiritual practices. Americans, lacking universal healthcare, vastly outspend the rest of the world on unproven wellness products—particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But while today’s wellness industry has largely been associated with right-wing politics and opposition to vaccines, it has also overlapped with the environmental movement, particularly through its focus on food supply and regenerative agriculture. “The New Age movement in America has had these idealized, romanticized visions of what it's like to live with and commune with nature,” said Derek Beres, host of the *Conspirituality* podcast. “Devotees have this ancestral idea that we once lived in perfect harmony with nature when you know something like 20 to 25 percent of kids died at childbirth just 150 years ago.” Beres said that the wellness space fetishizes indigenous people and called the premise of *Origin—*that collective prayer and intention will heal the planet “pure metaphysics.” “The people who are involved in it, if they are fundraising that would go to some actual organizations that are doing something about climate change, that's not a bad thing,” he said, but he isn’t sure that’s what’s happening. Heartwell did not respond to multiple requests for comment by the time of publication. ## Sign up for Important Context Independent investigative journalism. Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.