The Shamanic Journeys workshop recently ended “here on the hill.” Filled with grief, gratitude, suffering, healing, heroism, connection and transformation… today I still swim in the wonder if at all. I’m drawn to share part of that wonder by addressing a few big themes that moved through our collective experience.
Some Thoughts on Self-Love …
“If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.” ~ Michael Jackson…
You’ve probably all heard a saying that goes something like, “You’ll never really be able to love someone unless you’ve learned to love yourself first.” Well, OK… that sounds great, but that doesn’t answer the question of exactly how one goes… Read More »
“There is something in every one of you
that waits and listens
for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
It is the only true guide you will ever have.
Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
Because what the world needs is more people
who have come alive. **
Martin… Read More »
In the process of guiding vision quests, I share a cornucopia of rituals, exercises, or ceremonies which people may do – or not – as part of their solo time. The following – Presenting Your Ego to a Tree — can be fun, as well as quite revealing.
It begins by having people go onto the land and wander until they each find a tree that “speaks to them,” a… Read More »
Black Elk was a ‘wichasa wakhan’ — medicine or holy man — of the Oglala Lakota, born in late 1863 on the Little Powder River in Wyoming. He had been taken ill at age nine, unresponsive and lying in a coma for several days. During… Read More »
