In 1968, Robert S. De Ropp Put out a book called the master game. It caused quite a stir at the time among those looking for spiritual literature, and it sold about 200,000 copies.
His fundamental premise was that everyone wanted or needed “a game worth playing,” and it was finding and playing an important game that brought meaning and satisfaction to life. In his book he listed 3 low… Read More »
Yesterday, joining an online class, the host wanted to begin with a meditation. She pulled a card labeled “The Vision” from a deck, read the description, and suggested we meditate on that.
As you know, I’m in the “vision business,” having led vision quests for 35 years, but as I followed the prompt I was surprised by where I was led. Most people, when thinking of “vision,” imagine a very… 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 »
The Other Story:
Over the past several days, I’ve been editing a training manual I created for a men’s program — the Mythic Warrior – that encompassed nine weekends, one per month. The manual includes “the game plan” — the list of rituals, processes, and exercises planned for each weekend – a section on Rituals and Exercises describing how to set up, perform, and lead each of the processes, as… Read More »
