Dear Thây, When we first met at an interfaith retreat in California in 1987 I spoke of my desire to graduate from Buddhism. I had already been leading retreats for a number of years and was questioning the complexities implicit in the phenomena of first-generation convert Buddhism. You liked this idea of ‘graduating’ and even […]

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It’s the nature of humans to want to feed the holy in nature. Martin Prechtel As a child, I imagined I was a changeling, not quite belonging to my family or to the cultural circumstances in which I found myself. I discovered sanctuary in ideas and daydreams, and in the English countryside where I grew […]

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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely — Carl Jung Practices that engage you in the natural world beyond the human realm become a practice of unconditional love towards all beings, human and otherwise. We step out beyond the human story that separates us from mountains, skies, and rivers. It is coming home. […]

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Pachamama is not just the Earth. The Earth is just one expression of the divine mother.

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  By stepping into the energetic and intuitive field that Family Constellation work provides, you directly invoke the Sacred Feminine. Family Systems Constellation work is more than a personal healing modality because it looks beyond personal healing towards our ancestral line and the generations of the future. This work is a form of sacred medicine, […]

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Heuristics. Tools for Intuitive Competence Heuristics is discovering the solution to a problem by looking for it in places you never imagined you could find it. Open a book, put your finger randomly on a word, then use that word to guide you as you write your speech, or start the awkward conversation you’ve been […]

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Semiotics. How we make meanings. Late one night a bat flew into the large hall where a group of us were meeting before a night-long ceremony with our South American curandero friends. It flew once around the room in a wide circle then flew back into the night. The shaman asked me, “What does it […]

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Tarot de MarseillesTypically, a Tarot card reader will ascribe specific meanings to each card, and give fixed meanings to each position in any given spread, then read the cards as if they were a parrot or a robot.Originally, the Tarot was a game, le jeu de Tarot. It was a game of free association, improvised […]

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[caption id="attachment_17969" align="alignnone" width="483"] Putumayo, Colombian Amazon[/caption] It began with a walking constellation. We saw them coming through the gate of our center – the curanderos and shamans from Colombia. Then there was a phone call. Then they arrived. They were here! And our lives changed forever. The world I had constructed from the fragments […]

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