Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Cultural misappropriation of sacred ceremony
Cultural misappropriation is a danger in adopting traditional ceremonies for contemporary use. It is true that peoples on every continent have used solo time in nature for spiritual purposes. It is a human birthright—a way of connecting directly to the natural world and to deeper realms ...
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
A rite of passage
Peoples of many cultures have created traditions and ceremonies involving solo time in wild nature. In North America, the plains peoples are the most well-known groups to use the ancient practice of the vision quest. John Murray recounts, in editors Michael Tobias and Georgianne Cowan's The Soul ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Monkey Valley Retreat Centre has hosted vision fasts, medicine wheel teachings, teachings of ecopsychology practices, medicine walks, inquiry groups, and, of course, many gatherings of family and friends, too.
In the summer of 2008, the grandmothers and grandfathers of this land greeted a vision faster, perhaps for the first time in many ...
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