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Martín Prechtel Workshop & Ritual: Every Heart is a Seed on the Great Cob of the Mother of All Life. Let Every Seed Jump Up and Sprout into a Collective Stalk of Nutritive Hope Beyond Our Own Time.

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Workshop & Ritual with Medicine Man Martín Prechtel:EVERY HEART IS A SEED ON THE GREAT COB OF THE MOTHER OF ALL LIFE. LET EVERY SEED JUMP UP AND SPROUT INTO A COLLECTIVE STALK OF NUTRITIVE HOPE BEYOND OUR OWN TIME.MAY 22-23, 2010Ashland, Oregon9:00 am-6:00 pm$200 • Early bird $175 by May 1So many good people today no longer remember what an intact life feels or looks like. Most of our villages, tribes and ways of livings have been so thoroughly pounded into the ground of our private personal Amnesia that groans under the boot heels of modernity's heavy tread. But be that as it may, I say our Indigenous Souls still live hiding like stealthy foxes, in the recesses of the infinite wilderness of some forgotten expanse of our real hearts. Somewhere inside a real natural soul still thrives.These soul-foxes are strong and made of a beauty and Indigenous intactness not recognized by the modern mind we've been taught to think with. If each of our wild fox-souls individually tip-toes smiling past the mental sentries that guard the palace walls where our depressions, lethargic cynicism and self righteous opinions hold our Holy Indigenous Seeds as prisoners, then maybe together after watering our seeds with the tears and grief of the remembrance of the joy of a real life, and with a brave love we can each sprout these seeds into the towering stalk of the Divine Mother again. If we all do it together then everywhere a grand Indigenous Diversity of Flowering Hearts could poke up everywhere sprouting a conscious village of hope to plant a time of hope beyond our own.Grandiose and impossible you say? Well, that's your palace guards talking!! Anyway it's better to live and die intactly making good small beauty, and failing magnificently, than to succeed at the low pay of mediocrity and the high pay of a meaningless existence.Come with me, Martín Prechtel, for a ritual gathering to make the world jump up like sprouts of a tree whose fruit of hope might feed a time worth living in beyond our own.Long Life, Honey in the Heart, No Evil, Thirteen Thank-yous,Martín Prechtel• • •Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose oral and written work hopes to promote the subtle irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language.His life, the subject of his books, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, took him from a native New Mexico up-bringing as a half-blood, Native American from a Pueblo Indian reservation to the village of Santiago Atitlan, where he served the Tzutujil Maya as a village leader, responsible for instructing young people in rites of passage.Martín again resides in his native New Mexico. Teaching through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people retain diversity while remembering sense of place through the search for the Indigenous Soul. His third book, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time, is a runaway, underground hit. Martín’s fourth book, Stealing Benefacio’s Roses (originally The Toe Bone and the Tooth) brilliantly continues the story of his life and visionary understandings.“The Mayan people’s main and ancient job is to be beautiful and grateful. Before meeting Martín, I’d never known a representative of such a culture. But I can testify to the integrity, the massive learning, the faithfulness, the lighthearted joy and the hardworking nature of this representative.” -- Robert Bly“Martín Prechtel is one of the most profound teachers I have ever encountered. He is an unusually gifted artist, musician and storyteller who guides and initiates with passion, kindness, eloquence, wisdom, fierceness and humor, awakening us to the sacred realities present everywhere at all times. To be with Martín is to remember the forgotten divinity that is the very essence of who we are.” -- Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield, zt”l
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