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Giving voice to the mythic-poetic and Indigenous perspective of life that restores the deep textual layers of life as sacred and beautiful... to be awake in The Dreaming of life... to live what the Dine' (Navajo) call Hozho, "To Walk In Beauty".
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The Dark Cycle of Medicine People (opens the original)
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Many healers, elders, story carried and medicine people continually experience intense times of descent… there’s a reason and way of finding alignment.There is an old understanding, mostly unwelcome now, that those entrusted with the Medicine Ways, being story carriers or carrying something resembling elderhood, are coded to continually be initiated through the harsh trials of descent and rebirth.The old ways recognized there are things the flowering world cannot teach and so there are those
When the Bones Begin to Speak (opens the original)
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In the second half of life….something becomes activated within us, a calling that few today have been taught to recognize.I’m here in our communal round house.... Autumn is arriving just as I’m now walking the autumn years of my life... or as Carl Jung would say “In the afternoon of our life.”I’m sure most of us denied this season would ever reach us... But suddenly we’ve stepped through the doorway into the second half of life....and we’re in awe of how much has changed within us... within our
Nekyia: Retrieving the Wild Sister (opens the original)
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One experience we often have in doing these types of Rites…. fasting amongst desert or forest… entering diminished states that we may step through the veils of Self, is an experience of Soul Retrieval… This descent is a rites the Greeks call Nekiya. And we enter the Dark Below that we return with something… but also, must leave something there. Here’s a poem birthed post Vision Quest. Chivito’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new post
An Older Literacy of Soul (opens the original)
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It is dusk and the screech owls are callousing the thick silence that imbues the forest this evening. Now coyotes are hollering amongst the creek’s understory. There’s a deep stillness to the land as if it too is holding... waiting... withdrawn into an Otherness we can’t touch here in the waking life. The coyotes seem to amplify the stillness. Now all is silent again.I’m in my weathered round house, a canvas hut at the feet of old cedars and firs towering above... where creek waters lullaby just
Exiting The Hologram ~ Entering The Dreaming (opens the original)
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Imagine four days in Wilderness. The silence. The Stillness. Just you and trees, stones, and wind. Twigs cracking amongst the brush. Swooshing of wings overhead. And that large presence within the land that’s been intact long before us two-legged ever walked onto the stage. When was the last time you encountered it? That feeling of smallness amongst a greater older energy? Perhaps standing at the edge of the ocean... or on top of a mountain...It’s often this silent ancient presence that finally
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