August 30—September 1
St. Croix River Valley, Wisconsin

aia, Plant Intelligence and The Ecstatic Path is a journey into depth of meaning, into the states of mind, being, and communicatory relationships necessary to work with the plants and the living wildness of the world as ancient and indigenous humans have always done. A journey, not of intellect, but of self and spirit. And that journey takes all of us deep into the wildness of the world, into places where the greens are more luminous, where shadow takes on a special life of its own, where light possesses an almost liquid quality, and where Sacha Runa, the forest person, still lives, and sometimes speaks, to the humans who encounter her. It is a place where humans begin the crucial, and long overdue, task of reclaiming the invisible.


These Three Days will Explore

 ۰ Sacred Plant Medicine
 ۰ The Visionary Source of Indigenous and Ancient Plant Knowledge
 ۰ The Heart as an Organ of Perception
 ۰ Plant/Human Communication
 ۰ The 5 Steps of Direct Perception
 ۰ The Importance and Necessity of Following Golden Threads
 ۰ The Three Elements of the Ecstatic Path
 ۰ The Mundus Imaginalis,
 ۰ The use of Depth Diagnosis and Sacred Plant Medicine in Healing
 ۰ And A Great Deal More

eople who ingest the wild, whether plants or landscapes, do something civilized people never do, they take inside themselves the wildness of the world; they eat the Wild Redeemer. In that moment something unique happens, some invisible thing enters inside them. And when that happens everything changes. They become aware that there are intelligences in this world far older than the human and that the human and the older intelligences of the world are intended to make contact.

arth ecstatics, for millennia, have recognized that eating the wild is one of the primary means of soul shaping, of traveling the ecstatic path. Plants have long been primary teachers for those who travel deep into the heart of the world, for those who seek the soul teaching that only the wild can bring. This workshop is about eating the wild and the journey that that process begins.
 

hrough his unique blend of storytelling, personal reflection, experiential exercises, and depth information, Stephen brings this ancient way of being to life. The vivid and moving tales of the living, intelligent, and sacred Earth conveyed in his storytelling create a living experience of the mindset in which all ancient and indigenous peoples lived. It is a mindset
which enables human beings to experience the Earth and the plants as living intelligences capable of communication with human beings. And those communications are an essential part of the soul human beings. And those communications are an essential part of the soul shaping that all human beings experience when  traveling the ecstatic path. Plants and the Wildness of

the World bring healing to our bodies and to our souls as well; it is possible to reinhabit  our interbeing with the world, to live embedded within the living communications that surround us, to re-bond with the world from which our species emerged, to live every day surrounded by the touch of kin upon us.

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