Fire in the Bones:
The Official Newsletter of the Sacred Ecstatics Guild

March 8, 2019

Becoming a Mystical Wheel

Invitation to Conduct a One Week Experiment This week, we simply want to remind you that you are not primarily a psychological being in need of healing, contrary to what you have been taught. You are a mystical wheel in need of turning. Spending one whole week (better yet, the rest of your life) enacting... Read On
February 27, 2019

Therapeutic Absurdity for When You’re Feeling Prickly and Pickly

Sacred Ecstatics brings the transformational dynamics of big room mystery into the pickled thought, flat-planed sense, and sedated activity of the experientially shrunken and spiritually frozen small containers of daily living. Sometimes, however, you are so existentially cramped and chilly that even your favorite go-to spiritual inspiration delivers more fizzle than sizzle. Whenever you find... Read On
February 18, 2019

Existential Wisdom from Bob Hope

A sweetly delicious visionary report. We are often surprised and sometimes amused at what comes down the visionary pipeline. Here is something from the archives, by Brad: In a particularly bizarre dream, I sat down at a café table with the famous American performer Bob Hope (1903–2003). We had a conversation about song, dance, humor,... Read On
February 12, 2019

Move Over, Meditation

Lifting the Taboo on Heightened Emotion What if, instead of seeking inner peace, a calm mind, and a relaxed body, you experimented with the opposite: lighting an inner fire, awakening higher emotion, and making soulful commotion? What if instead of mindfulness practice, you tinkered with catching a wave of deep, sacred feeling? There may be... Read On
February 5, 2019

The Two-Winged Preacher from New Orleans

Brad dreamed a song we had not previously heard. Searching the lyrics in Google, we discovered that it was a song called “Two Wings” written and performed by a man named Elder Utah Smith, an African American preacher, guitarist, and singer. Smith had a church from the 1940s-60s not that far from where we now... Read On

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