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

January 28, 2019

When to Add Some Chitlins

A Spiritual Classroom Visit with Jazz Saxophonist, Phil Woods I have several times gone to a visionary classroom that is located in a skyscraper hotel in New York City. There I once met a woman shaman with glowing red antlers. I also formerly met jazz saxophonist Richie Cole in this same place and was given... Read On
January 20, 2019

There is a Pipe

The following is a visionary report from Brad, excerpted from our book Climbing the Rope to God: Mystical Teaching and Testimony (2017). * * * Decades ago I went to a visionary classroom where my grandfather came to me and said, “There is a pipe in Guadalupe.” He also gave me an otter bag for... Read On
January 13, 2019

The Mystical Prescription

Creatively Uncommon Tasks and Reverently Relevant Rituals for Experimentally Transforming Your Life in Ways Never Meant to Be Understood* When we conduct a Sacred Ecstatics intensive or healing session we always assign a mystical prescription for action that carries the experienced transformation back into your daily life. These experimental tasks and unexpected rituals have been... Read On
January 6, 2019

Joy, Better Felt Than Told

* * * A true sign of “getting spiritually cooked” — a Kalahari Bushman phrase for sacred ecstasy — is that you feel the happiest you have ever felt, far surpassing anything you could have previously imagined was possible. As Bushman doctor, /Kunta /Kace, describes this: “The feeling is so intense that you feel your... Read On
December 31, 2018

Somewhere a Bird is Singing

Recently we went to our bookshelf and glanced at the lined up volumes of Profiles of Healing, an encyclopedia of global healing traditions edited by Brad several years ago. Each book tells the story of a healer, shaman, or medicine person through their transcribed words. Brad pulled one off the shelf, Hands of Faith: Healers... Read On

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