Category: Visionary Reports
The Rope to God is Made
of a Dot and a Line
A Visionary Mathematician Teaches Us About Kalahari Bushman Spirituality and The Two Rooms of Existence Prologue: The Mystical Rope The original ecstatic practitioners, the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, believe everything is connected by lines of relationship. Depending on the strength of the line, it is called a thread, string, or rope….
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The Rope to God is Made
of a Dot and a Line
A Visionary Mathematician Teaches Us About Kalahari Bushman Spirituality and The Two Rooms of Existence Prologue: The Mystical Rope The original ecstatic practitioners, the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, believe everything is connected by lines of relationship. Depending on the strength of the line, it is called a thread, string, or rope….
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Come To Gather, Come Together
& A Kalahari Homecoming
Two Visionary Reports * * * We’re still “on break” after finishing up our summer camp, which means we’re working like crazy getting ready for our upcoming online Guild season! This essay and drawings were posted one year ago. Not long after the dream of Sister Gertrude Morgan telling us to come together, we announced…
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Come To Gather, Come Together & A Kalahari Homecoming
Two Visionary Reports * * * Come to Gather, Come Together This past spring we became mystical friends with Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980), an evangelist preacher, musician, and artist who lived in New Orleans. After receiving visionary direction to begin painting, Sister Gertrude eventually became famous for her art which is collected worldwide and housed…
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Sweep with a Prayer Broom to Open the Prayer Room
“Old man Fools Crow would pray in the basement of a metal shanty and it would be like praying in the middle of the most beautiful place in the middle of the prairie. We should never forget that wherever we pray, that spot becomes the center of the universe for that moment.” – Gary Holy…
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The Art of the Double Wobble. And How to Not Feel Anxious When Flying
If you’ve been following along this summer, you know the last three essays have all been about two-ness: two rhythms and prayers, two colors of red, and two floors of your spiritual life. Here is another visionary report that brings a double teaching for the two of you. Brad dreamed we were flying in an…
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When the Sacred Pipeline Is Clogged, Sing with All Your Heart
Last week Brad was sent to a spiritual classroom. We were somewhere that looked like a blend of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona: We came to a neighborhood of large old houses. As we got out of the car, I noticed a house that was a block or so away. It was as big…
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Two Colors of Red
A New Visionary Teaching About Sacred Emotion Exactly one year ago while in Budapest, Brad dreamed of a woman shaman with glowing red antlers. That visionary dream inspired us to write an academic paper about how “ecstasy” is typically misunderstood or left out of both the study and contemporary practice of shamanism. You can find…
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Freeing Yourself from the Lion’s Jaw
Two Dreams, Two Hands, Two Prayers, Two Rhythms, and Two Lessons on What to Do With the Beast of Mind Brad dreamed we were traveling in a car on a country road: We were with another couple and the other man was behind the steering wheel. He was unquestionably driving too fast. I shouted for…
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God On the Line: A Lesson from Mark Twain’s “Book of Life”
A few weeks ago, Brad dreamed that he met famous American writer, Mark Twain (1835-1910), whose real name was Samuel Clemens. In the dream they were both young boys playing along the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri where Twain grew up (Brad grew up roughly a century later about three hours from Hannibal): Twain said,…
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