Category: Visionary Reports
The Bushmen Deliver a One-Word Teaching For the Planet
A Visionary Report Last week Brad had three visionary dreams of walking with Bushman doctors in southern Africa. They brought us a teaching on the oldest wisdom and mystery of healing and transformation: Hillary and I were traveling by foot across the Kalahari with our Bushman friends, laughing during the day while singing and dancing…
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The Petrified Wood Speaks
A Lesson on Following Visionary Direction Before I go to sleep every night, I make sure to touch a piece of petrified wood my grandfather gave me when I was twelve years old. It is about five inches long and one and a half inches wide, polished on top. He purchased it for me from…
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Receiving the N/om Key
Essential Kalahari Wisdom That Is Missing from Our Time A few days ago Brad went to a Kalahari spiritual classroom. There he received an essential teaching to share with all of you about n/om. N/om is the Ju/’hoan Bushman word for the mysterious force behind creation, something that can be personally experienced as a mix…
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Linemen for God
* * * Two days after we posted the story of the visions from the two Anishinaabe medicine men, Brad was taken to a spiritual classroom. He dreamed he was in South Dakota, sleeping in the home of an old friend and Lakota medicine man known for conducting the Yuwipi spirit calling ceremony. Here is…
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The Medicine Man Who Never Had a Vision
Decades ago Brad conducted a session with an Anishinaabe[1] man named Nate[2] who came to him for help. Nate was an ex-convict who had previously served hard time at Sing Sing, the maximum security prison in Ossining, New York. He was burly and muscular, with scars on his neck and face. He also had a…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Miles of Dust
A visionary report from Brad: A few nights ago I accidentally heard a Miles Davis recording that almost literally blew my mind. It was his early classic recording of the Rodgers and Hart tune, “It Never Entered My Mind.” Released in 1959, he is backed by Red Garland’s piano, Philly Jo Jones on drums, and…
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