by Michael Stocker | Mar 26, 2018 | Ceremony
Four Parts of Ceremony David Lemon [from newsletter 9] All the things I’ve read about traditional wisdom never made much difference in how I lived until I began to participate in ceremony. Ceremony gives me an intensified experience of where I am in the cycle of...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
Michael Stocker In my family, my Father supplied the food and shelter and my Mother tended the home and prepared the food. The agreement they had regarding their family roles instilled in me the understanding that men are providers and women are nurturers. Due to my...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
Which came first, our Red Road, or Life? I once read a Native American Spirituality book that spoke about the seven rites of passage; it spoke about Praying with The Chanupa, The Sweat Lodge, The Hambleche Vision Quest, and The Sundance. Why do we feel like we have...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
The first time I met this old man I was bankrupt in every area of my life. But this is not about me, it is about probably the kindest old man I ever met, Martin High Bear – Ivan Hokshiela the Rock Boy. The old man was in Coos Bay, Oregon helping some folks out putting...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
My name is Kevin. I have been one of the firemen in the Seven Circles community for a few years now. In these years, and also having had previous experience in community, I have realized that being a man in community is hard work. Wood runs and preparation for...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
As far back as I can remember I have longed, often painfully, for something that seemed to be missing from myself. Misunderstanding the intensity of this longing, I spent years in the addictive cycle of substitution, constantly searching to feel whole. After a while...
