by Mikkal | Nov 23, 2013 | Mikkal's Blog, Newsletter
We all need a point of departure and return to embark upon our journeys into the other dimensions of being. If we want to actively enter into the Dreamtime, we need a portal of entry, and there can be many such doors, from your dream images, to vivid memories of...
by Melissa Hasbrook | Nov 23, 2013 | Newsletter
Writing this edition of Community Corner, I’m literally sitting in a corner table at a cafe just beneath an eatery named — no joke! — Crow’s Nest Restaurant. This synchronicity reminds me how play and purpose make good bedfellows. So here the altered...
by Melissa Hasbrook | Oct 17, 2013 | Mikkal's Blog, Newsletter
What is community at Crow’s Nest? A circle embracing us upon the first visit and each return. A connection across geography and time zones. A commitment to compassion through challenge. Ultimately, though, from where this Nester stands, our community is a living bond...
by Mikkal | Oct 17, 2013 | Mikkal's Blog, Newsletter
Nature is an incomparable guide if you know how to follow her. She is like the needle of a compass pointing to the north… -C. G. Jung We can enter into the secrets of Mother Nature [Pachamama], and we can be sons and daughters, apprentices to the Wisdom...
by Mikkal | Sep 13, 2013 | Mikkal's Blog, Newsletter
“It is in dreams that the pure sacred life is entered, and direct relations with the gods, spirits and ancestral souls are re-established. It is always in dreams that historical time is abolished, and the mythical time is regained.” -Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic...