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In August 2020, during the height of Covid-19 lockdowns on the Navajo Reservation, Brenda and her filmmaker husband
traveled to White Cone, Arizona to help the Yazzie family. Dudley Yazzie, a 100-year-old Navajo medicine man wanted to ensure his ancient creation stories were preserved for future generations. The four-day filming project turned into four years and has been both gratifying and inspiring. Brenda’s story is about appreciating our elders and exploring what is worth saving and sharing in this time of great change. You can meet Dudley Yazzie here: https://vimeo.com/561046152
Brenda has walked in two worlds for over thirty years, as a successful publisher and film producer and as a cultural bridge for indigenous cultures. Since 1991, she has participated in traditional Navajo Beauty Way ceremonies and Native American Church services on the Navajo Reservation and in California. She lives in Santa Fe and uses her skills and resources to give back to the people who have given so much to her. You can reach her at Brenda@purplerootproductions.
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spiraling path of my soul mission. Having kissed a chip of the Blarney Stone, I became engaged with The Gab. Visions arising from summit fasts added focus and passion. Elders offered keys. With patience, steadfastness, and spousal support, I’ve been able to weave ancient teachings, present realities, and future knowings into a shelf of non-fiction books on farming, food, and the core, enduring, illuminating knowings and mythologies of North America. My works include Legend of the Rainbow Warriors, Odyssey of the 8th Fire, Farms of Tomorrow, and more than a dozen other titles.
innocent bystander or something else? I have a new discovery that seems so simple for looking at my life lessons and stumbling blocks. In this talk, I share the perspective I have developed and am reinforcing by taking this opportunity to share about.
Schwartz is correct, in that you planned your life before you were born. He believes we have spirit guides to assist us while we are here and guardian angels to assist in other ways. Saul is a spiritual healer for people and animals, and a retired chiropractor. He was a performance and healing consultant with The Kansas City Chiefs from 2013 to 2023. He has been a guest speaker at over three hundred New Thought churches in the U.S, Canada, and Great Britain.
last 25 years. In his first language, Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic), he is often referred to as a fear idirlinne. This translates as a “man who bridges” but whose literal translation is a “man between all of us”. He helps to open a bridge for people to directly experience inner revelation, simultaneously with discovery of Ireland’s visible and invisible places of power in Nature. The landscape of Ireland interwoven with the native landscape of Ancestral mythology are a potent source of belonging, connection and mysticism for him.
child and no other living family, it fell to me to provide and manage all of her care. After eleven years it took her life. It nearly took mine.
private school in Brooklyn, worked as a carpenter and mechanic in upstate New York, and co-founded a shamanic teaching center in Vermont. Until recently, he lived in Brattleboro, Vermont and divided his time between teaching anthropology and history at the local community college and pouring water in sweat lodge and singing kirtan. He studied shamanism for ten years and later became a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba and Amma. Ananda has been involved with twelve step programs for over 25 years and his journey in recovery directly informs his spiritual path. He is the author of Here for the Joy: A Memoir of Survival, Addiction Recovery, Spiritual Enlightenment and In-Depth Personal Transformation.
Barry’s talk focuses on the importance of having passion in your life and how passionate living can engender contentment and enhance one’s sense of self worth.
of complete loss and deadness, a stark and frightening absence of creativity and enthusiasm, where life seems to retreat away from us like a tide.” This place has been called a “dark night of the soul,” after St. John of the Cross. But it can also be seen as a necessary passage through a liminal space and time that more closely resembles a spiral than a direct path. How do we traverse this passage, and what happens to our spirituality when we are stuck on that spiral? Rev. Hollis Walker explores the spiral with us.
