Martín Prechtel Annual Northern California Ritual Gathering To Feed the Holy Water Woman of the Sea Caspar, California, May 15-16, 2010
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May 15-16 Workshop Caspar, California	Martín Prechtel Adding Our Beautiful Noise to the Pounding Symphony of the Divine Mother’s Whale-driven Celestial Surf Saturday and Sunday May 15-16, 2010 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Caspar Community Center 15051 Caspar Rd. Caspar, California (3 mi. north of the town of Mendocino) DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION form in PDF	Stealing Benefacio’s Roses click for more book information (previously published in UK as The Toe Bone and the Tooth) paperback - $18.95 ORDER HERE
	To the old time Tzutujil Maya people of Guatemala, the oceans are the horizontal rhythmic edges of an infinite sky wherein reside all the spirits of Holy Time, unfolding, whose children have voices whose singing creates the infinite diversity of matter and tangible life. The land, its living beings and our own generations of life and living are a singular renewing island of beauty and deliciousness in the middle of this rolling sea-sky of singing time. Called by the Tzutujil “the fruit of soil,” the earth is the result of the unimaginably immense and diverse flowering of this spirit sky’s infinite ocean whose jazz-like life-making symphony of every diverse sound manifests in this world as some living thing, weather or place. The so-called tangible world is made of a choir of spirits whose dedicated endless singing brings us into form and feeling. Our life-long rental fee to the Holy, for this gift of being sung into the symphony of life, is the deliciousness of our own human echo as sung from our throats and forms of beauty created from our hands, sent back to them as the kind of food needed by these Holy singers to sustain their own continued singing of the Universe into visible life. While every otter, whale, abalone, seaweed, deer, cliff, cloud, mountain, river and every other being, “feeds” this Holy symphony by simply being themselves, we humans who are capable of “not being ourselves” are required to feed the starry fish-driven oceans and whale jumping skies, with our songs and the “fruit” of our hands, made deliberately for the Holy in Nature. Come help me, Martín Prechtel, to feed the symphony of these Holy Mothers of life as we try in some small way together to keep this fine world from dying from a lack of beautiful human sound in this age of modernity’s clanking. Maybe together our everyday human creative beauty can be, for a couple of good days, something greater than the sum of its parts, something dedicated not to making more earth-killing-comfort, fences, shopping malls, highways, pharmaceuticals, GMO’s, wars, depression, human mediocrity or business as usual, but rather to feed the Holy in Nature with our delicious failures, honest squeaks, gorgeous roars of Indigenous beauty, and a choir of earth loving hope. Long Life, Honey in the Heart, No Evil, Thirteen Thankyous, —All Blessings Martín Prechtel	Workshop DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION form in PDF
Biography for Martín Prechtel	Martín Prechtel is a master of eloquence and innovative language, and a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtle irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. His life, the well known subject of his previous books, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, took him from his native New Mexico upbringing as a half-blood, Native American from a Pueblo Indian reservation to the village of Santiago Atitlan, where he eventually served the Tzutujil Mayan population as a full village member, becoming a principal in the body of village leaders, responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories that took place in the rituals of adult rites of passage. Martín once again resides in his native New Mexico. Teaching internationally through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. Broadly cherished, Martín’s third book, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time, has become a runaway, underground hit. Martín’s fourth book, Stealing Benefacio’s Roses, brilliantly continues the story of his life and visionary understandings.	Frequently Asked Questions
workshop materials	Illustrations by Martín Prechtel from The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time, copyright 2001 Caspar Materials List Blanket Cut flowers, all colors and kinds Song of your ancestor Song of your own (personal) 5 lbs cornmeal (not polenta) any color 3 wax candles (unscented) 2 yards of cotton calico cloth: 1 yard light blue, 1 yard any color Pocket  knife and sharpener Cotton string Pottery clay, fist size; wet 3 small gifts 4 freshly cut willow branches, straight, a thumb’s thickness, 6 ft. long each Beach sand with a track of a water bird or mammal in it; a fist full of sand with the track in it (track may not be visible after you pick up the sand) Fresh spring water Feathers, all kinds; please no owls, ravens, or jays, and no dyed feathers Abalone shell Beads: shell and turquoise with biggish holes - many	Frequently Asked Questions DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION form in PDF click on book image for more info
	"The Mayan people's main and ancient job is to be beautiful and grateful. Before meeting Martín, I'd never known a representative of such a culture. But I can testify to the integrity, the massive learning, the faithfulness, the lighthearted joy and the hardworking nature of this representative." —Robert Bly "Martín Prechtel is one of the most profound teachers I have ever encountered. He is an unusually gifted artist, musician, storyteller who guides and initiates with passion, kindness, eloquence,wisdom, fierceness and humor, awakening us to the sacred realities present everywhere at all times. To be with Martín is to remember the forgotten divinity that is the very essence of who we are." —Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield	"The Mayan people's main and ancient job is to be beautiful and grateful.  Before meeting Martín, I'd never known a representative of such a culture. But I can testify to the integrity, the massive learning, the faithfulness, the lighthearted joy,  and the hard-working nature of this representative."       - Robert Bly
	More about Martín Prechtel email: bluetayra@newmexico.com or | CONTACT US via a web form Martín Prechtel photo credit: Johanna Prechtel	For more information visit: www.floweringmountain.com Martín Prechtel is the author of : Stealing Benefacio's Roses; The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time; Long Life, Honey in the Heart; and Secrets of the Talking Jaguar. click on book image for more info

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