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 Sweat Lodge * Sacred Stories Ceremony
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 WITH TRISHUWAApril 28 - 30, 2017
Hosted by Ripple and Frank Harkinson
1389 Swaringen RD, Traphill, NC 28685
336-469-0833 •
Contact for logistical information and travel:
Participate in
CEREMONIES OF THE EARTH-CENTERED PATH
The indigenous Heart Language for Communicating
with all Species, the Elementals,
and the Invisible World of Spirit.
The Medicine Wheel ~ the Mandala that Embodies all Creation.
The Sacred Pipe ~ prayer communicating with all life.
The Sweat Lodge ~ the temple that holds the Universe.
I look forward to being in circle and sharing ceremony.
THE FIRST TIME I SAT IN LODGE
Dear Friends,
The first time I sat in a sweat lodge was over thirty years ago. I knew very little about this sacred indigenous ceremony, yet there I was sitting on the earth in darkness with steam rising, enveloping me with powerful heat, the fragrant smell of cedar and other mysterious herbs soaking into my body.
It was so familiar.
Over time I found many teachers, sat in lodge with friends, family and strangers. For the last twenty-seven years I have led lodges, poured the water, and watched faces unfamiliar to this ceremony suddenly find it feels like home. Ancestors long dead, I found, are not in the past, but are present in the lodge, guiding us into the future. It is a wonderful ceremony. Through it we cleanse, renew, heal, and bring the power of the invisibles into our heart, mind, and body.
 In this workshop, we will explore all this and more. I hope you can join us.
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LOST NATION MEDICINE WAYS
An Intimate Experiential
Depth Immersion
of Unusual Dimensions
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 with JULIE MCINTYRE
Southwest New Mexico
August 3rd – 7th, 2017
FOR - Men and Women, Healers, Artists, Herbalists, Philosophers, Ecologists, those with an unnamed hunger and
those who have felt out of place
Once, a long time ago, ancient and indigenous cultures knew they lived among non-human and invisible beings. They knew they shared the Earth together, living side by side. Everything was sacred, alive, intelligent, and aware. There was no divide between human bodies, human consciousness, and the body and consciousness of Earth. Plants, trees, stones and the elements were part of daily relationships for food, medicine and wisdom. They were revered as having soul and intelligence. It was understood that non-human beings had the capacity to feel and communicate. Living with the awareness of wild intelligence was part of the moral fabric of indigenous cultures.
What will it take to become keenly awareThat what you are looking at is not a tree Nor a forestBut a gathering of ancestors
We each have our unique True North, the place we are going to. However there are times when our compass becomes a bit rusty and confused, the needle frenetically pointing hither and tither. Often from too many outside influences. Now and then, here and there we must step away from the world of humans and find other members of our tribe who remind us how to set our compass true.
Every moment a voice
Out of this world
Calls on our soul
To wake up and rise…
…answer the call
-Rumi
Many of us have been on an auto pilot of sorts, in survival, fumbling along in the dark hoping all will turn out well enough. Possibly, we have felt something missing and that our lives have only been half-lived. We often wander through life, cutting and pasting remnants together hoping to gather enough pieces that resembles a whole life. Still feeling as if something of great import is missing. Many of us feel there is something wrong with us.
Sometimes when we least expect it, in our daily lives and perhaps, more commonly in times of chaos and uncertainty, we are called to bring forth that which awaits us inside – our unique genius. This weekend is focused on reclaiming the ability to be fully alive, to be filled with meaning and purpose, and deeply connect to the invisibles with which we are surrounded.
we are lived by powers
we pretend to understand
-W. H. Auden
The plants, stones, wild water and the Spirit of Place of the Gila National Forest and Wilderness will companion us, guide us, in parting the veil between the mundane and the imaginal realms. True North is not a destination but rather a way to journey. It is a mythic adventure, an experience of becoming a human being. Dynamic awareness, depth perception, sensory acuity, natural philosophy and the skill to read the energy of a “thing” are our inborn faculties that become atrophied in the mundane life. Here they will be taken out, stretched, worked with and breathed to life. To assist in deepening our experience on the path ahead and the one that lies often unseen under our feet we will also work deeply with Kinesthetics, myth, alchemy, ceremony and ritual.
The revelation of True North is an adventure of soul and spirit. It is a quest that takes us through dark forests, over rivers, up mountains and across moats. It is a messy business, disorienting at the start and requires a different kind of thinking, feeling and sensuality. Finding our personal True North is a remembering of ourselves to ourselves. There is a mighty cost to the journey ahead, should you choose to no longer ignore the call; your innate smell will become undomesticated, feral, a fierce green fire will glow in the place of your eyes. Those who look upon you thereafter will know you have eaten something wild and gamey they have not. You become unrefined, uncivilized. Risky business that. There comes a time when not taking the risk comes with a much greater price.
Working with Deep Ecology of Gaia and our own deep ecology; new patterns of living an inhabited, authentic life are created. We will work directly with the intelligence of plants and wild ecosystems, and with ceremony, to heal the bonds that have been severed as well as create new ones.
Location is on private land in the Gila National Forest and Wilderness of Southwest New Mexico.
Lodging will be camping; indoors on a first come basis or on the land.
Meals are provided from dinner August 3rd to dinner August 7th.
Space is limited for this class. The cost is $600.00. A $200 deposit is Non-refundable and Non-transferrable.
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 WILD EARTH WILD WOMEN
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WILD EARTH; WILD WOMEN
Daughters, Sisters, Mothers & Grandmothers
Restoring the Wild Woman Archetype
ReForesting the Soul
Women ages 18 and older
September 6 to 11, 2017
Five nights/ six days/ three teachers
New Mexico Gila Wilderness and National Forest
Gathering in the heart of one of the last wild lands in North America, join other women as we empower ourselves to write new chapters for new lives. Sooner or later something calls to us, pulls us out of our personal enclaves, demands we look into the depths of who we are and asks: have you become who you were born to be?
Marvelous and uniquely crafted the body of woman is a
sacred vessel, home to the divine spirit in creation.
When inward tenderness
Finds the secret hurt
Pain itself will crack the rock And ah! Let the soul emerge.
~Rumi
The Wild Woman archetype lives inside each of us. Enrolling in this program, you are honoring the call that she has sent up from deep inside. You give her permission to be alive and out loud in the world.
This work is deeply intimate and necessitates a willingness to look deep inside, to ask questions, to examine beliefs about what it means personally to be a woman, a human being in these chaotic and changing times.
THE SIXS DAY WILL COVER
BODIES NEVER LIE
INTUITIVE DEVELOPMENT
SENSORY ACUITY
INVISIBLES
PLANTS AND INVISIBLES AS TEACHERS AND ALLIES
SACRED FOOD
HIDDEN SOURCES OF POWER, PASSION AND CREATIVITY
THE FRUITFUL DARKNESS
Well behaved women seldom make history.
~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Do you follow the roaring of the river or run from it? Do you lean into strong transformative winds or turn your back on them? Does your life have meaning? Are you willing to be astonished by yourself? Is your personal myth wild or domesticated? Is archaic shame still influencing your decisions, actions and behaviors? Are you in love with being a woman? Do you ache for yet fear intimacy? Do you deny intuition, shadows, passion, creativity, perceptions?
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
~ T.S. Eliot
The program will take place on private land in the Gila forest. Cost includes camping indoors or out, meals and teaching. The land is located in the midst of the Gila (hee la) National Forest surrounded by majestic Ponderosa Pines, magnificent stone outcroppings.
TEACHERS
 Julie McIntyre is an earth centered mystic, ceremonialist, phytoirrationalist and outlaw working intimately with the livingness of wild ecosystems. Her work over the past decades has focused on healing the wounded soul, personal myth, becoming astonished and undomesticating libido. As a spiritual mentor and workshop leader she is compassionate and incisively perceptive. She works with those who hunger for meaning in their lives and as a clinical herbalist working with people who are chronically ill. She is an educator, writer and is the author of Sex and the Intelligence of the Heart; Nature, Intimacy and Sexual Energy.
 Working with people at life edges and crossroads, Mary Lucas is a mentor and artisan of creative soul healing. She works with myth, archetypes and the transformative personal narrative, supporting people to discover their genius and their indigenous self in harmony with nature. Her body-centered teaching is clear, insightful and warmed by intuitive wisdom informed by the unfolding of her own spiritual journey and training in psychotherapy. She is a photographer, journalist and equine therapist who resides in England and teaches internationally.
 Residing in Houston and her native state of Texas, Carlisle Vandervoort works with the sacredness and ancient art of bee medicine in her urban business, Bee Mission. She is an artist who focuses on large scale earthworks incorporating her innate love of elemental nature, wilderness landscapes, childhood loves of hunting and fishing as well as her decades long devotion to her meditation practice. She is a producer for the forthcoming (2018) documentary film on the late, great Texan and political columnist, Molly Ivins, entitled, Raise Hell.
ADVANCE ENROLLMENT RECOMMENDED. Space is Limited
COST: $725.00
A $200 NON-REFUNDABLE/NON-TRANSFERRABLE DEPOSIT REQUIRED
(Balance due by July 15, 2017)
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 APPENDIX EMERGING VIRUSES:
CHIKUNGUNYA, ZIKA, AND EBOLA
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In less than 10 years, CHIKV has spread from the coast of Kenya throughout the Indian Ocean, Pacific, and Caribbean regions, causing millions of cases of disease in over 50 countries. In other words, CHIKV has reemerged as a true global pathogen.
- Morrison, 2014
With respect to treatment, the arbovirus pandemics suggest that the one-bug–one-drug approach is inadequate; broad spectrum antiviral drugs effective against whole classes of viruses are urgently needed.
- Fauci and Morens, 2016
In 2012, just as I began this book I came across reports of a virus I had not heard of before. The stories were compelling; they offered a perfect example of an emerging, and unexpected, viral infection moving through the world’s communities. So I used that virus as a metaphor for how previously unknown viral infections can suddenly emerge and devastate communities. Little did I know that the Chikungunya virus would soon present itself as a permanent and medically difficult-to-treat problem throughout the Caribbean as well as in parts of South and North America. (These infections are now becoming endemic in Florida and along the American Gulf Coast.) In consequence I did not include a protocol for it in the book. Shortly thereafter, in 2013-2014, a powerful ebola outbreak occurred in Africa and scores of infected air travelers spread the infection throughout the world. But this was not the last of it, in 2015 a massive Zika virus outbreak occurred in South America. The outbreak was larger than any previously known and a little known side effect of the infection emerged with it: brain damage in the unborn children of pregnant women. This is shape of things to come. It is the new normal. This appendix is a brief look at those viruses and protocols for treating them.
Chikungunya and Zika
Although this book includes a protocol for dengue (DENV), I also want to mention it here because DENV and these two viruses have very similar infection and symptom patterns. In fact, Zika and CHIKV infections are often misdiagnosed as DENV. DENV and Zika are both flaviviruses and are closely related to some of the other viruses discussed in this book such as tick-borne encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Murray valley encephalitis virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, and the West Nile virus. CHIKV is an alphavirus and is more closely related to a different group of viruses, also discussed in this book, specifically the Eastern, Western, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses. DENV, Zika, and CHIKV are all spread by mosquitoes, all are primate-mosquito-primate transmitted viruses (multiple species in the Aedes genus are the primary transmitters), and all cause similar symptoms. As Roth et al (2014) comment . . .
Manifest dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus infections have a similar initial clinical presentation and may be reported as any of the first three of the following four monitored syndromes: (I) acute fever and rash, (ii) prolonged fever, (iii) influenza-like illness and, (iv) diarrhoea.
The rash (maculopapular) looks a bit like chicken pox and may cover the body. Most commonly, all three are accompanied by severe joint, bone, or muscle pain. There may be severe headache and eye pain as well. Under certain circumstances neurological damage, of varying severity, can occur as well.
These viruses are responding to planetary ecological disruption and expanding their geographical range at a rapid rate. (The same factors are stimulating their mosquito vectors to expand similarly.) In December 2013, for example, CHIKV was isolated for the first time in the Western hemisphere. As of February 2016, it had spread to 42 countries or territories in the Caribbean, Central, South, and North America. All four strains of the dengue virus are now widespread in the Americas and outbreaks are commonly occurring in southern Europe (as well as France and Croatia). Zika was first detected in May of 2015 in Brazil; it then spread rapidly throughout 26 other countries and territories in the Americas. By early 2016 over a million cases of infection had been reported motivating the World Health Organization to declare it a “Global Emergency.” Outbreaks of each of these viral infections are commonly preceded by drought conditions. There is some evidence that the viruses are synergistic with each other in that the appearance of one seems to prepare the way for the emergence of another. As Fauci and Morens (2016) comment, “Decades ago, African researchers noted that aedes-transmitted Zika epizootics inexplicably tended to follow aedes-transmitted chikungunya epizootics and epidemics.” Dengue aggressively entered the Western hemisphere in the 1990s (there are some 50 million infections worldwide every year), West Nile virus in 1999, CHIKV in 2013, and Zika in 2015. As Fauci and Morens go on to say, “As was realized more than 50 years ago, when enzootic Zika virus was linked to human activity, arboviruses continually evolve and adapt with ecologica niches that are increasingly being perturbed by humans.” All these viruses seem to be undergoing genetic alterations which are speculated to be root to the increased virulence of the organisms.
Dengue, chikungunya, and Zika are all single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses. The most research has occurred with dengue, next with chikungunya, and only a smattering (as of spring 2016) with Zika. Rather than somewhat rare periodic outbreaks all three viruses are becoming established as endemic emerging viral pathogens. Humans are considered to be primary reservoirs for all three viruses. Concurrent infection with all three viruses (and other similar viruses such as West Nile and tick-borne encephalitis virus) does occur. There are no technological medicines that are effective in their treatment. There is significant cross over in treating these infections with herbal medicines.
Due to space limitations I am not going to go into depth on these two viruses, but rather will just include a treatment protocol for both. There are some good studies, both in vitro and in vivo on plants active against the chikungunya virus; those herbs are included in the protocol. There is much less on Zika, however the Chinese have been using a form of Andrographis paniculata with good success. That one herb seems to be highly effective for these kinds of infections. Here are the protocols. (Note: all herbs should be taken, all tinctures can be combined in liquid of choice. In severe cases, dosages can be increased.) I have disseminated these protocols various places on the internet and heard from a few people using them that they have helped, reversing the infections when pharmaceuticals had failed to help.
Chikungunya Treatment Protocol
Andrographis panniculata: 1-2 600 mg capsules 3-6x daily
Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed): 1 tbl root powder 3x daily in liquid or 1 tbl tincture 3x daily or resveratrol tablets made from knotweed root 1000 mg 3-6x daily.
Glycyrrhiza spp (licorice): Tincture, ½ tsp 3-6x daily for 30 days
Salvia miltiorrhiza: Tincture, 1 tsp - 1 tbl, 3-6x daily
Eupatorium perfoliatum (boneset): strong infusion (tea) 3-6x daily Neem leaf: strong infusion (tea) 3-6x daily
Zika Treatment Protocol
Andrographis panniculata: 1-2 600 mg capsules 3-6x daily
Glycyrrhiza spp (licorice): Tincture, ½ tsp 3-6x daily for 30 days
Isatis spp.: Tincture, ½ to one tsp 3-6x daily.
Houttuynia: Tincture, ½ to one tsp 3-6x daily.
Scutellaria baicalensis: Tincture, ½ to one tsp 3-6x daily.
Astragalus: Tincture, ½ to one tsp 3-6x daily.
Zika, with neural complications, add:
* Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed): 1 tbl root powder 3x daily in liquid or 1 tbl tincture 3x daily or resveratrol tablets made from knotweed root 1000 mg 3-6x daily.
* Pueraria lobata: Tincture, ½ to one tsp 3-6x daily.
* Polygala tenuifolia: Tincture, 30 drops 3x daily for 30 days.
* Hericium erinaceus: Tincture, 1 tsp 2x daily.
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 TRISHUWA 2017 CALLENDAR |
SWEAT LODGE & EARTH WISDOM STORIES
Traphill, NC
April 28 - 30, 2017
A day of ceremony ~ Sweat Lodge, Ancient stories and Prayer.
April 22, 2017
and
April 23, 2017
NY, NY
Contact for Enrollment and Information
(718) 514-1576
NEW ENGLAND WOMEN'S HERBAL CONFERENCE
August 26 - 28, 2016
ONGOING
Individual Spiritual Mentoring
Contact:
GOING
Earth Astrology
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JULIE MCINTRYE 2017 CALLENDAR
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LOST NATION MEDICINE WAYS
An intimate experiential depth immersion
of unusual dimensionsGila Wilderness, Southwest New Mexico
Thursday, August 3rd - Monday, August 7th, 2017
Registration and Information
WILD EARTH; WILD WOMEN
Sisters, Mothers & Grandmothers
Restoring the Wild Woman Archetype
ReForesting the Soul
Women ages 18 and older
September 6 to 11, 2017
Five nights/ six days/ three teachers
Two day Lyme and Co infections workshop
New York, NY TBA
Two day Lyme and Co infection Practitioner training.
Herbalists, Naturopaths, Accupuncturists, Medical professionals
New York, NY TBA
To add your name to the list for either New York event, contact
carlislevh@gmail.com
ONGOING
Spiritual Mentoring
Herbal consultations
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 Stephen Harrod Buhner Event
August 2018
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Stephen Harrod Buhner and Martin Shaw
August 2018 (exact days and cost to be announced)
Camp Kieve, Maine
Deep Gaia, Myth, and the Sacred Teachings of Plants
five days
Martin Shaw is the most powerful myth teller I have experienced.
I feel deeply grateful to be co-teaching with him in fall of 2018.
A not to be missed experience.
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