Since I have begun asking the dead for help with my life, my life has transformed. Miracles grow from the dirt, the bodies of the dead, the matter of what was becomng the magic that might be.
I am offering two workshops on how to vitalize these connections and collaborations.
The first is an introductory weekend which includes everything from making space for the dead in our lives to communicating with them and beginning to access their healing empowerments. I’m also offering it at a special low price. Each session is recorded and sent to all participants so if you can’t be there in person you can at least receive guidance and instruction.
The second workshop is an INTENSIVE for those who have taken at least one other course with me—and it is designed to help participants work on a particular project with those on the other side. You can take the weekend workshop (or watch it) and then jump into the deep end! Limited to 30 participants.
Tuesdays 12-1:30 eastern time
Once we have established daily rituals of connection with those on the other side and the habit of asking them for guidance and help, we can begin to explore how the dead are uniquely able to help us untangle the tightest knots in our lives. In this eight-session journey we will assemble all the resources we need from the other side to return to the realm of magic and miracles.
Session One: Beyond Our Control
Each of our lives includes problems and perplexities we cannot solve, dreams and prayers we have abandoned, healings that seem impossible, yearnings and desires of which we feel unworthy. Are we ready to articulate what we want—truly, madly, deeply—and ask those on the other side to help us claim it?
A prayer is also a spell—and the words we use to express it are incantations. Together we will explore how to give language and form to what we want. What are the dangers of expressing these desires? Are there ways we are trying to overdetermine particular outcomes or, conversely, to keep things too vague and generalized? Why do we have to give up control and what does that look like, and feel like, when we do?
Collectively, during the session, we will help each other give shape these prayer projects. We will also review daily rituals for summoning the dead, ancestral litanies, and how we have created space for those on the other side in our lives.
Session Two: A Team of Holy Helpers
If all the dead who have ever been from the beginning of time are available to us as helpers, how do we decide who is going to be on our prayer team for this particular project? Do we only include those ancestors that we knew personally? Can we call on traditional saints or famous people who somehow feel right? What about the non-anthropocentric world?
We will explore how to make space and time for this project through altars and daily rituals. We’ll investigate the power of numbers—why seven or nine or fourteen helpers have been traditional—and how this might guide us as we put together our team. We’ll discuss telemetry and the energy of objects that become part of our spell work—and why names are so important and can guide us to the guides we need.
Session Three: Summoning Spells
Every mantra is at its origin a salutation and invocation of someone on the other side. Hail Mary. Om Nama Shivaya. In this session we’ll use all of our senses to create rituals that call the dead to us. We’ll write our own spells and identify our own sacred sounds. We’ll look at how music, smell, and sensuous offerings can be used to help us call the dead to us.
Finally, we’ll create our own oracles for our holy helpers so that we can allow our dead to guide us from the other side. Various resources will be provided for participants to create their own decks.
Session Four: Beyond Time and Space
What if every prayer is answered—but not always within a single lifetime? What experiences in our lives have felt like the answers to prayers we did not even know we were praying? What challenges have honed our desires, our talents, our visions to give us what we need going forward. How can we claim the long story of our souls as we do this work together?
Prayer is an imaginative art—and we will invite in the lost ways of daydreaming, reverie, and imagination. We will establish ways of breaking free when we feel stuck, taking our eyes off the road and venturing back into the forest, looking behind and around, and tapping into our deepest guidance from within.
Our culture has trained us to gate out most of our perceptions and communications from the other side. We will open the gates—without drugs—so that we can feel more creative, more resilient, and more in touch with all that is unfolding within and around us.
Session Five: The Darkness of Defeat and Despair
Sometimes the healing process can make us, initially, sicker. Sometimes we ask for something and find ourselves utterly without it. How do we navigate in the darkness when all hope feels lost? What do we do when it seems like there are no answers and no one is there listening to us? What do we do within the dark night of our souls?
Catherine of Siena once wrote that “the way to heaven is heaven” but sometimes that way leads us through murky swamps, forgotten refuse heaps, or takes us far into the desert or out into the ocean where we feel lost and abandoned.
But our helpers are there for us and we are not alone. How do we trust them in such moments? What can we expect from them? What does it mean, in the midst of catastrophes and calamities to ask ourselves, “How is this, this awful terrible thing, somehow, somehow part of the answer to my prayer?”
Session Six: The Journey Began a Long Time Ago and Is Eternal
Our souls are in constant prayer—and have been collecting treasures and resources for this journey for lifetimes. But how do we access those hidden gifts and talents, that wisdom from incarnations we do not remember? How do we trust the path ahead and know were to put our feet?
As we pray and prayer flows through us we may experience synchronicities, déjà vu, and unexpected encounters of all kinds. What does it mean to become a pilgrim soul? How can actual pilgrimages inform and affect our journeys? What kinds of pilgrimages can we undertake?
In this final session we will review everything we have explored and prepare to set out on a year of prayer.
Sessions Seven
Six months later we will meet to see how everyone is doing.
Session Eight
A year later we will meet to share miracles.
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What kinds of miracles have participants experience? Healing with siblings, children, and spouses. Healing from illness and despair. The arrival of soul mates, children, and new friends. Success with work, creativity, and self-expression. Fires have been averted, storms avoided, and unexpected paths revealed. Join us to find out what YOUR miracle might be!
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