May 2017

Our choices build our character In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, each juniper is unique, shaped by winter’s icy winds and heavy snows. As with the juniper, the challenges we face help shape our character. For…

Tag Archives: Transformation At its essence, the Call signifies death and rebirth, the death of our old self or old life and the rebirth of the new. We tend to think of the Call only as a call… Read More » In our journeys we use many “rafts,” tools or vehicles that carry us from […]

The Call: Ringing Up the Curtain In his seminal book on the hero’s journey, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), mythologist Joseph Campbell described the first stage of the journey, the Call, writing that, …the call rings up the curtain, always, on a mystery of transfiguration…which, when complete, amounts to a dying and a […]