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thompson (tbird) bishop
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4. On Ecopsychology & Radical
If I mention the word radical, what comes to mind? What do you see or feel?
thompson (tbird) bishop
Jan 246 min read
3. EAGLES, TECHNOADDICTION & WILDNESS: Reflections from Immersive Experiences
It was the shells. They were too thin. The Eagle chicks were not surviving their way into this world.
thompson (tbird) bishop
Jan 115 min read
2. On ceremony and (no)dogma: Everything belongs.
One of the barebones of the ceremony to which we align and were brought into as budding guides is that there are no rules to ceremony–-no...
thompson (tbird) bishop
Jan 94 min read
1. New Year Visioning: Enacting Incorporation Commitments
We stood in the darkened night, moon conjoined with planet over the vast snowfield as the snowy mountain looked upon us from the far...
Admin
Aug 19, 20241 min read
winter wilderness retreat
embrace solitude, reflection, heart-community, and nature
colleen bishop
Aug 18, 20249 min read
A Story of Juniper + Bare-Boned Fire
Awakened in Attunement with Nature--A Story of Juniper + Bare-Boned Fire         Tucked in groves of golden aspen and ponderosa, nearing...
colleen bishop
Jul 11, 20243 min read
prana and alchemy in the quest toward liberation
that's the purpose of the storm becoming embodied: to untether and reorient the pressure in the atmosphere.
Admin
May 3, 20247 min read
Walking home: Reflections from a summer trail in the Olympic National Park
edited from a soundwalk while backpacking out of the 3rd annual Adult Mountain Quest with Rite of Passage Journeys:...
colleen bishop
May 1, 20242 min read
why encounter wilderness for rites of passage?
To live in a way that is attuned with Earth is perhaps the guided-ally to our most sacred-belonging
colleen bishop
May 1, 20242 min read
what is a wilderness vision quest fast?
The wilderness vision quest journey implies a metaphorical death, (severance), a liminal unknown that is pregnant with meaning...
colleen bishop
May 1, 20241 min read
what is a rite of passage?
Inhabiting Your Life by marking Rites of Passage Just as nature moves according to its inborn death and rebirth pattern, so does the Rite...
colleen bishop
Feb 20, 20241 min read
"edges of calcified ridge and ether cracked open"—a poetic reflection
Entheos Holding Hands with Sorrow The dark night exposed their red stained lips From tasting the fruit of the underworld —digesting the...
colleen bishop
Feb 19, 20243 min read
musings with winter
musings with winter... Those of us living within the northern hemisphere have been—more or less—in relationship with what is known as...
colleen bishop
Feb 7, 20242 min read
entering the portal beneath the surface
By participating in an emergent, attuned liminal experience with the land, we evoke an intersubjective and permeable field of perception tha
colleen bishop
Jan 28, 20246 min read
weaving and being woven: intercorporeal prayer with Earth
The congealed alpine air penetrates the skin of my fingertips and cheek bones, and the fragrance of winter’s approach deliberately opens my
colleen bishop
Nov 1, 20237 min read
a u t u m n . . . psyche's muse
A throbbing magnetism pulls me closer to the core, closer to Earth: I feel gravity keeping me; and, in synchrony, I sense my soul untethered
colleen bishop
Oct 16, 20231 min read
fall vision quest 2023
fall vision quest Colorado
Admin
Jul 7, 20231 min read
a quest at the edge of summer
I feel the edge of spring at this threshold—the trickster, the fire, the spirit, the unseen.
Admin
Nov 6, 20221 min read
new year visioning passage on the mountain
Since 2017, Thompson and Colleen host a visioning passage retreat over the arc of the new year. This retreat is offered for free as an...
colleen bishop
Nov 5, 20222 min read
optimal flow + liberating movement
One thing we learned on the trail was that this is a very vulnerable time—a lot of exposure—
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