Sublime

Gaining explicit permission to tell another’s tale and the proper crediting of that tale, if permission to it is given, is absolutely essential, for it maintains the genealogical umbilicus;

I am a strong supporter of those who bring back the stories of their heritages, preserving them, saving them from death by neglect. Of course, it is the old people who are the bones of the entire healing and spiritual structures everywhere on the face of the earth.

The master-apprentice model provides the kind of careful atmosphere in which I have been able to help my learners seek and develop the stories that will accept them, that will shine through them, not just lay on the surface of their being like dime-store jewelry.

The basic premise that runs through all my work asserts that all human beings are born gifted.

As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.

This work is deeply personal, and it invites you to do your own transformative work, because who you are is more important than what you teach.

because she is working hard to understand, to peel back the layers of her perceptions and her defenses to see what lies underneath.

Some have said that my work constitutes “a newly emerging field.” I must say, with all due respect, that the essence of the work I’ve been given to do is from very old tradition. This kind of work does not fit restfully under the category of “emerging” anything. Thousands of people in every generation worldwide, mostly old ones who are often “unedu