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SSP News: Group open spaces, Speaker Series Announcement & Village Stories of Summer

8/17/2016

 

Headed Towards Marking: Boys Summer Adventures in the Emigrant Wilderness!

8/16/2016

 
Enjoy these highlights from an East Bay Boys Group summer trip to the Emigrant Wilderness! This was the group's last journey together, as they make their way towards their Marking Ceremony this Fall.
(You can read more about our program structure here.)

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Reflections from the Desert, by SSP Leader Naomi

8/16/2016

 
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“We do not go into the desert to escape people but to learn how to find them: we do not leave them in order to have nothing more to do with them, but to find out the way to do them the most good." ~ Thomas Merton

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Reflections from the Desert
by SSP Leader Naomi
Photos by author & O. Andrew Schreiber

It’s been a little over a month since I returned from deep within a magical canyon at 6,000 feet in the Mojave Desert. I journeyed out there to spend a little over four days fasting for a vision. Alone, without a tent, only water, myself and the earth as my companion. Three other fasters, two facilitators and one assistant made up the group of people who were to engage in this ceremony. Together we spent eleven days on the land. The first few days were spent befriending the places that we were to empty our bodies and souls too and for those places to get to know us before the ceremony actually began. I will tell you now that the whole experience was a ceremony.

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