43 min
Talk
Mutual Indebtedness
From 1996, on owing each other and the world something that can never be settled.
About the teacher
Martín Prechtel
American author and teacher from New Mexico who travelled to Guatemala in 1970, moved into a Tz'utujil community by Lake Atitlán, learned the language and studied with a shaman there. He married into the village and raised a family before the civil war drove them to the United States.
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Talks & videos
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72 min
Talk
The Role of Initiation
A conference talk from 1995 on initiation as something a village does, not something a person buys.
Path
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Nature & ritual
Shamanism
Ritual, connection with nature and symbolic journeys within living traditions.
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