Death and the Circle of Life with Don David Wiley
An Online Webcast
Sat. March 13 | 11:00 am EST (US) | 4:00 pm GMT (UK)
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Living life fully includes embracing life’s end
This webcast and discussion explores our physical, spiritual and emotional relationships with death and the opportunities death presents for life’s renewal and regeneration.
It will be led by Don David Wiley, a traditional healer, ceremonial and ritual leader, and teacher.
Don David has welcomed and baptized the newborn, initiated the young into adulthood, provided counseling and healing for others. He has also buried the dead and helped escort their souls to their final resting place, as he has been providing advice about death and dying, and funerary rites for over 20 years. During this workshop, Don David will draw upon his 25 years of experience of guiding people through all of life’s stages and cycles to present a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the importance of death to how we live our lives in the present, as well as how death opens us to the greater mystery of our soul’s purpose.
Schedule
Saturday, March 13
8:00 am – 9:30 am Pacific (US)
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Eastern (US)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT (UK)
Price
$25 USD
For more information
For more information, contact Sherry Boatright at sacredfirelifeways@sacredfire.org
Featuring
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Don David Wiley. In 1996, the Spirit of Fire — known as Grandfather Fire — appeared before David as an apparition in the garden of a meditation retreat center near Mexico City. Grandfather Fire asked David to be his conduit, so that people everywhere could discover their innate connection to spirit and have an experiential relationship with nature and the Divine. It was an encounter that profoundly altered his understanding of what is possible and how to live.
Grandfather Fire sent David to find two indigenous elders — Don Lupe Ríos Gonzales of the Wixárika (Huichol) tradition of Mexico’s Sierra Madres, and Don Lucio Campos Elizalde of the Nahua tradition of the central highlands — who began his formal apprenticeship in these two ancestrally related shamanic paths. From the Huichol tradition, he received initiation as a mara’akame — healer, counselor, and ceremonial leader. From the Nahua path, he was initiated as a granicero — weather worker, ceremonial leader, and healer. In 2008, he received initiation as a Huichol tsaurirrakame(elder shaman). On the Nahua path, he became Caporal Mayor — teacher and tradition leader — inheriting Don Lucio’s altar and lineage. As a recognized elder in both traditions, he carries the title of respect: Don David.
Also beginning in 1996, Grandfather Fire began speaking directly through Don David during special ceremonial gatherings — work that has touched thousands of people across the globe for nearly three decades. Among the Huichol, an axihuatakame is a god-speaker: a conduit who enters a deep trance state so that a divine presence can speak directly through them. A collection of Grandfather Fire’s wisdom was published as Heard Around the Fire in 2010; a second book is in final editing.
Over the years, Grandfather Fire inspired Don David and the community growing around Grandfather’s wisdom to spread traditional lifeways through the world. This lead to the founding of nonprofits Sacred Fire, which began training Sacred Firekeepers and hosting events and programs in 2004; Blue Deer Center, a Sacred Place in the Catskill Mountains of NY, a spiritual retreat of healing and transformation in nature which opened in 2005, and Sacred Fire Foundation, a charitable organization founded to promote and protect traditional indigenous lifeways in 2009. He continues to train a dedicated community of students, healers, ceremonial leaders, and firekeepers — ensuring that this wisdom is carried forward.
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This course was created by Sacred Fire Co-Founder Don David Wiley, informed by his more than 25 years of experience as a Nahua and Huichol traditional healer, ceremonial leader, teacher and elder. His comprehensive spiritual perspective on the phenomenon, power, and importance of prayer incorporates both the practical and the spiritual, empowering people to fully engage in their day-to-day lives.