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, Don David Wiley’s life was profoundly altered when who would later come to be recognized as the Spirit of Fire, often called Grandfather Fire, appeared before him as an apparition in the garden of a meditation retreat center near Cuernavaca, Mexico. Grandfather sent David to study with 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 in formal medicine and ceremonial apprenticeships in these two ancestrally related shamanic paths. As a result, David received an initiation as a mara’akame – or a shamanic healer, counselor, and ceremonial leader in the Huichol tradition. He was also initiated as a quiapaquiz (caller of the sky-waters, in Nahuatl) or granicero – or weather worker in Spanish, ceremonial leader, and healer from the Nahua path.
Concurrent with Don David’s immersion in this traditional medicine path work, Grandfather Fire asked David to serve as a traditional spiritual medium, or Axihuatakame, so Grandfather could provide his teachings while speaking through Don David’s body during special gatherings. Over the years, Grandfather Fire inspired Don David and the community growing around Grandfather’s wisdom to spread traditional lifeways worldwide through two nonprofits – Sacred Fire, which trains Sacred Firekeepers and hosts events, and the Blue Deer, a retreat and healing center for nature’s medicine.
Through all of this, and his experience with elders of these traditions, Don David has developed a comprehensive spiritual perspective on the phenomenon, power, and importance of prayer from the most practical aspects to the spiritual processes that empower this way of engaging life and living.
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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.