The Monadnock Ritual
Camp Wanocksett | Dublin, NH
Thurs - Sun, August 27-30, 2026
The Sacred Fire communities of New England
welcome you to attend a 3-day ritual immersion
to experience the re-enactment of the
Sacred Story of Mt. Monadnock.
We invite you to partake in this rich three-day, three-night ritual event—held at the base of beautiful Mt. Monadnock. Here we will engage together in community with sacred teachings, traditional ceremonies and the ancestral spirits of the land. Most importantly you will have the opportunity to engage with the sacred story of Mount Monadnock. Through knowing his story – you can know him.
The Spirit of Fire—also known as Grandfather Fire in the Americas—was present when this story took place, during that “time before time”, at the earliest moments of creation. As Grandfather Fire has told us in sacred space, this story comes to us from the very beginnings of the lands, waters and peoples of the land, which we now call New Hampshire. More than ever, this sacred story contains resonance and remedy for us today.
In recent years when we were first blessed to receive the sacred story from Grandfather Fire, he prescribed for us a Re-enactment Ritual, a performance of the story designed to open the doorway for a deep and personal relationship with the Great Being of this important sacred site.
This year’s event is open to all – those who have participated in the past as well as newcomers.
During this event we will connect heart-to-heart as we join with one another in the healing and purifying Sweat Lodge ritual which cleanses and renews one’s body, mind and spirit.
Held in a safe and respectful way, this ancient rite prepares us to witness the Ritual Performance of the sacred story.
As a special highlight of this event – in addition to the sweat lodge and sacred story – we are extremely fortunate to hear directly from Grandfather Fire, through a Fire Speaks program that is included as part of the weekend. This event is a unique opportunity to tap into the ancient wisdom of Heart energy that Grandfather Fire shares with all so deeply.
Over the past 20 years, Grandfather Fire has been sharing teachings, sacred stories and life guidance with people all over the world, in order to help humanity in these challenging times. He cuts through doubt, confusion and illusion with a long-view perspective that delivers tried-and-true ways to find connection, compassion, learning, growth and healing. He is wise, funny, provoking and profoundly insightful. Fire Speaks is a place to ask questions and receive guidance from one of the world’s first and greatest teachers.
There was a time when all peoples lived in relationship with the living beings of nature. Mountains, rivers, plants and animals were known to offer gifts of healing, wisdom and guidance. Participating in the story of Monadnock connects us to that time, and opens the possibility, once again, of engaging with this Great Being.
Find out more information about the Grandfather Fire phenomenon here.
All Meals and Lodging/camping are included with the weekend ritual registration.
Arrive Thursday 5pm. On Friday we will work together to build and participate in the sweat lodge. Saturday we will experience Fire Speaks and engage with the Dramatic Re-enactmeent of the Story of Mount Monadnock.
Please note: Those under 18 years old require special permission to participate in the sweat lodge. Other restrictions may apply. For complete sweat lodge information,
please download this PDF.
Registration
Registration will open soon
Schedule
Arrive Thursday August 27th at 5pm
Remaining schedule TBA
Price
Pricing TBA
For more information
For more information, contact Jenny Morrissey at Jenny.morrissy@sacredfire.org
Hosting Firekeeper(s): Chris Griffin
Featuring
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Don David Wiley, traditional conduit for the Spirit of Fire
David Wiley’s perspective on what is possible and how to live life was profoundly altered in 1996, when the Spirit of Fire, often called Grandfather Fire, appeared before him as an apparition in the garden of a meditation retreat center near Mexico City. Grandfather Fire asked David to be his conduit, so people everywhere could discover their innate connection to spirit and have an experiential relationship with nature and Divine. Grandfather 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. At Grandfather Fire’s request, these two elders began David’s formal medicine and ceremonial apprenticeship in these two ancestrally related shamanic paths.
From the Huichol tradition, David received initiations as a mara’akame, a healer, counselor, and ceremonial leader; from the Nahua path, he was initiated as a granicero, a weather worker, ceremonial leader, and healer. After years of service and leadership, he received permission to teach these two traditions to those called to these shamanic paths. After Don Lupe’s passing in 2003 and under the support of mara’akame Don José Sandoval de la Cruz, David received initiation as a Huichol tsaurirrakame (elder shaman) in 2008. On the Nahua path, David became a Caporal Mayor (teacher-tradition leader) when he inherited Don Lucio’s altar and the responsibility for his Nahua weather working lineage after Don Lucio’s passing in 2004. As a recognized elder in these two traditions, he has received the title of respect, Don David.
Concurrent with Don David’s immersion in this traditional medicine path work, starting in 1996, Grandfather Fire began speaking through Don David’s body during special gatherings. This has been some of the most impactful of Don David’s work, touching thousands of people. Among the Huichol, an axihuatakame is a “god-speaker man,” a traditional spiritual conduit who enters a coma-like state so that a deity can physically interact directly with humans. A collection of Grandfather Fire’s wisdom was published as Heard Around the Fire in 2010; a second book is in final editing. An archive of teachings can be found on sacredfire.org as Grandfather Fire’s Wisdom. 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.