Sacred Theatre is based on the idea that your life is a great play – rich dialogue, cast of thousands, many scenes and locations, terrific drama, soul-stirring action. You are invited to step onto the sacred stage of your life for more energy, more expressiveness, more playfulness, more creativity, and a clearer understanding of the beauty of your life.
Emerging Into the Glittering World:Encounters with Gaia and Her Holy Daughters September 25, 2020 – October 5, 2020 Emerging Into the Glittering World:Encounters with Gaia and Her Holy Daughters September 25, 2020 – October 5, 2020 This adventure is an exploration of the original people and artists of this dramatic landscape, a setting of cliffs […]
The Chartres Academy Wisdom School July 5 – 12 Ubiquity University is providing two magnificent courses at Chartres this summer. The first is Grammatica: From Trauma to Transformation, July 5-11. Grammatica is the first of the seven traditional liberal arts, taught at the medieval Chartres Academy over 1000 years ago. This offering of Grammatica marks […]
Step Twenty-Four in New Jersey This being the 24th year of work with beloved courageous friends, Pat Heck and Patti Kaufman, in New Jersey and South Carolina, I’ve researched Step 24, and discovered that this number is about renewing commitment to one’s mission, one’s soul purpose, plus balance, comfort, companionship. At present I’m calling these […]
The Sacred Theatre community in New Jersey will gather for two residential workshops at Ocean Grove, October 4-8, and 11-14. The focus will be on Women’s Rites and the Powers of Sacred Theatre. Patti Kaufman at pattik.mac@me.com is the wise one who can tell you all about it.
2016 is the Year for Writing in Retreat This is the cottage for my “Writing Retreat at the Oregon Coast” which your kindness and generosity have given me to produce a Book of Joy [READ MORE]. As well as other writings that form part of the ongoing, many-years mystery calling itself A Book of The […]
Gleanings from a Traveling Sabbatical April 1 – September 1, 2011 Two Mythic Truths: Life is Gaia’s gift to the Universe Love is Life’s gift to Gaia And a Teaching: What to do for the Rest of Your Life: Review every relationship, Every relationship, Until nothing is left of that relationship Except Thanks and Praise […]
The sun is bright and cloud piercing; the wind wild and almost always at our backs, the road definitely rising to meet us. For those who remember Ireland, we spent two days in Sligo, and said hello to W B Yeats at his gravesite, where the air still moves from Peg O’Brien’s dance for him […]
Creating a Book of Hours “Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws”: Psalm 119:164 The writer of wonders Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees, and other riches, both fiction and non-fiction) once offered a teaching on the ancient tradition of praying at specific hours of the day and night. […]
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women sacred players.” –Shakespeare, slightly adapted Sacred Theatre provides a way of looking at your life as a holy play, a wondrous work of performance art in progress, dedicated to forces beyond our capacity to imagine. These forces may be called gods; or ideals like […]
One thing Shakespeare has in common with comic book characters: at big moments of realization, a light bulb seems to go on over the person’s head. On the stage this takes place more subtly, light bulbs being singularly lacking in Shakespeare’s world. Nevertheless the moment is made immaculately clear through the actor’s capacity to demonstrate […]