HIDDEN WINE presents

Sept 10-15th, 2002, Minnesota
18th Annual Minnesota Men's Conference. Robert Bly, Martín Prechtel, with John Lee, Miquel Rivera, Doug von Koss, Vicente Griego and others
Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota
Location: Camp Miller, Sturgeon Lake, MN
Contact: Craig Ungerman
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This year we will ride along on the story of Parzival, whose name means "piercing the vale" or "going down the center of the valley."  We began hearing the story last year, and this year we will go back over the early material for those who couldn’t, because of the September 11th disaster, arrive.  The tale of Parzival — the most famous story of the Middle Ages in all of Europe — begins with an oafish boy, brought up in the woods by his mother in order to keep him away from all overly masculine influences; she is passionate about that because all the men around her had died in warrior activities.  Parzival gradually learns what he needs to do....

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October 2- 5, 2002 New Mexico
4th Annual "Love Letters to the Flowering Earth" Conference for Men and Women, with Martín Prechtel, Gioia Timpanelli & Robert Bly
Sipapu Lodge, Vadito NM 87579
website: www.sipapunm.com
Sipapu is near Taos New Mexico

Rhythm of the Natural Human Sound,
Keeping the Seeds Alive, Part I:
Ecstasy in music and the spoken word
Contact: Craig Ungerman
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The first great grief we humans know is the loss of our mother’s heartbeat after leaving her familiar womb. The first sound we utter with our first breath is a unique penetrating song of grief about that loss. Our own little rhythmic hearts thereby add their own sounds to the massive complexity of life’s continuous symphony.

Like every bird, animal, plant, rock and wind on this wild flowering earth, we, even as adults, are incessantly looking for the lost rhythm of that much distanced womb. In every natural sound we make we are looking for the rhythm of being at home again: the sounds of the lost land. By our births we are singers of the word. It is this singing, longing and delicious speaking that is life itself. The symphony we are left with must become our home....
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