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Martín Prechtel Robert Bly Gioia Timpanelli and special Guest lecture by ecstatic geologist Fred Berry A Conference of Writing, Storytelling, Poetry, Ritual, and Song October 6-10, 2000 Ghost Ranch, Abiquiú New Mexico The first community that humans belong to is Nature and all our gifts can become powerful offerings to that spiritual force behind nature which then gives us life through its generous largeness. Yet, each of our natures has an eloquence whose longing for home becomes more possible when completed in a collective village like way.

	Before the appearance of humans, a very long time ago, a talkative God longed for speech and company. Somewhere in the wild yellow and red canyons around Ghost Ranch he began to make a speaking, feeling being we now call a human. A man and woman were pulled out of the earth, created from a series of secret words sung by this lonely God while drawing their shapes on the ground with the ashes from previous creations. He built every piece of us from the minerals, plants, and the deep colors of the air in this canyon. After carving our hearts, a shell for the mother, a turquoise for her man, they rose up moving, following this singing God into this world where we all live today. There is something Holy in this world that loves the sound of humans, whether singing or weeping, hearing poetry in all of it. There is something in humans as well that loves the canyon winds and colors of the desert day, knowing from some ancient memory that this too is the song of the Divine. Please join us for this four day conference in these canyons and mesas of Ghost Ranch where we will in a village like way send our sounds, stories, songs, love letters, and poems back to the Flowering Earth of which we are made.	“Northern New Mexico is one of the most spiritually alive, mysterious and spectacularly beautiful places on Earth. Native Peoples since forever have occupied the forested canyons, all red, yellow, pink, purple, blue, maroon, white, banded and stained, full of caves, and cliff dwelling ruins...." The Spanish people from Andalucia came here in the 1500's making little villages and farms between the desert, alpine forest, green grass, elk parks, and antelope covered
		mountains. There is not an inch of Northern New Mexico that couldn't be kissed, blessed and therein found some strange wonder, like velvet covered ants, desert four o'clocks, sunsets beyond imagination, hot springs, etc. As my beloved wife Johanna said to me when we first met, ‘that land of Northern New Mexico is a great beautiful ocean crying tears of sunrises and sunsets for the water that left it behind.’ I want to show you the land I love, the land in which my wife, Johanna, and I live. I invite you to come and make a good happy ritual conference alongside my best friends.” – Martín Prechtel
	Conference Site For more information about the Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the history and beauty of the land visit: http://www.newmexico-ghostranch.org For more information about Hidden Wine events: Call . E-mail: hiddenwine@earthlink.net On the Web: http://www.hiddenwine.com/	Conference Cost: $ 550 ( discounted if paid by check $ 525) $ 150 deposit due with registration. Refundable until September 1st less $25 handling fee For registration form click here see below...
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	Martin Prechtel, shaman and teacher, was raised in New Mexico on a Pueblo Indian reservation. In 1971 Nicolas Chiviliu, a Mayan shaman from Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala called Martin to become his student and succeed him. Martin lived with Chiviliu for years, was initiated as a shaman and after his teacher’s death, took his place, healing and shamanizing among 30,000 Tzutujil Mayans amidst his new found village. After 1978 Martin became chief initiator and a public leader, guiding the young village men through long ceremonies. Martín resides in New Mexico and works as a painter, musician, storyteller, teacher and always, as a healer. His book Secrets of the Talk ing Jaguar was released in August 1998 by Putnam and the response to the book has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. His second book Long Life Honey in the Heart–Stories of Mayan Initiation will be released in October of 1999. Martín is most extraordinary as a teacher because, with great beauty and articulation, he is able to stand with one foot in the world of Western spiritual traditions and the other foot— and his entire soul— within his own tradition. Teaching internationally through ceremony, lecture and healing work, Martín helps people in many lands reconnect with their own sense of place—their sense of the daily sacred. Robert Bly describes Martín as “A short kind of pony that gallops through the fields of human possibility with flowers dropping out of his mouth...”

	Robert Bly has been writing poetry ever since he first fell in love. Instead of going on to teach in college, he decided to live on a farm in Minnesota. He has spent the last four decades writing poetry, translating poets from other cultures, making a living giving poetry readings, and teaching psychology and fairy tales to men and women. Eventually that lead to Iron John, one of his best selling books, now translated into more than 15 languages. This year alone he has published three books of poetry, the most recent being a translation of the poems of Ghalib from their original Urdu, in collaboration with his son-in-law Sunil Dutta. Robert Bly and Martín Prechtel met over 16 years ago and for the past decade have happily joined in conferences for both men and women. Gioia Timpanelli and Robert Bly have told stories and poems together for more than 20 years. "Robert Bly sees the preciousness in what is unseen and forgotten in the world,digging poems and ideas out of the ground like a single minded snuffling badger who will not be deterred. Polishing what was shunned and discarded, he hangs them around our necks as poems, making the world noble with the shine of desire for the best part of men and women, that part of us that modern culture would have tossed away." – Martín Prechtel about Robert Bly
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	Gioia Timpanelli is considered by many to be the master of America's professional storytellers. Frank McCourt, author of the bestseller Angela's Ashes, says of Gioia "No one in the world, yes, in the world, can tell a story better than Gioia Timpanelli." The great granddaughter of a traditional Sicilian storyteller, Gioia creates an extemporaneous performance with the aim of stirring something deep inside the listener's soul. Gioia was a founder of our current storytelling revival. Her PBS television series, "Stories From My House", won two Emmy awards; and she received the Women's Book Award her work with the oral tradition. Gioia just won the prestigeous 1999 American Book Award for her first book of fiction, Sometimes the Soul, published by Norton. Gioia has told stories all over the country at conferences and workshops with Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Robert Bly and Gary Snyder
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Workshop Registration Please print and send in with your registration deposit Name:............................................................................................................... Street:............................................................................................................... City:................................................... State:................ Zip:............................... Home Phone:.................................. Work Phone:............................................ Fax:..................................E-mail....................................................................... We accept Visa and MasterCard __ Check __ Visa __ MC Expiration Date:......................................................... Card#................................................................................................................ Signature:.......................................................................................................... Amount: $........................................ I am registering for the “Letters to the Flowering Earth” conference with Robert Bly, Martín Prechtel, and Gioia Timpanelli; . Oct. 6-10, 2000; Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Conference Cost: includes lodging and meals. $ 550 ( discounted if paid by check $ 525) $150 deposit due with registration. Refundable until September 1st less $25 handling fee A confirmation letter will be mailed or e-mailed on receipt of your registration deposit. For out-of town guests a conference van will be available to transport you to and from the Ghost Ranch Conference Center and the Albuquerque Airport. ( see update below) Space is limited. Please register early. Make check payable and send to: Hidden Wine Inc. 406A Lowell Davis Road North Grosvenordale, CT 06255 For more Information call Craig Ungerman at Hidden Wine: Call E-mail: hiddenwine@earthlink.net http://www.hiddenwine.com/ http://www.4insight.com/hiddewine/indexGR00.html ©1999 4insight LLC

Air Travel If you are traveling by air, you will be arriving at the the Albuquerque airport. We have reserved a 15 passenger van to take you to and from Ghost Ranch. The cost for this is $63 round trip paid in advance. A conference participant will meet you at the baggage claim area, next to the information booth, just at the bottom of the escalator. Look for the sign, "Ghost Ranch Conference." The Ghost Ranch Conference van will be at the airport by 2:15 on Friday, October 6th and will leave for Ghost Ranch by 2:30 pm. The van will return to the airport on Tuesday, October 10th no later than 3.00 pm. Please try to arrange your flights so that you arrive at least 1 hour before the van departs from the airport and 1 hour after the van arrives back to the airport. Please include flight arrangements this return form. If your flight is delayed and you miss the van, call Craig Ungerman at the Ghost Ranch Conference Center (505) 685-4333, and he will attempt to arrange a ride for you. Getting There by Car Ghost Ranch is located northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, some forty miles beyond Espanola on U.S. 84. Watch for the Ghost Ranch sign on the entrance gate between mile posts 224 and 225.