“Letting Go of Self-Importance of the Ego-Mind and Living in a State of Well-Being”
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"Magicians of the world unite!"
A quote from a letter to Lynn V Andrews from William S. Burroughs
For 2010..."In order to achieve the highest levels of consciousness and spiritual skills, you need to let go of self importance. We are going to journey with bright Cloud Woman and Live Arrow to learn to live in a state of well-being. Learn how to use our abilities to 'stop' the ego from having a starring role in our life. Discover what you want to give up in your life for this new period of history. Learn to re-invent yourself for 2012 and beyond."
Return with me to the sacred fires of Joshua Tree on the Mesa for my 22nd annual Spring Gathering on the majestic mesas of Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico …
Experience four magnificent days with men and women from all over the world in a rich celebration of sacred ceremony … drumming … the creation of sacred art … deep personal exploration and healing … meditation and conscious dreaming with Jack Lee and my Joshua Tree band … and a Sacred Fire Ceremony.
It is these very elements of beauty and power woven together into one magnificent whole that make the Joshua Tree Gathering unlike anything you have ever experienced before.
Bright Cloud Woman is a very sacred sky being who has given us her name and her Wisdom for this magical event. Hers are the energy and teachings of the sunlight that radiates through the edge of the storm clouds, effervescent, ethereal, the soft edge of the masculine thunder clouds which accompany the raw power of a storm. Her power is equally worthy of respect, for hers is the softness after the storm with a beauty that will drop you to your knees in awe.
Bright Cloud Woman is a bringer and teacher of the rewards of a prosperous physical and spiritual life. She is known for her ability to direct healing energies to you. She helps you connect with your internal sense of heaven on earth as she invites you into deep and meaningful inner reflection through which you may draw out a feeling of joyousness.
Live Arrow connects Heaven/Earth, Sky Father/Earth Mother, coming alive as an energy when it connects with Earth Mother. This is the bridge from Bright Cloud Woman to our physical ability to manifest our dreams and transformations on and in this earth reality.
“22” is a master number of great power considered by many to be the Master Builder because of its ability to help you combine illumination and practicality to transform dreams into reality. Stories are never written about people who try to live safely. At our 22nd annual Joshua Tree Gathering, we will push the envelope. With humor, excitement, joy and the power of our intent, we will challenge ourselves every day to become more, to discover and celebrate our purpose for being alive, to shine the light within each of us out into the world a little more brightly.
I invite you to join me, and I look forward to meeting you with great anticipation.
In love and spirit,
Lynn
PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT
Expand your skills by learning how to help your clients:
Understand the essential role of our thoughts in the process of healing.
Explore the connection of mind, body, and spirit in illness and health.
Increase their sense of personal power, self-esteem and self-worth.
Strengthen their personal intent, accountability, and ability to manifest their dreams into reality.
Develop an understanding of the difference between feelings and emotions.
Explore unique methods for releasing suppressed emotions.
Become active participants in their own psychological and spiritual growth.
LOCATION
The location for our gathering this year will be Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. It will be on the high desert Mesa of the New Mexico wilderness; a beautiful and natural landscape surrounded by spectacular rock formations, ancient energy, fossils and dinosaur bones.
Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre retreat and education center run by the Presbyterian church, close to the village of Abiquiu in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. It is the subject of many landscapes by the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who maintained a summer home there in 1934, then her permanent residence on the property from 1949 until her death.
Dinosaur bones were found here as early as 1885. In 1947 the paleontologist Edwin H. Colbert documented the discovery of over a thousand well-preserved fossilized skeletons of the small Triassic dinosaur called Coelophysis in a quarry here.
Ghost Ranch was given by Arthur and Pheobe Pack to the Presbyterian Church in 1955. The 21,000 acres that comprise Ghost Ranch were part of a land grant to Pedro Martin Serrano from the King of Spain in 1766. The grant was called Piedra Lumbre (shining rock). The name "Ghost Ranch," or the local name "El Rancho de los Brujos," was derived from the many tales of ghosts and legends of hangings in the Ranch's history.
"Rancho de los Brujos" the Ranch was called; "Ranch of the Witches," haunted by evil spirits. It is not surprising that today's name for this land is "Ghost Ranch," and the logo is a cow's skull.
For many years only a narrow dirt road led up the twisting Chama River Valley northwest from Abiquiu. The turn-off to Ghost Ranch was marked by an animal skull long before Arthur Pack bought the ranch in 1936.
There were many bones to be seen in this high desert country and artist, Georgia O'Keeffe was entranced by them, painting them, displaying them, and shipping a barrelful back to New York. One of her Ghost Ranch neighbors, a Navaho named Juan de Dios, had a pet steer of which he was very fond. When it died he gave the animal's skull to O'Keeffe for her collection. O'Keeffe made a drawing of this ox skull and presented it to Arthur Pack as a gift. He promptly adopted the artwork as the logo for Ghost Ranch.
Joshua Tree Gathering "On The Mesa" at Ghost Ranch, will be home to an extraordinary gathering of people from all over the world, women and men who have come together at this place of beauty for ceremony, ritual, meditation and healing. Facilitated by Lynn Andrews, the gatherings are profound in nature and magical in spirit. Lynn draws from her decades of apprenticeship with Agnes Whistling Elk and Ruby Plenty Chiefs to deliver a workshop that powerfully impacts each and every participant. As Lynn teaches, we are one with Mother Earth . . . to heal her we need first to heal ourselves.
"Everyone has what he or she needs, the mirrors. Each of us has asked, before being born, for everything needed. The problem is, when we are born, we become caught in the dream. We are born into a kind of sleep. To become enlightened is to wake up from that dream."
Thank you for your interest in volunteering.
Lynn offers a limited number of volunteer positions each year for her Joshua Tree Gathering. Please strongly consider attending the event as a full-paying participant if this is your first time. The reason we urge you to do this is that the Sacred Joshua Tree Gatherings with Lynn contain an enormous amount of information, involve very deep inner processing and often a need for extra sleep and personal time.
Though volunteers are guaranteed presence at all meditations and event lectures, they do not always have the time to attend to themselves that participants do. However, if you are unable to pay the full fee, enjoy hard work & being of service we invite you to apply to volunteer!
***Applications are being accepted until April 9, 2010***
Please click below to obtain your Volunteer application form. Print the three pages and fill them out. Then please fax them to the number listed on the form (954-698-6569). If you would like more information, you can e-mail Julie Hill at the email address listed on the form or by using our contact form and selecting "JT Volunteering".
Julie Hill
Volunteer Coordinator
Applications are now being accepted.
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The Essay contest is closed! - We have a winner!
This year at Joshua Tree we explore: “Bright Cloud Woman”
Bright Cloud Woman is a very sacred sky being who has given us her name and her Wisdom for this magical event. Hers are the energy and teachings of the sunlight that radiates through the edge of the storm clouds, effervescent, ethereal, the soft edge of the masculine thunder clouds which accompany the raw power of a storm. Her power is equally worthy of respect, for hers is the softness after the storm with a beauty that will drop you to your knees in awe.
Bright Cloud Woman is a bringer and teacher of the rewards of a prosperous physical and spiritual life. She is known for her ability to direct healing energies to you. She helps you connect with your internal sense of heaven on earth as she invites you into deep and meaningful inner reflection through which you may draw out a feeling of joyousness.
*Accommodations, meals, and transportation are not included. Onsite room and board starts at $390 for the entire event.
Camping is also available at $19 per night and meals at $30 per day.
Contest is closed!- We have a winner!
DEADLINE was April 1, 2010
Past Winners of the Essay Contest
To view past winners essays, click on the links below. They are in PDF format.
Essay Contest & Winner 2009 - Ursula C.
Essay Contest & Winner 2008 - Michele Morgen
Essay Contest & Winner 2007 - Angela Buckley
Essay Contest & Winner 2006 - Henry (Firewolf) Marchand
Essay Contest & Winner 2005 - Diane Daughtery
Essay Contest & Winner 2004 - Jude Rose Allen
Essay Contest & Winner 2003 - Maria Mar
Essay Contest & Winner 2002 - "Bird Mum" Mary Westmoreland
Essay Contest & Winner 2001 - "Turquoise Feather Dreaming" Dakotah M. Davis