*OVERNIGHT ACCOMODATIONS: Simple overnight sleeping arrangements available for up to 6 people - First come, first serve - $25 additional contribution to Mother’s House. Additional accommodations can be arranged locally through airbnb, hotels/motels, etc.
* bring your own sleeping bag, pillow, towel, & toiletries
* bring warm clothes for cold nights
***NOTE: EVENING PUJA/GONG BATH IN STARHENGE is a 30-90 minute ritual and Soundbaths will be indoors for this training. The Next Under-The-Stars All-Night Starhenge puja will be in the spring, weather permitting.
PLEASE BE ON THE LOOKOUT ONCE YOU HAVE REGISTERED: AN EMAIL WITH 4 DOWNLOADABLE PDF FILES INCLUDING: The directions and relevant details for event; The sacred agreement; and info on starhenge AND newest Mandala instillation on Mother’s Garden lands.
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A NOTE ON STARHENGE 13
Starhenge 13 is located in the Joshua Tree desert - a place of stark beauty and radiant silence, with a 360-degree view of the horizon and a full sky-dome above. This world peace bell garden is a focused container within the high desert vastness - a place for ceremonial performance art and community healing - to gather, dream, share, and celebrate together.
Inspired by Don Conreaux’s Starhenge Design Science, it is comprised of painted stone circles representing various calendar and divination systems from around the planet. The idea is to harmonize humanity's diverse perspectives into a unified whole - seeking to honor and understand one another through dialogue, and to practice a vision of planetary peace inspired by Robert Muller:
“The first 24-hour day of world peace will come when people around the world will gather together in circles, hold hands and give thanks for life and breath, while listening to all the gongs and bells of peace ring together around our planet earth.”
One way to connect with the purpose and power of Starhenge is through teachings on Native American Medicine Wheels:
“Wherever they are, however they are created, [medicine wheels] will always gather people in unity and community of mind, regardless of their background or religious beliefs. Circles of Earth offer a great way of moving beyond differences and provide an effective path for truly meeting together at the very heart of Earth….The wheel is a place to meet and marry all the disagreements and misunderstandings [harnessing what Dane Rudhyar calls “dissonant harmony”] within the context of the Council wheels.”
“Collectively, wheels share with us one of the most valuable understandings of all - the true meeting of our brothers and sisters in the great hoop of this world. As we all stand around the wheel, we can hear the stories of everyone and enlarge our own perspectives by putting ourselves in others’ moccasins.” (from Dreaming the Council Ways)
In the context of Starhenge, we can tune in and vibrate together, share our resonant perspectives, and creatively embody this movement towards world peace by enacting Gong Mystery plays, sacred tone improvisation, and ceremonial performance art. The simple while profound shape of the garden - the circle within the circle within the circle - empowers participants with the ever-expanding and inclusive awareness of the Gong ~ capable of bridging vast gulfs of time, space, and understanding.
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A NOTE FROM THE GUARDIANS OF THE LAND
In stepping onto this land you will not simply be getting out of your car, but entering into Mother’s Blessing, a space of healing where the opposites can meet, polarization can be contained, the invisible become visible and the unconscious, conscious.
In this long prophesied time of planetary transition, with all the volatility, instability, and crisis that inevitably goes with it, we are traveling through the chaos of being in between one level of implicate order dissolving and another more inclusive one arising. But for those who know we travel not alone, that we incarnated for this, that we are here not just for our own growth but for the benefit of all beings, and finally that Love is the first, last, and only way, there is also unparalleled opportunity to do together our part in this great turning of the Wheel.
This land and all that is on it and all that is experienced here, is dedicated to this.
We welcome you.