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April 2020
POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Portland, ME
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Brattleboro, VT
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ New York City, NY
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Berkeley, CA
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »Ghosts & Rough Gods & Dark Road Dreams: A Daylong Teaching
For genuine citizens of a sombre hour The day is for pondering community making and contending well with hopelessness, for conjuring a land-aware, conscious life and for learning grief without grievance, for making matrimony and love and beauty and wisdom, and for doing the business of citizenship in strange days. Order tickets online now. Full description: GHOSTS AND ROUGH GODS AND DARK ROAD DREAMS As predicted, the kids are coming downtown from the psychic suburbs now, looking for a good…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Hood River, OR
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Astoria, OR
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »May 2020
POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ OUR Ecovillage, BC
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Qualicum Beach, BC
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Gabriola Island, BC
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Salt Spring Island, BC
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Demmitt, AB
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »POSTPONED: 2020 Nights of Grief & Mystery – Rough Gods World Tour ~ Calgary, AB
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would…
Find out more »Orphan Wisdom School: People Come From Away ~ overseas class (4/4)
This session is for Orphan Wisdom School scholars who have come to be known as 'Those Come From Away'. SESSION 1 of 4: May 17th-21st, 2017 in Llanrhian, Wales, UK SESSION 2 of 4: May 30th-June 3rd, 2018 in Árneshreppur, Iceland SESSION 3 of 4: May 22nd-26th, 2019 in Llanrhian, Wales, UK SESSION 4 of 4: May 24th-28th, 2020 St. David's, Wales, UK led by Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, Founder and Principal Instructor of The Orphan Wisdom School. NOTE this is a closed class,…
Find out more »July 2020
Die Wise, While There is Still Such a Thing as Wisdom
This is not a training, not a qualification, not something you might get for yourself instead of the standard schooling. This is disqualification. This is something you might get for yourself because of your standard schooling. This is disillusion of the stoutest kind. Linger over 'disillusion', though, and you might catch the spirit of radical investigation, relentless uncertainty, naked wonder, that will inform our meeting. You might in these few days together find a willingness to get out from under what brought…
Find out more »2020 Orphan Wisdom Apprenticeship
Tuesday July 14th - Sunday, July 19th, 2020 at Orphan Wisdom, Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada - Apprenticeship went the way of old courtesy in most working environments long ago. But apprenticeship is an old courtesy. It was there in the Mystery Schools, in the guild halls, in any place people were willing to marry discipline to the desire for understanding, to sire purposeful lives, achieved and contemplative lives that were indivisible from their daily lives. Discipline: The uncommon rigour of…
Find out more »August 2020
Orphan Wisdom School: Big Tent ~ graduate class
The annual session for those Orphan Wisdom School scholars who have come to be known as 'graduate scholars'. Led by Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, Founder and Principal Instructor of The Orphan Wisdom School. NOTE this is a closed class, open only to Big Tent graduate scholars. Please contact us if you would like to be added to our new school class notification list.
Find out more »January 2021
Die Wise, While There is Still Such a Thing as Wisdom
This is not a training, not a qualification, not something you might get for yourself instead of the standard schooling. This is disqualification. This is something you might get for yourself because of your standard schooling. This is disillusion of the stoutest kind. Linger over 'disillusion', though, and you might catch the spirit of radical investigation, relentless uncertainty, naked wonder, that will inform our meeting. You might in these few days together find a willingness to get out from under what brought…
Find out more »February 2021
Come of Age: Meditations from the World Tree, Withered
Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble ~ In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species. "Getting older is inevitable, becoming an elder is a skill." The sages seem to be departing. Elections enthrone Change, that’s all. The tribal lines deepen. And there's the weather, and the waters. The appearance…
Find out more »March 2021
Cantos from the Dark Road
As predicted, the kids are coming downtown from the psychic suburbs now, looking for a good time, looking for something like a tribe to belong to, looking for someone to blame. They are driven there by a sense that it might be too late now, that nobody seems to know but them that the sky is falling. There's not much that surprises. Older people around them feel impugned or distracted or paralyzed, feel shamed by the darkening sky, feel left behind.…
Find out more »July 2021
2021 Orphan Wisdom Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship went the way of old courtesy in most working environments long ago. But apprenticeship is an old courtesy. It was there in the Mystery Schools, in the guild halls, in any place people were willing to marry discipline to the desire for understanding, to sire purposeful lives, achieved and contemplative lives that were indivisible from their daily lives. Discipline: The uncommon rigour of thought and act that you take upon yourself, because of the regard you have for one…
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