An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Coming in Fall 2022 – The Fifth Fedora Anthology
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Detroit Hives: Honey Bee Farms as Urban Revitalization
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Indigenous Regeneration: Remembering the Past to Inspire the Future
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Indigenous Peoples of Mexico Unite Against Corporate Mega-Projects
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The Right to Repair Your Devices & the Corporate Stranglehold
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
vision quest Archive
Myth: The Crow Who Visited the Land of the Seven Cranes
Posted on January 30, 2017 | 1 CommentThe original lands of the Crow or Apsáalooke peoples were east of Yellowstone National Park in Montana/Wyoming, the Absarokas, across the Basin to the Big Horn Mountains, and southeast to the Wind Rivers. This story, recounted to anthropologist Robert Lowie at the turn of the 20th Century, reveals the esoteric visionary experience of a young Crow, and his interest to visit the Land of the Birds.Jack Eidt and the Bison: Words to Save the World
Posted on March 20, 2016 | 1 CommentJack Eidt, reading from a literary vision quest called "Medicine Walk," Part of Environmental and Activist Poetry/Fiction at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, CA. 12/5/2015, from the Vision LA 2015 Climate Change Arts Festival.Walkabout: Following Songlines Beyond the Western Frame
Posted on May 2, 2014 | No CommentsWalkabout, vision quest, walking in Dreamtime, all of it refers to a particular rite of passage from the indigenous Australians, but also in evidence in animist cultures throughout the world. The 1971 film of the same name narrates a young woman and her brother's journey beyond their Western frame, but never quite able to follow the ancestor paths, or songlines, of the land.Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild
Posted on April 20, 2013 | 2 CommentsOn Earth Day, world ecosystems face imminent danger from humanity's ecological overreach and climate change. Following the original 1970 theme of a national teach-in, promoting awareness of the acute problems, we must pose solutions to advance environmental sustainability, building a movement to work toward its implementation.Dietary Fasting: Detoxification, Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation
Posted on June 19, 2012 | 7 CommentsWe are cut off from the healing calm of nature, we drive in gridlock inhaling carbon monoxide, and spend our leisure enclosed in a cold dark movie theater or dine at all-you-can-eat fried-food-extravaganzas. Hence, people often undertake a number of calorie-limiting diets and fasting regimes, which also may include connecting with the forests and oceans or communing with animals out in the wilds.Life and Death: Lakota Spiritual Practice
Posted on July 9, 2011 | 14 CommentsLakota spiritual leaders speak about dealing with a world out of balance, life after death, and overcoming drugs, money and emptiness. Lakota history and the Seven Sacred Rites are discussed.