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"The Miracle of Circles" Editor's Welcome

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the Spring 2007 edition of Circles on the Mountain, a publication of the Wilderness Guides Council and the only journal dedicated to modern day Rites of Passage. The theme for this edition is "Miracles". Although this is the 15th edition of Circles, this is our first time presenting an issue entirely online. It seems apt, then, that we turn to an internet ...
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What Are WE Missing?

“Miracle: 1.) an event or action that apparently contradicts known scientific laws and is hence thought to be due to supernatural causes, esp. to an act of God  2.) a remarkable event or thing; marvel 3.) a wonderful example” --- Webster’s New World Dictionary 

 

May 27, 2006:  We are close to the summit of Pine Mountain, near Frazier Park, CA. ...
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A Meditation on Psychotherapy and Energy
Psychotherapy and energy medicine are twin poles of a current that unites us, body, mind and spirit with the larger and the smaller energies of the Universe.  Psychotherapy, the “expert” in  the micro, assists us in finding a map to the dilemmas, confusions, distortions of our childhood ego state that was vulnerable before all the cruelties and foibles of the world, was par...
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More Articles, Poetry, Art and Contributions
Meeting Dragons

What if I invited you to sit at the top of a sixty-foot high zip line and fly down the wire; to watch the sunset after fifty hours of fasting; sit on the ground in a pitch-black, steam-filled sweat-lodge; to sit on a beach, blindfolded, toward the ...
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Mountain Creation

 
It is here, high in the mountains
on some wind-blasted ridge
that one comes face to face
with Creation.

Here the lifeforce
that makes stone
is struck, blown, fractured
sent on its journey
to becoming soil, bird wing, badger
an...
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Grace of Age

With softened faces
and rounded bellies,
an aging woman's beauty
is its own natural world,
each changing curve
of hip and breast lovely
as the earth itself,
like the loden-washed vista
of a high desert flat,
the snow-painted Sierra
...
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March Wind

The wind brings a pang of you,
a memory sharp as the smell of sage.
I know where you are,
the dark hills, the unreachable stars,
the stony ground.

The wind rises, the house shakes,
we stack the stove ...
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