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Crucibles for Change

Often in life, chemistry, and Nature we need to add heat to transform things from their current state to a new and more desirable state. To do this we need a container, a crucible. The workshops are crucibles; they are week-long, shamanic experiences which involve authentic ritual work to create personal transformation.

Your integration and personal growth often demand stronger crucibles than you can create alone in your personal work. That's normal for humans. This is why we need to come together with focused intention and the grace of spirit to support each other in our own individual work. If you are frustrated, bored, depressed, or stuck you may need a stronger crucible to heal. If so, it's time to take a workshop.

Last Mask Center exists as a center for change. Through the Center I endeavor to provide the components missing from the change and personal growth processes of most people. These components are shamanic at their essence. They demand a deep connection with spirit that can be achieved only through the journey (altered states) and ritual (not ceremony).

Therapists and other practitioners can easily list the big blocks and impasses that people encounter in therapeutic processes. Many of these are easily relieved when individuals learn to journey for themselves and establish their own link to Spirit through their power animals and helping spirits. Personal guidance and connection to the infinite love of the Great Mystery comes to people through journeying. The experience of absolute, unconditional love heals a great deal of what seems impossible when limited by ordinary reality solutions. Soul retrievals and shamanic healing allow the healing of most of the rest of what ails us as contemporary people.

What remains then is the need for healing rituals to healing those patterns of energy and behavior that are so large, so old, and grasp us with such strength that is beyond the power of the client and the practitioner to heal. For these things we do not need years and years and years struggling and suffering to heal. What we need is ritual. Particularly group rituals which are the primary purpose of the workshops. They provide an arena to create a large container for directed and safe ritual work. What healing ritual offers you is the opportunity to ask Spirit to intervene and to change for you those things in your life which are beyond your ability to change.

Last Mask Center is a crucible for change on many levels. Opportunities for personal change are provided through shamanic healing, learning to journey, and shamanic counseling. To maintain those changes we all need new life skills. Opportunities for skill development are provided through the classes on journeying and integration, DreamShaping, Trance Dance, and Mirrors and Projections. Opportunities for transformation are provided through the creative and ritual work that make up the workshops.

All of these layers work together. They are available for you to weave together to create a process of transformation and the realization of your soul's dream for you life.