My Friend Erica Ross from Toronto posted the following on her Facebook. It is worth reading and contemplating.


"Become the Wanderer, the Visionary.
Go dancing into the wilderness of your own SOUL.
Gather pieces of the unknown and bring them back
from the edge, from the periphery.
Inspire others to have faith in the unknown,
to seek vision in hidden and unexpected places.
Do this for the health of our entire human community."

The Wanderer has a calling to seek adventure, to seek truth, to seek soul, to seek authenticity in her self and everywhere, and then to share her insight and gifts with her community.

“The gift that the Wanderer contributes to her world- simply and amply through her presence- is the aura of mystery, darkness, the unknown, the emerging future. The Wanderer embodies and imparts the ambiance of the wild, the imaginable, the dream… the possible human and the future of human society.

The Wanderer is the Visionary who is mythical and often literally sent by the village out into the wilderness with the charge of gathering a piece of the unknown and bringing it back- the unknown that is at once a threat to the customs and routines of the village and the village’s only hope of cultural sustainability. She brings back tidings and talismans from the edge, from the periphery, the psycho spiritual realms beyond the borders.

Whether she dwells within the village, or wanders alone in some wild hinterland she generates a psychic turbulence in her community. Her people know that she’s out there, and they know what she is doing. Her very existence inspires others to have faith in the unknown, to seek innovation and vision in hidden and unexpected places."

Adapted from the book "Nature and the Human Soul" by Bill Plotkin

If this resonates, please post, and if you are in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), please let your friends know that we will be exploring this theme at tomorrow's DOWH session (Sat., April 16). More info is on the 'Unfolding' Event Page. http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=378629393734&ref=ts

Blessings to you all!!!!!
The peaceful wanderer,

Erica