HIDDENWINE presents	Winter 2004
	Behind the Eyes of Sleeping Bears Martín Prechtel’s Winter Writer’s Retreat
	Weeping Beauty into the Footprint of the World: Writing to Heal the Monster’s Heart February 22-29, 2004 at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico "In every part of the Holy Earth where humans still converse and speak of a time before their own, if you listen closely and long enough, you will at some point always hear a certain type of ancient tale in whose telling, insatiably hungry giants appear, who energetically hunt, haul away and eat human children in much the same way as people consume plants and animals, until a future generation of people is no longer possible. "In the stories of my Southwestern upbringing and later among the Tzutujil Mayans of Guatemala these giants usually descend from isolated half-human individuals who as little babies were abandoned in canyons, rivers or ash piles, left to die by their parents of the village who refuse to accept certain unique and anomalous qualities of the one of a kind children. Though forced to live ostracized, forgotten and utterly alone they miraculously survive without parents in a hard world until their immense hunger for the life, love and companionship they are denied causes them to "swell" into giants who relentlessly hunt and eat their own siblings, only to find that their hunger increases as they consume and plunder more and more of the unsatisfying emptiness of what they could not have. "I have always loved these particular Indigenous giant stories because the giants are eventually healed of the hunger after being ceremonially killed and brought back to life by a playful hero, a sort of magical child himself, who gives the giant a new heart carved of something precious to replace the thorny one of the past. "In the modern world with its powerfully addictive non-renewable, highly energized consumer-landfill syndrome, it is the unwanted or thrown away part of it all, the remaining unused husk of unconscious greed that becomes the unwanted giant whose bottomless pit of toxic pollutants, wastes and bad business practices is presently consuming the world, especially the increasingly cynical lives and bodies of our young people whose soul’s imagination has become numbed into this giant’s spell-like trance that causes them as adults to believe there is no other way to live beyond the soul-wasting humdrum life presented to them on the television, the giant’s eye. "I believe the human soul must have a natural and wild landscape on the earth, which to me is the face of all Divine, to maintain an inner wilderness I call health where our true natural souls can run free, swim according to their natures, without which we become a perverse forgetful liability to the Earth. "However, under the overly technological and synthetic conditions in which the people find themselves spiritually drowning today, most art, inventions and writing especially, has become a part of the giant’s roar: more a personification of the giant’s consuming hunger, a voice of the profound lack, than an art that brings the world back to life. "Like the ‘little’ or young hero who craftily wrestles and magically re-carves and heals the giant’s heart of its bottomless-world-consuming hunger of oblivion, all art and especially writing must re-carve the heart of the present language into a new cultural core where a courageous attempt at remaking the modern world’s consuming heart of hunger turns the giant itself into a grief stricken good hearted and caretaker of a never-before-seen culture, well placed in the earth. "This Indigenous expertise from intact oral culture can come alive inside our own writing and language use today, by making stories and writing in a way that feeds the wild nature within and without." ~Martín Prechtel
	Martín Prechtel’s Winter Writer’s Retreat Martín Prechtel's USA and International Schedule

	Come join the winter writer's workshop, February 22-29, 2004 with Martín Prechtel, author of Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, Long Life, Honey in the Heart The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: Ecstasy and Time and the newest book: The Toe Bone and the Tooth recently released in 2003. Possible subjects covered by Martín at his Winter Writer’s Workshop:	Martín Prechtel For the last couple of years Martín Prechtel, author of “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar” and “Long Life, Honey in the Heart,” has been conducting very successful creative writing workshops where the prose writer, non-writer, poet, and lovers of spiritual literacy can all come together, learn from each other and Martín. Martín Prechtel, an author, teacher, and shaman, was raised in New Mexico on a Pueblo Indian reservation. In 1971 Nicholas Chiviliu, an aging Mayan shaman from Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala called Martín to become his student. Martín lived with Chiviliu for years, was initiated as a shaman and after his teacher’s death, succeeded him, healing and shamanizing among 30,000 Tzutujil Mayans in his new found village. After 1978 Martín became chief initiator and a public leader, guiding the young men through long ceremonies.
	1.Learning to hear the metaphor in old stories 2. Hearing the culture in the old stories 3. Distinguishing between stories that distance us or brings us into the graces of our natural souls 4. Ancestral prejudice versus original thinking verses unique thought 5. Making gifts for the spirit in the writing 6. Writing as sacrificial gifts to keep the world alive 7. Sentences as spoken things representing by their musicality the nature of what they are trying to say 8. Story as medicine, ways of beginning and leaving off 9. Incantation, prayer, magical vision, dreams 10. Seeing an osprey from the point of view of the underwater rock hiding a trout. Indigenous story listening and making 11. Miss Rosie, breaking rocks of cynical rationalism into grief sand to make a beach of metaphor and culture 12. Painting with words 13. Wrestling the monster of "I" 14. Wrestling the cultural giant of the verb "to be" 15. Much, much more
	Workshop Details Links Cost is $525.00 $150 deposit due with registration. Refundable until Jan.1st, 2004 less $30 handling fee Space is limited to 80 participants. Please register early. For registration form & refund policy (also see below...) Workshop cost DOES NOTinclude lodging and food. Transportation For our out-of-town guests transportation will be available for $65 RT to transport you to and from Ojo Caliente and the Albuquerque airport. Please schedule your flight to arrive before 3 pm on Sunday, Feb 22nd , and to leave after 4 pm on Sunday, Feb 29th For more information about Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort visit: http://www.ojocalientespa.com For more information about Hidden Wine events: Call 860-923-6987, or call , Fax # E-mail: hiddenwine@earthlink.net http://www.hiddenwine.com/ For more information about Martín Prechtel's Year 2004 Schedule visit: http://floweringmountain.com Workshop Schedule Workshop will begin at 7:30 pm Sunday Evening, Feb 22nd , and registration starts at 5 pm in the Round Barn. Workshop will end no later than 11 am on Sunday, Feb 29th Schedule: Martin will teach for several hours each day - but the times will vary. However there will be plenty of time to enjoy the Hot Springs and natural beauty of the area. Lodging and Food We have reserved all of the cottages and hotel rooms at the Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resortat greatly reduced rates. The cost for a cottage is $68/night for single and $94/night for double plus tax for workshop participants. Hotel rooms are available at $56/night plus tax for single occupancy, $77/night plus tax for double occupancy. Cottage and hotel guests will receive unlimited access to the mineral pools and private baths plus a milagro wrap ($20/day value). Camping will be available for $10/night and the Mineral Springs will offer a special package for the mineral pools and bathhouses to campers.For those who would like other lodging options please contact us and we can make suggestions. Call 1-800-222-9162 to reserve your lodging. Make sure you tell them you are registered for Hidden Wine’s session and if you wish to share a cottage with another participant when reserving your room. They accept all major credit cards. There is a very good restaurant at the hotel, and several others within walking distance. Participants are responsible for their own meals. For more information about Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs Resort visit: http://ojocalientespa.com	Martín resides in New Mexico and works as an author, painter, musician, storyteller, teacher and always, a spiritual activist. Praise for “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar” and "Long Life, Honey in the Heart" "It's a precious thing, this book. I've never known another like it. It's a great encyclopedia of beauty... Like some poems of Neruda's, it is a treasure house of language, in service to life." —Robert Bly "Perhaps most remarkable is the luminous eloquence of Prechtel's language-the book is written in a style that carries something of the flavor of the indigenous oral tradition, a style worthy of the reverence accorded by most oral peoples to the beauty of living language. It's a landmark text...Don't miss it." —David Abram (author of "The Spell of the Sensuous") "Prechtel...shows us how to infuse language with spirit and a sense of the sacred without sacrificing its sensuousness... how a trained bard of a traditionalist society might attack a writing project- with all 20 layers transparent and tingling!" —Steven Larson, for Common Boundary "The Mayan Gods, who hold eloquence above all else, must surely be pleased with this soul, who in this lifetime is named Martín Prechtel." —Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run With Wolves "A lyrical, haunting memoir of one man's spiritual rebirth... "Long Life, Honey in the Heart" is a cry from the heart — a lonely yearning for an ancient, beautiful culture now gone forever." —Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking "Martín Prechtel is one of the most profound teachers I have ever encountered. He is an unusually gifted artist, musician, storyteller who guides and initiates with passion, kindness, eloquence, wisdom, fierceness and humor, awakening us to the sacred realities present everywhere at all times. To be with Martín is to remember the forgotten divinity that is the very essence of who we are."—Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield
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	“Northern New Mexico is one of the most spiritually alive, mysterious and spectacularly beautiful places on Earth. Native Peoples since forever have occupied the forested canyons, all red, yellow, pink, purple, blue, maroon, white, banded and stained, full of caves, and cliff dwelling ruins.	Ojo Caliente Centered in the most strikingly beautiful part of Northern New Mexico, Ojo Caliente hot springs was in use by the native peoples of the area for millenia, and first appeared on Spanish maps in the early 1600's. Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs was established in 1860 and is the oldest health spa in North America. Renowned throughout the world for its healing properties, Ojo Caliente is the only place in the world where the remarkable combination of five different types of mineral waters come streaming to the surface at a rate of more than 100,000 gallons per day. Ojo Caliente, translated from Spanish, means "hot eye"- referring to the hot eye of the spring..
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