A mandorla is the space where two circles or mandalas overlap, a place where paradox, dualities, ideas, and differences can greet and transform into something new.
Our MISSION is to explore these liminal spaces. We share the discoveries, practices, teachings, and stories of those, who journey into these thresholds, through writing, radio, film and other appropriate media. We travel to and integrate the wisdom of scholars, sages, and practitioners of the world’s wisdom traditions. And offer classes, workshops, and resources to bring these teachings into our personal lives and our service to others.
About Us
We develop projects through our exploration of sacred thresholds and crossroads, developing sacred questions, collecting the teachings and stories of the world’s wisdom traditions, and sharing the wisdom and practices. These are our current projects.
Standing On The Edge of Magic
In this project we explore the threshold of dying, discovering what death teaches about life.
Our Purpose is to reduce the fear of dying by sharing the stories of the dying, their loved ones, and the professionals and sages, who serve them. To honor the power and efficacy of spiritual care by remembering and teaching the ancient wisdom of spiritual midwifery to the dying as practiced in a modern age. And to unveil the mysteries of who we are if we can die. We share the beauty, wisdom, healing, intimacy and transformation of the dying process, and encourage compassionate care for the dying and their loved ones.
We begin with our storytelling project, encouraging, listening to and recording stories, to publish several volumes of Standing on the Edge of Magic. We will create a fully developed training program for spiritual midwives to the dying, developing and editing a textbook to articulate an integrated and unified perspective of spiritual midwifery to the dying. We will also develop a training program for lay persons and initiate a grassroots neighbor-to-neighbor program, for individuals to return to their communities to teach basic spiritual care to the dying, that we may all remember how to care for one another, regardless of religious affiliation. We will also offer a referral program and extensive collection of resources accessible online. And, we will offer pilgrimage tours to sacred sites around the world, sharing the wisdom of sages, sacred texts, and practitioners in our Wisdom of the World series.
All Medicine Men Are Family
In this project, we explore the practices of the sacred heart. This practice has many names, pointing to the spiritual even mystical exploration, knowing, and expression of the vast space where mystery and human greet one another. From this place of being, we learn to see and hear with new eyes and ears.
Our purpose is to tell the story of an open heart, by listening to sages and practitioners as they tell us their history, lineage, oral and written traditions, stories, teachings and discoveries. We ask how these ancient practices are relevant in our modern age regardless of religious preference, seeking the commonalities between us while respecting individual and cultural expression. And we teach the many variations of this practice as a tool for awakening and service to others.
Hieros-Gamos
In this project, we explore divine union as it is expressed in sacred relationship.
Our purpose is to tell the story of the Divine Masculine and Feminine in relationship to one another, and discover ways to live this wisdom in our personal lives. We ask how to embody consciousness within our bodies, healing wounds and other misunderstandings of the relationship between spirit and matter. We explore how to greet one another in body, mind, and spirit. And how relationship can become a spiritual practice, teaching us how to see god in ourselves and one another.
Filed under: The Mandorla Project
