Vision Quest, Shamanic Knowing, Yurt Living, Mongolia & The Journey of the Soul | Steve McKenzie (2020)

Steve McKenzie joins us for Season 1 of Birdsong (2020).

Steve (Soulpaths Founder) is a trained Vision Quest facilitator and Vision Quest protector trainer (Stalking Wolf lineage, New Jersey). He is a Family Constellations facilitator (Margarete Koenning) and provides group workshops, as well as one-one constellation work.

He is an Ontological Coach (Newfield Institute) and provides personal nature-based mentoring. He conducts Sweat Lodges and Ancestor Circles at a variety of gatherings and venues, including his base at Kupidabin Wilderness, near Samford (QLD, AUS).

Steve also works with similarly-minded men to deliver Men's Soul Connection weekends.

He understands the relevance and place for ceremony and ritual, connection with Nature, living our life purpose, earth spirituality, shamanism, sacredness, consciousness, working with ancestors, Elderhood, ancient wisdom, and inner transformation.

He has deep respect for the First Nation peoples and Ancestors of this land and ensures such ceremonies honour and acknowledge the peoples and the Spirits.

Connect with Steve: www.soulpaths.com.au

 

TIMESTAMPS:

[5:55] A tiny little cricket on Vision Quest changed Steve’s life…

[9:45] Horse riding through Mongolia inspired Steve to live in a yurt for three years

[16:00] Perceptual shifts from living in a traditional spherical dwelling vs square shaped buildings

[20:08] Why the initial trip to Mongolia?

[24:37] Feeling the call to adventure - Steve’s initial Vision Quest and Stalking Wolf training

[27:57] Sitting alone in a three meter circle in the wilderness, for four days, with no food

[30:34] Approaching the rhythms of nature and observing the little things

[32:45] Distractions, fixating on time and tracking the movement of the sun

[34:39] Opening the heart to the medicine of the tiny little cricket

[39:04] Ancestral spirits, spirit beings, and the spirit world

[41:52] The journey of the soul & Bill Plotkin’s eco-soul-centric model of initiation

[50:55] Everyone has their own unique gift to share with the world

[55:25] Clearing the atmospheric fog of conditioning to see the glimmers of gold within

[57:41] What is your archetypal soul name?

[59:00] Holding space at the base camp while people are out Questing

[1:01:07] There are energetic concentric rings that ripple out from every single event

[1:07:36] Shamanic ways of knowing and supernatural / extrasensory modes of perception

[1:11:34] Questing in a group setting vs Questing by one’s self

[1:16:00] Musings on ancestral trauma and baggage