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ALAN LEON - A BIT OF HISTORY |
My decades of experience in finding healing through nature, sacred sites and tribal traditions has created a unique ability to create itineraries to enhance travel steeped in growth consciousness. Here is a little of my story ..... |
Alan Leon with his wife, Namae Ntumae |
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I left home in '72 and went outback in the Northern Rocky mountains . Usually alone I would wander the wilds for 2-4 months at a time. Thousands of nights in camp over two decades added up to be something like eight years of wilderness hermitage. |
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Spirit encounters, experienced since childhood, increased the longer I lived out of our cultural context. The wilderness years gifted me with a few total immersion full waking visions. One desperate night, early in my seeking, I cried and cursed, seeking any kind of answer from God. In morning's first light I experienced a wondrous inner/outer encounter with Divine Mother. Though this was not the direction a thought I was looking. She has been a great help introducing me some of the rest of the family, most notably our loving and fully supportive All Father; beginning to answer to both my parental and spiritual (religious) wounds. Like many of us my life began in the wounds of our culture and as a child I grew into the idea that I was unacceptable as well as dammed. On the dark side, this explains why I was much happier alone. On the light side, the mountain spirits and ancient ones have assured me that they called me to return to a natural place of Self.
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Years of mountaineering (with hundreds of peaks climbed, cliffs dangled from, extreme skiing, and semi-wild horses) built a physical balance that has translated into willing ability to seek and work for inner balance. Extended quiet has opened instinct and innate meditation to inspired inner guidance. Spirit in nature, many times and ways, proved that we are loved, supplanting my loneliness. At times birds would sit on me as I prayed. As my meditation grew natural wild animals, large and small, touchingly close, synchronized my seeking as we walked and even sat in natural-being together (as in Zazen, a now favored meditation). I have lived many stories of Spirit encounter, telepathic animals, life path synchronicity and psychic shamans. A few of these stories can be found in this web site. And yes the book will be written (someday). |
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Here is an excerpt from an interview with Alan The trips offered in this edition of "Pilgrims" are organized and led by Alan Leon, an extraordinary man with a unique history. When he was 18 years old, Alan began living in the Canadian north woods, camping out and living partially off the land. For years he roamed up and down the Rockies from Alaska and the Yukon to Montana and Wyoming. Since then he has traveled far and deep. "In the winter I'd go into the deep snow and dig a hole to live in. Day after day there was nothing to do but listen to what I observed and felt. I found a divinity, a prayer, in communion with my inner Self. But also, without the blinders of our culture, I was able to see outside the cultural box; so there came encounters with various forms of the spiritual world." Going off alone, Alan has spent a total of eight years in wilderness hermitage. Soon tales of a "crazy white boy" living in the wilds reached Native American elders who began sharing their history and culture with him. To earn a grubstake for his equipment and food he worked as a shepherd, a cowboy, and pack train guide, horse packing people and cargo back and forth in the mountains. |
Throughout the Andes and the Amazon he was recognized as a person of unusual spiritual attainment and power. All over the Andes and the Amazon he met and worked with authentic native healers and shamans. They told him that it was time for them to pass on their ancient knowledge to outsiders. They asked Alan to "bring the people." So now you are invited ... |
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