Michael Ortiz Hill
Painting by Don Bachardy
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Some folks merely go through midlife crisis. These last
five years I have passed through an “incurable” disease
– multiple sclerosis -- and have been returned to a very
functional body. Which is to say every step I take I
walk on the ground of the miraculous. I post my
resume here that it
might catch someone’s attention. My website will fill in
between the lines as will my books. My hope is to work
as an RN with psych patients and/or recovering
addicts/alcoholics. Also I teach and give workshops on
compassion as a spiritual practice. Contact information
is in the resume and sample chapters of my new book, The
Craft of Compassion, are posted on my web.
Blessings…
Michael
The
Heart of Learning the Craft of
Compassion
Shamanism, Addiction, and the Day I Didn't Die
Sacred Illness as Initiation
(YouTube video)
Michael's Resume
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Trip to Africa!
Join me on a
trip to Zimbabwe for a ritual initiation into the ngoma of
the water spirits with Mandaza Kandemwa.
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Tarot Card Readings!
Individual Tarot Readings with Michael Ortiz Hill.
Readings are done by phone. To schedule your reading and
to get more details click
here
For more information about Michael's Tarot Card
Readings you may also read
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Several years ago my study of dreams brought me to write about
the situation of racism in America. I was compelled by the idea that
African-American dreams could be most deeply understood from the wisdom tradition
at the source, and so I began exploring the African origins of black American
culture. Eventually I went to Africa and met the Bantu healer Mandaza Kandemwa
in Zimbabwe.
To our surprise, as Mandaza initiated me into the medicine tradition of
his people, a mystery began to open up between us. I call this mystery "gathering
in the names” to offer a twist of sweet plurality to Christ’s insight: wherever
two or more are gathered in the name of the sacred, spirit descends, awakens.
With an ancient way of peacemaking (Gathering in the Names) and an altogether
contemporary way of wisdom (Overcoming Terrorism: A Twelve Step Approach)
we hope to gather with you here for the sake of healing an anguished world.
— Michael Ortiz Hill
Audio from Michael's
Brandon Beckman Radio Interview on
Self-Compassion:
Introduction to Craft of
Compassion
Compassion for Others
Selections from Michael's book
"A Conspiracy of Kindness: The Craft of
Compassion" :
MICHAEL ORTIZ HILL is a registered nurse, a Buddhist
practitioner, and an initiated medicine man with tribal people
of Zimbabwe. The core of his spiritual practice has been the
refinement and activity of compassion. He is the author of
Dreaming the End of the World: Apocalypse as a Rite of Passage;
Twin from Another Tribe: The Story of Two Shamanic Healers in
Africa and North America; and The Village of the Water Spirits:
The Dreams of African-Americans (both books with Mandaza Kandemwa). He is also the author of the upcoming A Conspiracy of
Kindness: Living Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill which will
be part of this workshop. He lives in Topanga, California with
his wife Deena Metzger.
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Deena Metzgerer
Painting by Don Bachardy
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