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After over fifteen exhausting years of flying in metal airships, being hauled in trains, ferries, canoes, motor boats, buses, taxis, driven in private cars, camping for the occasional two days in hotels, privates homes, mountain sides, beaches or the more usual catnaps caught between engagements in cars and planes, all to fulfill the commitment I still have to my deep love of the Holy in Nature and the possibility of a natural culture for all people no matter how deeply spiritually eroded, numbed or distanced from their Indigenous Souls hidden in the forgotten wilderness of their original being they have become, one day — after hearing the red-wing blackbirds of a fiery New Mexico dawn mimic my sighs and the early morning sound of my truck starting up as we headed out again, I luxuriously conjectured about the unlikely possibility of making a “school” where some of these same good dedicated people we’d been seeing on the road might be willing to travel to me. A place closer to my Spanish ponies, my deserts, our life, my shrines, the New Mexico sunrise and violently starry nights inside the cultural and natural desert earth that gives what I teach its life. A place of ritual learning, doing and feasting where many of the marvelous and heartfelt people spread throughout the world who like myself have for so long deeply desired a life of natural intelligence, courage and Indigenous majesty could come together for ten days in a row, two times a year to continue and add on to what we learn each session in order to eventually be capable of making a “real” village type ritual feast for the Holy in nature with a deepened capacity to hold hands with our diverse Indigenous Souls.
Because inside of Bolad’s Kitchen I can now, after all these years, teach a little more to capacity sailing freer in a more open sea of thought and discovery with my mates unhampered by the barnacled brains of academic stigma and the self-imposed restrictive time-harbors of the modern world’s neurotic need to compress, delimit, compartmentalize and commodify even the inner space of our souls leaving nothing unsellable, trying to convince the world that the resulting cultural vacuum is some precious freedom instead of the walking death of amnesia it is, I have, in the company of such hard working and receptive hearts, been able to attempt shores of understanding I only dreamt of in the past. Like all the tribal nomads of the world, it has become a way for a bunch of “spiritual orphans” like myself to have a friendship with our hands and a home for our deeper and mutual comprehensions for at least twenty days a year if not more.
While Bolad’s Kitchen has become as precious to me as a pile of new born puppies or the sweet aroma of a free-born cavorting colt or a newly found ancient red clay jar full of still viable seeds from a forgotten time, the school is nothing without its students. After all, these students and their personal discoveries in this village style of teaching are the seeds. It is the very diversity of our backgrounds, cultures, colors, ages, doubts and sincere failed attempts for a better future that make up the content of the kinds of spiritual seeds needed to keep these knowledges alive and renewable today as we continue trying to intactly live in the digesting belly of the blasé nightmare of modernity’s arrogant untenable trance.
Because I am an admitted addict of the ecstasy of such deeper learning in service to the Holy in Nature, I in my love of it am calling for the next group of seeds; I am inviting those of you that wish it, to plant your forgotten hearts into the next four year cycle of students to add to the caravan of beauty already there.
This new class is called:
The New Sprouts:
A course in overlooked histories of forgotten people
kept alive in the smallest of places
Hope with Details
I can’t wait to begin and as all Bolad’s Kitchen classes, like all village teachings throughout the world and indeed life itself, begin with teaching through having its students attempting to comprehend a riddle, to those that sign up, I will send the first years riddle right away to you. Long Life, Honey in the Heart, No Evil, Thirteen Thank Yous.
All Blessings,
— Martín Prechtel
Those of you who are interested in this type of ongoing- Martín Prechtel-all-encompassing-village-style-learning for the next round of Bolad’s Kitchen’s search for a friendship with the Indigenous Soul. Please call or write:
Bolad’s Kitchen
PO Box 338
Ojo Caliente, NM 87549
phone: (505) 583-9103
bluetayra@newmexico.com
www.floweringmountain.com
The Cost is $1500 one year (20 days)
Or $850 for one session
For those who can, the cost is $2500
If you would like to donate to the scholarship fund, please see form below (you do not need to attend Bolad’s Kitchen to donate to the scholarship fund).
If you would like, as well, to give money to make it possible for Bolad’s Kitchen to build a school, library, housing and ritual/farming area according to Martín’s dream, please contact us directly at bluetayra@newmexico.com or (505) 583-9103, or contact Marianne Lust at (802) 453-2960 or marianne@gmavt.net
$250 deposit due with registration. Refundable until May 1st, 2008 less $35 handling fee
Registrations are welcome after May 1st. Your full non-refundable tuition will be due with your registration.
For registration form & refund policy (also see below...)
Workshop cost DOES NOT include lodging and food.
We reserve the right to cancel if lack of registration deems it necessary
Bolad’s Kitchen "The New Sprouts" schedule for 2008/2009:
The December 1 – 10, 2008 session will begin at 8:00pm Monday evening December 1st, and registration will start at 7:00 pm at the Santa Cruz Church in Ojo Caliente. The session will end no later than 11am on Wednesday, December 10.
The June 25 – July 5, 2009 session will begin at 8:00pm Thursday evening June 25th, and registration will start at 7:00 pm at the Santa Cruz Church in Ojo Caliente. The session will end no later than 11am on Sunday, July 5th.
Lodging and Food
There are about 6 lodging establishments in the Ojo Caliente area that range from camping to quite spacious houses, ‘50’s style motels to the local mineral springs, and the always gracious Felipe Ortega’s bed and breakfast. For a complete list of lodging options and contact information please go to: Lodging
Participants are responsible for their own meals.
Transportation
For our out-of-town students transportation will be available for $50 round trip ($30 one way) to transport you to and from Ojo Caliente and the Albuquerque airport. Please schedule your flight to arrive before 3:30 pm on the opening day and to leave after 3:30 pm on the closing day. The shuttlevan will stop at a natural foods grocery market in Santa Fe on the way up to Ojo Caliente for students to buy groceries for the week, if they choose. A transportation form will be sent to you about 8 weeks before class begins for those who would like to take the airport vans.
Bolad’s Kitchen: New Class!
The New Sprouts: “Hope with Details”
2008/2009 Registration
Bolad’s Kitchen Schedule for Year One
Session One: December 1 – 10, 2008
”Approaching the Ancient Seed Jar”
Session Two: June 25 – July 5, 2009
"Teaching of the Butterfly House
Part 1: The Invisible Wing"
Bolad’s Kitchen Registration
Please print and send in with your registration deposit
Name:..........................................................................................................................
Street:..........................................................................................................................
City:........................................................... State:................ Zip:...............................
Home Phone:..............................................................................
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Please mark which sessions you will be attending:
Please Register me for Bolad’s Kitchen New Sprouts
___ First Full Year
___ December 1 – 10, 2008
___ June 25 – July 5, 2009
Tuition DOES NOT include food and lodging.
The cost is $1500 for one year if full tuition is paid before May 1st, 2008
After May 1st, the tuition for the full year is $1700.
Or $850 for each session if paid separately
$2500 for those who can
$250 deposit due with registration.
Refundable until May 1st, 2008 less $35 handling fee
After May 1st, 2008 ALL registration fees are non-refundable.
Registrations are welcome after May 1st. Your full non-refundable tuition will be due with your registration.
___ I have read and understand the refund policy stated above. (please mark or initial)
Payment method:
Enclosed is a check for $____________________
Please make you check payable to Bolad’s Kitchen.
if you are sending the $250 deposit, the remaining
balance of $1250 for the full year or $600 for one session is due by May 1st, 2008.
We accept Visa and MasterCard, American Express and Discover-
Charge my Credit Card for $ _______________________
If you are charging the $250 deposit the remaining balance of $1250 or $650
will be charged to your account on May 1st, 2008.
Card Account #_________________________________Exp. Date______________
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*Please include your CVV2 code along with your credit card number and expiration date. What the CVV2 code is is a 3 digit number on the back of your card.To find it, look at the signature plate (where you sign your name) on your credit card, there should be a long line of numbers on that plate, the last 3 digits is your CCV2 code for that card.
If sending a check, make your check payable and send to:
Bolad’s Kitchen
PO Box 338
Ojo Caliente, NM 87549
If using Master or Visa Card:
send to address above and/or send Fax to 505-583-9103
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