Dancing in Paradox Circle with Enchanted Ecology and Ad Astra

This workshop is an exploration of the paradox and mystery of language and truth. The paths toward enchantment are overgrown with paradoxes – truths that appear to contradict on paper, but are unquestionable on a level beyond language. Everything we learn and communicate is processed through the filter of language.

How can we begin to see reality beyond the illusion of these very words?  How can we use words to express that the truth that can be spoken isn't the eternal truth?

Dancing in the mystery of these paradoxes is key to an experience of enchantment and the ability to enchant others. Truths that tear down certainty and literalism to reveal the shadowed space of mystery waiting behind our conscious minds. Though frightening from the outside, when stepped into, this mystery unmasks itself as vibrant wonder and authentic living.

During this circle, will share personal stories, opinions, and revelations, and experience philosophical wonder and community connection through guided conversation.

Enchanted Ecology was started in 2023 by Henry Kramer to bring both philosophical rigor and deep embodiment to an enchanted, wondrous, and mythopoetic connection with ourselves and the more-than-human earth. Enchanted Ecology events are designed to help us shed our “Gorgon eyes” (that turn the world to stone) and recover a perceptual capacity for awe and an unselfconscious embrace of spontaneity and imagination – crucial at a time of spiritual and ecological alienation.

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TO REGISTER: 

To register, complete the form by clicking "RSVP" AND send $30 payment via Venmo to @Connor-Stengle

If you are called to this event but funds are an issue, or if you need another method of payment, email mossandmoonlighthealing@gmail.com for assistance.

Located in Hopewell Junction, NY.

Exact address to the Sanctuary will be sent after registration.

You must be over the age of 18 to attend an event.

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FACILITATORS

Henry Kramer is a Hudson Valley writer, teacher, philosopher, and bard. He has been leading workshops on embodied connection to the more-than-human earth since 2015, including a panel for the UN Staff Council and a workshop on cultivating wonder at Harvard Divinity School. Henry teaches classes on mysticism, indigenous religions, myth and ritual, and ecospirituality at CUNY Hunter College, and has his MAs in Environmental Philosophy and Ecocritical Literature. He can be found wandering in the woods around Beacon, NY. You can find more of Henry’s work on Instagram @enchanted.ecology or at www.enchantedecology.com.

Connor Stengle is a philospher, writer, a martial and material artist, and ritualist. Connor is passionate about mythology, rites of passage, and both the ethereal and natural worlds. His mission under Ad Astra is to awaken sparks of internal truth, curiousity, and connection among our fellow humankind. You can find him on Instagram at @lost.in.the.astral.sea