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The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill

Craft of Compassion
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Dreaming the End of the World - Apocalypse as a rite of passage by Michael Ortiz Hill

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Selections of Michael's new book

The Perks of Being Terminal and other reflections

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Healing Initiation in Mexico


The Unbearable Lightness  of Being Terminal
 

Jesus on Coke

RN FM RadioDon't miss Michael's interview on RN FM Radio which aired on May 21, 2012
 
Compassion at the Bedside ofthe IllMichael's new book The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill is now available for the Kindle at Amazon.com for $7.50 - Press Release

This is the 2nd edition of the Book "Conspiracies of Kindness: The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill"

Sample Chapters: Preface, Ch.5, Ch. 14, Ch. 16, Ch. 27

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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 Conspiracies of Kindness: The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill
and does workshops and lectures on The Craft of Compassion. He lives in Topanga, California with his wife Deena Metzger.


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Michael's VoiceAmerica Interview with Dr. Jon Kell: Mind, Brain, and Body with the Good Doctor


Learning the Craft of Compassion a Video Essay   

Michael's Interview on Conspiracies of Kindness: The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill with Dr. Carol Francis

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Michael's talks at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles: Compassion for Others 

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.

— Michael Ortiz Hill



Selections from Michael's book, Conspiracies of Kindness: The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill :


About Michael...


  Michael's Resume

  Praise for The Craft of Compassion at the Bedside of the Ill

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Family Interviews

- Adelina Ortiz de Hill Part A
- Adelina Ortiz de Hill Part B
- Miguel Ortiz Hill Interview


 
 

More Reading...

The Thread of Empathy

  The Heart of Learning the Craft of Compassion

  Shamanism, Addiction, and the Day I Didn't Die

  Sacred Illness as Initiation (YouTube video)






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