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Donations from our SpiritQuest Retreat guests in December enabled us to make significant gifts of food and supplies to indigenous peoples...
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Selva Lawler
- Dec 21, 2020
- 7 min
Wildly Optimistic for What's to Come
I took off for a weekend last month just to try and recall the whole year. All of the faces and all of the places, wonderin' where they...
Selva Lawler
- Nov 17, 2020
- 3 min
An Attitude of Gratitude
Hi fam! Sometimes I have a unifying theme to discuss. This is not one of those times. Here are a few updates. OCT. 30 - NOV. 1 ONLINE...
Selva Lawler
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
Memoires of Maestro
Don Howard October 3, 1947 — October 13, 2019 "We’re all on borrowed time," Don Howard noted, "just trying to borrow a little more."...
Selva Lawler
- Sep 28, 2020
- 2 min
Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 Online Reunion for SpiritQuest Graduates
Hey fam! Thank you so much for everyone who filled out the survey I circulated. As responses and phenomenal ideas continued to trickle...
Selva Lawler
- Aug 24, 2020
- 3 min
October 2020 Online Reunion for SpiritQuest Alumni
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." - Oliver Wendell Holmes It's been an...
Selva Lawler
- Jul 29, 2020
- 9 min
Nutritious & Delicious
Hey fam! I wanted to send an update sans words that rhyme with Jonah Cyrus. Given that we still haven't conducted any retreats since...
Selva Lawler
- Jun 25, 2020
- 6 min
The Garden of Your Mind
If we don't regularly maintain SpiritQuest Sanctuary, the jungle swallows everything in sight. Accordingly, we continue to perform...
Selva Lawler
- May 26, 2020
- 5 min
A Lifetime in a Day
Lending a Hand in Support of SpiritQuest's Staff Due to the coronavirus and the total shutdown of international travel, SpiritQuest has...
Selva Lawler
- May 1, 2020
- 5 min
The Things You Look At Change
I've repeatedly gotten the question: what are things like in Peru at the moment? In many respects, it feels like some scene in Bill...
Selva Lawler
- Apr 11, 2020
- 6 min
Vamos!
The world has been ground to a halt by a virus approximately one ten-thousandth of a millimeter in diameter. Something that is invisible...
Selva Lawler
- Apr 2, 2020
- 5 min
#31 - The Last Time
"No matter how many times you do something, there will come a day when you do it for the last time." - Sam Harris There will be a last...
Selva Lawler
- Mar 22, 2020
- 8 min
#30 - Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
I remember a few months back reading about the wildfires rampaging through much of Australia. A bookstore in the fire-ravaged town of...
Selva Lawler
- Mar 12, 2020
- 7 min
#29 - Is a Thing Right? (Coronavirus Update)
It was a no-no. And a big one, at that. The participant in question was looking to do an Ayahuasca tour, and wanted SpiritQuest to be one...
Selva Lawler
- Feb 18, 2020
- 10 min
#28 - The Bank of Ayni & Reciprocity
Ayni. If you've done our work, you know that the Quechuan term Ayni means reciprocity. In some places in Peru, Ayni is translated as,...
Selva Lawler
- Feb 4, 2020
- 7 min
#27: Mission Very Difficult: Effing the Ineffable
Hermanas y hermanos! It's nice to be back in the newsletter flow! Our team took some well deserved time off around the holidays and...
Selva Lawler
- Dec 27, 2019
- 9 min
#26: A Year in Review & Naive Optimism...Check!
As the sun is about to set on 2019, there are no shortage of pieces online that take a look back in the rearview mirror and provide...
Selva Lawler
- Nov 19, 2019
- 3 min
#25 - An Illuminating Glimpse: The New Biopark.org
Certain people accomplish feats in their lives that figuratively become the culmination of a life's work. You need look no further than...
Selva Lawler
- Oct 29, 2019
- 11 min
#24 - There's Always More
(Quick initial note for people receiving this e-newsletter for the first time: I've recently connected with a number of you, and if you...
Selva Lawler
- Oct 17, 2019
- 13 min
#23 - Rest In Pride, Don Howard. Your Power of Love Radiates Brighter than Ever!
Don Howard Lawler October 3, 1947 - October 13, 2019 (Ascended) My friend and SpiritQuest grad Martin and I are collaborating and...