Earth Wisdom Institute
  • WELCOME
  • Lughnasad Harvest Rituals
  • Autumn Equinox and Mabon Traditions and Celebration
  • Vinotok Ceremonies & Autumn Equinox
  • Summer Solstice Celebrations
  • Valentine's Day-Making Love with Mother Nature
  • EARTH WISDOM MYSTERY SCHOOL/SECULAR MINISTRY
  • Spring Equinox
  • SPRING EQUINOX POEM
  • White Elk - Welcoming Spring
  • Beltane Celebration - Mountain Style
  • MARRYING THE EARTH
  • Candlemas, Imbolc and Teachings of the Old Ones
  • Imbolc Candlemas Celebration
  • Thanksgiving with the Dalai Lama 2012
  • Winter Solstice Celebration
  • When Santa was a Woman
  • Mother Earth, Father Sky Retreat
  • Samhain: Ritual and Healing
  • Indigenous Priestess Medicine
  • Ceremonies of Elderhood
  • Secular Ministry Certification
  • WEDDINGS, ELOPEMENT PACKAGES, CEREMONIES
  • Upcoming ONE WITH NATURE Retreats, Gatherings, Secular Seminary Events
  • New Year's Blessing
  • Earth Blogs
  • WISE WOMAN CONSULTATIONS
  • SHAMANIC OFFERINGS
  • LABYRINTHS OF LIFE
  • Ritual and Healing - the book
  • Past Blogs
  • Earth Essays
  • Poetry
  • Notes from Goats & Big Kids Farm
  • Exerpts From The Comfort Queen
  • Sheros Journey

Mystery School and Secular Ministry

Do You--     Wish to Become One with Nature?

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​--wish to live ever closer to the timeless Mysteries of the Earth?

--yearn for sacred ritual to be a daily part of your life, family, group, community? 

--long for a supportive, intentional online Tribe with whom to communicate your spiritual exploration?

--desire to heighten and utilize your powerful and unique gifts of Intuition and Healing Arts? 

--dream of apprenticing with a life-long Practitioner of the Mysteries of Earth Wisdom? 

--want to learn ancient and perennial Medicine Teachings designed to apply to actual, contemporary life? 

Join us at the Earth Wisdom Institute Mystery School of Secular Ministry and begin your journey towards growth and understanding:
www.earthwisdominstitute.org/earth-wisdom-mystery-school.html

TESTIMONIAL ~   "Marcie Telander you have been instrumental in my Becoming and I cannot thank you enough for your supernatural knowing, guidance and opening to true agape love along so much of my journey. You are beyond wise." - Brad E., Kapoho Big Island, Hawaii."           

​         MYSTERY SCHOOL SECULAR MINISTRY
​      AND INTERNATIONAL SEMINARY PROGRAMS
Next Secular Ministry Retreat:  March 19-24, 2020 
​Puente Institute, Los Barilles, Baja Sur, Mexico
June 19-24 and September 14-22. Wise Acre Retreat, Crested Butte,CO

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​EARTH WISDOM MYSTERY SCHOOL Ancient Norse/Northern European Animist Ceremony

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​      Autumn ONE WITH NATURE Teaching and Retreat Offering - 
              JOIN ME TO CELEBRATE ALL HALLOWS & SAMHAIN

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Priestess for the People and the Planet ~ Celebrating Life, Love and the Interconnection of all Beings.

Earth Wisdom Mystery School of Perennial Healing Practices and Integrative Medicine-Ways
~ a Ministry of Earth Honoring Spiritual ceremony officiation, restorative justice, peace and environmental/community advocacy

--with Rev. Marcie Telander, MA, Licensed Professional Counselor in New Mexico, CGP, DAPA. 
                     email: marcie@earthwisdominstitute.org  or telander6@aol.com
~Integrative Medicine Woman, Northern American/European Animist Practitioner of 45 years, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Eco-Psychotherapist, poet, journalist, Master Storyteller, mythographer, Ritualist, Community Celebration Artist,  Arts Activist, 

​~Non-Denominational, spiritually-inclusive Ministry Program and Certification with emphasis on designing, implementing and officiating practical ministry services, liturgy, spiritual programs, rites-of-passage and communal healing ceremony in
Western Animist Traditions/Northern European/Celtic/Norse/Germanic Traditions and inter-denominational Faith and Nature practices.



​~What is the Earth Wisdom Mystery School?  In ancient Western Esoteric Traditions, a mystery school transmitted to initiates a very specific, often secret practice of a spiritual system.  
~The Earth Wisdom Mystery School differs from this process. The Wisdom Teachings are not from any orthodox doctrine or codified spiritual system.  Rather, the Earth Wisdom Mystery School honors intuitive awareness as it arises spontaneously, through inter-relationship to and interconnection with ever-communicating wonders and phenomena of the Natural World.
~ We offer gathering places, both virtual and at Wise Acre Retreat Center which bring together discussion, active individual and group investigation, constantly-evolving, intuitive discovery, re-creative and experiential sharing of a deep range of Northern and Pan European, Norse, Celtic, Germanic and Anglo animist traditions from the earliest forms of ecstatic and Nature-Earth-honoring awareness.


~ What is ANIMISM as a practice and a healing profession?  Animism is the most ancient of all spiritual traditions, predating even primordial shamanic practices. It is the source and foundation of every healing, ceremonial, individual and communal "religious function" known to humanity. 
~ Animism is described by indigenous cultures as a recognition of and relationship with The Spirit That Moves in All Things.
~Animism is the understanding that all of Life is informed and charged by a dynamic Existence which has both unique vitality and an interconnection with the Universal.
~The practice of Animism is  reflective and active, practical and philosophical, humble and holistic--and is most directly experienced in life-long, daily exchange with the Living Energies of the Natural World.  
​~Animism can also be understood as the conscious development of communication with and honoring of First Nature--the human relationship with the Fire of Life in all creature-forms, species and incarnated beings.  

~To be alive is to be Animated. The spark of Creation in all living beings is also a conduit to Natural Phenomena and other realms. It is the  expression of Anima/Animus or profound longing and potential "marriage" with and through the Divine, however we may experience It/Them.
~Integrative Medicine Healing through Animism may include many forms:  Seeing/Divining for the Planet and the People; the original forms of Eco-Psychology and Wilderness Therapy; studying with the Native Spirit of Plants and Animal Teachers; Ordination in Secular Ministry and the creation, Officiation and Celebration of Life Events. These include officiating the rituals of vital forces enacted in all seasons of human, environmental and Life Transformation Ceremony; Rites of Passage for Wisdom-Seeking, Gratitude, Grieving and Guidance, and much more.​

                  
~Ministry Intern openings NOW Available for the New 2019-2020 Courses   : *NOTE--Please email to arrange your Free 15-minute phone and/or email consultation to discuss appropriateness of this Mystery Teaching and ministerial process for your Life Path. Please read the information on this entire page to discover if you wish to consult about your future as an Earth Wisdom Medicine-Way Officiant.
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TESTIMONIAL:  "Thank you so much for being part of our journey from the beginning. In my eyes you are the right-hand goddess of the Red Lady, Mt. Emmons, the mother mountain of our Valley. It meant so much to me for you  to officiate my ceremony. Thank you for all of the life-changing celebrations, your storytelling magic and for holding the tribes together! You are so loved and respected!"  ~ Rachel DeVloo



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Wedding in Nature's Greatest Temple.
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Women's Autumn Equinox Ceremony with Marcie and Mystery School Priestesses
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Green Man officiating at Winter Solstice Community Celebration
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Father Winter and Maiden of Light passing the torch from Winter to Spring
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Guidance in individual and communal Nature Quests, Ritual

Ceremony and Rites of Passage for Wise Women & Valiant Men
​Secular Priestesses and Priests

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Earth-Honoring, Deep Ecology, Sacred holding of Environmental Wisdom.
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 Dear Ones and Honored Tribe Members-
The next Mystery School Cycle is soon to begin! Please contact me here or at marcie@earthwisdominstitute.org
RECLAIMING YOUR WISDOM WALK-ABOUT
for GODDESSHAMAN CELEBRANTS
Women Who are Ready to Discover and Practice the Sacred Arts of the Goddess and Priestess Within:  a Shamanic-Animist Circle of Ritual, Celebration and the Sharing of our Personal, Integrative Healing and Art Forms for the profession of Self, Community and the preservation of Mother Earth. Reclaim your practice as Earth Wisdom Priestess. 
                                             ~
For EARTH STEWARDS AND PRIESTS OF LOVE
Reclaiming the Valiant Male and Green Man Spirit:
Powerful Rites of Passage and Sacred Activist Circle for Men in:
Becoming a Warrior with the Earth, Priest of Love, Officiant to Community Celebration/Ritual and Practitioner of Integrative Medicine
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Participate in Individual Phone Sessions, Phone Council Conferences and elective on-site Internship experiences. Join me and the Mystery School Medicine Circle for  Cycles of the Moon Healing Rituals, Seasonal Medicine Wheel Celebrations, Rites of Passage, Life-Change Ceremonies and direct training toward the practice of your personal healing and healing service to your community and our Mother, the Earth.

The Spirits love you!
We are a Council of caring, galvanized, Wise Ones.  
Nothing is forgotten--nothing is lost.  This is the Center for Virtual Tribal Awareness and Co-Creative Sharing. This is the Fire-Circle where each may offer her/his comments and call-outs of fierce compassion, advocacy and devotional awareness for our Beloved Mother Earth.  I share essays and blogs about the mysteries and moments of an Integrative Medicine practice, for the solitary practitioner and for a group or community to share.  I invite each of you to offer up voices around your daily shamanic discoveries. Please join the Forum below, share poetry, prose, prayers, practices and purpose with the Family of Earth Activism
and Wisdom.  Blessed Be!
--Marcie
become a participant in the 
Earth Wisdom Mystery School and Ministry Program ©™

Where uniting in devotion to the Earth connects, expands and enlivens practitioners of Spiritual Healing and Advocacy

With Marcie Telander
(as listed with Society of Shamanic Practitioners-   ww
w.shamansociety.org and www.marcietelander.com ) 

Native Spirit is inherent in all humans. Reclaim your heritage.
Now is the time to stand for your Medicine!
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INTERNSHIP LEVEL 1, 2: Reclaiming Your Wisdom Walk-About 

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Marcie and the Green Man/Father Winter at Solstice Celebration.
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Norse Iron Age pictograph of Women's Rite of Passage. Tanum, Sweden
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Handfasting the Harvest Mother, Father and All-Community Re-Commitment Ceremony.
This ongoing, active and life-experiential program provides specific personal guidance and development of your own healing arts, Animistic and Shamanic Medicine. 

Earth Wisdom Mysteries Internship- Levels 1 and 2   include:
monthly 60-minute individual guidance and personal Life-Path phone session with Mystery Practices Guide, Marcie Telander
​~phone Council Meetings (and some online assignments) which introduce a wide range of shamanic Traditional Paths with Mystery Practices Guide, Marcie Telander and other participants
~Specially-designed Life Rituals for solitary and group/community practice;
~Intuition Development and Application;
~Conductive Healing practice
~Personal Ancestral Lineage Reclaiming
~ (elective ) **Rustic Intensive Summer Retreat (from 1week-1 month) at Wise Acre in the Colorado Rocky Mtns. and more
 
~ADVANCED MYSTERY TRADITION and MINISTERIAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS​
Successful completion and  proven mastery of  Mystery Tradition studies offer: ~Ministerial Certification and ~Initiation as Earth Wisdom Officiant, Ritual Guide and Community Animation Educator/Practitioner 
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**Fees higher for Rustic Elective Intensive Retreat which does not incl. food, transportation, etc. *Sliding fee scale may be available.  *To discuss your needs and for further information: marcie@earthwisdominstitute.org  

Contact Marcie - marcie@earthwisdominstitute.org

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970-349-6509 FOR VOICE MESSAGES

​970-209-6705  TEXT ONLY



email Marcie
  • WELCOME
  • Lughnasad Harvest Rituals
  • Autumn Equinox and Mabon Traditions and Celebration
  • Vinotok Ceremonies & Autumn Equinox
  • Summer Solstice Celebrations
  • Valentine's Day-Making Love with Mother Nature
  • EARTH WISDOM MYSTERY SCHOOL/SECULAR MINISTRY
  • Spring Equinox
  • SPRING EQUINOX POEM
  • White Elk - Welcoming Spring
  • Beltane Celebration - Mountain Style
  • MARRYING THE EARTH
  • Candlemas, Imbolc and Teachings of the Old Ones
  • Imbolc Candlemas Celebration
  • Thanksgiving with the Dalai Lama 2012
  • Winter Solstice Celebration
  • When Santa was a Woman
  • Mother Earth, Father Sky Retreat
  • Samhain: Ritual and Healing
  • Indigenous Priestess Medicine
  • Ceremonies of Elderhood
  • Secular Ministry Certification
  • WEDDINGS, ELOPEMENT PACKAGES, CEREMONIES
  • Upcoming ONE WITH NATURE Retreats, Gatherings, Secular Seminary Events
  • New Year's Blessing
  • Earth Blogs
  • WISE WOMAN CONSULTATIONS
  • SHAMANIC OFFERINGS
  • LABYRINTHS OF LIFE
  • Ritual and Healing - the book
  • Past Blogs
  • Earth Essays
  • Poetry
  • Notes from Goats & Big Kids Farm
  • Exerpts From The Comfort Queen
  • Sheros Journey