Medicine-Mask: Ancient Healing And The New Pandemic
Thu, Aug 25
|Octagon Building & Zoom
Many societies have had societies of maskers – dancers, healers, and sacred clowns. There may be no tradition anywhere quite like that of the healers’ cult known as the Medicine Masks of the Iroquoian-speakers of upstate New York. Join Michael Bastine in this exploration. Details Below
Time & Location
Aug 25, 2022, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Octagon Building & Zoom, Lily Dale, NY 14752, USA
About the Event
Walk Ins are welcome based on building capacity once pre-sale registration has closed.
Many societies have had societies of maskers – dancers, healers, and sacred clowns. There may be no tradition anywhere quite like that of the healers’ cult known as the Medicine Masks of the Iroquoian-speakers of upstate New York. Usually these masks and the rituals associated are seen as contrapuntal avenues to the truth, of health, personality, spirituality, and society, yet the word itself, “mask,” implies guise and deception. We’re coming through a maddening pandemic. Based on his perspectives of ancient traditions and conferences with other Elders, Algonquin mystic Michael Bastine has many insights about the virus and society.
Algonquin elder, teacher, and author developed insights from his tutorship with Algonquin, Hodenosaunee, Hopi, and Cherokee mentors. Michael Bastine
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