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Apr. 20th, 2005 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI just got home after meeting for the first time with a new advisor at my school (that would be the School of Theology and Ministry, where I am enrolled in the Master of Arts in Transforming Spirituality program -- the degree that is intended to help prepare Spiritual Directors/Companions for their ministry).
We agreed after a conversation that ran much longer than I had expected, that what seemed most appropriate at this time was for me to take a year's leave from the program so I can concentrate my time and energy on my shamanic studies.
Gotta love a seminary that considers studying with a shaman an important aspect of spiritual formation, if that's what your path seems to be indicating.
Like virtually all of my SU faculty, she was very open to and respectful of my unusual spiritual history and the most recent currents of atypical spiritual development. (Atypical when compared to most seminary students, anyway.) It was a very good conversation.
I realize that I still owe my general readers "the rest of the story." Hopefully I'll have the time to do that this weekend.
In the meantime: I'll be finishing this quarter and then not going back to SU for at least a year. A year from now, I'll re-evaluate where I am, where I want to go, and what part this school could -- or could not -- contribute to what I want to be. And I can always come back earlier, if I decide that's what I want to do.
But somehow I doubt that's what's going to happen.
We agreed after a conversation that ran much longer than I had expected, that what seemed most appropriate at this time was for me to take a year's leave from the program so I can concentrate my time and energy on my shamanic studies.
Gotta love a seminary that considers studying with a shaman an important aspect of spiritual formation, if that's what your path seems to be indicating.
Like virtually all of my SU faculty, she was very open to and respectful of my unusual spiritual history and the most recent currents of atypical spiritual development. (Atypical when compared to most seminary students, anyway.) It was a very good conversation.
I realize that I still owe my general readers "the rest of the story." Hopefully I'll have the time to do that this weekend.
In the meantime: I'll be finishing this quarter and then not going back to SU for at least a year. A year from now, I'll re-evaluate where I am, where I want to go, and what part this school could -- or could not -- contribute to what I want to be. And I can always come back earlier, if I decide that's what I want to do.
But somehow I doubt that's what's going to happen.
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Date: 2005-04-21 10:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-21 12:40 pm (UTC)But I will miss my friends at school. They are an amazing group of people.
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Date: 2005-04-21 03:32 pm (UTC)(See you tomorrow for dinner! [Have to check into some hotel first.][Nope, haven't made a reservation yet...bad girl...])
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Date: 2005-04-21 03:54 pm (UTC)