What are Thresholds?

Born in Fort Collins, Colorado into a childhood of wandering through the Rocky Mountains

Bar Mitzvahed as a Jewish adolescent “Rite-of-Passage” which was more of a skeleton of a real threshold, and unfortunately left me woefully unprepared for the travails of being Millenial American Teen-ager.

Woke up to my first day of the Senior year of Highschool with a swastika keyed into my Jeep - I silently resolved to abandon my Jewish identity in a surge of internalized anti-semitismn.

I quit college, and following a path of synchronicity and the mystery of the 2012 prophecy, travel for 4 months on a one-way plane ticket to Mexico and Guatemala in “El Mundo Maya”, marking the first spiritual adventure and awakening of my life

Join an Esoteric Mystery School based on the work of G.I. Gurdjieff, which deepens my consciousness journey over the next 5 years

Join the Humboldt State University Circus - and fall in love with my performance partner, Julia , who becomes my college sweetheart. We travel to Guatemala and Mexico that summer teaching circus arts to Maya Youth

Julia breaks-up with me over the phone while I’m away on a trip - my world is shattered, I’ve never known this much pain. I leave University a semester early in invitation to move to San Francisco

I shatter my right shoulder in a bicycle on car accident where I experienced the glory of flight for about 4 seconds - I am bedridden for weeks, and somehow decide to spend the last of my money on a digital SLR camera, and so begins my film-making career

Move into the Convent Art Collective in the Lower Haight District of San Francisco, a community house of 20 artist living in a forming nuns convent - my 60’s era San Francisco dreams begin to manifest

After building a successful San Francisco “Adult” life complete with salary job, art and wilderness side projects, lovers, friends and community, I encounter the ideas of “Adulthood Initiation” and having a “Soul Purpose” - the fire of my longing is lit. I pack up all my possessions, quit my job, and point my car east, beginning a nearly decade long quest for Initiation. Biking from Colorado to Montana on the Continental Divide, spending a month in Alaska with my brother, continuing down through the Yukon and British Columbia, exploring the edges of archetypal wilderness before embarking on my First “self-guided” vision quest in the Escalante Wilderness of Southern Utah. This ceremony was inspired deeply by Bill Plotkin’s book, Soulcraft.

I head to Israel-Palestine on a one-way plane-ticket for a first ancestral pilgrimage, where after studying at a Yeshiva, doing much Israeli-Palestinian peace-work, I join a group of Internationals who are traveling as a “Bicycling Social Circus.” We begin to do Circus as Peace shows across the West bank before spending a month volunteering at Al-Zaatari, the largest refugee camp in the world, to Syrian Refugee youth.

I go to Arawaka for the first time and support Indinigienous (Lakota and Quecha) ceremonies such as Vision Quest. It is my first deep encounter with sacred fire, deep ritual and prayer. I offer tobacco to the Indigineous ceremonial elder, Arkan Lushwala, and commit to 4 years of vision quest, which I complete over the next 4 years.

I go to the Tamera Healing Biotope in Southern Portugal for the first time. I planned to stay a week but end up staying for 2 months, being completely swept up in their evolutionary village culture and vision of village-making and healing of love as Global Peace Work. I come back to Tamera 5 times and spend over a year there in the next 5 years, as I immerse myself as a student of their community as peace-building, as well as working on a feature documentary about their village, together with film-maker Ian Mackenzie.

I sign-up and attend the first session of the Orphan Wisdom School on Cortez Island, British Columbia with teacher Stephen Jenkinson and am broken open to the grief work and ancestral reclamation which lay ahead of me. I continue to study with Stephen deeply over the next years

I move back in with my parents, at age 28, and start down the road of ashes, realizing I had not cried in 15 years. In this time, I attend the first in a path of community grief rituals. Read about that first adventure here.

Ian, Julia and I found Re/Culture Media, a social-change media collaborative dedicated to telling the stories of Regenerative Culture.

I join the Walking Water Pilgrimage as led by Gigi Coyle and Kate Bunney, as a community group of water protectors pilgrimage the path of The LA aqueduct, from Payahunadu (the Owens Valley, CA), to the stolen water’s destination of Los Angeles.