Spiritual Experiences and Adventures

Selections From Texas Tumbleweed by Bubbabare “Way of the Warrior Adventures with Elie Hein” “Yucatan Journeys with Don Tomas” “The Face of God” Train your mind to see the good in everything. Positivity is a choice. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of...

Origin of Running Bear

Many people ask me about my medicine name- Running Bear and how I came by it. Well, it came to me while participating in a three-day vision quest with the tribe in Joshua Tree National Park. Three nights- no food, no sleep, and no water. Build your medicine wheel,...

Shamanism

Of all my favorite experiences in the California years, my relationship with Don Tomas in the Yucatan, Mexico was at the top of the list. See a selected text (“Yucatan Journeys with Don Tomas”) from Texas Tumbleweed in this section for more details of this powerful...

California Daze

I left the family business and spent one year on the road in a prolonged vision quest seeking a new home and life. I finally landed in Monterey, California in 1980, and what a blessing it turned out to be. A veritable cornucopia of classes was on offer in the area,...

What Took You So Long?

My interest and passion for self-exploration began early in the 1970s with Transcendental Meditation and experimentation with a broad array of hallucinatory, mind-altering drugs while at university. These psychedelic experiences helped influence me and piqued my...

Michael RunningBear’s Spiritual Journey

Introduction “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” (Apologies to the Grateful Dead!) I’m a different kind of man, and my life path and journey have been quite an unusual one. It seems for so long I strived to be “normal” and be just like everyone else. Evidently,...