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Pilgrim: Twelve Days of Christmas
yOUR hOMe A place to build, to create.
Laugh and cry. Hide and seek.
To hold, to support. To be strong, yet meek. A space to rest, to recuperate.
Arrive fast, asleep. Depart slow, awake.
To feel, to grow. To be reborn, again. A place to leave, to expatriate.
Lie in the dark. Die in the light.
To lose, to find. To be love, regain. A space to relieve, to delight.
You are ALL ways hOMe to me.
And you are worth the fight. Ricardo Rochilez V
In August 2019, my long-running, acting-out truth, was voluntarily, yet reluctantly aired to the woman I loved and whom I hoped might become my life partner. Sadly this would-be love of my life is now relegated to a mere memory with the moniker ' Last Lost Lover '. After two back-to-back deep-dive underlying Truth-seeking ayahuasca ceremonies in that same month, I embarked on a years-long self-healing and integration process that would, quite unexpectedly, reveal the unequivocal focus of my Life’s Work. Have I embraced this Work? Not fully. Not yet. I’m a Work in progress. Tying up loose ends, completing projects, biding my time. An apprentice willingly waiting in the wings. Silently setting the shamanic stage for the next phase of my life and Work. My post-ayahuasca integrative journey started with my taking an introductory course in Classical Shamanism when I returned to England from my Thai island home of Koh Phangan. The Shaman’s Pathway was taught by Simon Buxton, the founder of The Sacred Trust. During this weekend workshop, I was formerly introduced to Crow, a power animal ally that had persistently worked to attract my attention during the week prior to and leading up to the ayahuasca ceremonies. Next, I was encouraged by my Last Lost Lover to engage a professional shamanic practitioner to carry out focussed healings. Specifically journeying to the ancestral source and root cause of my acting out . ' Pilgrim • Twelve Days of Christmas ’, is the formative shamanic 'story that unequivocally wrote itself' that followed this integrative healing. It unabashedly charts my shamanic journeys through the Worlds, meeting and befriending my Guide and my power animal allies, and embodying my overarching intention to continue healing and, as Marianne Williamson might put it, return to LOVE . This chronicled crusade was wholly channelled. My in-journey narration was recorded and then transcribed the same day with very minimal editing. My intention was only to avoid excessive repetition and best-guess words and phrases that were unintelligible, and leave Spirit's wisdom intact , untainted, and unpolluted. From acting out truth to healing Truth lasted twelve months but the majority of this pilgrimage occurred during an end-of-year and end-of-decade isolated retreat spanning twelve days of Christmas. Hence the title and essence of this book. And its intended outcome. At the beginning of the new decade, I pledged to undertake the three-year professional shamanic practitioner training with The Sacred Trust. Pandemic over my new pilgrimage has just begun.
⚠️ Contains Adult Content
Laugh and cry. Hide and seek.
To hold, to support. To be strong, yet meek. A space to rest, to recuperate.
Arrive fast, asleep. Depart slow, awake.
To feel, to grow. To be reborn, again. A place to leave, to expatriate.
Lie in the dark. Die in the light.
To lose, to find. To be love, regain. A space to relieve, to delight.
You are ALL ways hOMe to me.
And you are worth the fight. Ricardo Rochilez V
In August 2019, my long-running, acting-out truth, was voluntarily, yet reluctantly aired to the woman I loved and whom I hoped might become my life partner. Sadly this would-be love of my life is now relegated to a mere memory with the moniker ' Last Lost Lover '. After two back-to-back deep-dive underlying Truth-seeking ayahuasca ceremonies in that same month, I embarked on a years-long self-healing and integration process that would, quite unexpectedly, reveal the unequivocal focus of my Life’s Work. Have I embraced this Work? Not fully. Not yet. I’m a Work in progress. Tying up loose ends, completing projects, biding my time. An apprentice willingly waiting in the wings. Silently setting the shamanic stage for the next phase of my life and Work. My post-ayahuasca integrative journey started with my taking an introductory course in Classical Shamanism when I returned to England from my Thai island home of Koh Phangan. The Shaman’s Pathway was taught by Simon Buxton, the founder of The Sacred Trust. During this weekend workshop, I was formerly introduced to Crow, a power animal ally that had persistently worked to attract my attention during the week prior to and leading up to the ayahuasca ceremonies. Next, I was encouraged by my Last Lost Lover to engage a professional shamanic practitioner to carry out focussed healings. Specifically journeying to the ancestral source and root cause of my acting out . ' Pilgrim • Twelve Days of Christmas ’, is the formative shamanic 'story that unequivocally wrote itself' that followed this integrative healing. It unabashedly charts my shamanic journeys through the Worlds, meeting and befriending my Guide and my power animal allies, and embodying my overarching intention to continue healing and, as Marianne Williamson might put it, return to LOVE . This chronicled crusade was wholly channelled. My in-journey narration was recorded and then transcribed the same day with very minimal editing. My intention was only to avoid excessive repetition and best-guess words and phrases that were unintelligible, and leave Spirit's wisdom intact , untainted, and unpolluted. From acting out truth to healing Truth lasted twelve months but the majority of this pilgrimage occurred during an end-of-year and end-of-decade isolated retreat spanning twelve days of Christmas. Hence the title and essence of this book. And its intended outcome. At the beginning of the new decade, I pledged to undertake the three-year professional shamanic practitioner training with The Sacred Trust. Pandemic over my new pilgrimage has just begun.
⚠️ Contains Adult Content
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About the author
Richard Conner
25 books4 followersAuthor, Architect, Artist
Momentum Mentor
Combination Coach
www.transformerpreneur.com
Richard Conner co-founded architectural practice Piercy Conner Architects and creative agency Assembly Studios. He has 25 years of experience starting, building, and growing an award-winning group of Transformation Businesses from zero to $5M in annual sales.
During his extensive business career, Richard has acted as CEO, Managing, Creative, Marketing, Operations and Finance Director to his team of over 100 people working from studios in London, Manchester, Sofia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bangkok.
Now, Richard writes about Unlocking, Harnessing, and Mastering your Time, Money, Creativity, and Purpose within the prevailing context of the High Definition Life.
He also works closely with Transformerpreneurs and their Transformation Businesses through Transfomerpreneur.com, his life, work, and Transformation Business systems, tools, training, coaching, consultancy, and agency.
Broadly Richard’s writing, books, courses, training, workshops, and coaching revolve around The Seven Works, his flexible strategic framework and blueprint for successfully navigating the High Definition Life.
This extensive body of work explores how we can improve both our individual lives and the greater whole by embracing Conscious Change, Creativity, Communication, and Connection.
Richard is a Transformerpreneur at heart, Combination Coach, Rebirthing Breathworker, and a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Hypnosis. His Play Work includes Heli-Skiing, Snowboarding and Argentine Tango.
[BACK STORY] Entrepreneur architect business owner suddenly quits his international creative agency and London home. Selling everything he moves to Thailand to find time, space and freedom to rediscover his creativity and allow his Real Work to emerge. He finds himself constructing a dinosaur on the beach, living in a cave and being creative for the fun of it again. Most importantly he was compelled to write.
The outcome of his journey is a series of books that explain in detail why making Significant Life Change amidst the High Definition Life technological revolution and environmental and climate crisis that is taking place all around us is now so imperative it is denied, ignored or avoided at our peril.
His writing focuses on how to instigate and benefit from positive change locally and globally. Leaving no stone of his personal journey unturned he candidly reveals, warts and all, what to expect in our internal and external world during this inevitable personal and impersonal metamorphosis.
The process of understanding and appreciating the conflicted life context and content inherent to this incoming change is covered in depth throughout his work.
Discovering and understanding how to handle the transition from chaos into order and make it work for rather than against us is described through simple, unique and never before seen conceptual models and strategic frameworks that are readily applicable to our day-to-day lives.
The Work Life Wide Open series, over twenty-five years in the making, are practical, experiential and anecdotal guides to Finding Your Lost, Breaking Your Busy, and Working Your Way.
These creative life manuals and way guides will lead you back to your Creative Core, uncover your Why, connect you with your Real Work and empower you to finally start re-purposing your life and re-living your Purpose.
Professional Career
Richard studied Architecture at Liverpool University and The Bartlett University College London (UCL). His professional career started with Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners (now GRIMSHAW) in its London studio.
He co-founded Piercy Conner Architects (now Piercy&Company) alongside graphic design and CG illustration and animation studio Smoothe.
Richard and his partners also co-created the Microflat.
The worldwide press and media phenomenon. Showcased with two live in Micronaut
Momentum Mentor
Combination Coach
www.transformerpreneur.com
Richard Conner co-founded architectural practice Piercy Conner Architects and creative agency Assembly Studios. He has 25 years of experience starting, building, and growing an award-winning group of Transformation Businesses from zero to $5M in annual sales.
During his extensive business career, Richard has acted as CEO, Managing, Creative, Marketing, Operations and Finance Director to his team of over 100 people working from studios in London, Manchester, Sofia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bangkok.
Now, Richard writes about Unlocking, Harnessing, and Mastering your Time, Money, Creativity, and Purpose within the prevailing context of the High Definition Life.
He also works closely with Transformerpreneurs and their Transformation Businesses through Transfomerpreneur.com, his life, work, and Transformation Business systems, tools, training, coaching, consultancy, and agency.
Broadly Richard’s writing, books, courses, training, workshops, and coaching revolve around The Seven Works, his flexible strategic framework and blueprint for successfully navigating the High Definition Life.
This extensive body of work explores how we can improve both our individual lives and the greater whole by embracing Conscious Change, Creativity, Communication, and Connection.
Richard is a Transformerpreneur at heart, Combination Coach, Rebirthing Breathworker, and a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Hypnosis. His Play Work includes Heli-Skiing, Snowboarding and Argentine Tango.
[BACK STORY] Entrepreneur architect business owner suddenly quits his international creative agency and London home. Selling everything he moves to Thailand to find time, space and freedom to rediscover his creativity and allow his Real Work to emerge. He finds himself constructing a dinosaur on the beach, living in a cave and being creative for the fun of it again. Most importantly he was compelled to write.
The outcome of his journey is a series of books that explain in detail why making Significant Life Change amidst the High Definition Life technological revolution and environmental and climate crisis that is taking place all around us is now so imperative it is denied, ignored or avoided at our peril.
His writing focuses on how to instigate and benefit from positive change locally and globally. Leaving no stone of his personal journey unturned he candidly reveals, warts and all, what to expect in our internal and external world during this inevitable personal and impersonal metamorphosis.
The process of understanding and appreciating the conflicted life context and content inherent to this incoming change is covered in depth throughout his work.
Discovering and understanding how to handle the transition from chaos into order and make it work for rather than against us is described through simple, unique and never before seen conceptual models and strategic frameworks that are readily applicable to our day-to-day lives.
The Work Life Wide Open series, over twenty-five years in the making, are practical, experiential and anecdotal guides to Finding Your Lost, Breaking Your Busy, and Working Your Way.
These creative life manuals and way guides will lead you back to your Creative Core, uncover your Why, connect you with your Real Work and empower you to finally start re-purposing your life and re-living your Purpose.
Professional Career
Richard studied Architecture at Liverpool University and The Bartlett University College London (UCL). His professional career started with Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners (now GRIMSHAW) in its London studio.
He co-founded Piercy Conner Architects (now Piercy&Company) alongside graphic design and CG illustration and animation studio Smoothe.
Richard and his partners also co-created the Microflat.
The worldwide press and media phenomenon. Showcased with two live in Micronaut
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