Welcome To The Center Pole

Directions to The Center Pole

96 Bashan Road, East Haddam, CT 06423 • Tel: 860-873-3825

From I-95 .
Take EXIT 69 toward ESSEX/HARTFORD.
Merge onto CT-9 N/CHESTER BOWLES HWY 10.5 miles
Take EXIT 7 toward EAST HADDAM/COLCHESTER Merge onto CT-82 2.3 miles
Turn LEFT onto CT-154/SAYBROOK RD. 0.3 miles
Turn RIGHT onto CT-82/BRIDGE RD. Continue to follow CT-82. 0.8 miles Map
Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto CT-82/MAIN ST/NORWICH RD. Continue to follow MAIN ST. 0.8 miles
Stay STRAIGHT to go onto LANDING HILL RD. 0.6 miles
LANDING HILL RD becomes CREEK ROW. 0.1 miles
Stay STRAIGHT to go onto ORCHARD RD. 1.0 miles
ORCHARD RD becomes E HADDAM COLCHESTER TURNPIKE. 2.2 miles
Turn RIGHT onto BASHAN RD. The Center is on your left.

From I 84
Merge onto I-84 E/US-6 E toward BOSTON. 1.7 miles
4: Merge onto CT-2 E via EXIT 55 toward NORWICH/NEW LONDON. 19.5 miles
5: Take the CT-149 exit- EXIT 16- toward WESTCHESTER/MOODUS. 0.2 miles
6: Turn RIGHT onto CT-149/WESTCHESTER RD. Continue to follow CT-149. 4.9 miles
7: Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto ELI CHAPMAN RD. 0.4 miles
8: Turn LEFT onto MOTT LN. 0.8 miles
9: Turn RIGHT onto E HADDAM COLCHESTER TURNPIKE. 0.9 miles
10: Turn LEFT onto BASHAN RD.

From Route 9
Take exit 7 to the end.
At the stop sign go left on Routes 154/82E.
Follow to the first set of lights and go right on 82 E. Proceed over the CT. River Bridge, passing Goodspeed Opera House on your right.
At the fork, bear left on Route 149 and follow approximately 7/10 mile to Stop sign.
At stop go right on Landing Hill Road and follow Landing Hill approximately 2 miles to the blinking light. (First Church of Christ Congregational Church will be on your right.)
Go straight thru the blinking light. (Road turns into East Haddam/Colchester Turnpike.)
Go another two miles to your first stop sign.
Proceed thru the stop and take your first right on Bashan Road.
#96 in one mile down on left. It is a tan colored ranch. Please park along the left side of the driveway.

Directions to Someday Farm
272 Roast Meat Hill Rd, Killingworth, CT 06419 • Tel: 860-663-2768

From Manhattan:
Take FDR Drive NORTH.
Take exit #17 towards Bruckner Expwy (I-278) / Grand Central Pkwy - go 0.8 miles.
Take I-278 EAST towards BRONX(I-87 N)/UPSTATE N Y/NEW ENGLAND - go 5.5 mi
I-278 EAST becomes I-95 NORTH - go 85.3 miles - see From 95 below.

From 95:
Exit 63 (Rt. 81) Left at the end of the exit, three miles to Roast Meat Hill Rd.- a right fork. Two miles to stop sign at Rt. 80. Continue across 80 to third driveway on left 272 Roast Meat Hill Rd

From 91:
Exit 22 onto route 9 south . Exit 9, take right onto 81 south. Continue eight miles to the Killingworth rotary, left onto 80 East. Left onto Roast Meat Hill Road (One half mile). Someday Farm is the third driveway on the left.

2005-2006 Training Programs

The Roots of Spirituality & Religion– Five weekend course.
This Roots Training will help individuals to discover their true form of spirituality through participation in the process of spiritual awareness. Each student will learn to become intimate with the yearnings of their own hearts—the essential yet often unexplored portal which allows us to become a “seer” into the world of the spirits and The Great Mystery/God.
Beginning with Comparative Religions, the training reveals the universal essence of the major religions of the world and their root source in ancient spirituality. Conscious and disciplined practices of prayer, meditation, and the shamanic journey, coupled with the study of human mythology allow for an experientially-developed spiritual knowledge that can be verified in all of the world’s sacred scriptures. This offering is intended to help each individual to have a personal spiritual experience where they grow their religion from within their own heart!

The Roots of Shamanism–Five weekend course.
The study of shamanic principals including the journey to the three worlds, introduction to divination, extraction healing, soul retrieval and working with dying and earthbound spirits.
Shamanism has been deemed the mother of all healing modalities and religious systems. It is an ancient, worldwide phenomenon that has been practiced by every culture throughout history. An examination of today’s healing and spiritual systems will reveal that these methods have emerged through the explorations, expanded consciousness and compassionate heart of the spiritual healer (shaman).
Our indigenous ancestors realized that to heal spiritually, was to make whole. Through personal spiritual healing, one could help others heal and become more spiritually attuned. The shaman of a village was that person who was adept at working in the spiritual realms and who would bring help from spirit allies to ease suffering. To our ancestors, the entire universe was sacred and alive. Our sacred Earth possesses every kind of life, both organic and inorganic; if everything is alive, then all of life has a spirit. The shaman’s role is to understand the universal webbing which is the connecting source of all of life, and to help heal the individual, group and/or planet with this special knowledge.
The Roots of Shamanism initiates participants into the four primary aspects of shamanism. These are the arts of divining, (divination), healing, (extraction healing) retrieving lost soul parts, (soul retrieval) and helping the dying and the dead, (psychopomp).

The Roots of Divination–Five weekend course.
The study and practice of Shamanic divination from the point of the inception of life on earth beginning with the elements, plants, trees, animals and the planets.
The Roots of Divination is an expanded exploration into this ancient and essential art form. Divination has been defined as a “portal” that leads us from the profane existence of everyday secular life into the sacred, where all of life is connected together. Divination is both an act and also a life process whereby an individual, using their natural capacities, enters into an egoless, compassionate and conscious space to gather information from the spiritual world on behalf of themselves or others. Its purpose is to allow one to see the forces at work in our lives and to shed light on ways to empower or alter those forces.
The root of the word divination, is “divine”, suggesting that when we enter into communication with other species and/or life forms, that interaction is occurring between the common divine consciousness which resides in all beings. If all beings are sacred and imbued with spirit, and the universe is alive and teeming with spirits on every level, it is unfathomable to think we would attempt to coexist within the world without communicating with it. While not all beings are necessarily harmonious with humans, the knowledge of how to interact in their worlds is seen by indigenous cultures as mandatory in one’s life. Divination is the process that allows us to witness that the world is alive!

Shamanic Priestess/Priest–Three Year Training.
A thorough training of the numerous aspects of spiritual healing and soul illumination.
It is the combination of all trainings from The Center Pole plus much more.
This training is for those who possess a life calling to spiritual service and are interested in the serious work of building a solid foundation to that end. It is a minimum commitment to three years of in-depth training which results in the designation of Shamanic Priest/ess through The Center Pole. This training will help weave together body, mind, heart and soul, and will help participants with their life’s calling to minister to life. It is multidimensional, and focuses on the rudiments of inner spiritual life based upon ancient teachings, scriptures and personal experience. Completion of this training results in adepts with the following capacities:
• Numerous rituals and ceremonies of Rites of Passage which include birthing, puberty, marriage and dying.
• Religious ceremonies of worship.
• The formulation and application of prayers.
• Various practices of concentration & meditation.
• Many aspects of spiritual healing including energy work, extraction healing, massage, hypnotherapy, spiritual counseling and more.
• In-depth practices of divination in the forms of geomancy, pyromancy, hydromancy aeromancy and more.
• Beginning and Advanced Shamanism.
• The spiritual language of mythology
• A clear understanding of the major religions of the world and the common origins in which they developed.
This training is for those who cannot do anything else in their lives but to illuminate their souls and to serve others.

Satsang, Evening spiritual discourse.
By experiencing the ancient art of spiritual discourse, satsang teaches the essential discipline of open heartededness.