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Free Live and Recorded Online Webinar
Thursday March 27, 2025 8-9 pm EDT Open to Everyone! |
Free Live and Recorded Online Book Reading
with Eli Andrew Ramer, the author of "Two Flutes Playing" & "Two Hearts Dancing!" of his newly released Our Tribe Chanting the final stand-alone volume in his groundbreaking visionary trilogy. A joyful celebration of queer resilience and the power of community! |
Spirit Journeys is delighted to offer a very special Live Book Reading with Queer Walks-Between Elder and Maggid Eli Andrew Ramer. In this joyful celebration of queer resilience and the power of community, Eli will read from his new book, "Our Tribe chanting," the final stand-alone volume in is groundbreaking visionary trilogy, "Two Flutes Playing" and "Two Hearts Dancing."
As Eli describes the book, "We gay men come from every other people. In this time of social, political, and environmental challenges--we have a sacred role in "Coming In" to who we are, so that together we can help to unify and heal the world--and the tales, stories, poems, and rituals in this book were gathered together to support us in doing that!
You are invited to participate in this live webinar through Zoom, but the broadcast will be recorded for later viewing if you cannot attend any part of the scheduled sessions. There will be time for discussion, questions, and answers as well.!
Here are a few wonderful reviews for the book, which is available at https://wipfandstock.com/9798385237531/our-tribe-chanting/
"Eli's work has been one of the great spiritual catalysts for soulful gay liberation in the last century; countless gay men have experienced a profound recognition of their own experience in his work, a sense of "me too" that resonates through their entire being." -- Toby Johnson, former editor of White Crane, a journal of gay men's spirituality
“The first book in his pioneering trilogy, Two Flutes Playing, helped us reclaim a sense of where we are as a queer people with a deep heritage and purpose. His second volume, Two Hearts Dancing, helped us fall in love with ourselves and each other. In Our Tribe Chanting, the rapturous conclusion of the trilogy, he passionately and tenderly takes each of us by the hand and guides us into who we are becoming. With warmth and humor, he reflects on his queer journey and invites us to reflect upon our own, even as he calls us to the most generous embodiment of our truths and the greatest embrace of our destiny: we are here, quite literally, to save the world." —Hunter Flournoy, director, Spirit Journeys
“Be quick to take the hand of our cherished elder. We queer men have work to do, and Eli Andrew Ramer’s teachings in this vibrant book will enthrone you in the chair of wisdom.” —Will Roscoe, author of Queer Spirits: A Gay Men’s Myth Book and Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love
“Every ethnic group has a mythology passed down from parent to child, but for many of us who are queer, rooting ourselves in the past has been, at best, a challenge. Until, that is, Eli Andrew Ramer. Ramer weaves together the dreams, visions, and magic of our people in a way that, finally, makes us whole. ‘For us,’ says Ramer, ‘prayer is about the things we say.’ Our Tribe Chanting gives voice to the countless generations of us who were, are, and will be.” —Andrew Lawler, author of A Perfect Frenzy
“The image that keeps popping into my head as I read Our Tribe Chanting is Virgil. Eli Andrew Ramer is our guide, our visionary, a seer. He invites us to see in new ways and walks us through the liminal moments all around us. He pulls back the curtain to reveal the magic and elevates us all.” —Bo Young, publisher of Gay Wisdom
As Eli describes the book, "We gay men come from every other people. In this time of social, political, and environmental challenges--we have a sacred role in "Coming In" to who we are, so that together we can help to unify and heal the world--and the tales, stories, poems, and rituals in this book were gathered together to support us in doing that!
You are invited to participate in this live webinar through Zoom, but the broadcast will be recorded for later viewing if you cannot attend any part of the scheduled sessions. There will be time for discussion, questions, and answers as well.!
Here are a few wonderful reviews for the book, which is available at https://wipfandstock.com/9798385237531/our-tribe-chanting/
"Eli's work has been one of the great spiritual catalysts for soulful gay liberation in the last century; countless gay men have experienced a profound recognition of their own experience in his work, a sense of "me too" that resonates through their entire being." -- Toby Johnson, former editor of White Crane, a journal of gay men's spirituality
“The first book in his pioneering trilogy, Two Flutes Playing, helped us reclaim a sense of where we are as a queer people with a deep heritage and purpose. His second volume, Two Hearts Dancing, helped us fall in love with ourselves and each other. In Our Tribe Chanting, the rapturous conclusion of the trilogy, he passionately and tenderly takes each of us by the hand and guides us into who we are becoming. With warmth and humor, he reflects on his queer journey and invites us to reflect upon our own, even as he calls us to the most generous embodiment of our truths and the greatest embrace of our destiny: we are here, quite literally, to save the world." —Hunter Flournoy, director, Spirit Journeys
“Be quick to take the hand of our cherished elder. We queer men have work to do, and Eli Andrew Ramer’s teachings in this vibrant book will enthrone you in the chair of wisdom.” —Will Roscoe, author of Queer Spirits: A Gay Men’s Myth Book and Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love
“Every ethnic group has a mythology passed down from parent to child, but for many of us who are queer, rooting ourselves in the past has been, at best, a challenge. Until, that is, Eli Andrew Ramer. Ramer weaves together the dreams, visions, and magic of our people in a way that, finally, makes us whole. ‘For us,’ says Ramer, ‘prayer is about the things we say.’ Our Tribe Chanting gives voice to the countless generations of us who were, are, and will be.” —Andrew Lawler, author of A Perfect Frenzy
“The image that keeps popping into my head as I read Our Tribe Chanting is Virgil. Eli Andrew Ramer is our guide, our visionary, a seer. He invites us to see in new ways and walks us through the liminal moments all around us. He pulls back the curtain to reveal the magic and elevates us all.” —Bo Young, publisher of Gay Wisdom
Andrew Elias Ramer is a Maggid (Jewish sacred storyteller) living in San Francisco, California. Born in Queens, New York in 1951, he believes that the prophetic tradition and storytelling are one and the same. The job of a storyteller is to create a narrative that holds a group together, forms the fabric of thought that a community or village of people inhabit. Andrew grew into being a maggid through many moments and teachers. He was spiritually formed through many communities including the Gay Spirit Visions Conference in North Carolina, and the New York Healing Circle, which flourished during the early AIDS years. His mentors, collaborators and guides have included Charles Lawrence, Donna Cunningham, Harry Hay, Raven Wolfdancer, Rabbi Benay Lappe, and Rabbi Dev Noily. He is a member and one of many lay leaders at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco. After years of spiritual wandering, it was in Torah study with Dev Noily at Sha’ar Zahav that he found wisdom, comfort and a rich new way to live as a Queer Jewish man. Andrew writes in a genre he calls "queer feminist speculative-fiction theology" and is the author of four books of midrash: Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories; Torah Told Different; Deathless; and Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud, with a fifth due out in 2022, Texting with Angels. He's also the author of Revelations for New Millennium; Angel Answers; and a co-author of Ask Your Angels; The Spiritual Dimensions of Healing Addictions and Further Dimensions of Healing Addictions.