Hi friends,
Instead of wondering if we are starting WWIII, and inching toward nuclear holocaust… I’ve been at work designing some resources you can find at a special new website address.
It’s connected to and supports the new book The Way of the Desert Elders. Online there, you’ll find some things like the “Pick Your Own Desert Elder” resource that gives you some questions to match you with the kind of spiritual elder best for you now, and then you can dig deeper if you’d like and request the free supporting material for that historical figure who will guide you further. There’s another quiz-type spiritual resource to do there as well that I put up last month.
The book publisher had no budget to add photos of what I refer to in the book, so I created a place to lay eyes on those things. Images of actual hermit cells, communities, pilgrim tokens, maps, and more are listed and dates for events, and more.
Check it out here: desert.lisadelay.com
From that online place, you can access another fun surprise that took months of planning and creation: Desert Pilgrim Quest
Try a first-person desert experience—a game you play from your browser on your desktop computer.
It’s now up and running and you just need to click here to have some fun with it. If you aren’t the “gaming type”, no worries, it’s not a shooting or fighting game or fast paced where you need great hand-eye coordination to do well.
You read and reflect. You slow down, listen, learn, see how the wisdom can metabolize in you deeply. It’s meant to be spirituality formative, but you have to find the “desert pace” for that to happen. I know you’ll like it (after your-likely-frustration to hurry things along. Our fast-paced culture has an enormous influence on us.)
To move around in the desert setting, just use the keyboard arrow keys (up, down, left, right) to walk along. Use your space bar to jump (not that there is much to jump over), and pick a choice with a mouse click. That’s it.
It’s a fun way to experience the desert era before you get your book in-hand. January can feel like a long way away.
Thank you VERY much for sharing this with others. Who do you know that might want to give it a try?
You can share this post with someone, right?
AND…
I want to hear from you.
What happened when you tried the game experience or the website?
• Any surprises, new insights, or happy moments? tell me.
And-What’s missing?
What could enhance the game.
(I’m hoping to have a mobile version ready soon)
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