In other words, we're not offering you another recipe or a new formula to help your marriage or help you make more money or help you cope with the loneliness or help you grieve a loss or help you become less of a dick. There are more than enough sacred scriptures or wisdom writings in the world for you to meditate on. And we're pretty sure you can download enough Tony Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Eckhart Tolle, Brené Brown, or TED Talks to listen to during your endless commutes back and forth to work. The reality is that you most likely already know what you need to know in order to achieve or fix or create or heal. And if you're someone who wants to walk 50 KM's in silence, then you're well on the path towards "getting your Gandhi on" and being the change you want to see in the world. All you need is the right opportunity and the perfect space to help you clear the mechanism and block out the noise. At SOS Retreats Canada, it doesn't matter what you believe - it doesn't matter what we believe. What matters is the stuff that becomes louder during your silence. We're here to help with the acoustics. We're here to help you chase the WHY! Slowly...
YOUR HOST:
Drew Marshall walked 1000 KM’s from France, across Spain to the Atlantic on the ancient pilgrimage known as the Camino de Santiago during a three month vow of silence. He was adopted, grew up in a funeral home, survived a teenage suicide attempt, dropped out of school in Grade 9, ran away to California to be a wrangler, played semi-pro football with NFL/CFL tryouts, drove around North America volunteering for charities, tried to be a firefighter & a rodeo cowboy, was a stay at home dad, has worked a little in film and TV, was a Pastor in Australia, studied stand-up comedy & improv at Second City Toronto, and was the host of Canada's most listened to spiritual talk show for 16 years. He’s interviewed hundreds of celebrities, cultural icons, religious leaders & gurus about their beliefs or lack thereof. Struggling with his own spiritual understandings and being a “Red Letter - Agnostic - Theist", this autodidactic-iconoclast sacrificed his eyesight for the last week of Lent, paid a pagan and an atheist to go to church, drank with witches, celebrated with Wiccans, partied with Pagans, and visited with Satanists. These days he’s a hospital chaplain who is finishing his memoirs, which began in a monastery on an island off the coast of Africa. He's responsible for the care of 30 animals on a wee Canadian farm in Caledon, Ontario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Marshall
