↡Writings / ↡Books / ↡Poems

Throughout my life I have generally found writing difficult. But then, as I wrote the many required reflection papers during graduate school, something began to open and my ability to write began to improve. I believe this occurred because the reflective writing process allowed the development of deeper connections within myself, particularly with my heart, but also with my body and spirit.

Along the way, I have shared my art processes and reflections. I have also shared my art and my poetry. Now, I am in the process of creating books that are combinations of my art and my writing. Through these books, my hope is both to continue opening and exploring my connections to myself and to invoke feelings, reflections, inspirations, creativity, and greater openings and connections within the lives of others.

~ Jamie "Cedar" Rogers

↟ Writings

Sacred Wisdom Rising

Join me for ongoing, reflective inspirations written with heart on Sacred Wisdom Rising...

Solstice to Solstice: Allowing Death, Cultivating Heart [Project Death Date: November 27, 2017]

Solstice to Solstice: Allowing Death, Cultivating Heart is a current 184 day journey from the Summer to Winter Solstices of 2017. This journey will be about ending the current dream of life and creating a new dream with heart. Follow along within my blog for ~daily excerpts.

The Meaning of Awakening Joy on My Shamanic Path [Master's Program Research Paper]
-- File Size: 274 KB; Length: 22 pages; Date: August 31, 2011

While completing my master's in Art Therapy Counseling at Southwestern College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, I wrote a research paper entitled "What does it Mean to Awaken Joy with Regard to My Shamanic Path?" However, I think its running header of "The Meaning of Awakening Joy on My Shamanic Path" offers a better description. Within this paper, I methodically explored the experience, meaning, and awakening of joy, death in relation to joy, connections within the breath, heart, soul, mind, and body, and the use of shamanic and spiritual practices for awakening joy.

I'm currently offering this paper in its original unedited form. But, more information does exist, which I didn't have time to include. So, my intention is to incorporate this at some point and to also make revisions and edits within the current format.

↟ Books

Solstice to Solstice: Rebirthing of Divine Inner Light [Available as a PDF eBook - $4.44]
-- File Size: 203 MB; Length: 361 pages; Publisher: Cedar Pathways, December 18, 2016

Solstice to Solstice: Rebirthing of Divine Inner Light is the book version of a project that existed as a Facebook event between the Winter and Summer solstices of 2015/2016. During that time, I invoked my own inner wisdom to provide daily inspirations for cultivating the inner wisdom, the inner light of ourselves into new becomings of who we are together and separately.

For 182 days, I reflected on the pathway of invoking inner light from the depths of Winter to the height of Summer. I compared my reflections to nature and to the cultivation, the becoming of a planted seed. These short refections also included daily imagery that served to enhance the reflection and the experience, many of which included my personal photographs and artwork.

Solstice to Solstice: Rebirthing of Divine Inner Light is a journey of deeper reflection, of deeper questioning in relating ourselves to the earth and to the nature of our collective evolution.

My Rising Heart: A Path of Love and Intimacy [tentative title of work in progress]

My Rising Heart: A Path of Love and Intimacy will include poems written to invoke reflective heart openings and complementary artwork that invokes a greater depth of feeling and understanding.

Portals into Your Sacred Knowledge: A Journey of Deepening Awareness [tentative title of work in progress]

From June 14, 2015 to July 1, 2015, I embarked on a journey to several sacred sites within Ireland, England, and Scotland. While at these sites, I meditated, engaged with spirit, reflected, toned, and created drawings to express the vibrations of each site as they flowed through my body. Portals into Your Sacred Knowledge: A Journey of Deepening Awareness will include details of my journey, reflections, artwork, recordings, and insights into how to gain sacred knowledge and to deepen personal awareness.

*As of November 10, 2017, I feel the journey I engaged in during 2015 was just the beginning of something, which will be further culivated and written about at some point in the future.

↟ Poems

June 8, 2015

March 15, 2015

March 3, 2015