• Biography

Life Experience

Michael has worked many types of jobs during his life. Starting as an attendant at Jones Beach State Park in the seventies, he's been a law librarian, records manager, actor and model, bartender, and catering sales manager. He's helped manage a guesthouse on Cape Cod, worked as a concessionaire on Broadway in New York City, and finally wound up as a professional technical and freelance writer today. He has lived in a lot of the world's great Gay places, including Provincetown, Massachusetts for five years (one summer he lived in the same house as a young Michael Cunningham and another summer when the actor Divine and Superstar Holly Woodlawn were his neighbors); New York City (where he lived with the incredibly good looking novelist, William Rooney, and Key West (where he spent one evening drinking with Tennessee Williams and Michael Greer... a night, which for a variety of reasons, he can barely remember.

In addition, Michael is a shamanic practitioner and Mesa Carrier in the tradition of the Q'ero of Peru.  He holds sacred space in concert with Spirit to provide a safe environment for healing, learning, and transformation.

Academic Experience

Michael studied English Literature and Theater (performing arts) at Hofstra University (where he co-founded the first Gay group, Hofstra United Gays, during the early seventies. Years later he completed a publication specialist program at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. During his tenure at numerous positions following that, he became adept in many computer software and desktop publishing applications. Often, when he isn't writing and just being, he dabbles in HTML and SGML. By night, Michael is a rather dashing fellow with a great sense of humor and a laptop (computer, that is) so he can take DREAMWalker Group with him whenever he chooses.

From Michael

Artistic, disabled, gay, spiritual, straight,  transgendered?  What's it all matter, anyway?  All I know is that people are brilliant in their humanity and complete in their oneness.  Yes, that's right.  I believe we're all one manifested as a group of varied and individual humans -- and that together we can create the WORLD (e.g. Universe) we want, whenever we want.  And when do we want it?  NOW! 

• Blog

Read some of Michael's creative meanderings at his blog, writer_mike's world.

• Creative Readings

Have a problem with Creativity Block? Got caught in a creative alley and don't know which way to turn?  Need inspiration?  Emotional balancing? Help deciding the right way to go?  Check out Ask The Muse -- Creative Readings by Dreamwalker.

• Healing Sessions

I hold  sacred space in concert with Spirit to provide a sacred and safe environment for healing, learning, and transformation.

During our time together, we may utilize some or all of the following:

♥ Creativity
♥ Divination
♥ Energy Cleansing
♥ Energy Bodywork
♥ Inner Space Clearing
♥ Liquid Life Process
♥ Non-Intrusive Bodywork
♥ Personal Organization Techniques
♥ Sacred Circles (Up to 10 people)
♥ Sacred Intimacy
♥ Shamanic Healing

I adhere to the Principles of Integrity (The Ethical Code for Shamanic Healing and Teaching of the International Society of Shamanic Practitioners).

See http://awakenedman.com for more information.

• Website Development

Michael has created numerous websites for himself, for friends, and for associates.  In addition to DREAMWalker Group he has an on-line novel, Promisetown Tales. See WEBWalker Design: Simple Websites for Complicated People for more information..

• Writing

Michael has been a writer since the late 1960s.  You can also see some of his art critiques here at DREAMWalker Group.

Click here to read Promisetown Tales -- an in-progress, on-line serialized fictional biography by Michael Walker

• Why Dreamwalker?

During a Shamanic Journey (a guided, drumming inward journey) while on a spirit-based retreat (Spirit Journeys), DREAMWalker Group's founder and proprietor, Michael Walker, encountered a totem animal -- a white wolf.  During the course of their conversation together, Walker's animal guide gave him the name Dreamwalker.  Year's later, Michael Walker created the DREAMWalker Group to help nurture and spread the power of creativity.