Shamanism and Recovery

Shamanism offers several tiers for engagement for anyone committed to the process of their own recovery.  Shamanism is first the working relationship with spirit.  At its root, shamanism offers the skills for you to create your own relationship with your helping spirits.  This opens a world of healing opportunities, both individual and social, in [...]

The Power of Joy

In a culture that can barely sort out the distinction between wants, needs, desires, addictions and obsessions, the power of Joy remains strong, but largely untouched. Joy touches us when we are accountable to our true selves, even our darkest most challenging selves.  Joy touches us at the core of our well-being.  “Not that [...]

Pour Your Heart Out in Prayer—The Spirits as Teachers with Stephan Beyer

“The spirits want you to be a human being, in right relationship with all persons, both human and other-then-human,” explains our guest, Stephan Beyer, professor, peacemaker, and author of Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon. “Whether ayahuasca lends solidity to imagination, or opens the door to the [...]

Energy Velcro and the Hollow Bone

The shamanic altered state of consciousness and being a “hollow bone” are not necessarily the same thing.  All over the Internet contemporary practitioners are claiming that the altered state they enter to work with Spirit is, by definition, being a “hollow bone.”  Becoming the Hollow Bone is an ancient practice in Zen Buddhism, shamanism, [...]