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The Shaman’s Mind: Shamanic Practice 4...
We interpret the world and our experience through our mind. Ancient peoples understood this and were sophisticated enough to leave nothing to chance. The ancient…read more.
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Creating Shamanic Tools with Evelyn Rysdyk...
There is nothing quite as powerful as making your own power objects and shamanic tools. Artist and shamanic teacher, Evelyn C. Rysdyk, joins us this…read more.
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Igniting the Ecstatic Heart: Shamanic Practice 2...
A spiritual life is nothing but dogma and deception without the heart’s active presence. The heart’s active presence will soon wander, bored to death with…read more.
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Creating a Foundation for Wellness: Shamanic Practice 1...
Knowing where you stand in life—and how to truly stand there—is essential if you want to live a spiritual or enlightened life. This is one…read more.
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A Shamanic View of Mental Wellness—Tacey: Part Two...
Aboriginal elders warned the religious missionaries they encountered that if the trials of initiation were stopped then an even greater suffering would be unleashed on…read more.
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A Shamanic View of Mental Illness—Tacey: Part One...
What we diagnose as “mental illness” today grows ever more resistant to reason, logic, pharmaceuticals, or medicine. What if these are not illnesses of the…read more.
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The True Root of Illness—Maté...
One significant root of disease is the chronic stress created in the body by suppression or denial of emotions and the resulting abnormal release of…read more.
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A Shamanic View of Mental Illness—Somé...
When we look at mental illness through a different cultural lens we can see something entirely different than the standard allopathic interpretation of the situation.…read more.
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Cultivating the Deep, Wise Heart—Working with Water...
When we focus on the element of water we are focusing on the quality of our relationship with our own emotions. Do they flow or…read more.
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Freedom From False Passions—Working with Fire...
When we focus on the element of fire we are focusing on the quality of the relationship we have with our own spirit. As a…read more.
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Creating Clarity of Heart—Working with Air...
Air is the visionary in transformational processes showing us how to engage the power of our vision through the clarity of our heart. Working with…read more.
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Creating Presence and Autonomy—Working with Earth...
Earth is the teacher in transformational processes showing us how to engage the power of the heart through our strength of heart and to make…read more.
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What is Soul Theft?...
Soul loss can occur quite naturally through sudden fright or situations where one fears they will die. Soul theft is an unnatural cause of soul…read more.
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What is Spiritual Integrity and How Do I Get It?...
What does it mean to have strong moral principles and to be whole and undivided in our spiritual life? Many people feel that the fact…read more.
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Why Can’t I Find a Healer?...
Have you been working on yourself and your suffering for 20 years and its still not fixed yet? Wounds, whether physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual,…read more.
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The New Age and Spiritual Integrity in the New World...
The Human Potential Movement arose out of the fertile soil of political unrest and a deep desire for meaning and truth in life…and the vague…read more.
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Life Hacks with Shamanic Skills...
A life hack enables us to manage our time or daily activities in a more efficient way. While there are no short cuts to gaining…read more.
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Predatory Energy: Children and Shamanism Part 4...
Little frightens us as parents more than the fear of someone abusing our children. There are predatory people in our current culture. In this reality,…read more.
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Children and Shamanism: Teens...
Shamanism is misunderstood, occasionally maligned, and still considered to be on the fringe even in alternative circles. Yet contemporary practitioners remain undaunted and the range…read more.
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Shamanic Life with Kids...
“Children arrive animists,” says author and shaman, S. Kelley Harrell. “They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come…read more.
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Children and Shamanism: Infants...
Sacred space is created for ritual and ceremony, but rarely for conception. For a human there are few actions as sacred as the creation of…read more.
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Visionary Power in Shamanism...
The Visionary capacity in shamanism manifests in many forms from the healing visions that come in altered states, to your own capacity for vision in…read more.
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Dancing with Anger and Spirit...
The true nature of our emotions can surprise us when they are explored through shamanic skills. They are rarely come from where we think they…read more.
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Shamanic Ritual and Ceremony with Lenore Norrgard and K...
Shamanic ritual and ceremony are the “power tools” used by shamanic practitioners around the world to create change and transformation in their lives. Humans engage…read more.
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How Do I Cultivate Emotional Well-being? Part Two...
What we are taught about emotions in the “developed, Western world” will make the majority of us sick over time. This is the core teaching…read more.
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How Do I Cultivate Emotional Well-being? Part One...
Health in shamanic terms requires the interaction of body and spirit, mind and emotion. There is no physical health in shamanism apart from the dynamic…read more.
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Ancestral Healing and the Spirits of the Land...
Traditionally “the ancestors” are helping spirits that assist the living in creating a world the descendants are honored to inherit. Yet in our immediate past…read more.
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What is Shadow Work?...
What is Shadow Work, really? Psychologically speaking the Shadow is an unconscious aspect of one’s personality that the conscious ego judges, fears or rejects to…read more.
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Adults in a Culture of Children with Sparrow Hart...
What will it take for men and women to return from their respective circles, respective retreats on the mountain, and respective “Wisdom Schools” and begin…read more.
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Life and Death: Authenticity in Shamanism...
Those who engage in life and live it to its fullest, die many, many small deaths. When we live fully, learning, healing, and expressing who…read more.
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Visions and Illusions: Authenticity in Shamanism...
Are your visions just illusions? Are your dreams really just fantasies? How do we know that our connection with spirit is authentic? Regardless of type…read more.
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Awakening the Courageous Heart – Part Two...
Why are we afraid to feel? Why do we fear the emotional intelligence of the heart? The heart affects mental clarity, creativity, emotional balance, and…read more.
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Awakening the Courageous Heart – Part One...
The choice to love again precedes the healing. This is the confusion most share. The heart doesn’t heal so that it can love again. The…read more.
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Shamanic Gathering in BC with John-Luke Edwards...
Shamanic people believe that life emerges from a dream that the All-That-Is began dreaming in a time before time. Shamanic people speak of living in…read more.
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Chronic Illness and Shamanism...
Chronic illness in America is “managed” in our allopathic medical system, not “cured.” Today 75% of our health care dollars go to the management of…read more.
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Healing in the Amazon: Nihue Rao with Dr. Joe Tafur...
Among the indigenous cultures of the Upper Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo are one of the few cultural groups which has managed to maintain their language,…read more.
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Spiritual Bypass and Shamanism...
Any spiritual practice can be misused as a “spiritual bypass,” or the means by which one jumps to spirit prematurely in an effort to avoid…read more.
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The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible wi...
“The fundamental precept of the New Story is that we are inseparate from the universe, and our being partakes in the being of everyone and…read more.
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What are your Gifts?...
Every individual has gifts to bring to the world, though many will live their lives precisely running away from those gifts. Every individual has gifts…read more.
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Renewing Your Dream...
Short days and long, dark nights lend themselves to unpacking squashed impulses of authenticity, assumptions that diminish passion, and denied feelings. Winter is the time…read more.
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A Messianic Complex and Shamanism...
Shamanic initiatory experiences often involve a break with reality and a time of madness, which is perceived of as a kind of test or challenge…read more.
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Taking Shamanism Out of the Box with Sandra Ingerman...
“This is a good time to settle into yourself and go beyond the surface of your spiritual practices,” advises our next guest, Sandra Ingerman MA,…read more.
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Finding Your Life Magic...
Your life magic is just waiting for you to notice it, to notice the natural (visible) and supernatural (invisible) forces that influence the events of…read more.
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What is a Shamanic Cosmology?...
Cosmology is the science of the origin and development of the universe. When we say “a cosmology” we are talking the way we interpret what…read more.
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The Shaman in Love...
One of the great stressors in life is intimate relationships, both the having them and the not having them. We can cultivate intimacy with ourselves…read more.
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Questing for a Dream Worth Living with Sparrow Hart...
“For millennia, people have entered the wilderness to encounter the Spirit, to seek their direction, purpose, or medicine,” explains our guest Sparrow Hart, author of…read more.
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How do we ReDream our Life?...
How do we redream our life when a spouse dies, a beloved sibling, or perhaps a child? How do we redream a life of love…read more.
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Why Are We Afraid to Live Well: Part Two...
We must first change what we want if we are to release our fears of living well. We must decide that we want the path…read more.
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Why Are We Afraid to Live Well? Part One...
One of the biggest challenges for us to understand in the New World is sovereignty or the supreme power to govern yourself. The sense that…read more.
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Why Are We Afraid to Die?...
The stories we have been told about where we go when we die shape our reality about death. Millions of people are terrified of death…read more.
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Lessons in Courage with Don Oscar Miro-Quesada...
Lessons in Courage, by Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, is a guide for changing our lives and bringing much needed healing to ourselves and our planet through…read more.
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Shamanic Practice in the New World...
How is shamanic practice evolving, as it has in every age, to meet the challenges of our time? The spirits gave us good council as…read more.
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What is intimacy with Spirit?...
True shamanic trance states, those that actually clear the control of the small self, require intimacy with spirit. “Intimacy grows with contact,” explains host and…read more.
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The Tribe of the Modern Mystic with Kelley Harrell...
What is it really, creatively, effectively like to do good shamanic work these days? How do you manage the demand that every class, ritual, and…read more.
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What is the Axis Mundi?...
The axis mundi is an existential place or point wherein creation and entropy, the essential generative and destructive forces of the universe, exist as one…read more.
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How to Begin Shamanic Journeying...
Shamanic Journeying is not an “out of body experience.” When this particular alternate state is achieved the journeyer has “a foot in both worlds.” The…read more.
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The Shaman’s Power...
Where does the shaman’s power come from? In cultures all over the world shamans heal what our medical system can’t heal and transform decades of…read more.
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Encountering Evil with Betsy Bergstrom...
How can we acknowledge the existence of evil, work effectively with it and still live our lives from a deep experiential knowing that we are…read more.
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Art and Living Shamanism with Mark Wagner...
“Creativity is a magical and sacred process. The process transforms the artist and the product transforms the world,” explains artist Mark Wagner of Hearts and…read more.
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Sacred Dance: Art and Shamanism...
True power can be accessed through the spirit of dance in a freeform atmosphere. Anyone can access his or her power anytime. You don’t need…read more.
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Sacred Song: Art and Shamanism with Lauri Shainsky...
Sacred sounds resonate with the original blueprint for life and for your life. Sacred song can be a direct path by which the shaman restores…read more.
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Sacred Art: Art And Shamanism with Faith Nolton...
“Making sacred images co-creates reality and feeds into the soul and web of life…” explains visual artist, author, and shamanic practitioner, Faith Nolton. “Making paintings…read more.
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Soul Retrieval Training with Sandra Ingerman...
“There is a lot to understand about the results of bridging the powerful and ancient method of Soul Retrieval into a modern day psychologically sophisticated…read more.
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Nature, Madness and Shamanism...
How do we live a sane life in an insane world? First we need to question Old World definitions of “reality” and “sanity” without throwing…read more.
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Shamanism is Not an Excuse to be Crazy...
Being shamanic is not a pass card from the responsibility of living a grounded and sane life. Shamanic skills are actually a means by which…read more.
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Healing in the Amazon with Roman Hanis: Part One...
The Amazonian rainforest is home to a system of healing and plant medicines as vast, intricate, and effective as Chinese Medicine or Western naturopathy. Our…read more.
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Spirit Walking with Evelyn Rysdyk...
Indigenous shamans share a quality of connection with the world that allows them to simultaneously sizzle with spiritual power, remain entirely grounded, and express a…read more.
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Transforming Communal Shadows: Part Two...
If we are to write a truly new story for the people in the new world we must transform the communal shadow behaviors that shaped…read more.
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Transforming Communal Shadows: Part One...
Most of us are aware of the Shadow thanks to the genius of Karl Jung. However knowing and doing are two different things and, let’s…read more.
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Why isn’t my Shamanic Healing Working?...
Shamanic healing allows us to get to the source of a problem or disease when that source lies outside of the purely physical or mental…read more.
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The Bowl of Light with Hank Wesselman...
“It’s not the year 2012 that is important. It’s 2013,” said Hale Makua, Hawaiian, Kahuna elder. “…what we decide to build on will determine the…read more.
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Your Soul’s Purpose and Transformation: Part Two...
The most direct path to living your soul’s true purpose is both individual and communal. As individuals, people often feel lost, fragmented, or unknown to…read more.
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Your Soul’s Purpose and Transformation: Part One...
When we are not aware of our soul’s true purpose or simply not aligned in our actions, contemporary life can fill quickly with dis-eases of…read more.
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Truth, Delusion, and Altered States...
How do we know that the messages we receive are true? With the direct revelation offered us through a broad range of shamanic altered states…read more.
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Good Witch, Bad Witch?...
Witches, vampires, werewolves, and the living dead appear in our dreams, nightmares, and fairy tales. They also appear in our journeys and as manifestations of…read more.
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Breaking the Curse of Evil with Paul Levy...
Indigenous people have been tracking a psychic virus for many centuries called “wetiko” in Cree and similar names in other languages. A wetiko is a…read more.
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Shamanic Journeying: Taking Action...
Direct revelation from spirit is a human birthright, but what do we actually do with those messages from spirit? Whether our answers come to us…read more.
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Money, Power, and Shamanism...
What is the relationship between our internal richness and monetary wealth? Money gives us a place to project all of our unresolved issues about our…read more.
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The Return to the Earth’s Primordial Wisdom with John...
The ancient stories of myth and religion speak of a time on earth when the land, the plants, animals, birds, bugs, and humans all communicated…read more.
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Ayahuasca in the New World with Stephan Beyer...
“In indigenous cultures, shamans heal because they are in a personal and mutual relationship with the healing spirits,” explains our guest, Stephan Beyer, professor, peacemaker,…read more.
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The Source of True Power...
How do we cultivate the internal richness needed to sustain the true power of action? Where do we find the integrity to face our darkest…read more.
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The True Power of Action...
We have lost the true power of action in the habits, expectations, and excess fire of the Old World and its story. The Warrior warns…read more.
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Finding True Love...
The spirits teach us about love, one way or another, in each and every contact with them in journeys and out in nature, in dreams…read more.
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Creating an Outstanding Life with Alex Stark...
What steps must you take to live in harmony with nature, culture, community, and the path of your heart? What overlooked assumptions about space and…read more.
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Living your Soul’s Purpose...
How do we walk the line between the Old Story Rules and the New System we are creating? Once you have found the path to…read more.
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Shamanism in the New World...
The shamanism of today must continue to evolve if we are to respond to the times we have chosen to live in. Our contemporary shamanic…read more.
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Darkness Guides Us to the Light...
Who will guide us as we stand together with new allies: The Unknown, The Wild Heart, and The Tao, at the dawning of the New…read more.
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Shamanic Art of Reciprocal Exchange...
If the New World is to be different than the one before then we must learn to ally our minds with paradox. We must see…read more.
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Laying Souls to Rest in Vietnam with Dr. Edward Tick...
Vietnamese shaman, Nguyen Ngoc Hoai, speaks to the souls of the dead in her country. In this way she and a Society of Shamans have…read more.
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The Wild Heart in the New World...
There has been a great domestication of the heart in America, numbing and dumbing down the voice that should guide us. It is the rare…read more.
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Engaging the Unknown as an Ally...
We stand at the dawning of the New World envisioning the journey ahead, the co-creation of a world different than before. Who are our allies…read more.
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Wisdom of the Visionary in Changing Times...
The Visionary asks us, “What does it take to envision a truly new future? How do you open to possibilities that have not yet existed…read more.
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What must we change in ourselves to birth a New World? ...
How can we focus our spirit work to support the necessary shift during these times of great global transformation? What assumptions about the Sacred must…read more.
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Wisdom of the Teacher in Changing Times...
The Teacher asks, “can you be passionately committed to the process without attachment to the outcome?” Can you step through the door and into the…read more.
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Wisdom of the Warrior in Changing Times...
The Warrior calls us out to do what must be done for what we love in the world. What would you do today if you…read more.
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Wisdom of the Healer in Changing Times...
The Healer speaks to us of death and rebirth and asks, “What needs to die?” In this time of ending and new beginnings, you must…read more.
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Return to the Mother Tongue with Will Taegel...
We must engage intimately with our wild heart to participate in shaping a new direction for humanity on Earth. Only through an intimate relationship with…read more.
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Interpreting Your Symbolic Language: Part Two...
Traditional cultures have systems or cosmologies that explain the universe. These shamanic cosmologies explain for the people where the world came from, what we are,…read more.
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How to Interpret Messages from the Invisible World...
The invisible world speaks to each of us through our own unique symbolic language. Learning to accurately interpret that language is essential to understanding your…read more.
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Crafting Shamanic Journey Questions: Part Two...
Mastering the art of shamanic journeying requires that you first learn to craft a good question that, like key in a lock, opens a realm…read more.
