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The Vital Evolutionary Role of Shamanism with Don Oscar...
“Any heartfelt practitioner of shamanism in the world today is deeply aware of the vital evolutionary role of this ancestral eco-spiritual tradition… Indigenous culture is…read more.
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Complementary Dualism in All Things with Hillary S. Web...
At the heart of shamanism is the pulse, the breath, the dance of complementary dualism, a Tao-like awareness of wholeness expressed in Nature and found…read more.
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How to Craft a Good Shamanic Journeying Question: Part ...
Shamanic journeying is an art that requires crafting good questions. A good question provokes an answer that addresses your problem effectively without creating new problems.…read more.
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Our Answers Lie in Oneness...
Not all shamans are great visionaries; not all understand the universe at the same depth. However, they all apply the knowledge they have and that…read more.
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The Medicine of the Wild Feminine with Tami Kent...
The wisdom in the Wild Feminine, by our guest and author Tami Kent, is the medicine we need to reclaim and embody the power and…read more.
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Rising to the potential that exists in 2012 with C. Mic...
What can happen now? We can step into our power to create a Global Shift out of our current Global Crisis. To do this we…read more.
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What is the change in 2012 asking of us?...
What is our part in the global crisis we find ourselves sharing in September of 2012? What is the nature of the challenge ahead of…read more.
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The Power of Dance: Trance Dance...
The power of dance goes largely untapped in the contemporary world. When we dance we can access the power to reconcile inner conflict, to transform…read more.
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Your own Sacred Story with Jeff Stockton...
Where are you in your own Sacred Story? Your story can weave and hold you together or it can unravel your bearings in life and…read more.
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Real Life is Messy: Warriorship...
If we live in our comfort zone the “to do” list gets done, all the bills get paid on time, and you never have your…read more.
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Finding the Heart of the Matter...
Assumptions blind us to the heart of the matter before us. The most common reason people cycle around and around working ineffectively on the same…read more.
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Gift of the Dreamtime with Kelley Harrell...
For those of you interested in shamanism you can experience a shaman finding her shaman legs, reshaping the workings of her mind, and awakening her…read more.
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Restoring Spirits of the Land with David Franklin Farka...
What do we do when things stop flourishing? What do we do when houses don’t sell, businesses fail, and illness keeps cycling through the family?…read more.
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Working with the Spirits of the Land...
Shamanism is the practice of direct communication with the Divine lifeforce present in all things. The purpose of this communication is to cultivate and maintain…read more.
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The Spiritual Gift of Madness with Seth Farber...
Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist, visionary, and activist on many fronts. He joins us this week to discuss his new…read more.
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Nourishing Destiny...
The summer solstice is a time of fullness, expression, and manifestation in the physical world. And yet, in the frenzy of summer vacations, weekend get-aways,…read more.
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Loneliness and Solitude...
Loneliness and isolation have risen sharply in America over the past couple of decades, a trend exacerbated by the time and energy we spend cultivating…read more.
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Soul Loss and Family Values: Part Two...
Soul loss is unfortunately an everyday reality in America. While soul loss can be the result of abuse and trauma, it can also be caused…read more.
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Soul Loss and Family Values: Part One...
In today’s vitriolic public discourse about marriage and family values the child is the banner held high and waved about. However, what we see from…read more.
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Shamanism, Jung, and the Heart with C. Michael Smith...
Now more than ever we must bridge the heart-centered, earth honoring, and interconnection-based practices of shamanism with the contemporary mind and depth psychologies—and we must…read more.
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Healing the Ancestral Lines...
When people call out to their ancestors, they call out to a diversity of energies. Some people call out by name to the men and…read more.
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Becoming a Shaman...
We all have the ability to create art, make love, and offer healing. And some people have the gift. Part of the art of life…read more.
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Shamanic Journeying: Tricks of the Trade...
Literally thousands of people around the world have been taught to use the shamanic journey practice to connect with their spirit help and guides since…read more.
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Healing Through End of Life with Leslie Bryan...
“Curing is the successful treatment and resolution of an issue; healing is to bring peace or fulfillment on an emotional, mental or spiritual level, regardless…read more.
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Working with Helping Spirits...
If helping spirits are present for all of us then why are they so hard to talk to? From a shamanic perspective everyone from child…read more.
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What is a Power Animal?...
What are power animals and why do they help us? Power animals are one of the many ways that shamanic peoples, ancient and contemporary alike…read more.
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Shamanism and Healing from Trauma...
The ancients understood that soul loss could occur as a result of trauma, warfare, sorcery, accidents, or abuse. So simple and deep was this understanding…read more.
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A Field Guide to Shamanism with Colleen Deatsman...
“Shamans cannot undertake personal healing, action in the world, and service to the community using only their personal life-fore energy; they must harness the more…read more.
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Planting the Seeds of Your Soul’s Purpose...
Our soul’s purpose lives in our body, deep within the root of our being where we carry our piece of the original spark of life.…read more.
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Christina Pratt as a guest on the Farkas Files...
Christina joins the Farkas Files host, David Farkas, as he discusses the ancient knowledge of indigenous cultures and the cream of contemporary scientific understanding and…read more.
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Shaman’s Sickness, Initiation and The Calling...
“Shaman’s sickness,” refers to the specific, physical and/or mental illness that results when spirit chooses a new shamanic candidate and possesses the candidate or takes…read more.
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Have I Been Cursed?...
Where there are blessings there can also be curses. The ability to send a blessing or a curse has been with humankind in almost every…read more.
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A New Dreaming Society with Robert Moss...
“Active Dreaming is a way of being fully of this world while maintaining constant contact with another world, the world-behind-the-world, where the deeper logic and…read more.
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How to Live a Legendary Life...
What does it take to live a legendary life? A human is born to live a legendary life because we are all born of the…read more.
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Sandra Ingerman and Awakening Now...
2012 is here. What do we need to focus on? “Many of us have been moving forward to wake up, but we are still in…read more.
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Depression and Soul Retrieval...
We may be able to measure the ways in which depression alters our brain chemistry. However, that does not prove that brain chemistry causes depression.…read more.
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How Do I Find My Authentic Self? Part Two...
Contemporary life is filled with so much promise of happiness and fulfillment. Yet many people find that, though they are doing all the right things,…read more.
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Leading by Council, Community by Heart with Phillip Sco...
People around the world are calling out for new forms of leadership, economic exchange, and community. If we can tap the wisdom of our long…read more.
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How Do I Find My Authentic Self? Part One...
Contemporary life is filled with so much promise of happiness and fulfillment. Yet many people find that, though they are doing all the right things,…read more.
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How Do I Begin Shamanic Healing?...
How do you begin shamanic healing? And perhaps more importantly why would you start down the path of shamanic healing? Contemporary people begin to explore…read more.
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Shamanism and the Renewal of Spirit...
Winter is the season of The Return. It is the time to rest and slow down. For most just slowing down is the challenge. We…read more.
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Bringing Health and Well-being to Children with Jon Bre...
“Let yourself imagine and experience the certainty that ADD and ADHD, birth trauma, incomplete bonding, sensory overload, dyslexia, and autism, labeled strenuous and unalterable by…read more.
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Shamanism, Winter Blues and your Purpose...
The “Winter Blues” viewed from a shamanic perspective are misdiagnosed. Through the eyes of the shaman the Winter Blues are not so much about less…read more.
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Ancestral Healing – hosted by Dr. Linda Christens...
“We are the dreams of our Ancestors…” and they are also our nightmares. All that remains unresolved in your ancestral line, the violence, injustice, and…read more.
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Shamanism, Abandonment and Fulfillment...
Fear of abandonment, separation, or banishment is one of the great life hobblers, never quite stopping us from moving toward health, vitality, and our soul’s…read more.
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Occupy Love: Shamanism and Restorative Action...
“How could we ask for anything less than the future?” That is the question. And it was asked by spoken word poet, Drew Dellinger, in…read more.
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Clearing the Way To Take Restorative Action: Occupy Mov...
“Whenever one wakes up to the awareness that they have been oppressed or suppressed the natural desire is “take control” to make one’s presence known…read more.
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Shamanic Activism: Responding to Occupy Wall Street wit...
“Rather than just appealing to or confronting the worldly powers that be, shamanic rituals bring the mass of people into a coherent collective that draws…read more.
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Shamanic Healing for Death and Dying...
Death is a point of transition. There is the approach to death, a process we call dying. And there is the departure from death, a…read more.
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Shamanism and Unconscious Sorcery...
The distinction between acts of healing and acts of sorcery is self-control. In the realm of shamanism a conscious act of sorcery isn’t about good…read more.
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Have you lost your soul? Hosted by Dr. Linda Christense...
Shamans of old were healers of body and soul. They found that many of our ailments can be traced to a form of “soul loss”…read more.
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Shamanism and a Vital Energy Body...
Shamanic practices involve the intentional movement between the visible physical realm and the invisible mental/emotional/spiritual/mythic/archetypal/Unknown realm. They also involve the inner journeys between the realm…read more.
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Shamanism and the True Nature of Health with Michael Du...
“Health is divinely given,” explains Yewshaman Michael Dunning, “As is the consciousness with which to perceive it therapeutically. Thus Health in an embryological context exists…read more.
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Picking Up Your Medicine Today...
You can open the door to a life of meaning and purpose by “picking up your medicine.” Your medicine does not come to you in…read more.
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Shamanic Shrines and Creating Community...
We live in sacred space all the time, everyday, but most of us do not know how to acknowledge it or to use it. By…read more.
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Creating Sacred Space Anywhere, Any time...
Space is inherently sacred, as are all things, as are you. When we act to “create sacred space” we are acknowledging that fact of the…read more.
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Global Dismemberment: Through the Shaman’s Eye with R...
What is happening around us? We see severe weather, colossal oil spills, and species die off. We see illness, obesity, and rising incidents of mental…read more.
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How do We Heal? Shamanism & Disease...
Shamans believe that soul loss or energy intrusions or both are at the root of all illness. This is only partially true. In the diagnostic…read more.
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Finding the Roots of your Authentic Self...
Authenticity is rooted in initiation, in the transformation of the ego identity from child self to adult self. For this we need ritual and the…read more.
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Soul Integration and Shamanic Healing...
What do you do after a shamanic healing experience? In past times people lived in a way that they saw soul loss in each other…read more.
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The Shamanic Journey and Direct Revelation: Part Two...
The shamanic journey allows the journeyer to receive direct revelation from Spirit. A direct connection with spirit is the birth right of every human and…read more.
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How Spiritual Emergency Becomes Awakening with Kevin Sa...
“In spiritual emergency, our process of awakening becomes difficult and destabilizing,” explains our guest, Kevin Sachs PhD of Safe Journeys Home. “These states can be…read more.
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The Shamanic Journey and Direct Revelation: Part One...
The shamanic journey allows the journeyer to receive direct revelation from Spirit. A direct connection with spirit is the birth right of every human and…read more.
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How do I find my Soul’s Purpose?...
Our soul’s purpose is the cornerstone of well-being, from a shamanic perspective. But how do we find it? Without it we are lost. With it…read more.
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Sacred Balinese Healing Practices meet Globalization wi...
“Balian,” a documentary by filmmaker, Dan McGuire, tells the story of the rise and fall of a charismatic Balinese shaman (or “Balian”) named Mangku Pogog.…read more.
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The Wild Heart Hypothesis with Will Taegel...
The Wild Heart Hypothesis states: “If we are to survive and thrive as humans on planet Earth, we will need to dive deeply into the…read more.
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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…read more.
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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…read more.
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Pour Your Heart Out in Prayer—The Spirits as Teachers...
“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,…read more.
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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…read more.
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What is a Wounded Healer?...
Today being “the wounded healer” has become the excuse for poor discernment in contemporary practitioners around boundaries, responsibility, and personal healing. In western thought the…read more.
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Intimate Apprenticeship with Paula Denham...
“It is your commitment to be in your highest level of integrity, to teach what you are and not what you want to be.” So…read more.
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Shamanism and the Spiritual Warrior...
Spiritual Warriorship is more than a metaphor that your therapist drags out every time you are challenged to take the actions necessary to change. Our…read more.
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Power and Responsibility with Jonathan Horwitz...
“With great power comes great responsibility.” What will come of contemporary shamanism if we only focus on learning new skills to access greater and greater…read more.
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Why You Need to Heal Your Ancestral Lines...
What does it really mean to heal our ancestral lines? To truly heal what lies unresolved in the ancestral lines, we must go to the…read more.
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The Power of your True Nature...
“There is great power in our True Nature and great healing in letting go of all that no longer resonates with it. When we allow…read more.
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What Weather Teaches with Nan Moss and David Corbin...
“We are passionate about using shamanic skills and practices to become fully human, about approaching and manifesting those potentials that human beings represent,” say Nan…read more.
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Spirit Teachers and Better Humans...
“The spirits are teachers, not therapists. They are here to teach us to be better humans,” explains host and shaman, Christina Pratt. The helping spirits…read more.
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Shamanism and the Trickster...
“The Trickster cannot be trusted,” writes author Lewis Hyde, “It is a contact that puts us slightly at risk; we open ourselves to disruption whenever…read more.
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The power of shamanic healing from the inside out...
We can use shamanic healing skills to address the suffering of humanity. Whether caused through human action, like war or drug use, or natural events,…read more.
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How do I become a Shaman?...
How does someone become a shamanic healer in the 21st Century? What is the first step? What do you do if shamanic healing has been…read more.
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Healing into Peace with Martha Lucier...
“As I rekindle the indigenous spirit within myself I connect to my sacred roots listening to the voices of the ancestors while honoring my connection…read more.
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What is Shamanic Healing?...
What is a shamanic healing in the 21st Century? Host and shaman, Christina Pratt, explores this question in three parts. First we will explore the…read more.
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Recognition Rites to Create and Celebrate Elders with T...
“Recognition Rites is a ceremonial rite of passage which honors and celebrates Elderhood,” explains our guest, author and shaman, Tom Pinkson, PhD. Join host Christina…read more.
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Rites of Passage with Annie Spencer...
“Making Ceremony is a way of reminding ourselves that in fact all that we do is sacred,” explains Annie Spencer, founder of Hartwell Centre for…read more.
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Taking Right Action...
The right use of power requires that you are willing to do whatever it takes. The person of mature spirituality understands that this will mean…read more.
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Facing your Fears...
Facing our fear is the first hurdle to get over when we take action to create the life we are dreaming of and it is…read more.
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The Secret or The Big Dream?...
“Manifesting Reality is a somewhat bigger prospect than The Secret and all the versions of The Art of Getting What You Want would have you…read more.
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Gateways of the Dragon with Sarah Finlay and Peter Clar...
“As we move along our path of continuous evolution,” explain Sarah Finlay and Peter Clark of Shaman’s Flame, “we often go through cycles of heightened…read more.
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Shamans and Dreams: Part Two...
Spirits produce dreams, but not necessarily all dreams. This is important because it means that there are potentially multiple spirits producing dreams, not just a…read more.
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Shamans and Dreams: Part One...
This week we explore your nighttime dreams and how shamans interpret them. “There are many valid and useful systems of thought through which to interpret…read more.
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Vitality and Life Force of Your Purpose...
At the core of well-being is the cultivation of right relationship with your self. Shaman and host, Christina Pratt explains that, from a shamanic perspective,…read more.
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Ethics and the First Shaman...
“The ethics of shamanic practice were brought by the First Shaman who was of Divine origins and not entirely human. The First Shaman brought knowledge…read more.
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Shamanic Inheritance with Jonathan Horwitz...
“The shaman works by asking for help,” explains Jonathan Horwitz, co-founder of the Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies with Annette Høst. “We never get anywhere…read more.
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The Shaman’s Heart...
The shaman’s heart is an awakened heart. The path the shaman walks to free the heart offers a metaphor for each of us to find…read more.
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What do you ask a shaman?...
Can shamanism help with mental illness? What about my depression? Am I cheating myself out of healing by taking my pharmaceuticals? Can you heal my…read more.
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Shamanic Healing for Animals with Carla Meeske...
Have you ever wondered if shamanic healing might help your animal or pet? Join us this week as host and shaman, Christina Pratt speaks with…read more.
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Conflux of Power with Tom Cowan...
Tom Cowan joins host, Christina Pratt, to explore the art of “standing in the conflux of power.” This traditional role of the shaman involved moving…read more.
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Choosing a Shamanic Teacher...
How do we choose a shamanic teacher? And do we choose, or do the teachers select us? What should you look for? What are the…read more.
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Oral Traditions in a Virtual World...
In an oral tradition no reproduction of the teaching is allowed in any form; not written, recorded, filmed, txted or put up on youtube. This…read more.
