Initiation
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part Three
We are given so many stories by our culture that limit how we use our power. Often these stories involve what it means to be…read more.
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part Two
What if the juiciest parts of yourself, your humor, your creativity, your sexuality were waiting for you in the shadow realms? What if the parts…read more.
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part One
What if you had a chance to hit the restart button on your authenticity? To peel back all the layers of trauma to reveal the…read more.
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The Nepalese Shamanic Path with Evelyn Rysdyk, Part Two
The Nepalese Shamanic Path is a major contribution to our understanding and practice of shamanism. This new book offers the expertise of jhankri, Bhola Nath…read more.
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The Nepalese Shamanic Path with Evelyn Rysdyk, Part One
The Nepalese Shamanic Path is a major contribution to our understanding and practice of shamanism. This new book offers the expertise of jhankri, Bhola Nath Banstola,…read more.
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The Runic Book of Days with Kelley Harrel
“Our most challenging task as humans is finding meaning in our self and the world around us,” says Kelley Harrell, author of Runic Book of…read more.
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The Way of the Leopard with John Lockley
John Lockley is one of the first white men in recent history to become a fully initiated Xhosa Sangoma, the traditional healers of South Africa,…read more.
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Messy Initiation and Transformation Confusion
One of the great challenges and ongoing questions in contemporary shamanic practice is “what is initiation?” or more accurately “am I initiated?” It is messy…read more.
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The Norse Shaman with Evelyn Rysdyk
Many in shamanic practice seek to deepen their relationship with their own ancestral lines and, in this, to reconnect with the shamanic roots in their…read more.
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The Root of Resiliency
To bring our mature courageous hearts into action in the world we must be resilient. But resiliency is the first casualty in a culture that…read more.
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The Highly Skilled Wounded Child
The highly skilled wounded child arises when an adult learns an assortment of excellent skills to move out of the pain caused today by their…read more.
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Planting the Seed for Initiation
We need initiation into adulthood desperately, as individuals and as a culture. At this time the lack of initiation is at the root of much…read more.
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Initiation Is Not Graduation
Initiation is not graduation. Initiation is not the formal certification of the successful completion of a course of shamanic training, nor is it the ritual…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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recognition Rites to Create and Celebrate Elders with Tom Pinkson
“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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Remembering True Initiation: The Initiation Series Wrap-up
In the opening of Curing our Cultural Sickness: The Initiation Series on June 8th, shaman and host, Christina Pratt, presented the hypothesis that the lack…read more.
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The Initiation Series: John-Luke Edwards
This week we resume our Initiation Series: Curing our Cultural Sickness with out final guest, Reverend Shaman John-Luke Edwards, MA, PhD. It is our hope…read more.
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The Initiation Series: Gretchen Crilly McKay
Sangoma (shaman), Gretchen Crilly McKay is our guest this week in our Initiation Series: Curing our Cultural Sickness. She joins us to discuss her traditional…read more.
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The Initiation Series: Michael Dunning
Shaman-healer, Michael Dunning is our guest this week in our Initiation Series: Curing our Cultural Sickness. He joins us to discuss his exceptional initiation experiences…read more.
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The Initiation Series: Desiree Demars
Healer, Desiree DeMars is our first guest in our Initiation Series: Curing our Cultural Sickness. She will join us to discuss her own initiation experiences…read more.
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The Initiation Series: Curing Our Cultural Sickness
This week begins a series exploring initiation and spiritual maturity. “It is my hypothesis,” says host and shaman Christina Pratt, “that the lack of meaningful…read more.
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Initiation and Why We Need it Desperately
Initiation is the thing we most need from shamanism and are least willing to receive. Much has been written about initiation in psychology, shamanism, and…read more.