Soul Cultivation
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The Challenge of Love
Self-love is fundamental, but remains a Sisyphusian task for many. What would it take for you to respect, honor, and deeply value yourself? This is…read more.
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Giving Gratitude for the Hard Stuff
We are not actually entitled to anything, not the water we drink or the air we breathe. Everything is a gift. For the gifts to…read more.
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The Heart of Fear
Everything has a heart, even fear. In our chronic, cultural avoidance of fear we miss the heart of the matter and in that miss the…read more.
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Grace in Transition
Grace in transition does not come easily to modern people who live in the climate controlled illusion that they have mastered nature, wilderness, and the…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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Feast in Loneliness
The fall is a time of rich harvest in the northern hemisphere. It is also a time that people begin to feel lonely and depressed.…read more.
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Small Acts of Power
Shamanically speaking, what is happening in our country is the dismantling of our shared False Self, explains host and shaman, Christina Pratt. Do you want…read more.
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Small Sacred Things
“That which is sacred possesses within it The Mystery,” explains host and shaman, Christina Pratt. While what we find sacred in a religious sense varies,…read more.
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Is Shamanism a Path to Enlightenment?
“The shamanic path is not a path traditionally intended to achieve enlightenment,” explains Michael Harner of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. “It has been a…read more.
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The Return or Filling the Well
How do you fill the well of your well being, especially when you feel tired, cold and exhausted? Join host and shaman, Christina Pratt, as…read more.
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The Importance of Essence
If you say, “I love that show” and “I love my car”, what does it mean when you say, “I love my child” or “I…read more.
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Critical Acts of Celebration
The point of our practice whether spiritual or shamanic is the Celebration of Life. What is a shamanic view of life if it is not…read more.
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Receiving the Gift
Life is exquisite in its generosity. Every day is filled with gifts. Yet people go through the day unknowingly judging and rejecting the continuous stream…read more.