Ancestral Healing
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Death, Dying, and The Dead: Ancestral Overview
It is the rare contemporary person in the USA who knows what to do with death; how to approach death, how to ease the dying…read more.
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Ancestral Healing: Transforming Persistent Patterns—Part Two
We all come from the first man and the first woman. Yet we created “race,” a historical story to justify the concept of “white supremacy.”…read more.
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Ancestral Healing: Transforming Persistent Patterns – Part One
Healing our ancestral lines can bring us face to face with some really complex patterns, woven and interwoven by generations of people before us. Often…read more.
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Ancestral Healing: Where to Begin
We all have ancestors. Some are the source of great blessings and protection. Others repel us with their legacy of injustice, abuse, and suffering. Either…read more.
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Mental Health, First Responders, & the Nobility of the Soul
The suicide rate for first responders is reported to be 20% higher than the general population. Can we please stop acting like we don’t know…read more.
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Angry Kids, Ancestral Healing & Climate Changes
There are deeply unresolved ancestral patterns at play in the world today. They keep us from seeing reality accurately and the fullness of possibility. They…read more.
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Ancestral Healing Triage: Where to Begin Without Traditions-Part Two
Where do we begin to heal our ancestral lines? What is the first step when we do not have traditions that guide us? How do…read more.
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Ancestral Healing Triage: Where to Begin Without Traditions-Part One
We all have ancestors. They are with us in our blood. We do not all have traditions that guide us in dealing with our ancestors.…read more.
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Escaping the Bully Victim Pattern
A bully victim pattern is surfacing publicly as we begin to confront the reality of internalized and unconscious patterns of marginalization. When we are unconscious…read more.
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Ancestral Healing and Activism
When we change patterns held by our ancestors, we become free to change those patterns within ourselves. Ancestral Healing empowers not only the healing of…read more.
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What is Shamanic Healing? Some Case Studies – Part Two
Shamanic healing describes a particular set of healing forms. Many diverse cultures practice these healing forms in ways are culturally specific and still functionally the…read more.
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What is Shamanic Healing? Some Case Studies – Part One
Shamanic healing describes a particular set of healing forms. Many diverse cultures practice these healing forms in ways are culturally specific and still functionally the…read more.
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Peace, Justice, and Shamanic Activism
Traditionally shamans are activists. It is the role of the shaman to see where the people have lapsed in their ways for living well. Working…read more.
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Are We Changing the Spirit World? With Kelley Harrell: Part Three
Our personal focus and practice must move out from inner work into ever-widening circles of collective work for our personal/spiritual transformation to be truly effective…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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Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing with Daniel Foor: Part Two
The blood lineage ancestors, who carry the unresolved issues of the family line, can change when met by a skillful person. The dead can finally…read more.
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Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing with Daniel Foor: Part One
Your blood lineage ancestors, irrespective of religion, race, or culture, include the thousands of women and men whose lives weave a story back to the…read more.
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Are We Changing the Spirit World? With Kelley Harrell: Part Two
Is there a parallel between our effect on the physical world, like climate change and polluting our elemental resources, and changes in the spirit world?…read more.
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Are We Changing the Spirit World? With Kelley Harrell: Part One
The fixed and constant idea of the invisible world ordered in upper, middle, and lower worlds is a fundamental assumption of neoshamanism. However, if the…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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Racism, the Double Wounding, and Shamanism with Langston Kahn: Part Four
What are the tangible ways we can engage shamanic skills to approach both systemic racism and our own internalized racism? They begin when we engage…read more.
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Racism, the Double Wounding, and Shamanism with Langston Kahn: Part Three
Can contemporary American’s transform their consciousness—and unconsciousness— in their engagement with systemic racism? Shamanic practice offers tangible ways we can approach the transformation of our…read more.
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Racism, the Double Wounding, and Shamanism with Langston Kahn: Part Two
The poison arrow of racism is a double wound. It is the arrow—the direct injustice inherent in the act that harms the heart and mind.…read more.
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Racism, the Double Wounding, and Shamanism with Langston Kahn: Part One
The collusive, fearful, racist underbelly of the American culture has been exposed by the hate-filled rhetoric, violence, and lies of the current presidential race. The…read more.
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Chronic Illness and Shamanic Practice with Kelley Harrell
Living with chronic illness is a challenge, a challenge more and more people are being required to navigate daily in an already busy life. How…read more.
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Ancestors and Descendants: Working with Helping Spirits
Why would I want a working relationship with my ancestors when I can’t stand my own relations? Fair question when so much addiction, depression, social…read more.
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Meeting Hatred and Shamanic Practice
Hatred is a luxury we do not have. It costs too much, eventually destroying all that truly matters and leaving the soul lost as collateral…read more.
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Fear and Shamanic Practice
Feeling fear—whether real or imagined— initiates a variety of chemical responses in the body that support the needed physical response, either fight, flight, freeze, or…read more.
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Grief and the Healing Heart
Grief itself offers us great compassion. It comes and goes, tailoring itself to each heart that is experiencing loss and bereavement. It takes its time,…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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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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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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What must we change in ourselves to birth a New World? With Daniel Foor
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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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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Ancestral Healing – hosted by Dr. Linda Christensen
“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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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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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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Healing our Ancestral Lines with Martin Brennan
“Throughout shamanic cultures worldwide there exists a deep respect and understanding of our connectedness and indebtedness to our Ancestors. It is the duty of the…read more.