Mental Illness and Shamanism
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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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Tools for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma – Part Three
The Deep Liberation Process is time tested over 30 years and fine-tuned online with 950+ people. The core of its uniqueness is a fractal clearing…read more.
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Tools for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma – Part Two
The Deep Liberation Process is a literal and accessible path forward—from wherever you are—out of your unconscious, everyday repetition of history and into the engaged,…read more.
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Tools for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma – Part One
The Deep Liberation Process invites us to discover how we can divest our energy and liberate our imagination from the oppressive systems and broken culture…read more.
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Rescuing the Heart at the End of the World—Part Three
Centering the heart’s wisdom is rare in our plethora of movements, traditions, and modalities that we engage to tend our Body, Mind, and Spirit. Many…read more.
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Rescuing the Heart at the End of the World—Part Two
With all of our Body, Mind, and Spirit practices we still rarely address the heart or our emotions. Even when our emotions are mentioned, they…read more.
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Rescuing the Heart at the End of the World – Part One
Today there are a plethora of movements, traditions, and modalities that promise to help us tend our Mind, Body, and Spirit. However, rarely is the…read more.
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Centering Love as a Place of Power
At the core of living well is the ability to center love as a place of power in any circumstance. This is equally, and in…read more.
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Mental Wellness in Pandemic Time
Mental wellness extends deep roots into solitude, silence, and a sense of self. In times of quarantine we are cut off from everyday patterns of…read more.
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Fear and Leadership in Pandemic Time
As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolds around the world we are witness to a range of leadership from truly inspired, excellent leadership to awful, morally bankrupt…read more.
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Fear and Grounding in Pandemic Time
Pandemics require that we learn to live with ourselves without distractions. For many this feels impossible on a regular day and is especially so now…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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Crazy Logic and Shadow Transformation
Effective shadow transformation requires a specialist who knows the terrain of the darkest reaches of the human heart. This specialist must be more than human,…read more.
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Shadow Transformation Protocol with Christina Pratt
The fundamental assumption about shadow work that blinds us to its true nature is the idea that shadow work is a psychological or spiritual issue.…read more.
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Why Energy Body Mastery Matters
The wisdom of the body is an extremely complex system that translates and integrates multiple languages, including the language of your physical energy, emotions, felt-sense,…read more.
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Listening to Ayahuasca with Rachel Harris, PhD
Rachel Harris believes there is a new hope for depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety. Her hope is deeply grounded in research and clearly expressed in…read more.
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PTSD is Not a Mental Illness
PTSD is an illness of the soul, not the mind. Today PTSD is considered “an anxiety disorder.” However, the cluster of symptoms used to diagnose…read more.
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Self Help and Shamanism
The soul sickness experienced by many in our modern day can be remedied by living as ancient, animistic, shamanic people did. This requires creativity to…read more.
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Should I Learn Shamanic Journeying?
Shamanic journeying is a practice, like other meditative practices, that allows the practitioner to access a non-ordinary experience of sight, sound, sensation, and self…in other…read more.
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What is Soul Loss? Part Two
What is soul loss? In Part Two we explore why other modalities that are effective in healing other physical and emotional wounds simply are not…read more.
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What is Soul Loss? Part One
What is soul loss? Is it real? What causes soul loss? How do I know if I have it? And most important of all, what…read more.
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The Psychedelic Marine, PTSD, and Tools for Change with Alex Seymour
The Psychedelic Marine is a vivid portrait of both the anguish of war and the power of entheogens and shamanic ritual to help combat veterans…read more.
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Timespirits and Shamanism
Timespirits exist in the shared field and can motivate the actions of individuals in the collective. The more unaware you are of your self and…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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What Does Shamanic Practice Look Like?
Contemporary shamanic practice looks different depending on the tradition, cosmology, or beliefs that guide your practice. The variations in authentic shamanic practice are a rich…read more.
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Cultivating a Vital Energy Body
Whose life do you want to be living? And how do you live the life that is an expression of your unique genius? To have…read more.
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What Are Healthy Boundaries?
Conserving and protecting your energy resources are essential to live well. Healthy energetic boundaries are necessary to respond flexibly to what the day offers while…read more.
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What is Energy Grounding?
Grounding is a choice. It isn’t something you heal, its something you do. Good healthy, daily grounding can change the patterns of both stagnant, depressed…read more.
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Energy Body Hygiene
To live well in your human body you must think of it as an energy body and a physical body. The world looks physical and…read more.
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The Lost Art of Sleep with Dr. Rubin Naiman
Sleep is profoundly peaceful. In this time of escalating racial violence, cyber bullying, and aggression against women, we have no frame of reference for the…read more.
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Shame and the Healing Heart
We feel natural shame when we fall short of our own inner standards, especially when others get hurt. It is a natural response of the…read more.
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Abandonment, Presence, and the Spiral Path: Part Two
Abandonment by a caretaker breaks the heart of the child who is ignored, dismissed, or truly left behind. The desire to assuage this once-broken heart…read more.
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Abandonment, Presence, and the Spiral Path
Fear of abandonment is often at the root of the poor quality decisions made by otherwise mentally healthy people. The cycle of abandonment, betrayal, and…read more.
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Schizophrenia and Shamanism with Dick Russell
There are many ways to look at the symptoms that the dominant, contemporary culture diagnoses as mental illness. Illnesses of the spirit or the soul…read more.
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How to Manifest Your Calling: Myth Busting
Rebuilding a new life from the rubble of your old one is at once an exciting and a scary prospect. Whether you tore your life…read more.
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The Spiritual Awakening Guide with Mary Shutan
There are many different types of spiritual awakenings, from kundalini rising to shamanic initiations and everything in between. This often misunderstood range of human experience…read more.
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Rising Up When Life Falls Apart
How do you rise up when you have lost more than you thought you had to lose? How do you avoid the contemporary pitfalls of…read more.
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Suicide and Shamanism
How can we use our shamanic skills to respond to suicide? From a shamanic perspective there is tending needed for the soul of the dead…read more.
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The Art of Falling Apart
There are times that we simply need to fall apart. …not having a bad day, call in sick, fall apart, but losing more than you…read more.
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What is Shamanic Possession?
Shamanic possession is not actually possession at all, but the intentional embodiment of spirit help with whom the shaman has already developed a working relationship.…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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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How Spiritual Emergency Becomes Awakening with Kevin Sachs
“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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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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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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Transforming Pain
Join us this week as we explore the application of shamanic skills to transform pain, whether it is physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. “In the…read more.
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Shamanism and Recovery from Addiction
Addiction touches every one of us, particularly in America. If you aren’t an addict yourself you love someone who is. Addictions come in all shapes…read more.
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Shamanism and PTSD Recovery
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the aftermath of a healthy, normal response to threatening, unpredictable, out of control situations. Within the complex inner world of…read more.
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Listening to Voices: Part Two
We all listen to voices, but for many the voice of Spirit gets lost in the distractions, seductions, and the cacophony of voices in the…read more.
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Listening to Voices: Part One
We all listen to voices in our heads. Some voices offer wise counsel or gut knowing while others are just an inner critic or frightened…read more.
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Shamanism and Transforming Depression
Persistent depression, a disease of the heart and soul, is one of the most common problems motivating people to seek help. And shamanism is an…read more.
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Shamanism and Transforming Mental Illness
In shamanic cultures mental illness is a community illness that is caused when the community’s many shadow projections overwhelm the collective benevolent intent. When we…read more.
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Shamanism and Transforming Addiction
Addictions abound in our lives. Whether persistent, problematic substance abuse patterns, the simple inability to wind down after along day without a glass of wine,…read more.
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Shamanic Advances in Mental Health in England with Howard and Elsa Malpas
“We know we have a Warrior in our Heart when we start to seek for the truth, and desire to open our hearts to ourselves…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.