Power and Shamanism
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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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Liberating Our Humanity with Langston Kahn
So often in spiritual circles we are taught to see our humanity as something we have to overcome or deal with. Even when we understand…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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Appropriation and Deep Practice in Shamanism
Education, respect for all life, and awareness of both history and who writes it allows us to use cultural appropriation as a guide for what…read more.
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What Does “shaman” Mean?
Stanley Krippner respectfully defined shamans as “community-assigned magico-religious professionals who deliberately alter their consciousness in order to obtain information from the ‘spirit world.’ They use…read more.
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Power and Shamanism
Where do we learn the right use of power with examples of abuse, misuse, and squandering of power everywhere? As we enter the new year…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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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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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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Authentic Self, Authentic Shamanism
Is there authenticity in shamanism without knowing and living your authentic self? Authenticity isn’t always popular or trending. At times what makes you most unique…read more.
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Getting Unstuck Part Four: The Lies We Tell
We all experience stuckness at some point in life and there is an art to getting out of it. You can become the person who…read more.
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Getting Unstuck: Finding the Vein of Gold Part Three
We all experience stuckness at some point in life and there is an art to getting out of it. It begins with changing our chemistry,…read more.
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Getting Unstuck Part Two: Seeing into your Blindness
There is an art to learning to get out of your own way when you are stuck. That art begins with stepping out of denial…read more.
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Empowerment and Sovereignty: 2017 Solstice Fire, Part Four
In preparation for this upcoming Solstice Fire Ritual, we create two arrows, Life and Death. The Trickster’s alchemy and wisdom about true sacrifice helped us…read more.
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Empowerment and Sovereignty: 2017 Solstice Fire, Part Three
In preparation for this upcoming Winter or Summer Solstice the Healer asked us to stir our old stories. The Warrior guided us to sort through…read more.
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Empowerment and Sovereignty: 2017 Solstice Fire, Part Two
What will you do differently and how will you make the desire for change in your heart real in your world today? This week we…read more.
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Empowerment and Sovereignty: 2017 Solstice Fire, Part One
The depth of the systemic political, financial, and social misuse and abuse of power at the core of the old story is revealed more fully…read more.
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Getting Unstuck Part One: Real Life Shamanic Practice
We all experience stuckness at some point in life. Whether we do precisely what people expect of us or choose a different path that flows…read more.
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Encounters with Power: Part Two
What is right relationship with power? Once we make a successful bid for power how do we use it? And, perhaps more important, how do…read more.
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Encounters with Power with José Luis Stevens
What is power? How do we make a bid for power? And, perhaps more important, how do we recover when our bid for power goes…read more.
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Warriorship, Shadow, and Shamanism
What actions are required to unite a nation divided? If we are not insane (and one wonders these days) then we must innovate and take…read more.
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Healers, Shadow, and Shamanism
Now that the ugly racist, sexist, violent, ignorant underbelly of America is exposed for the world to see, will we learn to heal the wounds…read more.
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Visionaries, Shadow, and Shamanism
True visionaries are a dime a dozen. Humanity is full of great ideas. What we find in short supply are those people who will actually…read more.
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Leaders, Shadow, and Shamanism
Leading is a thankless job, whether you lead a community garden or a nation. People criticize, blame, and project their unacknowledged flawed selves onto leaders…read more.
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The Power of Blessing
Blessings are the way to give life to that which you value, to give it strength and help it to survive and to thrive. Through…read more.
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The Power of Faith
Faith does not require religion and is often stronger without it. Faith is the power to stand in the Unknown with uncertainty and discomfort and…read more.
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The Power of Gratitude
Gratitude is a choice to see beyond the surface of instant gratification. Gratitude is not a luxury for people who get what they want, but…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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Why Do We Need Shamanism Now?
We need shamanism now for the same reason we needed it in the beginning. The “first shaman” came in many forms to many different peoples…read more.
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Unmasking the False Self
We are spirit incarnate. The first decision that we make in life, when we are very smart and still part of the Oneness, is to…read more.
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Peacemaking as a Spiritual Path with Stephan Beyer
“We all suffer. We are all sacred. We are all bound together. We are all fallible. We are all capable of redemption.” And we are…read more.
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Solstice Fire, Fierce Love
In this time of profound ignorance justified as American politics, escalating racial violence, homicidal cyber bullying, and ever-present aggression against women, it is easy to…read more.
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What is Appropriation in Shamanism with Mary Mueller Shutan
Appropriation is theft; it is to take something without the owner’s permission. Cultural appropriation almost always involves members of the dominant culture taking from cultures…read more.
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Claiming Your Power…and then what happens
The shamanic healing form, soul retrieval, can result in the direct and immediate return of our personal power and our sense of purpose in life.…read more.
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Community and the Trickster
“God lives in the heart while trickster dwells in the mind,” is a teaching of the Kalahari Bushmen. When trickster is in the head it…read more.
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Way of the Bushman with Bradford and Hillary Keeney
The teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen or San are the oldest spiritual, shamanic, and healing practices in our world. The San do not believe that…read more.
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Shamanism and the Mess of Love
Humans are messy. And love is one of the messiest bits of human life. So what do we really mean when we strive to rise…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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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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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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Shadow, Sex, and Shamanism with Marsha Scarbrough
Where people gather in community there is Shadow, even in spiritual communities. Where there is unacknowledged Shadow there is sex, often good and exciting, and…read more.
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Why We Fear the Creative Self
If you want to live a creative life, look at the quality of your relationship with Creativity as a spirit, not a process. For most,…read more.
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Sovereignty and Your Calling
Sovereignty is the supreme power to self govern and it is the core of a life lived well. What does sovereignty mean in a time…read more.
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The Elemental Heart
At the core of initiatory illness are the spirits who are looking for a pure heart. They can teach you all you need to know…read more.
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Creating a Crucible of Transformation
Humans have an amazing capacity for change if they choose to access it. Even transformation, which is change we cannot go back from, is accessible…read more.
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The Shaman’s Power
Where does the shaman’s power come from? In cultures all over the world shamans heal what our medical system can’t heal and transform decades of…read more.
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Spirit Walking with Evelyn Rysdyk
Indigenous shamans share a quality of connection with the world that allows them to simultaneously sizzle with spiritual power, remain entirely grounded, and express a…read more.
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Money, Power, and Shamanism
What is the relationship between our internal richness and monetary wealth? Money gives us a place to project all of our unresolved issues about our…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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Becoming a Person of Power
A person of power is effective, joyful, and creative in life, regardless of the circumstances, while enjoying radiant health and well-being. Anyone can become a…read more.
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The Toltec I Ching with William Horden
The Toltec I Ching: 64 Keys to Inspired Action in the New World by Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and William Douglas Horden has just been released by…read more.