Shamanic Community
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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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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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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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The Cycle of Transformation: Part Five
The last part of the Cycle of Transformation involves using all the skills you have learned in the cycle to dismantle your False Self. The…read more.
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The Cycle of Transformation: Part Four
Traditionally, our Ancestors are meant to be a primary source of blessing, wisdom, love and protection. However, when the dead aren’t tended well they hijack…read more.
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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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Solstice Fire: Transforming Discord and Division
The depth of systemic political, financial, ecological, and social divisiveness and abuse of power is revealed more fully each day. Now what? What will you…read more.
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Moving into the Deep Water: Update
We all need to learn to swim in the black water. It is the deep water of life where we are no longer in control.…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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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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Engaging our World in New Ways: The Yachaks of the Andes with Itzhak Beery
In 1993 the new Pachacuti, a correction of Time and Space began for the Americas. For the Kichwa people of the Andes this is a…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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Moving into the Deep Water
We are born as an answer to the prayers of our ancestors. We are the medicine for our time. But what does that actually mean?…read more.
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Bridges to Earth’s New Era with Will Taegel
Walking with Bears: On Bridges to Earth’s New Era, by Will Taegel, PhD, completes a trilogy including Wild Heart and The Mother Tongue, that addresses…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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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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Shaman as Activist: Part Two
Shamanic practitioners could direct our current wave of energy for change into actual manifest changes in our everyday lives, if they would work together. To…read more.
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Shaman as Activist With Evelyn Rysdyk
Literally millions of women around the world of all ages, with children, men and other loved ones, marched peacefully for an awe inspiring, record breaking,…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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Doing the Impossible: Tools for Change
The ability to face the impossible and do it anyway is at the core of what it means to be human. At their best humans…read more.
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Solstice Fire Between Stories: Tools for Change
The solstice of 2016 gives us the opportunity to step off the wheel of the Old World whether we are enjoying winter or summer. A…read more.
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Cultivating Immunity to Evil in the Time of Chaos: Tools for Change
Advertising seduces through free-floating anxiety. Hatred seduces through cowardice of the heart and the fear of risking acceptance of the Other. Greed seduces through the…read more.
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Love in the Time of Chaos: Tools for Change
How do we find the eye in an intensifying storm of disorder, unrest, and fear? Shamanic people, traditional and contemporary, know that Trickster had a…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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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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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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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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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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Releasing Fear, Letting Evil Go
Everyday fear-based thinking is fertile soil for the seeds of evil to germinate and take root. Chronic fear and anxiety nourish the roots of the…read more.
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Cults and Shamanic Practice
A cult is a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object. The practice of this devotion can be beneficial…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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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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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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Shamanic Skills for the New World: Part Two
Shamans are made by spirit, through initiation and training, to become the answer to the prayers of the people. What could the world community of…read more.
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Shamanic Skills for the New World: Part One
What are the next steps that the world community of shamanic practitioners and healers needs to take in order effect cultural transformation on the global…read more.
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Ethics in Shamanic Practice: Hard Choices
“Healing into death” sounds reasonable until the terminal diagnosis has been handed to someone we love, especially when that someone is young with a whole…read more.
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Creating Sacred Life: Shamanic Practice 6
The sacred is inherent in all things. Relationship with the sacred nourishes our deeper self, rekindles our passion for our soul’s purpose, and opens the…read more.
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Enliven Your Spirit: Shamanic Practice 5
Sacrifice enlivens our spirit. It opens the way for miracles or the impossible or that which we truly desire to come into our lives. To…read more.
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The Shaman’s Mind: Shamanic Practice 4
We interpret the world and our experience through our mind. Ancient peoples understood this and were sophisticated enough to leave nothing to chance. The ancient…read more.
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Creating Shamanic Tools with Evelyn Rysdyk
There is nothing quite as powerful as making your own power objects and shamanic tools. Artist and shamanic teacher, Evelyn C. Rysdyk, joins us this…read more.
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Igniting the Ecstatic Heart: Shamanic Practice 2
A spiritual life is nothing but dogma and deception without the heart’s active presence. The heart’s active presence will soon wander, bored to death with…read more.
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Creating a Foundation for Wellness: Shamanic Practice 1
Knowing where you stand in life—and how to truly stand there—is essential if you want to live a spiritual or enlightened life. This is one…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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The New Age and Spiritual Integrity in the New World
The Human Potential Movement arose out of the fertile soil of political unrest and a deep desire for meaning and truth in life…and the vague…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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Healing in the Amazon: Nihue Rao with Dr. Joe Tafur
Among the indigenous cultures of the Upper Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo are one of the few cultural groups which has managed to maintain their language,…read more.
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The Tribe of the Modern Mystic with Kelley Harrell
What is it really, creatively, effectively like to do good shamanic work these days? How do you manage the demand that every class, ritual, and…read more.
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Healing in the Amazon with Roman Hanis: Part One
The Amazonian rainforest is home to a system of healing and plant medicines as vast, intricate, and effective as Chinese Medicine or Western naturopathy. Our…read more.
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Your Soul’s Purpose and Transformation: Part Two
The most direct path to living your soul’s true purpose is both individual and communal. As individuals, people often feel lost, fragmented, or unknown to…read more.
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Your Soul’s Purpose and Transformation: Part One
When we are not aware of our soul’s true purpose or simply not aligned in our actions, contemporary life can fill quickly with dis-eases of…read more.
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Leading by Council, Community by Heart with Phillip Scott
People around the world are calling out for new forms of leadership, economic exchange, and community. If we can tap the wisdom of our long…read more.
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Shamanic Shrines and Creating Community
We live in sacred space all the time, everyday, but most of us do not know how to acknowledge it or to use it. By…read more.
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Creating Sacred Space Anywhere, Any time
Space is inherently sacred, as are all things, as are you. When we act to “create sacred space” we are acknowledging that fact 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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Intimate Apprenticeship with Paula Denham
“It is your commitment to be in your highest level of integrity, to teach what you are and not what you want to be.” So…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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Healing into Peace with Martha Lucier
“As I rekindle the indigenous spirit within myself I connect to my sacred roots listening to the voices of the ancestors while honoring my connection…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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Oral Traditions in a Virtual World
In an oral tradition no reproduction of the teaching is allowed in any form; not written, recorded, filmed, txted or put up on youtube. This…read more.
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Energy Exchange and Ayni
A lovely man from France informed me that my Encyclopedia could be pirated for free on the Internet. My initial response was to be flattered. …read more.
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Ubuntu Means Humanity with John Lockley
John Lockley, a senior shaman in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa is our guest this week. John is one of the first white men…read more.
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Why We Work with the Elements
The Elements—Earth, Air, Fire and Water—are true nourishment for our spirit. This is equally true for three-element and five-element systems also found in shamanic cultures…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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Shamans are Sent as an Answer to a Prayer with John-Luke Edwards
This week we explore the lifeway of a shaman and what that can still mean today in this world of advertising, misinformation, and workshops on…read more.