Shamanic Traditions
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Curanderismo in Contemporary Times with Erika Buenaflor
Modern curanderismo has roots in indigenous Mesoamerican shamans and curanderos, specifically the ancient Yukatek Maya and Mexica (Aztec). This week author and practitioner, Erika Buenaflor,…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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The Runic Book of Days with Kelley Harrel
“Our most challenging task as humans is finding meaning in our self and the world around us,” says Kelley Harrell, author of Runic Book of…read more.
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Wild Fires, Climate Change, and Shamanism with Ana Larramendi
As the wild fires rage throughout the western North America for another season, how do we respond? The destruction is real and truly devastating, and,…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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nourishment for Your Spirit: The Elements
Right relationship with the elements allows their energy to flow into our lives, creating well-being by balancing our own excesses and deficiencies. Learning to work…read more.
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Working with the Earth with Ana Larramendi
What can we do to address climate change and other big challenges to the balance of life on earth? We can do a lot when…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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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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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 the Trickster Teaches Us
In shamanic cultures around the world it is the Trickster who made the world as we actually find it; not a perfect Eden, but complex,…read more.
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Chemistry of Creativity with Kate Smith
What do you do when the Muse calls and the path to your creative life requires the sacrifice of all that makes you feel safe,…read more.
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Hoodoo Rootwork with Khi Armand
Hoodoo, a wellness modality and system of folk magic draws from many sources. It “is not New Orleans Voodoo, Haitian Vodou, nor Santeria, Palo, or…read more.
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Shamanic Ritual and Ceremony with Lenore Norrgard and Kent Dorsey
Shamanic ritual and ceremony are the “power tools” used by shamanic practitioners around the world to create change and transformation in their lives. Humans engage…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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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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The Bowl of Light with Hank Wesselman
“It’s not the year 2012 that is important. It’s 2013,” said Hale Makua, Hawaiian, Kahuna elder. “…what we decide to build on will determine the…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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The Vital Evolutionary Role of Shamanism with Don Oscar Miro-Quesada
“Any heartfelt practitioner of shamanism in the world today is deeply aware of the vital evolutionary role of this ancestral eco-spiritual tradition… Indigenous culture is…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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Sacred Balinese Healing Practices meet Globalization with Daniel McGuire
“Balian,” a documentary by filmmaker, Dan McGuire, tells the story of the rise and fall of a charismatic Balinese shaman (or “Balian”) named Mangku Pogog.…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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Medicine Teachings for Modern Times with Tom Pinkson
The practices of the Huichol of the Sierra Madre in Mexico focus on living life in harmony with all living things. Their traditional ways of…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.