Shamanic Worldview
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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What are your Gifts?
Every individual has gifts to bring to the world, though many will live their lives precisely running away from those gifts. Every individual has gifts…read more.
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What is a Shamanic Cosmology?
Cosmology is the science of the origin and development of the universe. When we say “a cosmology” we are talking the way we interpret what…read more.
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Lessons in Courage with Don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Lessons in Courage, by Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, is a guide for changing our lives and bringing much needed healing to ourselves and our planet through…read more.
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Shamanic Practice in the New World
How is shamanic practice evolving, as it has in every age, to meet the challenges of our time? The spirits gave us good council as…read more.
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What is intimacy with Spirit?
True shamanic trance states, those that actually clear the control of the small self, require intimacy with spirit. “Intimacy grows with contact,” explains host and…read more.
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What is the Axis Mundi?
The axis mundi is an existential place or point wherein creation and entropy, the essential generative and destructive forces of the universe, exist as one…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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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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Good Witch, Bad Witch?
Witches, vampires, werewolves, and the living dead appear in our dreams, nightmares, and fairy tales. They also appear in our journeys and as manifestations of…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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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 Return to the Earth’s Primordial Wisdom with John-Luke Edwards
The ancient stories of myth and religion speak of a time on earth when the land, the plants, animals, birds, bugs, and humans all communicated…read more.
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Shamanic Art of Reciprocal Exchange
If the New World is to be different than the one before then we must learn to ally our minds with paradox. We must see…read more.
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The Wild Heart in the New World
There has been a great domestication of the heart in America, numbing and dumbing down the voice that should guide us. It is the rare…read more.
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Return to the Mother Tongue with Will Taegel
We must engage intimately with our wild heart to participate in shaping a new direction for humanity on Earth. Only through an intimate relationship with…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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Complementary Dualism in All Things with Hillary S. Webb, PhD
At the heart of shamanism is the pulse, the breath, the dance of complementary dualism, a Tao-like awareness of wholeness expressed in Nature and found…read more.
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Our Answers Lie in Oneness
Not all shamans are great visionaries; not all understand the universe at the same depth. However, they all apply the knowledge they have and that…read more.
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Rising to the potential that exists in 2012 with C. Michael Smith
What can happen now? We can step into our power to create a Global Shift out of our current Global Crisis. To do this we…read more.
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Finding the Heart of the Matter
Assumptions blind us to the heart of the matter before us. The most common reason people cycle around and around working ineffectively on the same…read more.
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Shamanism, Jung, and the Heart with C. Michael Smith
Now more than ever we must bridge the heart-centered, earth honoring, and interconnection-based practices of shamanism with the contemporary mind and depth psychologies—and we must…read more.
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Sandra Ingerman and Awakening Now
2012 is here. What do we need to focus on? “Many of us have been moving forward to wake up, but we are still in…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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Shamanism and Unconscious Sorcery
The distinction between acts of healing and acts of sorcery is self-control. In the realm of shamanism a conscious act of sorcery isn’t about good…read more.
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The Shamanic Journey and Direct Revelation: Part Two
The shamanic journey allows the journeyer to receive direct revelation from Spirit. A direct connection with spirit is the birth right of every human and…read more.
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The Shamanic Journey and Direct Revelation: Part One
The shamanic journey allows the journeyer to receive direct revelation from Spirit. A direct connection with spirit is the birth right of every human and…read more.
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The Wild Heart Hypothesis with Will Taegel
The Wild Heart Hypothesis states: “If we are to survive and thrive as humans on planet Earth, we will need to dive deeply into the…read more.
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Pour Your Heart Out in Prayer—The Spirits as Teachers with Stephan Beyer
“The spirits want you to be a human being, in right relationship with all persons, both human and other-then-human,” explains our guest, Stephan Beyer, professor,…read more.
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Power and Responsibility with Jonathan Horwitz
“With great power comes great responsibility.” What will come of contemporary shamanism if we only focus on learning new skills to access greater and greater…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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The power of shamanic healing from the inside out
We can use shamanic healing skills to address the suffering of humanity. Whether caused through human action, like war or drug use, or natural events,…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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Ethics and the First Shaman
“The ethics of shamanic practice were brought by the First Shaman who was of Divine origins and not entirely human. The First Shaman brought knowledge…read more.
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Shamanic Inheritance with Jonathan Horwitz
“The shaman works by asking for help,” explains Jonathan Horwitz, co-founder of the Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies with Annette Høst. “We never get anywhere…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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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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Authentic Shamanism
What makes shamanism authentic? Tradition? Certification? Or direct access to Spirit? Join host and shaman, Christina Pratt, as she explores authenticity and ethics is shamanism.…read more.
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Is Shamanism a Path to Enlightenment?
“The shamanic path is not a path traditionally intended to achieve enlightenment,” explains Michael Harner of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. “It has been a…read more.
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How to Thrive in Changing Times with Sandra Ingerman
In her latest work, How to Thrive in Changing Times: Simple Tools to Create True Health, Wealth, Peace and Joy for Yourself and the Earth,…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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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.
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Soul retrieval and its place in modern healing
In 1991 Sandra Ingerman published Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self. In this beautiful, easy to read book she rebirthed the shamanic art of soul…read more.
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Healing— Alternative Ideas from Shamanism
Healing is transformation. Shamans don’t see healing as fixing what broke, eradicating a bug, or going back to a state of health before the illness.…read more.
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Where Shamanism is Today with Sandra Ingerman
Sandra Ingerman, our guest, is recognized internationally for addressing the needs of our times directly by bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture.…read more.
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Shamanic Healing: What it is and why it works
Shamans look at “health” as well-being and balance in the individual physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, communally, intimately, and personally. Shamanic healing works because the relationship…read more.
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Oneness with all things—Now what do I do?
At the core of shamanic cultures is the lived experience of the interconnectedness of all things. All things are one and no one ever got…read more.
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Answers for Challenging Times
What was shamanism and what is it today? Join host Christina Pratt in an exploration of what shamanism is and what it isn’t. What answers…read more.