Shamanism for the New World
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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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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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Liberating Our Imagination with Langston Kahn
As we navigate times of great uncertainty and opportunity it is more important than ever to be intentional about how we use our energy. The…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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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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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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The Shamanic Craft of Co-Creation with Alida Birch
There is an art to creating a life you love, one that reflects your deepest values and a future that nourishes all. We all know…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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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 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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Teens, Shamanism, and Hidden Worlds with Sandra Ingerman
Our children are inherriting vast challenges to their future played out in the environment, the ecomomy, family dysfuction, and heightening social devisiveness. What if we…read more.
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The Book of Ceremony with Sandra Ingerman
Ceremony allows us to bring the sacred into ordinary life. Ceremony has been used by cultures around the world for tens of thousands of years…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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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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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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What is Shamanic Healing? Some Case Studies – Part Two
Shamanic healing describes a particular set of healing forms. Many diverse cultures practice these healing forms in ways are culturally specific and still functionally the…read more.
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What is Shamanic Healing? Some Case Studies – Part One
Shamanic healing describes a particular set of healing forms. Many diverse cultures practice these healing forms in ways are culturally specific and still functionally the…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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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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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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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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Embracing Uncertainty with Michael Stone
The lie of separation keeps us from experiencing the rich empathy and compassion for self and others. It keeps us from the experience of being…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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World with Itzhak Beery
“Why is it that Western medicine doesn’t have the answers and proper treatments for contemporary people?” Asks author, teacher, and healer, Itzhak Beery, in his…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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Messy Initiation and Transformation Confusion
One of the great challenges and ongoing questions in contemporary shamanic practice is “what is initiation?” or more accurately “am I initiated?” It is messy…read more.
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The Fundamentals of Shamanic Practice
The shaman’s working relationship with spirit defines the practice or the healing as “shamanic”. It is the basic working relationship of shamanism and it is…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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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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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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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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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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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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Mythical Beasts and Weirdness: Working with Helping Spirits
A mythical beast is a beast that we believe never existed in physical form, like dragons, the basilisk, and the phoenix in the Harry Potter…read more.
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Plants and Elementals: Working with Helping Spirits with Daniel Abney
Elemental Spirits are often ignored as we reach for helping spirits in the vast range of land spirits, from the smallest garden sprite to the…read more.
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Working with the Spirits of the Land with Ana Larramendi
“Nature communicates through energy, not words. It communicates with us through signs, symbols, omens, and feelings,” explains our guest Ana Larramendi of thehollowbone. Ana joins…read more.
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Deities and Archetypes: Working as Helping Spirits with Langston Kahn
Deities have a long history of engaging as helping spirits with people in shamanic altered states. What does it mean when a deity enters your…read more.
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Ancestors and Descendants: Working with Helping Spirits
Why would I want a working relationship with my ancestors when I can’t stand my own relations? Fair question when so much addiction, depression, social…read more.
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Working with Helping Spirits in the Age of Entitlement
Direct communication with our helping spirits is one of the greatest gifts in the reintroduction of shamanism into contemporary life. Yet in this age of…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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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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Shamanic Healing with Wisdom Bodies: Case Studies
This week host and shaman, Christina Pratt, shares case studies of shamanic healing with people who found a path to health and freedom by engaging…read more.
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Refining the Mental Wisdom Body
The Mental Wisdom Body is largely locked away in our inability to distinguish our self from our mind. We are more than our mind and…read more.
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Awakening the Spiritual Wisdom Body
You have a vision that you love and the wisdom to live it, but where does the power come from to make it real? The…read more.
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Expressing the Emotional Wisdom Body
The Emotional Wisdom Body is a world unto itself. It is every bit is vast, complex, and intricately interconnected as the mental wisdom body but…read more.
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Engaging the Physical Wisdom Body
When we live far from our true nature the voice of our physical wisdom body becomes hard to hear. The guidance that could bring us…read more.
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Accessing Your Four Wisdom Bodies
Shamanic skills allow us to engage with the world around us, each other, and ourselves in a nonordinary way that integrates intelligence and intimacy, vision…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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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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Manifesting Your Calling–Summer Solstice
Summer is the season of joy, enthusiasm, purpose, and radiance. Ancient peoples around the world have used the Summer Solstice Fire to focus this innate…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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Co-Creating With Your Shadow: Part Two
When we co-create our lives with Spirit and our Shadow together, we end up following the path of crazy logic. If you can use your…read more.
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Resources for Shamanic Living with Sandra Ingerman
The everyday empowerment of shamanic life is available to all who choose to step into direct relationship with their own helping spirits. This act of…read more.