Shaman’s Heart
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shame and the Healing Heart
We feel natural shame when we fall short of our own inner standards, especially when others get hurt. It is a natural response of the…read more.
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Grief and the Healing Heart
Grief itself offers us great compassion. It comes and goes, tailoring itself to each heart that is experiencing loss and bereavement. It takes its time,…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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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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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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The Challenge of Love
Self-love is fundamental, but remains a Sisyphusian task for many. What would it take for you to respect, honor, and deeply value yourself? This is…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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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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What is Spiritual Integrity and How Do I Get It?
What does it mean to have strong moral principles and to be whole and undivided in our spiritual life? Many people feel that the fact…read more.
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Awakening the Courageous Heart – Part Two
Why are we afraid to feel? Why do we fear the emotional intelligence of the heart? The heart affects mental clarity, creativity, emotional balance, and…read more.
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Awakening the Courageous Heart – Part One
The choice to love again precedes the healing. This is the confusion most share. The heart doesn’t heal so that it can love again. The…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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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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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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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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What is a Wounded Healer?
Today being “the wounded healer” has become the excuse for poor discernment in contemporary practitioners around boundaries, responsibility, and personal healing. In western thought the…read more.
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The Shaman’s Heart
The shaman’s heart is an awakened heart. The path the shaman walks to free the heart offers a metaphor for each of us to find…read more.
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The Courageous Heart, Part 4: The Vision of the Seer
Courageous Heart Series—Part 4 of 4: The Vision of the Seer Shamanism as a spiritual practice allows us to gather and cultivate the powers of…read more.
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The Courageous Heart, Part 3: The Power of the Teacher
Courageous Heart Series—Part 3 of 4: The Power of the Teacher You have the gathered the love of your path (Healer) and the wisdom to…read more.
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The Courageous Heart, Part 2: The Wisdom of the Warrior
Courageous Heart Series—Part 2 of 4: The Wisdom of the Warrior So what does it take to live your life with a courageous heart? To…read more.
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The Courageous Heart, Part 1: The Love of the Healer
Courageous Heart Series—Part 1 of 4: The Love of the Healer So what does it take to truly and fully live a life of Authenticity…read more.