Transformation and Shamanism
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The Fundamental Element of Lasting Change
There is a fundamental element of internal energy exchange at the root of every process that helps us to create lasting change. Lasting change is…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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Authentic Self, Authentic Shamanism
Is there authenticity in shamanism without knowing and living your authentic self? Authenticity isn’t always popular or trending. At times what makes you most unique…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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The Lost Art of Learning from Stories
A true teaching story is about the mechanics of transformation. To learn from them, you must pay attention to the function of the parts of…read more.
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Integrating Shamanic Peak Experiences: Part One
Shamanic peak experiences, whether experienced in ritual, ceremony, or shamanic healing, often feel as if they have changed our lives in the moment. And then,…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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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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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 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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Fear and Shamanic Practice
Feeling fear—whether real or imagined— initiates a variety of chemical responses in the body that support the needed physical response, either fight, flight, freeze, or…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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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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Change and Transformation—Using Shamanic Skills
Personal transformation efforts often fail because all that is really needed is change. And often our personal efforts to change fail because what is required…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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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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Giving Gratitude for the Hard Stuff
We are not actually entitled to anything, not the water we drink or the air we breathe. Everything is a gift. For the gifts to…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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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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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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Transforming Communal Shadows: Part Two
If we are to write a truly new story for the people in the new world we must transform the communal shadow behaviors that shaped…read more.
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Transforming Communal Shadows: Part One
Most of us are aware of the Shadow thanks to the genius of Karl Jung. However knowing and doing are two different things and, let’s…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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Gift of the Dreamtime with Kelley Harrell
For those of you interested in shamanism you can experience a shaman finding her shaman legs, reshaping the workings of her mind, and awakening her…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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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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Gateways of the Dragon with Sarah Finlay and Peter Clark
“As we move along our path of continuous evolution,” explain Sarah Finlay and Peter Clark of Shaman’s Flame, “we often go through cycles of heightened…read more.
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Transforming Pain
Join us this week as we explore the application of shamanic skills to transform pain, whether it is physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. “In the…read more.
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Two Paths of True Transformation
True Transformation delivers us to a new state of being from which there is no going back. “Today most people are aware of transformation through…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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True Transformation vs. Remodeling the Self
What does “transformation” really mean and why should we bother? “In the simplest sense true transformation is an internal change,” explains host and shaman, Christina…read more.
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Stripping Away the Old: A “how to” Show
“How do I let go?” is the most frequently asked question of host, Christina Pratt, when she facilitates clients in the release of the old…read more.
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The Shortest Path—Crazy Logic
Shamanism offers us direct relationship with spirit and through that ongoing relationship guidance and direction. With the help of spirit, every individual can find his…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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Shamanic Transformation: It’s not magic—it just seems that it is.
“Shamanic Transformation is not magic—it just seems that it is,” reports a student of The Cycle of Transformation at Last Mask Center. “It restores me…read more.
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Healing the Hard Stuff
There are certain life experiences and traumas that contemporary medicine says people can’t or won’t heal from. Shamanism suggests that people can’t heal from these…read more.