Working with Helping Spirits
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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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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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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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Winds of Spirit with Renee Baribeau
Wind is an invisible force of nature that leaves an indelible mark on time and space. In ancient times the winds influenced our lives and…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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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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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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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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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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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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What is a Working Relationship with Spirit?
Working with spirit is at the heart of what defines shamanism as shamanism. What does “working with spirit” mean? What are shamans talking about when…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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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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Am I Really Talking to My Guides?
Many questions arise as humans open their awareness to the possibility of a world larger than the here and now. “How do I know I’m…read more.
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The Spiritual Awakening Guide with Mary Shutan
There are many different types of spiritual awakenings, from kundalini rising to shamanic initiations and everything in between. This often misunderstood range of human experience…read more.
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Contemporary Gender Issues and Shamanism
Gender is a charged issue in the contemporary world and will continue to be as long as we think we understand gender when we don’t…read more.
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What is Shamanic Possession?
Shamanic possession is not actually possession at all, but the intentional embodiment of spirit help with whom the shaman has already developed a working relationship.…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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Life Hacks with Shamanic Skills
A life hack enables us to manage our time or daily activities in a more efficient way. While there are no short cuts to gaining…read more.
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Predatory Energy: Children and Shamanism Part 4
Little frightens us as parents more than the fear of someone abusing our children. There are predatory people in our current culture. In this reality,…read more.
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Children and Shamanism: Teens
Shamanism is misunderstood, occasionally maligned, and still considered to be on the fringe even in alternative circles. Yet contemporary practitioners remain undaunted and the range…read more.
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Shamanic Life with Kids
“Children arrive animists,” says author and shaman, S. Kelley Harrell. “They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come…read more.
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Children and Shamanism: Infants
Sacred space is created for ritual and ceremony, but rarely for conception. For a human there are few actions as sacred as the creation of…read more.
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Chronic Illness and Shamanism
Chronic illness in America is “managed” in our allopathic medical system, not “cured.” Today 75% of our health care dollars go to the management of…read more.
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Spiritual Bypass and Shamanism
Any spiritual practice can be misused as a “spiritual bypass,” or the means by which one jumps to spirit prematurely in an effort to avoid…read more.
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Taking Shamanism Out of the Box with Sandra Ingerman
“This is a good time to settle into yourself and go beyond the surface of your spiritual practices,” advises our next guest, Sandra Ingerman MA,…read more.
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How to Begin Shamanic Journeying
Shamanic Journeying is not an “out of body experience.” When this particular alternate state is achieved the journeyer has “a foot in both worlds.” The…read more.
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Interpreting Your Symbolic Language: Part Two
Traditional cultures have systems or cosmologies that explain the universe. These shamanic cosmologies explain for the people where the world came from, what we are,…read more.
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How to Interpret Messages from the Invisible World
The invisible world speaks to each of us through our own unique symbolic language. Learning to accurately interpret that language is essential to understanding your…read more.
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Crafting Shamanic Journey Questions: Part Two
Mastering the art of shamanic journeying requires that you first learn to craft a good question that, like key in a lock, opens a realm…read more.
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How to Craft a Good Shamanic Journeying Question: Part One
Shamanic journeying is an art that requires crafting good questions. A good question provokes an answer that addresses your problem effectively without creating new problems.…read more.
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Working with the Spirits of the Land
Shamanism is the practice of direct communication with the Divine lifeforce present in all things. The purpose of this communication is to cultivate and maintain…read more.
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Shamanic Journeying: Tricks of the Trade
Literally thousands of people around the world have been taught to use the shamanic journey practice to connect with their spirit help and guides since…read more.
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Working with Helping Spirits
If helping spirits are present for all of us then why are they so hard to talk to? From a shamanic perspective everyone from child…read more.
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What is a Power Animal?
What are power animals and why do they help us? Power animals are one of the many ways that shamanic peoples, ancient and contemporary alike…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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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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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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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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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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Choosing a Shamanic Teacher
How do we choose a shamanic teacher? And do we choose, or do the teachers select us? What should you look for? What are the…read more.
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Working Effectively with Spirit (II)
This week host and shaman, Christina Pratt, answers listener’s questions about working effectively with spirit. At the core of shamanism is the individual’s direct relationship…read more.
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Access your Birthright: A Direct (Working) Relationship with Spirit
Authenticity emerges from our soul. But that soul message is not always as clear as we would like it to be. Explore the many ways…read more.