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 events using only contemporary...
View ArticleShamanic 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 to personal responsibility for my spiritual life—I...
View ArticleShamanism and Transforming Addiction
Addictions abound in our lives. Whether persistent, problematic substance abuse patterns, the simple inability to wind down after along day without a glass of wine, or the addictions to food, sex, or...
View ArticleStripping 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 self and the awakening of the new. Winter is the time of...
View ArticleTrue 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 Pratt, “that occurs on a...
View ArticleTwo 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 Death and Rebirth,” says host and shaman, Christina...
View ArticleTransforming 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 late 1980’s Rusty Berkus said that all earthly...
View ArticleThe 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 or her path of integrity and...
View ArticleIs 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 path followed because people…wanted to...
View ArticleGateways 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 or diminished connection to our self-esteem and...
View ArticleShamanism 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 we call on him.” But it is that opening that...
View ArticleWhat 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 concept of the...
View ArticleGift 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 courageous heart in the re-release of Gift of the...
View ArticleYour Soul’s Purpose and Transformation: Part 1
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 the soul. People, high and low functioning alike, feel a...
View ArticleYour Soul’s Purpose and Transformation: Part 2
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 themselves. Others may feel whole, but have...
View ArticleTransforming 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 face it, most of us don’t do actual Shadow transformations. We hope...
View ArticleTransforming 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 so much of the old world. In the old world story much of the authentic...
View ArticleLessons 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 the applied wisdom of Peruvian shamanism. This book...
View ArticleWhat 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 the degree that it does not identify...
View ArticleThe 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 but growing understanding that our more ancient shamanic...
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