By Sandra Ingerman — 2011
As we continue to experience change to the Earth due to climate changes, it is important for us to shift our perspective about what is happening.
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Within situations of physical and emotional abuse, negation and trauma, there are many experiences in life that can be too difficult to bear.
In 2000 I began teaching a workshop internationally titled Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Spiritual Light…This work ended up being so powerful for so many who learned that this work not only heals us individually and also showed through scientific experiments how we could transmute...
Neo-shamanism (for “new shamanism”) is a phenomenon that has been mainly developing in recent societies of Europe and of North America since the second half of the 20th century.
Neoshamanism is considered to be a contemporary form of shamanism developed to merge indigenous shamanic traditions within today’s society.
The following is a version of an interview I held over several days in September 2006 with my mother, Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro, one of the most distinguished representatives of the traditions of the thousand-year-old Mazatec culture, which is centered in the northern mountains of the state of...
In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.
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Durek Verrett, friend of Gwyneth Paltrow and consort of the Princess of Norway, wants to bring spiritual healing to the masses.
I often mention that in the Western world, when we hear the word "shaman," most of us tend to conjure up an image of a masked and costumed indigenous tribal person, dancing around a fire in the dark, involved in some sort of mysterious ritual, accompanied by singing and drum beats.
A practitioner trained in the orthodox Western model of medicine develops a deep respect for the healing power of psychedelic plants and shamanism. What he discovers is not magic but an often astonishingly rapid pathway to self-realization.
As we followed the shaman up the mountain along the ancient stone pathway crafted by the Inca some six centuries ago, the silence was broken only by the sound of his flute.