2019
It was mind blowing.
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CLEAR ALL
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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Within situations of physical and emotional abuse, negation and trauma, there are many experiences in life that can be too difficult to bear.
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.
We can grow a new body in one week with super nutrients and energy medicine—a body that heals, ages and dies differently.
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...