Creating Peace through Practicing Beauty
We can practice beauty through what is known as the giveaway*—which helps us experience greater happiness and well-being while transforming the world -- bringing beauty and healing where there is ugliness, alleviating the suffering of others, and...
Finding Peace by Creating a Sacred Dream
The shamans of the Andes know and serve a sacred dream, one that guides planets across the heavens and our human destiny here on Earth. The sacred dream is a map to the future, but has no paths you can follow and no trails other than the ones you...
Finding Peace with Eagle Vision
The East direction is represented by eagle and condor, who brings vision, clarity, and foresight. Eagle perceives the entire panorama of life without becoming bogged down in its details. The energies of eagle assist us in finding the guiding vision...
Awakening the Seeds of Your Potential
Andean mysticism agrees that all people are born with the Inka seed, the innate capacity to reach the highest spiritual level. Most spiritual traditions convey the same idea—that all humans carry within themselves the potential of complete...
Understanding Anger and Betrayal
Every religion teaches the importance of forgiveness, whether in the form of turning the other cheek in Christianity or the Buddhist practice of sending loving-kindness to all beings. Yet it is very difficult to simply decide to forgive someone...
Understanding Suffering
The Buddha, who had lived a sheltered life of luxury as the young prince Siddhartha, was called to his initiation at the age of 29 when he first left the palace and traveled into the countryside. Along the way he saw a bent old man, and asked his...
Understanding Love
“To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment.” Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D...
Remembering our Infinite Nature
When your mind starts crafting a story about how you’ve been wronged, or thinking about what our lives could be like if you could only find the perfect partner or situation, or if you could only avoid getting ill, you need to slam on the brakes! We...
Understanding the Shaman’s Dream Oracle
A dream itself, is an oracle. Oracles impart wisdom from a divine source, from beyond your own ego. Dreams access a story that is hidden to us, allowing us to go deeper into our own understanding of ourselves and the world at large. They reveal...
Three and Four Card Layouts for Using the Mystical Shaman Oracle
In last week’s blog we discussed several possibilities for utilizing the Mystical Shamans Oracle for divination including writing a three-card story and a one-card layout dedicated to putting the oracle in service to humanity. This week we will...