— Free Your Lifestream of Toxic Thoughts
Our lives are like flowing rivers: When we try to control their course, we merely flail about until we’re swept under waters that are heavy with silt, which is the toxic residue of our psychological and karmic wounding. Having no idea how to clean...
-Stepping Out of Time – A Supernatural Love Story
For the shaman, the supernatural world does not exist. There is only the natural world, which has both visible and invisible dimensions. Otherworldly events seem odd only in our waking reality, while in the other world, the future can reach back to...
-Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage are ceremonies that acknowledge major initiations (transitions) in a persons’ life. They are observed in various ways around the world, although modern societies tend to focus on birthdays, coming of age (Sweet 16, Quinceañeras,...
-The Shaman’s Tools
As I sit in the healing space with my mentor and watch the old medicine man work with a member of the local community who is ill, I am struck by how little he moves and appears to do. I see him close his eyes and perhaps lift a finger from time to...
-Set Yourself Up for Success
Fewer than 10 percent of all people who make New Year’s resolutions stick with them to the end of the year. In fact, half of them give up by midyear, and one-third don’t even make it to the end of January. However, 100 percent of people who make...
-The Origins of Shamanism
I am often asked about the origins of shamanism – when did it originate, where did it start, and who were the first shamans. We know that shamanism is a prehistoric tradition dating back to hunter/gatherer (Paleolithic) cultures. Cave art...
-Primitive vs. Modern Diet
There is an extraordinary collaboration between human beings and the plant kingdom. We are perfect symbionts: oxygen — the waste product of plant respiration — sustains life for us humans, and our respiratory waste – carbon dioxide — sustains life...
-Of Earthkeepers and Shamans
Throughout the ages, secret societies of Native American medicine men and women carefully guarded their ancient wisdom teachings and acted as stewards of nature. These “Earthkeepers” existed in many nations and were called by many names; in the...
-Castaways vs. Caretakers
Native American shamans have practiced energy medicine for more than five thousand years. Some medicine people believe their spiritual lineage extends back even further. They remember stories handed down from grandmother to granddaughter that speak...
-A Solstice Meditation
The word solstice roughly translates as “when the sun stands still,” from the Latin sol, and sistere. On December 21st, the sun reaches its southernmost position in the sky – Tropic of Capricorn – stands still, and then reverses its direction...