Healing the Death Within Us
All of us have felt haunted by death at one time or another. Sometimes all we see before us, behind us, to one side and then the other is death. For the shaman this can be a calling to initiation, and we are fortunate when we can have such an...
The Journey Beyond Death
The shaman learns to assist a loved one on the greatest journey of all, the journey beyond death. And in the same way that there are midwives and doctors to receive us when we are born, there are spiritual midwives, relatives, and luminous ones...
Healing Our Flight-or-Flight Response and Transforming Depression
Fight-or-flight is an ancient survival system programmed into our brain that helps us flee tigers or prepare to fight them. It is meant to turn on when we face peril, and off so we can relax again after the danger passes. But if you are born into a...
Healing the Mother Wound
There is rarely such a thing as a new baby. The little one, more often than not, is an old soul – sometimes even older than the mother who delivered him. In this story, ancient wounds unite a mother and son as their spirits traverse the...
Extracting Intrusive Energies
Intrusive energies can be physically devastating. We bring toxic energies with us from our childhood trauma, and even from former lifetimes. These energies are stale and dark and taint the luminous energy field, settling into the chakras in dark...
The Great Death Rites
In the West, we no longer remember how to die with grace and dignity. We shuttle the dying off to hospitals where extraordinary measures are taken to prolong life. Families do not know how to come to closure with the passing of a loved one. Many...
The Extraction of Intrusive Energies and Entities
A crystallized energy embeds itself within the physical body. An intrusive entity embeds itself within the central nervous system. Intrusive energies and entities cannot be extracted using the technique described in on hardened energies, since they...
The Extraction of Crystallized Energies
Some toxic energies can crystallize, becoming nearly material objects, which are impossible to metabolize through the Illumination Process and must be extracted manually. These crystallized energies embed themselves in the physical body, taking on...
The Illumination Process
At the core of the shamanic energy healing session lies the Illumination process. Illumination achieves healing in three ways. First, it burns up the sludge and deposits adhering to the walls of a chakra, promoting longevity and strengthening the...
The Gift of Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to create new neural networks for both our individual health as well as for society in general. We now understand how to harness our brain’s neuroplasticity to enhance certain neural pathways. In essence, we...
