Category: First Nations

• Salmon and Raven

  “She’s (Raven) always minding the business of the rest of the world, eavesdropping, weighing voice and action against consequence. She minds the business of the two-leggeds the most. They’re all a bunch of loose  cannons. Humans are capable of wanting things which defy their needs, counter their interests and destroy the very spiritual sensibility the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 24, 2012

  First Nations, Healing, Nature, Shamanism

  Lee Maracle, raven, Salmon, stories

• The Work of Epiphany

  The Feast of the Epiphany invites us to awaken to a changed world, to take hope, and to accept the task at hand. We are all denizens of this bright blue planet, all kin. Ultimately, we share the same fate. There is no where else to go.

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 7, 2012

  Climate Change, First Nations, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  Bangladesh, climate change, Epiphany, India, Indigenous Peoples

• The New Year: We Are Still Here!

  As we enter the New Year, we are asked to rekindle and nurture the fire of hope, and to remember that we are, in spite of whatever travail that we have passed through in our lives, still here.

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 2, 2012

  native american, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Social issues

  ancestors, hope, New Years, Shamanism, Wounded Knee

• Advent: Hope Arising

  Now, as the darkness gathers, let us take hope in our parents’ and ancestors’ acts of kindness, caring, and resistance, acts that allowed us to survive, and opened possibilities for our, and our children’s, future.

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 14, 2011

  First Nations, Shamanism

  Advent, hope, Pine Ridge, Shamanism, Solstice