Category: Healing

• Conversations With The Ancestors

  Conversations with the Ancestors can change the way we understand the world.

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 8, 2015

  First Nations, Healing, Shamanism

  ancestors, healing, Shamanism

• A Thorny Problem

  A while back I received the Spring edition of Contemporary Shamanism. The first article was a piece by Hank Wesselman, Ph.D., entitled Australian Aboriginal Wisdom. I read the piece, or most of it, put the journal down, and forgot about it. Last night Jennie was rummaging through our magazines and brought it out. In his…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 25, 2015

  First Nations, Shamanism, Social issues

  Australian Aboriginal, Shamanism

• The View From the Orphanage

  Last night we were honored to be invited by our Abenaki brothers and sisters to drum as part of the opening ceremony at an all city meeting. The event was a  Neighborhood Planning Assemblies meeting called to discuss the proposed development of a large lakefront parcel of land presently owned by a local nonprofit educational…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 22, 2015

  First Nations, Healing, Shamanism

  development, healing, land, Native American, orphanage, Shamanism

• Christmas

  Christmas Day. I’ve been in bed with a virus for the past couple of days, so I probably should not have been surprised when I awoke this morning at 3:30. (My nose looks a lot like Rudolph’s.) Eventually I got out of bed and wandered through the dark house to the sun room, where I…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 25, 2014

  Healing, Shamanism

  ceremony, Chanukkah, Christmas, Winter Solstice