Category: Healing

• In the Presence of Good People

  This evening our neighborhood gathered for our yearly picnic. The evening was cool, the sunset golden, and the mosquitoes held off til deep twilight. The lake was perfectly still, deep blue, and just slightly reflective of the fiery clouds that lay atop the mountains. Around 7:30 the full moon rose over the hill and rooftops,…

  Michael Watson PhD

  September 7, 2014

  First Nations, Nature, Social issues, Stories

  autumn, community, Fire, stories

• Disability and Medicine

  I’ve been thinking about disability and Medicine. Somehow the idea came into my head that being disabled and doing the work of Medicine are incomparable. This idea certainly did not come from my teachers. In fact, some of them were quite ill. Truth is, illness and disability have never disqualified healers in my view. Rather,…

  Michael Watson PhD

  August 25, 2014

  Healing, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  disability, illness, psychotherapy, Shamanism

• Ceremony

  As I sit down to write, a thunderstorm hangs on the horizon. Slowly the mountains fade from view, and the rain and the lake become indivisible. Its tea time, and the pot is on the stove. Now the rain, not yet heavy has overtaken the house. Now, the rain has quickened, soon to be torrential.…

  Michael Watson PhD

  August 6, 2014

  Healing, Shamanism

  ceremony, healing, Shamanism

• Quest

  Good morning! A lovely morning this. Storms later. Over the weekend we watched aghast as the turmoil that is the Middle East erupted into  unimaginable violence. It was as though a great storm of hatred and greed slammed into that part of the world, and no one in ether government cared about the impacts on…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 15, 2014

  Healing, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Stories

  Bodhisattvas, healing, psychotherapy, Shamanism