Category: Shamanism
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Shamans and Native Americans
A while back I chanced upon the following blog post. In addition to an introductory essay, the writer went on to post articles by several notable writers. The title of the piece was , “WE DO NOT HAVE SHAMANS: The Case Against “Shamans” In North American Indigenous Cultures.” The writer of the blog, “The Wanderling”,…
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On Doing What You Can
For the past few weeks clients, friends, and students have spoken to me more often about their concerns for the fate of nature. Our regionally very mild winter and early spring have raised their concerns about climate change. The oil rig disaster in the Gulf has raised fears of nature polluted beyond her capacity to…
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Indra’s Web, Part Two: Psyche and Nature
The metaphor of Indra’s Web works for both cosmos and psyche. Our inner, imaginal worlds, and the external world are, when healthy, unimaginably rich in complexity and diversity. This post focuses on the inner world of mind. I have recently written about an initiation. Initiation: On Being Introduced to the Spirits. The initiation took place…
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Indra’s Web: A Meditation
There is an ancient story from India. It goes something like this: The god Indra constructed the universe as an infinite number of intersecting nodes. At each nodal point, he placed a pearl. Each pearl reflects, and is reflected by, all other pearls. Thus, the universe contains an infinite number of beings and dimensions, each…
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