Category: Shamanism

• At the Solstice

  

  Taking a moment to acknowledge the year’s turning.

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 20, 2025

  Climate Change, Cycles, gardening, gratitude, Healing, Landscape, Nature, Shamanism, spirituality, Stories, Summer

  climate change, healing, nature, Shamanism, spirituality, Summer, summer solstice, writing

• All Things Arise and Fade Away

  

  We awoke to bright sun, instead of the forecast dense cloud. The birds have been oddly quiet after being rowdy yesterday. As we watched, a starling stuck its head into the sparrows’ bird house, perhaps after chicks or eggs, then flew away. Now the sparrows are chirping loudly. This morning I sat down in the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 28, 2025

  Arts, creativity, Cycles, denial, Landscape, Nature, Shamanism, Social issues, Sound Art, spirituality, spring, Stories

  chance, change, evolution, natural systems, nature, Sound Art, writing

• On Not Throwing Stones

  

  Thinking about Jesus’ dictum that we not throw stones.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 16, 2025

  Healing, Landscape, Nature, Psychotherapy, self care, Shamanism, spirituality, spring, Stories, Teaching

  anger, healing, Jesus, judgement, nature, Shamanism, springtime, stories, throwing stones

• A Priceless Gift

  

  A lovely, partly sunny, late spring morning following a showery night. We are told more rain will arrive later in the day. We are in that magical moment when so much is in bloom. That said, the earl flowering trees have moved on to putting out leaves and the landscape has closed in accordingly. The…

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 6, 2025

  Cycles, Ecopsychology, Landscape, Nature, Sacred Lands, Shamanism, spirituality, spring, Stories

  consciousness, environment, nature, priceless gift, Shamanism, spirituality, spring