Tag: healers

• Notable Blogs: 9/21/09:

  I’ve been busy getting ready to travel to India. Hopefully, I’ll get a blog post in by the weekend. In the meanwhile, the Blogosphere has been a positive place this week. Here are several excelent posts. I invite you to visit the blogs that interest you, and, while you are there, leave a note for…

  Michael Watson PhD

  September 21, 2010

  First Nations, Healing, Notable Blogs

  butterflies, Canada, ceremony, elders, healers, healing, homelessness, Native American, Shamanism, stories, Street Soccer

• Notable Blogs: 8/31/10

  Although we are in something of a heatwave, the seasons are changing. There is color amongst the green leaves, there are asters in the fields, and nights are noticeably cooler. Indeed we have been needing blankets! Celtic Shaman noted her tipsy response to the immanent change: To stand on the brink of a new season,…

  Michael Watson PhD

  August 31, 2010

  First Nations, Healing, Notable Blogs, Shamanism

  autumn, healers, healing, Native American, seasons, Shamanism

• Healers, Money, and Community

  When I was young, there was, in the communities I knew, an acknowledgment that most healers were poor. That was simply the price one paid for working for the Creator.

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 26, 2010

  Healing, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  Fees, healers, money, poverty

• Noteable Blogs: A Forest Door, and New Days-New Ways

  A Forest Door posted a very thoughtful piece yesterday.  In this excerpt he discusses some of the conundrums facing those who practice shamanic techniques in post-industrial societies:  “I am very much a spirit-worker, and it’s similar, but not the same. I wouldn’t even call myself a shamanist. I say this because: (a) I don’t work…

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 23, 2010

  Shamanism

  healers, plastic medicine men, Shamanism, spirit guides