Tag: Native American

• Fate, Karma, Story

  After days of rain, the sun is out. This morning the thermometer reads 32F. Although we have had rain, we are moving into our fire season with no snow pack in the mountains. Typically, the snow pack would be about five feet deep at this point, and the slow melting of the pack would nurture…

  Michael Watson PhD

  April 13, 2016

  Climate Change, Shamanism, Stories

  climate change, Fate, Karma, Native American, Shamanism

• Identity Politics

  

  This morning I awoke to an email comment on our office website. The writer sharply attacked me for saying in my bio that my father’s parents may have been Shawnee and Lakota, stating, that in her view, I am not an Indian. She accused me of being a New Age fraud, seeing as how neither…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 23, 2016

  Disability, native american, Shamanism

  disability, Identity Politics, Native American, Shamanism

• Vernal Equinox

  

  Today marks the vernal equinox. Vernal is a lovely word, meaning pertaining to spring. Spring derives from the Old Norse and means to jump or rise. It seems appropriate that we spring forward into the season, a time in which new life appears to literally spring into being. Among my favorite places to visit as…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 20, 2016

  Ecopsychology, Nature, Shamanism

  equinox, Native American, seasons, Shamanism

• The Medicine Wheel: Learning to Walk

  

  The fog is burning off. Being March, it is warm one day and cold another; rain, sun, and snow take turns moving across the landscape. Sunday marks the Vernal Equinox, a time for remembering to walk in balance. Of course, this walking is no easy task. When we watch children learn to walk, we notice…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 17, 2016

  Healing, native american, Shamanism, Stories, Teaching

  equinox, healing, Medicine Wheel, Native American, Shamanism, stories