Tag: Shamanism
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Clowns, Healing, and the Sacred
This week I noticed the first leaves just tinged with red. Summer is still very much with us, but Fall is already making itself known. Late summer is a clown, luxuriating in the pleasures of this seductive season, and pointing with sorrow to the frugalities of the coming Autumn. “Dance! Dance!” She seems to say.…
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Notable Blogs: 8/06/2010
This week’s Notable Blog posts come from a variety of sources. On the home front, Innerbodyexperience commented on the challenges of being a shaman and a parent: “lunch so late, was meditating all morning to lovely drums and seem to be missing a child now, hmmmm” Perhaps the mystical experience, whether drug induced or not,…
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Grandmother Spider, Pregnancy, and Shamanism
The other evening my family and I were having dinner at a local cafe. At one point, a large, undoubtedly female, and apparently, very pregnant, spider, dropped from the ceiling, and hung directly in front of our most savvy waitress. The waitress turned, picked up a glass and piece of paper, scooped up the spider,…
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Shamanism, Indigenous People, and Climate Change
In the Dreaming Mother Earth glows in her perfection. In the Dreaming the Ancestors live happily. In the Dreaming Pachamama reminds us we may embrace Life in all its inexhaustible complexity and feel joy. Yet, also in the Dreaming we are shown the suffering that occurs when we no longer honor and sustain Mother Earth.…
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