Tag: Shamanism
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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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A Walk in the Marsh
The past several days were chill and damp. Today is sunny and warmer, and I was drawn outside. For untold eons Medicine People have known and taught that we are the world. We are each, and all, connected to all that is. To experience the natural world is to encounter both oneself and the Creator.…
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The Osprey, the Condor, and the Shaman
One summer, nearly a decade ago, several of us got together with our friends and teachers, Bernardo Peixoto and Jenny Toscano, at a camp on Lake Champlain. We had gathered for a long weekend of play and work in a glorious location. The weather beings blessed us with day after day of perfect summer weather.…
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