Tag: Winter

• The Sacred Mundane

  

  Unlike the Western worldview in which the sacred and profane are divided, the everyday becoming profane and distant from the scared, in the shaman’s world, they are interwoven

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 6, 2016

  Climate Change, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  profane, psychotherapy, sacred, Shamanism, Winter

• Musings: Scars, Fragrances, and Memory

  

  Writing about being fitted for a new brace, and reading and responding to, the comments on that post, seems to have opened a doorway on to the immediacy of the past in the present, and to meaning making in the aftermath of intense experience, particularly illness. This morning I awoke early, before there was any…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 31, 2016

  Disability, Psychotherapy

  disability, psychotherapy, Winter

• Turning Within Time

  Winter has settled in; this is the Turning Within Time. I’m sitting at a table with five others. It’s Thursday evening, after a long work day. Tonight is our monthly winter artists/writers group. Everyone at the table is busily creating. Beside me, a writer sits with open notebook, pondering. On my right side a visual…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 8, 2016

  native american, Shamanism, Stories

  Native American, Shamanism, Turning Within Time, Winter

• A Season of Stories

  The first snow has come and gone, a story filled with treacherous roads and power outages. Thursday we drove through snow packed mountains on our way to Thanksgiving dinner, a classic “white knuckle” drive even though the snow had ceased to fall. Sunday marked the beginning of Advent, and this afternoon I put aside work…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 2, 2014

  First Nations, Shamanism, Stories

  Native American, Shamanism, stories, Thanksgiving, Winter