By Sean Illing — 2019
What the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life.
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CLEAR ALL
How can conscious engagement with plants, with which we’ve co-evolved since the dawn of our species, support healing in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms and help mend our separation from nature? Three brilliant herbalists/botanists, long on the cutting-edge of re-empowering the...
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Eliot Cowan, an American-born healer, fully initiated Tsauirrikame (shaman) in the Huichol tradition, teacher, author, and founder of the alternative healing technique known as Plant Spirit Medicine, remains as a leading authority on the healing wisdom of plants.
And I am not finished with my personal work; it’s not something to be done with, but is an intrinsic part of my life. I am still learning. It’s easy to forget or only superficially acknowledge that we’re all in the same boat.
God gave humankind reason and heart so we can discover and understand the inner truths of existence.
We can temporarily push our ego away or try to rearrange our personality to be happier, freer, or more realized. But ego comes back. And that’s where Diamond Approach inquiry comes in. We all have awareness and inquiry helps us harness awareness to dissolve ego instead of pushing it away.
When Reverend Doctor Jacqui Lewis was around 9 years old, she and her sister hid under their beds while guns were being shot off in their neighborhood following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reiki isn’t the same thing to everyone, yet the diversity in the global Reiki community is rarely acknowledged. The public has a reasonable expectation that all things “Reiki” are the same, but that’s just not the case.
Spiritual healing is different from psychic healing and faith healing. It doesn't require clairvoyance, which is crucial in psychic healing, nor does it involve prayers or religious practices which are important components of faith healing.
One patient had just left. Another was due in an hour. Rita Blumenstein -- Doctor Blumenstein -- sat in her easy chair and recalled her first memory of healing someone, the day almost 60 years ago when she prevented an infection from dog bites. The patient was her mother. Rita was 4 years old.
When we decided to explore healing in this issue, we knew that Dr. Bolen could contribute a depth of understanding about healing, in general and about healing of the psyche, in particular.