Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern
The shamans path is being of service. This discussion is with Alberto Villoldo, PhD.
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“Lessons in Courage” is the biography of an extraordinary man, who has awakened to his own purpose in life as a servant to conscious evolution for all humanity.
In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.
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Anthropologists report their findings on the use and importance of hallucinogenic plants in shamanistic practices.
For generation after generation, Toltec shamans have passed down their wisdom through teaching stories. The purpose of these stories is to implant a seed of knowledge in the mind of the listener, where it can ultimately sprout and blossom into a new and better way of life.
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Susan Mokelke tells of her venture into shamanism and how she helps to heal others.
In Spirit Walking, shamanic practitioner Evelyn Rysdyk shows how we can all connect with the spirit world to find balance and healing.
Isa speaks about the importance of understanding the natural world as a source of wisdom - as shamanic practitioners the world over have understood since time immemorial.
There are few areas of our world where shamanic traditions have been preserved in their original context and form. Nepal is one of these rare and special places.
The following is a version of an interview I held over several days in September 2006 with my mother, Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro, one of the most distinguished representatives of the traditions of the thousand-year-old Mazatec culture, which is centered in the northern mountains of the state of...
Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these...