Shakin’ All Over
Greetings. This is a test sample entered by the man who set up the site for me. I don’t know if there’s an inadvertent metaphorical connection with that particular choice of songs—intimations of shaking related to the dissolution of personal or planetary egos perhaps? In any case, please check back in the near [...]
test music post
Posted October 31st, 2009 by admin. Comment (0).
Shamanism Conference in Peru
Posted October 26th, 2009 by admin. Comment (0).
Across the Andes from Lima and now flying low into Iquitos, my view out the airplane window fell upon vast expanses of the Amazon jungle and the legendary Rio Amazona winding its serpentine pathway through the dense forest— la selva. Iquitos, a rambling, noisy ‘town’ of about 300,000, appeared suddenly out of the surrounding jungle.
I [...]
When Prayer Meets Medicine
Posted October 25th, 2009 by admin. Comment (0).
Like many of us in the western world, I grew up in a family that went to church on Sunday mornings. In my particular family it was the Anglican Church in central Canada. Prayer was a core principle of the teachings that came down to me as a child and a significant part of [...]
Grandfather Peyote and the Native American Church
Posted October 22nd, 2009 by admin. Comments (2).
We know whereof we speak. We have tasted of God and our eyes have opened.1 Albert Hensley, Winnebago
My first encounter with the peyote medicine spirit, ten years before I met it again in the Native American Church (NAC) ceremonies, demonstrated and presaged in a gentle and humbling manner what it’s capable of accomplishing. I [...]
Deep Versus High
Posted October 4th, 2009 by admin. Comment (0).
In my forthcoming book Returning to Sacred World: A Spiritual Toolkit for the Emerging Reality (publication fall 2010 by O Books) an important aspect of the thesis—and the total focus of the last several chapters—is an attempt to enter the spiritual benefits of a few key spirit/teacher/medicine plants more openly into the discussion about valid, [...]