The Myth of Teen Violence and Spiritual Paths
What does it take to decode teenage America? How can we understand the confluence of factors behind rising crime rates involving our youth, changing sensibilities toward bullying, and violence in our society? Better yet, how do we inform ourselves and support young...
Why Journeying Isn’t Shamanism
“Journeying” is the term most often used to describe the process shamans go through to engage the spirit world. The word was associated with shamanic ecstatic trance by Michael Harner in the 1980s, which for those keeping ancient score, wasn’t that...
Tragedy, Collective Soul Loss, and the Healing Story
In shamanic work is the concept of soul loss, or when an aspect of the soul has become distanced (I describe it as “shelved”) and can’t re-engage with the earthly consciousness. Souls are infinite, made up of limitless soul parts that travel in and...Mindfulness and Animism: The Art of Soul Healing
Originally published on the Huffington Post. Follow me there for updates to my Huffington Modern Animism blog. When I began my shamanic practice almost 15 years ago, I found very different cultural perceptions of modern soul healing than those I run into...A Shaman’s Journey
When I was 5 years old, I asked my Sunday School teacher, a woman, “What if Jesus had been a girl?” “But he wasn’t,” she replied. Unsatisfied, I asked again, only to receive the exasperated, recursive answer. My mother gave the same empty...Weave your intuition with the wisdom of the runes on Patreon!
