Hi everyone. I wanted to make sure this group was aware of a newly posted "Call for Proposals" for the 2012 Shamanism Conference held in the SF Bay Area each Labor Day.
Thanks to Alliance member Mary Fullwood for bringing this to my attention--Mary o
Read more…Think I mentioned this book last Fall when I first discovered it--it is a great resource and my new favorite book-- a timely and thorough updated alternative to Eliade. Here's a book review I just came across so you can get a feel for it:
Book Review
Read more…From slowing the decline in fatal brain disease, to generating a sense of oneness with one another and the universe, drumming's physical and spiritual health benefits may be as old as time itself.
This article from Stan Krippner was originally posted at http://stanleykrippner.weebly.com/anyone-who-dreams.html. For those who don't know Stan, he is a brilliant mind who has made some of the most important contributions to dreams and shamanism, am
Read more…Thought some of you in this group would like to know about this retreat in March in Peru with C. Michael (Mikkal) Smith. His book, Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue, has been a go-to book for me for years.
Details about the retreat are here
Read more…Recent findings by archaeologists stretching from Tennessee to the Mississippi, from the Kentucky line down to Alabama, have unearthed over 44 open air rock face paintings and 50 cave paintings ranging in age from 500 to 6000 years old using carbon
Read more…This is a fascinating—and fairly compelling (I think)—article on how psilocybin mushrooms stimulate and connect parts of the brain that don't normally talk to each other, decreasing brain "chatter" and also the part of our brains that is responsible
Read more…“Humans are amazing ritual animals, and it must be understood that the Tzutujil, nor any other real intact people, do not 'practice' rituals.
Just as a bear must turn over stumps searching for beetles, real humans can only live life spiritually. Birt
Read more…Here are 13 full-length conversations with teacher folk of diverse backgrounds on subjects like the ancestors, earth spirituality, storytelling, ritual, etc.
Thanks to Alliance member Daniel Foor for creating this amazing free/public educational arch
Read more…Hi Steven. Welcome to the group. It's wonderful to hear about your writing and your experience. I wish I had met Don Sandner. I've heard so many amazing things about him, and his work definitely lives on. I, for one, would love to read whatever you'r
Read more…Sharing an article I found interesting--If you don't know these two authors, you really should. Both excellent: Saving the Indigenous Soul: Interview with Martin Prechtel and Derrick Jensen:
Excerpt... "The Mayans say that the other world sings us in
I really enjoyed this article about the animal/human/culture relationship "The Conquest of Nature and What We've Lost" from Lewis Lapham on HuffPost. Here's the synopsis:
Over the course of the last two centuries, animals have become all but invisibl
Read more…Thought this was an excellent thoughtful article by Daniel Foor PhD, founder of the Earth Medicine Alliance, and wanted to share: Who Are the #Ancestors and Why Do They Matter?
Daniel also offers regular events around the San Francisco Bay Area on
Read more…I always love J.R. Haule's writing on shamanism. Here's a great article:
Taking Direction From the Spirit In Shamanism and Psychotherapy
Generally speaking shamans have good reason to be leery of psychology, which historically has dismissed shamans
Read more…According to the Jan. 26 article from Asia Sentinal, Shamanism is still very much alive in modern South Korea. I don't personally have any experience with Korean Shamanism, but I thought the article found here was quite interesting.
It's compelling
Read more…Hi Wendolyn. Welcome to the group. I haven't heard of this book you mentioned, but just visited the FaceBook page you metioned and saw the image (possibly the cover?). It's remarkable. I also have really enjoyed Robert Moss's work for several years n
Although, my knowledge in Shamanism is slim, I read this paper and found it quite interesting. The paper was originally written for a meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness held in Tucson, Arizona, April, 2000. Enjoy!
Introductio
Thought this list might be of interest: 10 of the Most Influential People in Shamanism today...plus 4 who still affect us after their deaths:
http://www.shamanswell.org/shaman/famous-shamans-influential-writers-healers-practitioners
Has anyone read t
Read more…Hi everyone. Thanks for your recent posts. The info on Peruvian shamanism and plant medicine are fascinating and I appreciate the sharing.
On a different topic, I wrote a piece on the crossover between Jung, Shamanism and Soul Loss awhile back and re
Read more…Here's a link to one person's account of attending Shamanic Rituals in the Midnight Taiga Forest in Mongolia. it also includes some photos which I thought were fascinating. Check out the ribbons on the shamans' costumes...
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