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…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…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
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…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...
Read more…Hi everyone: I'm freshly back from a special session with African (Dagara) Elder Malidoma Some where I was able to learn some fascinating stuff about talismanic medicine. I've always been fascinated by ritual and by the elements and this helped to s
Read more…In case you missed it, there is a new video on the site that is Biologist and creator of the theory on "morphogenetic" or "morphic' fields Rupert Sheldrake talking about the rise of Shamanism (essentially as an archetype) as a result of the field. Ve
Read more…I have an entire shelf of books on the topic of shamanism, but for years, I have referred to Mircea Eliade's seminal tome "Shamanism" as my go-to reference for all things shamanistic. That's why I was hugely surprised to learn recently there is a new
Read more…Came across this today and thought it was interesting:
"Shamans always begin healing ceremonies by opening sacred space. In this space we leave behind the affairs of ordinary life, the bustling world of meetings and schedules, and prepare to meet the
Read more…Short book review at this link: How Shamanism Began, Discovery by Anthropologists, and Women as First Shamans: http://www.bestarticlepublisherlisting.info/newsandsociety/how-shamanism-began-discovery-by-anthropologists-and-women-as-first-shamans/ In
Read more…I find this site quite diverse and well-done, with content for individuals of all levels of knowledge and of many persuasions when it comes to shamanism and shamanic beliefs & practices. Check this link to read about Finding Power Animals, Shamanic D
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