“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four...
“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.” ~ William Shakespeare
In Six Signs You May Be a Disaster Shaman, I wrote about the various characteristics and what...
“Shamans… Those ecstatic technicians of the sacred.” ~ Erik Davis
The shamanic dance over the abyss is a cyclic donning and discarding of archetypal masks,...
“During a ritual's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold” between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new...
"He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe." ~ Michael Harner
Shamans or medicine men are navigators,...