We don’t heal in isolation, but in community.

I don’t argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I’ve never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing–including myself.

The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.

Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.

The soul is infinite, made up of aspects that come and go all the time. It’s our nature for parts of the soul to travel while we meditate or dream. Through this process we grow,...

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.

I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits; we just don’t have a collective belief system or community that recognizes the calling for what it is.

All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.

What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.

You don’t find light by avoiding the darkness.

I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit.

If we didn’t have shadow we’d just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.

We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves–subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.

a quick turn around a cornerand my planet becomes sandon the shore of a dying Universe

It’s important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition.

Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.

We can only prosper where we are.

Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.

If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?

The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.

Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.

Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.

Being present is being connected to All Things.

We’re all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.

Phrases such as “I’m beside myself,” “I was frightened to pieces,” “I feel lost,” “I feel like part of me is missing,” originated from a sense of soul loss.

Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.

Too many irons, not enough fire.

When I say ‘practice’ I don’t meanrepeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular discipline to accomplish a specific task, ritual without which we feel incomplete, or...

Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.

Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

That we don’t remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it’s all about the process.

Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.

We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we...

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren’t divisible.

Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we’re not in form to learn lessons. We’re here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.

Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate to us all.

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.

Need is choice come to fruition.