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

The forces that we deal with have two sides: one is good and helpful and the other is dark and dangerous. Part of your training is to learn to distinguish between them, and know when...

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

I am in the river now. I must have fallen. And I am in this river.And I am just washed awayby the current ofthe river.This is not a river. It is just a smallrivulet.

We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.

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

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its backgroundand role within new Western religiosity,” University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004

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

Just like a human foetus, while in the uterus, retrieves and assimilates the components that allow its physical body to become whole and fit to emerge into the outer reality, the third dimension serves the...

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

Take your thoughts off.The invadingthoughts you have. Push them aside. See your future in abright way. Don’t struggle with the past. It is gone. Lookfor the future. Look for the future.

You have to live the way you are going to end up.

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

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.

In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’...

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.

The greatest peril of life lies in the fact that human food consists entirely of souls. All the creatures that we to kill and eat, all those that we have to strike down and destroy...

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

Turtle is putting seaweed all over me. It is the big turtle. She is so big that she can regurgitateseaweed over me. It comes out of her mouth likecoming from a spoud of a fountain,...

In most cases, it’s not what you do but what you don’t do that delivers you to a state of personal power.

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.

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.

Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease.

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

My arms lookas if blood is . . .And on my feet . . . It is dropping on my feet.I now take the fruit and justput it all over my body.

Be within your heart.See and feel with your heart.Recognize your heart within another.Speak words from the heart.Receive the words of another,within those precious chambers.

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

Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what ‘primitive’ cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and...

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.

Health is being in harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric. Health is maintaining communication with the animals and plants...

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...

I have no pain, but he has split open my skull.There is no matter, I mean, there is no brain in there. It, it is just a skull. And still he felt he had to...

A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by...

Need is choice come to fruition.

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex...

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.

With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.

I am walking down to the oak tree. AndI see that the tunnel is slightly wet, butI jump inand walkslowlythrough the lava tube.It is fairly dark, but I see in the far distance,like a pinhead,a...

In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing...

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,...

We Who Solve Mystery, Become Mystery

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.

This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

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

The blue light is all over. Actually it is within my body. Makes my joints feel all warm.Vulture thinks I talk too much.

There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may...

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

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.