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

REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure to keep discerning readers warm and hopeful in these cold and desolate times.Unlike...

You don’t find light by avoiding the darkness.

Life comes and goes. …If you know that, you know it all.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinistercurrent is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”-Zeena Schreck for “Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its...

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.

Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind

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

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.

The deep self has been referred to by many names over the ages. You may know it as Essence, Spirit, Soul, Source…or, perhaps by no name at all. I prefer to call it The Inner...

Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.

When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy.

Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the left-hand path...

Being present is being connected to All Things.

I practice neither black nor white magic.What I do is a technology that I use for my own individual purposes. I don’t strive to be a member of a club.

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

I have an image ofTurtleright on the forehead.She seems to go through the lobes of my brain. Sort of like swimming.

If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.

Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.

Exploration is a quite legitimate purpose for a journey. You have the opportunity to learn the territories of the Upper and Lower Worlds and their assets, which you can employ as needed in the future.

Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” At the same time she notes that the left-hand path is the ‘way of action’. It is not about intellectual contemplation, or worse,...

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...

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...