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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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,...

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...

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.

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.

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.