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Transformation: Giving Thanks For Our Meltdowns

William Horden | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Chrysalis, Natural Healing Process, Taoist, Thanksgiving, Crisis, Healing, Caterpillar, Caterpillar Emerging From Chrysalis, Butterfly, Shamanism, Living News
William Horden

In many shamanic societies it is taken for granted that shamans are not born--they are created by some intense health or emotional crisis. What emerges from such crises is a metamorphosed person.

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Hospital's New Policy Welcomes Role of Hmong Shamans

New York Times | PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Soul Cleansing, Shamans, Holistic Medicine, Laos, Clergy, Gem Theory, Faith, Hospital Policy, Health, Laotian, Eastern-Style Medicine, California, Shamanism, Certified Shamans, Vietnam, Merced, Health Care, Hmong, Mercy Medical Center, Healing, Western-Style Medicine, Living News

At Mercy Medical Center in Merced, where roughly four patients a day are Hmong from northern Laos, healing includes more than IV drips, syringes and b...

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Taking Peyote in a Navajo Tipi Ceremony

Karin Luisa | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

Read More: Navajo Nation, Tipi, Mexico, Peyote, Guadalajara, Marakame, Shamanism, Tepic, Huichol, Csikszentmihalyi, World News
Karin Luisa

The participants were engrossed, believing in the bowl, the spirit of Peyote, the words of the chief as he now admonished us to learn how to pray.

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The Disturbing Vision of Director Carlos Reygadas : "Life is Magic!"

Karin Badt | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Stellet Licht, Battala en Cielo, Carlos Reygadas, Mexico, Building Your Own House, Movies, Shamanism, Japon, Tepotchlan, Spiritual Movies, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

I had asked the feisty young Director--beside a pool, his hair wet and he wrapped in a towel--to explain the meaning of the film

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Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman?

Karin Badt | Posted 06.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lars Von Trier, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Willem Dafoe, Cannes, Levi Strauss, Shamanism, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

The film is marked by anxiety, cruelty and power manipulation in which the climax is a clitorectomy executed with a pair of scissors.

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Accepting Trauma: Berlinale Golden Bear Winner Milk of Sorrow

Karin Badt | Posted 03.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Golden Bear, Shamanism, Peru, Claudia Llosa, Berlinale, Milk of Sorrow, Magaly Solier, La Teta Asustada, Depression, Rape, Healing Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

The winner of the Berlin Film Festival, Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow, begins with a shot of an aged grey-haired Peruvian woman recounting how she was raped by soldiers when pregnant.

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Now in Paris: Jackson Pollock and Shamanism

Karin Badt | Posted 02.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Paris, Marc Restellini, Jackson Pollock, Carl Jung, Stephen Polcari, Shamanism, Pinacotheque, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

How odd that a museum in France, a country that is reluctant to accept new-age spirituality, is not only devoting space to Pollock as a mystic, but is encouraging the viewer to take the same mystical path.

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