Shamanism

What Jennifer Aniston May Not Know About Ayahuasca

Jonathan Talat Phillips | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Spirituality, Shamanism, Ayahuasca, Jennifer Aniston, Religion and Recovery, Drugs, Plant Healing, Sacred Plants, Psychedelic, Wanderlust, Mysticism, Religion News

Whether or not you believe in energy, sacred healings or intervening spirits, one thing is for sure: If you enter an ayahuasca experience without the proper care, the joke will likely be on you.

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Emotional Avoidance and Disbelief in Death

Kelley Harrell | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Dealing With Death, Grief, Animism, Shamanism, Death, Consciousness, Denying Death, Handling Death, Avoiding Death, Healthy Living News

While I do experience that the soul in some guise persists after the form expires, I most definitely experience that our life as well as our physical death are highly relevant events in our soul's growth.

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Totems of the Holiday Season

Kelley Harrell | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Neopaganism, Holiday Season, Neoshamanism, Totemism, Paganism, Animism, Shamanism, Healthy Living News

As you decorate for this season, think about the totems that are important to you and the reason that they move you. Are they traditional to your family or religion? Have you discovered new totems as you explore personal meanings of the season?

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Shamanism: Religion or Neurology?

Kelley Harrell | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Religion, Neoshamanism, Shamanism, Shamanism and Neurology, Consciousness, Shamanism and Religion, Shaman, Healthy Living News

Traditional shamanism is neither exclusive nor inclusive. Such limits do not need to be placed. Drawing on the same neurological processes, both accomplish healing outcomes different ways.

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You Don't Call, You Don't Write... The Quiet Dead

Kelley Harrell | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Deathwalker, Paranormal, Psychopomp, Shamanism, Animism, Consciousness, Healthy Living Spirit, The Deceased, Relationships, The Dead, Spirits, Healthy Living News

The thing is, there isn't anything special about people who experience spirits and those who don't. The difference is willingness and the taming of cultural domestication to see life in a fuller, less-prescribed way.

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Samhain -- Nature's Holy Day for Managing Seasonal Affective Disorder

Kelley Harrell | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Neopaganism, Samhain, Shamanism, Consciousness, Healthy Living Spirit, Pagan, Shaman, Neoshaman, Healthy Living News

I know it's still several weeks away, but the last harvest is upon us, which means a chance to explore our own darkness and reserves is coming, too. Take some time now to think about the accomplishments of this year.

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The Shamanic Ritual Of Soul Retrieval

Kelley Harrell | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Soul Retrieval, Soul Loss, Shamanism, Healthy Living Health News, Consciousness, Work of a Shaman, Healthy Living Spirit, Shaman, Healthy Living News

What I've seen happening with this influx of desire for spiritual healing is that people have come to assimilate "soul retrieval" as "The Quick Fix."

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Harry Potter and the Elder Futhark

Kelley Harrell | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Elder Futhark, Harry Potter, Archetypes, Shamanism, Runes, Animism, Books News

The Story of the Boy Who Lived Told Through Runes The Harry Potter story presents a strong, modern archetypal connection to Jung's hero's journey. As...

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Some Kind of Wonderful

Shaman Durek | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Religion, Spirituality in Los Angeles, Shaman, Shamanism, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Journey, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Spirit, Los Angeles News

Do you allow the world to dictate your perception or do you think outside of the box? It's time to do things differently than what we've been told. Wh...

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Love, Shamanism And Safe Meditation

Stacey Nemour | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Healing, Living News, Relationships, Meditation, Spirituality, Wellness, Shamanism, Healthy Living Spirit, Spiritual Development, Healthy Living News

There are countless benefits that come from meditation. Scientific studies show meditation activates the part of the brain that helps one make better ...

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Creating Our Own Reality: An Evolutionary Responsibility

Kelley Harrell | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Manifestation, Law of Attraction, Shamanism, Healthy Living Spirit, Law of Attraction and Happiness, Shamanism and Happiness, Manifestation and Happiness, Spiritual Development, Healthy Living News

Creating reality is about looking at ourselves differently and being willing to shake it up in favor of something better by reaching into the places we have most hidden from ourselves to do so.

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One For All And All For One, Once And For All

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Recycling, Holistic, Cooperative, World Wide Web, Network, Web of Life, Shamanism, Inspiration, Healthy Living News

These are deciding times. It is imperative for those of us who see the big picture to decide, to commit, to make a concerted effort to reach out in ever-expanding circles of affinity and embrace.

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Deepen The Spirit Of The Holidays

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Awareness, Consumerism, Holiday Season, Materialism, Books, Spirituality, Shamanism, Consumerism Environmentalism, Materialism Shopping, Consumerism Shopping, Consumerism Materialism, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

Cultivate the idea of a deeper and more expansive awareness of who and what you are. Make that your holiday focus, and you'll have done something powerfully worthwhile with this special time of year.

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Genetically Modified Salmon: Can This Marriage Be Saved?

Elizabeth Cunningham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmon, Marriage, Genetically Modified Food, Shamanism, Fda, Urban Farming, Overpopulation, Green News

I do not want to see anyone starve, but what troubles me about genetic engineering is that we only consider our own short-term interests. Let's consult shamans as well as scientists.

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Healing the Nation's Soul

William Horden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Susto, Health Care Reform, National Trauma, Soul Retrieval, Traditional Healing, Shamanism, President Obama, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

We're far from the beaten track but there is nowhere anymore that is far from news of the world. It's with a real sense of pride that I share the news that the United States had just passed Health Care Reform.

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Spring Fever!

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Inner Life, Spring Fever, Spring, Mother Earth, Spirituality, Shamanism, Healthy Living News

On these glorious days of May, it feels as if the whole world is in the throes of a contagious spring fever. We are aswirl in a delirious dance, an exhilarating carnival ride of heady smells and riotous color.

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Calling All Dreamers!

Anne Hill | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Amy Brucker, Dreams, Sleep-Paralysis, Lucid Dreaming, Dream Interpretation, Dream-Research, Dream Tribe, Sleep, Shamanism, Video, Healthy Living News

Do you listen to your dreams but have no one to talk with about them? Are you looking for a circle of fellow dreamers to help you explore dream messages? The perfect solution may be at hand.

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Transformation: Giving Thanks For Our Meltdowns

William Horden | Posted 11.17.2011

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

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 11.17.2011

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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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