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by Tom Cowan There is a type of fairy encounter often dismissed as less authentic and less significant than other types, and yet possibly the most common encounter and one with the most positive, uplifting effects on the human spirit. This is what I call encountering the “faerie presence,” ... Read More
Becoming Prayers
by Ben Boomer Prayers are silent, Prayers are sung, Prayers are danced, and Prayers are spun. What does it mean to live in prayer? My own expression of prayer has changed over the years as many of my prayers have become my reality, and many others not. I still like to give thanks, and ... Read More
How To Pray the Shaman’s Way
By Jose Luis Stevens Ph.D. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -Gandhi What is Prayer? Prayers are an intensely personal communication with what anyone might consider a higher source of power. For some this power source is a vague notion of ... Read More
On Prayer
by Sandra Mckeever ‘You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer’. Thich Nhat Hanh When the request to write ... Read More
Five Practices for More Potent Prayers
by Daniel Foor, PhD Over the past 30 years I have had the good fortune to participate in many spiritual traditions including Methodist Christianity, Islamic Sufism, Zen Buddhism, contemporary Paganism, Lakota ways and the Native American Church, Buryat Mongolian shamanism, and West Africa ... Read More
My Way on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela
by Tony Allicino What I think is a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I ... Read More
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
By Jim Wood September, 2014: Devon, England After a half-hour climb, I stand in an outcropping of rock at the top of a hill covered in heather and gorse. Below me, shrouded in mist, lie the wild lands of Dartmoor National Park. I have come in search of Grimspound, the remains of a late Bronze age ... Read More
Pilgrimage as Shamanic Practice
by Leslie Conton "To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim." -Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk¹ As a shamanic initiatory rite of passage, pilgrimage has become a ... Read More
To Be a Pilgrim Shaman
by Mary Pat Lynch Each of us is on a journey. This is something we know if we pursue any kind of spiritual practice. This knowing is inescapable when we follow a shamanic path. After all, journeying is what we do. Many journeys await us. We are on a journey from birth to death; we move through ... Read More
Rolling Thunder and Beautiful Painted Arrow: Two Native American Shaman Elders Whose Lives and Work Inspire Me
By Jose Luis Stevens Ph.D. I first became aware of Rolling Thunder in the late 1970’s when I read Doug Boyd’s book called simply, Rolling Thunder. Although I was never to meet him personally, I was fascinated by this powerful healer who demonstrated extraordinary abilities and skills, especially ... Read More