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Crossroads

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We live at a time of great opportunity in the human experience. There are blessings and possibilities open to us today of which our ancestors could only dream. At the same time, our societies have grown so complex and riddled with conflict that we are also living under more stress and chaos now than at any previous time in our history. As I see it, the great flowering of human ingenuity, creativity and the development of the truly astonishing technology in which we are engaged today, along … [Read more...]

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Self Esteem, or Self-Importance?

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Ego is an important aspect of a healthy consciousness. It helps us to know and honor our own personal truth in life. It helps us to move through life with a positive sense of ourselves and our place in the world that is grounded in the greater well-being of all. If you have a healthy ego, you don't take it personally when things go wrong in your world. Instead, you focus on fixing what is yours to fix, asking for help when you need it and giving help wherever you can, and you trust that there … [Read more...]

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A Shaman’s Challenge for the New Year

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As a 21st century shaman, I live an everyday life in the Western world, but my world view is drawn from ancient roots. It is born of the teachings of Mother Earth as they have been understood, practiced and handed down through a line of shaman women that is many millennia old. It is a world view that is based on the wisdom of the ages, thousands of years of study and observation by shamanic peoples everywhere of the way energy moves throughout the universe, observation of the cycles of energy … [Read more...]

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Surviving Hardship Through Gratitude

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Hard times are a stranger to no one. Did you know they can be your greatest teacher in life? When we go through difficulties, it is so easy to fall into the trap of fighting with our own lives. With hardship often comes a feeling of darkness, and we think that if we fight against the darkness, it will move us towards the light. We think that by fighting darkness, we are doing something positive for ourselves and maybe even others. So we brace ourselves for battle. We adopt a grim … [Read more...]

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Walking With Still Feet

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As we walk daily within our creative souls, we walk before the gods that we have worshipped within ourselves, be they great painters, musicians, writers, Jesus, Buddha, or the Great Spirit. When you walk at the highest levels of your consciousness, then your feet will be still. You realize that there is no need for haste. You realize that your heart is full and that all of who you are breathes with the fires of creation. Where does the sense of urgency that you feel in life come from? That … [Read more...]

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Embracing the Unknown

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Many years ago, Agnes Whistling Elk and I were talking about how difficult it is for people to take their own power in today's world. I was looking at all of the pragmatic aspects of our complicated modern world, trying to understand where the individual might actually fit in amid all of the chaos and confusion with which we surround ourselves, the demands on our time that are unreasonable by anybody's standards. Agnes always says that people were never intended to live with the amount of stress … [Read more...]

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Dreaming, A Shaman’s Perspective

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Several years ago, I had the opportunity to apprentice with a healer named Ginevee, an Aboriginal woman of high degree in the Australian Outback. Much of our work together was about "dreaming," the sacred practice of a people that is tens of thousands of years old. This dreaming is central to Aboriginal belief and understanding of life, how the universe and the Earth came into being, what the origins of their land and their ancestors are, how the Creator gods and goddesses intend for people to … [Read more...]

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The Power of Spiritual Integrity

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In beauty is truth. In this simple statement is found all the power that you will ever need in life. Find what is beautiful for you and you will find your own truth. Find your own truth, and you will find your power.When I speak of finding your power in life, I am not talking of power over anyone else. I am talking about the power of the integrity of your own spirit, a power which is awakened by beauty. Then you can accomplish anything that you set your mind and your heart to accomplish.Many … [Read more...]

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Aina: Through the Eyes of a Spiritual Warrior

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'Aina is the Hawaiian word for the magical world where the sacred souls of the people meet the majesty of nature, and to the Hawaiians, the natural world is sacred.Throughout the world of shamanism, from Hawaii to Siberia, from Manitoba to South America, Africa and Australia, wherever in the physical world it is practiced and in whatever form, the natural world is sacred. To me, shamanism is a powerful and beautiful world view, born of the interconnectedness of all living things in the universe, … [Read more...]

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Living a Life of Magic

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Magic, what a wonderful part of life! It is what fills our souls with joy, the hope that is found in each new sunrise. Magic is what warms our bones on a cold winter day as the sun glints off the frozen snow creating miniature prisms of beautiful dancing light that capture our imagination and catapult us into a very special place. It is what cools us down when it is 110 degrees in the shade and we feel the caress of a gentle breeze on our cheek. Magic is the love that we experience when we see a … [Read more...]

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