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- Hmong Language - An Introduction For English Speakers
By: Bill Ross | - Hmong or Mong is the name of a family of dialects of a language family known as Hmong-Mien/Miao-Yao. It is spoken in the southwestern and southern provinces of China, and in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. This article provides an introduction to the Mong or Hmong language for readers of English, particularly for those who should consider whether they may need Hmong translation services.
About 4 million people speak Hmong, of which 200,000 or so are in the United States and Canada, main ...
Tags: Hmong translation, Hmong translation services, Hmong language
- Golf Psychology Lessons From The Open Championship At Turnberry - Part 2
By: The Golf Hypnotist | - In part one, I talked about the golf psychology lessons from Tom Watson's amazing performance both on and off the course at this year's Open Championship at Turnberry. So what other golf psychology lessons can we learn from some of the other contenders?
Now I know the valiant and expectant Ross Fisher's challenge effectively died in the thick rough at the 5th hole on Sunday. But he went on to succeed magnificently in a way that world number one, Tiger Woods, miserably failed to do t ...
Tags: Ross Fisher, Golf Mind, Tom Watson, Golf Psychology, Turnberry
- San Pedro, The Miracle Healer"'
By: ross heaven | - SAN PEDRO, THE MIRACLE HEALER
By Ross Heaven
The Western world is increasingly familiar with ayahuasca, the visionary brew and plant doctor of Amazonian shamans, thanks to celebrities like Sting and Madonna who have drunk it and television programmes like Bruce Parrys Tribe and Amazon, which showed the presenter drinking ayahuasca in the jungles of Peru, during which he experienced, he said, some of the most profound insights of his life.
Tags: San pedro, huachuma, healing, shamans, shamanism, peru
- San Pedro, The "miracle Healer"
By: ross heaven | - SAN PEDRO, THE MIRACLE HEALER
AN INTERVIEW WITH AN ANDEAN HUACHUMERA (SAN PEDRO HEALER)
By Ross Heaven
San Pedro (Trichocereus pachanoi), the sacred cactus and visionary teacher plant of the South Americas, is especially associated with the shamans and healers (curanderos) of the Peruvian Andes. It has other names among these healers as well; including El Remedio: The Remedy, which refers to its healing and visionary powers which, they say, can help us t ...
Tags: San pedro, ayahuasca, healing, shamanism, plant spirit shamanism, ross heaven, peru, the amazon, the andes, herbs, herbalism
- Iquitos And Cusco
By: ross heaven | - Iquitos is the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest, with a population of around 400,000, and is generally regarded as the most populous city in the world that cannot be reached by road. The only way in is by aeroplane or river boat.
In the 19th the city century was the centre of the rubber industry, but by the early 20th century the trade had moved to the Far East, and the city had fallen into neglect and disrepair. It is now a place without an apparent purpose, still decked ...
Tags: Ayahuasca, san pedro, plant spirit shamanism, Iquitos, Cusco, Peru, Ross Heaven, shamanism, healing
- Some Miracle Of The Quran - 5
By: Harun Yahya | - THE WELL-GUARDED SKY
In the Qur'an, Allah calls our attention to a very important attribute of the sky:
We made the sky a preserved and protected roof yet still they turn away from Our signs. (Qur'an, 21:32)
This attribute of the sky has been proved by scientific research carried out in the 20th century: The atmosphere surrounding the Earth serves crucial functions for the continuity of life. While destroying many meteors-big and small-as they approach the Ea ...
Tags: evolution, creation, God, Islam, Cristianity, Mslim, Jewish, Darwin, intelligent design, Qur"an, faith, heaven, hell, paradise, pray, life, satan, nature, science,
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Voodoo Shamanism
By: ross heaven | - This is Tim Booth's introduction to my book, Vodou Shaman, where he speaks of his own experiences with Vodou / Voodoo.
What do we really know about voodoo' in the West? Almost nothing. Not even the correct spelling. Even now my computer underlines Vodou (its correct name) in red to inform me of a typo.
But feel the phoney word voodoo' in your mouth. It could be the first word a baby might form. A fantastic word - so many O' ...
Tags: Vodou, voodoo, shamanism, healing, James, Tim Booth, Gabrielle Roth, haiti, Five Rhythms, plant spirit shamanism
- Shamanism: The Spiritual Practices Of The Ninja: Personal Transformation
By: ross heaven | - Dr Mark Atkinson provides the introduction to my book, The Spiritual Practices of the Ninja: Mastering the Four Gates to Freedom.
Do you really want to be free and happy - or are you addicted to your sorrow? A lot of people are addicted and they either don't know it or don't know what to do about it.
Herein lies the problem: programmed by society to believe that happiness, love and freedom can only be acquired through power, possessions and peopl ...
Tags: Ninja, shamanism, healing, empowerment, shamans, mysticism, Shinto, Buddhism, Japan, martial arts, Samurai
- Shamanism: The Four Gates To Freedom
By: ross heaven | - We know little about the origins of the Ninja, the children of darkness' - mysterious shadow-warriors who maintained their eerie mist-shrouded mountain secrecy in the Iga and Koga Provinces of Japan from around 900 AD, practicing the arts of stealth and invisibility. Legends, however, tell of the Ninja warrior's supposed descent from tengu, savage demons that were half man half crow and were able to bend the laws of nature and control the human mind.
Probably clos ...
Tags: Ninja, shaman, shamanism, ninpo, martial arts, meditation, samurai, Shinto, Buddhism
- Shamanism: The Sin Eater
By: ross heaven | - When I was a child my family moved to the Herefordshire countryside, in the shadow of the Welsh Black Mountains and deep in the heart of Celtic mythology. At the edge of the village, alone and isolated from the rest of the scant community there was a small cottage, long fallen to disrepair; a place I was always warned to stay clear of. For in this cottage there lived a madman, who was somehow unclean and undesirable to the village... so they said. Inevitably I found my way to this place.
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Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, folk healing, herbs, sin eater, sin eating, herbalism, funeral customs, burial, wales, the soul, Hereford, psychopomp
- Shamanism: Shamanic Healing Through Soul Retrieval
By: ross heaven | - Soul retrieval a contemporary therapeutic practice rooted in the 50,000 year old tradition of shamanism - is attracting significant attention in the modern Western world as the holistic healthcare movement continues to gather force.
Shamans believe that we are all born with an amount of energy or power, which is enough to sustain us through life. But we can become attached to events or relationships with others (such as ex-lovers) and can give our energy away. Once this energy l ...
Tags: Soul retrieval, soul loss, shamanism, healing
- Shamanism: The Message From Stone
By: ross heaven | - The lessons of quantum physics and its new kid on the block, holographic theory, are that all things are intimately connected through the energy that infuses the universe and all it contains. According to our scientists, in fact, 90% of the universe is unknown, in that we typically only see 10% of the reality we subscribe to, while 9/10ths of it remains invisible to us. Science calls it dark matter', but actually this silent majority' of the universe this missing 90% - i ...
Tags: Divination, shamanism, magic, premonitions, nature, paganism, plant spirit shamanism
- Shamanism: Ecsatic Trance Postures
By: ross heaven | - Although I had practiced yoga for a number of years, I did not make much of a connection between the physical asanas as methods for exploring the world of spirit until I began working with indigenous shamans and discovered an ancient and little-known practice where body postures are used to guide what are known as shamanic journeys: special states of trance or meditation through which we can access our inner selves or, as the shamans say, journey to other worlds'.
My o ...
Tags: Shamanism, yoga, meditation, trance, shamanic journeying, Felicitas Goodman, Belinda Gore
- Plant Spirit Shamanism In France
By: ross heaven | - This French Plant Spirit Shamanism medicine retreat is about discovering who we are, what we want from life, and where we are going - and finding plant allies that can help us in this. There will also be time to explore the beautiful countryside of the Pyrenees.
We attune ourselves to and diet the plants each day in order to develop our connection to them and learn how they can assist in our spiritual work. We also undertake meditative practices, quiet time, and time spent in vis ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, ayahuasca, healing, herbs, herbalism, shamanism, retreat, workshop, course, france, floral baths, flowers
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: The Seguro
By: ross heaven | - Andean shaman, Juan Navarro, was born in the highland village of Somate, department of Piura. He is the descendant of a long line of healers working with san pedro and with the magical powers of the sacred lakes known as Las Huaringas, which have been revered for their healing properties since the earliest Peruvian civilization.
At the age of eight, Juan made a pilgrimage to Las Huaringas and drank san pedro for the first time. Now in his 50's, every month or so it is still ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, san pedro, the andes, shamanism, peru, herbs, herbalism, healing, magic
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: The Pusanga
By: ross heaven | - The quest for love unites us all. What if you could find it and a simple perfume could help? That would be magic, wouldn't it? Read on!
In the spiritual traditions of the Amazon in Peru, this magical perfume is called pusanga. It is a made from flowers and plants which have the power to attract to the people who wear it the things they really want. For that reason, pusanga has developed an impressive reputation as the love medicine of the Amazon' because love, of ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, pusanga, perfume, scent, aromatherapy, herbs, herbalism, healing, the amazon, peru, fragrance, shaman, shamanism, love, attrac
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: The Work Of The Medsen Fey
By: ross heaven | - Loulou Prince is a medsen fey (leaf doctor/herbalist and shaman) in Jacmel, a small Haitian town close to the border with the Dominican Republic. In his daily practice, he deals with a range of health problems typical of the area from aches and cuts and bruises symptomatic of the hard toil in the fields through which most of his patients make a living, to sufferers of more serious complaints such as HIV and AIDS, a disease as prevalent in Haiti as in other Third World countries.
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Tags: Haiti, plant spirit shamanism, herbs, herbalism, vodou, voodoo, shaman, loa, lwa, Africa, healing, dreams, magic, evil eye, love
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: San Pedro
By: ross heaven | - In the shamanic traditions of Northern Peru, the san pedro cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi), or cactus of vision', opens the doorway to expanded awareness and acts as mediator between man and the gods.
San pedro grows on the dry eastern slopes of the Andes, between 2,000 - 3,000 metres above sea level, and commonly reaches six metres or more in height. It is also grown by local shamans in their herb gardens and has been used since ancient times, with a tradition in Per ...
Tags: San pedro, cactus, plant spirit shamanism, the andes, shamanism, healing, herbs, herbalism, divination, curandero, ayahuasca
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Shinto
By: ross heaven | - Shinto is the folk-religion of Japan. Intrinsic to it is a belief in the spiritual power of nature and the protective energies of plants, trees, mountains, and other forces of the Earth. All of these are known as kami - the genius of divinity of nature which may be a particular form like a flower, a place like a forest, or a natural process, like the turning of the seasons, which brings different plants and energies to prominence, or, indeed, the blowing of the wind, which has a ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, herbs, herbalism, healing, japan, shinto, buddhism, kami,
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: The Way Of The Lover - Sufi Healing
By: ross heaven | - According to Sufi legend, the Prophet Sulaymn was the first to learn the healing properties of flowers and herbs while he was at prayer one day, and a flower sprang up and greeted him. Sulaymn returned the greeting and asked the flower what it wanted. It replied that it was a healer. Sulaymn noted this and, seeing his interest, other flowers grew around him and told him their healing secrets too, until he knew the cure for all diseases.
Flowers heal, it is said, becaus ...
Tags: Sufi, Sufism, Islam, healing, Rumi, plant spirit shamanism, herbs, herbalism, Prophet, Prophecy, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, shamanism
- Plant Spirit Shamanism
By: ross heaven | - Since the beginning of human experience, plants have played a role in the evolution of our species, not only in the provision of food and medicine but in our deepest spiritual experience and the development of consciousness. Their form, beauty, enchanting scents, their healing and emotional qualities, have all provided a gateway to the Great Mystery of Nature, which our Celtic forebears called The visible face of Spirit.
Though our lands are no longer forested as they were, we try ...
Tags: plant spirit shamanism, soul retrieval, soul loss, herbs, herbalism, healing, folk medicine, folk healing, sin eater, shaman, shamanism, shamanic jour
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Soul Retrieval Through Nature
By: ross heaven | - Shamans believe that the soul can be lost through trauma, abuse, shock and, fundamentally, by dishonouring nature or ignoring our need to connect with it.
In many shamanic countries, there are still roadside shrines where people can rest, pay their respects to the natural world, and receive healing and replenishment from it.
In the modern West, we have few such sacred places or ceremonies of connection left. Festivals such as May Day, originally a fertility ritua ...
Tags: Plant Spirit Shamanism, soul loss, soul retrieval, healing, herbs, herbalism, magic
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: What's Up With The Weather?
By: ross heaven | - Plant spirit shamans natural healers who work with herbs, ritual, and the elements have long known that the world is not made up of discrete and separate parts, but that we are all one: that the butterfly effect' of a single extra drop of water released from a cloud into a Gloucestershire river could eventually lead to flooding in the distant streets of London.
Through Gaia Theory and a more informed understanding in recent years of how the natural world, the environ ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, nature, environment, shamanism, climate change, healing, herbs, herbalism, weather, Gaia Theory, carbon footprint
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Shamanic Plant Healing
By: ross heaven | - Shamanic healing with plants is hardly ever and certainly never solely about administering medicine' in a form that a Western doctor might understand the term. Instead, it may include divination, the receipt of spirit blessings, magical potions to change luck', or the healing of the soul through the energy of the plants, and not their physical attributes at all.
The aim of a plant shaman, in fact, is not even to cure a condition', but to remo ...
Tags: Plant Spirit Shamanism, soul loss, soul retrieval, healing, herbs, herbalism, aromatherapy, homeopathy, teacher plants, ayahuasca, shaman, hoodoo, mag
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Planta Maestras The Shaman's Teachers Part 2
By: ross heaven | - MOCURA/MUCURA: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL STRENGTH
One of the qualities of this plant is its ability to boost one's psychological and emotional strength. For this reason it is regarded as a great balancer', restoring connection and equilibrium between our rational mind and feelings. For example, it is good at countering shyness and can enhance one's sense of personal value and authority by helping to overcome painful memories (of past embarrassments and fail ...
Tags: Plant Spirit Shamanism, soul loss, healing, herbs, herbalism, aromatherapy, homeopathy, teacher plants, stalking
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Planta Maestras The Shaman's Teachers Part 1
By: ross heaven | - Planta maestras (plant masters or plant teachers) are key among the shaman's tutelary spirits, his chief allies and guides to the worlds of health and healing. In ordinary reality, they are also considered the jungle's most skilled and important doctors' because of their usefulness and relevance to the healing concerns of most patients. Through knowing these plants, the shaman can deal effectively with the diseases of his people.
It can be difficult to find discrete ...
Tags: Plant Spirit Shamanism, soul loss, healing, herbs, herbalism, aromatherapy, homeopathy, teacher plants, stalking
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Plant Communication
By: ross heaven | - How is it possible as shamans contend - that plants can affect human beings, situations, circumstances, and life energies remotely, as it were? That is, without being used as a form of curative for a specific medical problem, but more as a means of magical attractant, harmoniser, or conduit for spirit, energy, or luck'?
Let's ask Cleve Backster, a scientist working in the unlikely field of lie detection and interrogation techniques, whose job was to teach policem ...
Tags: Plant Spirit Shamanism, soul loss, healing, herbs, herbalism, aromatherapy, homeopathy, teacher plants, stalking, ayahuasca, shaman
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Pusanga An Interview With Perfumeros
By: ross heaven | - Fragrance has long been associated with the arts of love. In Japan, Geisha girls priced their services according to the number of incense sticks consumed during love-making, while in Indian tantric rituals, men were anointed with sandalwood, and women with jasmine, patchouli, amber, musk, and with Saffron crushed and smeared beneath their feet. In Europe in the 17 and 1800s, the use of eau de Cologne became a widespread and fashionable trend, where the morning ritual in many homes began with its ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, perfume, aromatherapy, scent, incense, shamanism, shamans, healing, herbs, herbalism, love, pusanga, relationships, ayahuasca,
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: The Death Of A Shaman
By: ross heaven | - Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down
Mark Plotkin, Medicine Quest
There are nearly 270,000 species of flowering plants on Earth, and less than one percent of have been studied for their healing properties. Moreover, most of the research that is taking place is conducted in Western laboratories, where scientific rather than spiritual methods are, of course, employed. The intention is to isolate one or two active ingredients and patent more drugs instea ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, plants, herbs, herbalism, the amazon, Haiti, natural health, homoepathy
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Hoodoo Plant Magic
By: ross heaven | - The hoodoo tradition of the American South is another that works with plant energy while often not requiring a patient to take' a medicine to experience healing.
The word hoodoo' has African origins, and is used to describe various forms of magic, folk healing, and hexing', using roots and herbs. Nowadays, the hoodoo practitioner is often referred to as root doctor' or juju man'. These quaint terms belie the power of the ...
Tags: Plant Spirit Shamanism, soul loss, healing, herbs, herbalism, aromatherapy, homeopathy, teacher plants, stalking, ayahuasca, shaman, hoodoo, magic
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Cleansing The Soul
By: ross heaven | - In the ceremony of limpia cleansing the patient may sit on a wooden chair below which is a bowl of smoking copal incense. This will purify the patient's body and is relaxing to any spirit intrusions, which are made drowsy by the smoke. As the limpia takes place, the shaman circles the patient, chanting, blowing tobacco smoke over her and stoking her body with flowers. The tobacco smoke eases the passage of the intrusion, which is then caught by and re-housed' in the flowers.< ...
Tags: Limpia, Plant Spirit Shamanism, incense, spirit intrusions, spirit extraction, soul loss, soul retrieval, Amazon rainforest, Sin eating
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Nature's Signatures
By: ross heaven | - There is one concept that underlies all work in plant spirit shamanism, which is that nature itself will tell you what they are used for and its well-stocked medicine cabinet is right in front of us every day.
Shamans recognise the spiritual powers and qualities of plants in many ways: the colours of their flowers, their perfumes, the shape and form of their leaves, where they are growing and in what ways, the moods they evoke, and the wider geographical, cultural, or mythologica ...
Tags: Alchemy, organic food, aromatherapy, homeopathy, plant spirit shamanism, nature, healing, shamanism, herbs, herbalism, Thomas bartram, james lovelock,
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Pablo Amaringo The Vision Of The Plants:
By: ross heaven | - The great visionary artist, Pablo Amaringo, was born in 1943 in Puerto Libertad, in the Peruvian Amazon. He was 10 years old when he first took ayahuasca - a visionary brew used in shamanism - to help him overcome a severe heart disease. The magical cure of this ailment via the plants themselves led Pablo toward the life of a shaman, which he pursued successfully for many years, healing himself and others from the age of ten.
In 1977, he gave up his healing work to become a full- ...
Tags: Pablo amaringo, painting, art, ayahuasca, plant spirit shamanism, healing, visions, the amazon, herbs, herbalism, curandera, nature
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Icaros, The Sacred Songs
By: ross heaven | - Integral to any ayahausca ceremony are sacred chants sung by the shamans to call the protective jungle spirits, summon the essence of nature, and to provoke the mareacion or effects of the ayahuasca by making a plea to the spirit of the vine. In the words of Javier Aravelo, quoted in my book, Plant Spirit Shamanism, icaros render the mind susceptible for visions; then the curtains can open for the start of the theatre.
Icaros may be magical chants or a melody that is whist ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, healing, ayahausca, icaro, icaros, the amazon, shamanism, chants, nature
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Fragrant Fascinations
By: ross heaven | - Our fascination with perfume began thousands of years ago, with the burning of scented plants mixed with gums and resins to create incense that was used for ritual as well as practical purposes - for merging with the natural world to increase the effectiveness of hunting, for example, as well as for calling the owner of the animals to ensure plentiful game, and protection on the hunt itself.
Anthropological evidence shows that from around 7,000 - 4,000 BC olive and sesame o ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, perfume, scent, aromatherapy, Egyptians, herbs, herbalism, healing, shamanism, divination, ritual, ceremony, incense
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Fly Agaric
By: ross heaven | - A few years ago, I was called as an expert witness in a criminal case involving trance and possession. The circumstances of the case are not important to this article but, not to leave you hanging, had to do with a man who had flown to the UK from Nigeria and was found to be carrying cocaine when he was stopped by Customs Officers. His defence was that he had been entranced, or possibly drugged, by a group of men who had planted the cocaine on him before he boarded the plane.
What ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, fly agaric, magic mushrooms, shamanism, healing, herbs, herbalism
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Floral Baths
By: ross heaven | - In Peru, floral baths known as banos florales (flower baths') are a staple of shamanic healing from the high Andes to the Amazon basin, where they are used to wash away unhelpful spirits so that blockages are removed and the energy of the universe can flood in to correct the imbalance.
Shipibo shaman, Artidoro, describes the process in Peru.
How are these baths taken?
The bath is most often taken on the morning after ayahuasca ceremonies so that ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, healing, herbs, herbalism, the amazon, flowers, flowers baths, flower essences, aromatherapy, homeopathy, ayahuasca
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Divining With Coca
By: ross heaven | - The Incas regarded coca as the divine plant, mainly because of its ability to impart endurance, and its use was entwined with every aspect of life, art, mythology, and the economy of the Incan Empire.
Millions have chewed coca on a daily basis and the practice has continued for hundreds of years. It continues as a custom, not because coca (the basis for cocaine) is a habit drug', but because it is a part of Andean culture. Even today, distances are measured in cocadas ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, healing, divination, herbs, herbalism, shamanism, coca, the andes, peru, san pedro
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Ayahuasca The Medicine Of Love
By: ross heaven | - Shamanic healing often employs plants to good effect, though it is rarely about herbalism, per se. Indeed, most shamans are explicit that the pharmacological properties of the plants they employ are of far less importance than the spirit which is held by the plant. It is the spirit which heals, while the plant itself is secondary, acting only as the home of the plant-spirit.
The point is illustrated by Amazonian shaman, Javier Arevalo, who works with the visionary jungle vine, aya ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, ayahuasca, herbs, herbalism, healing, the amazon, teacher plants
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: The Magical Earth
By: ross heaven | - We are delighted to announce a new, dedicated programme enabling you to experience authentic Plant Spirit Shamanism and Ayahuasca Ceremonies in the hauntingly beautiful Peruvian Rainforest.
This event is focussed on healing and self-exploration, and offers a transformative encounter with the magical powers of Nature through the ancient rituals of the Amazonian plant shaman.
On this journey we provide the orientation, conditions, and support for you to experience au ...
Tags: Plant spirit shamanism, ayahuasca, herbs, herbalism, healing, the amazon, rainforest, peru, shamans, vine of souls
- The Myth Of The Violent Man
By: ross heaven | - Columnist, James Harkin expressed his view in The Guardian last year that Our attempts to create a gender-neutral society have had the unfortunate effect of stripping men of their boldness. The values and pursuits we traditionally associated with masculinity are increasingly ridiculed or pathologised.
It has become popular in our culture to attack men simply for being men, as if maleness is itself politically incorrect' these days and our energy, talents, streng ...
Tags: Mens studies, gender issues, equality, healing, shamanism, joseph Campbell, myths, mythology
- The Way Of The Lover
By: ross heaven | - Syed Hamraz Ahsan was born into a Sufi Syed family and is a descendant of the prophet Mohammed. His grandfather was a pir (Sufi saint) and spiritual healer, who belonged to the Sufi Qadiriyyah Order, one of the oldest and most respected in the Indian subcontinent. In 2007, Syed Ahsan provided the introduction to my book, The Way Of The Lover: Rumi and the Spiritual Art of Love.
I follow the religion of Love;
Whatever way Love's camels take,
That is my religion ...
Tags: Rumi, Sufi, Sufism, shamanism, healing, love, relationships, Ibn al-Arabi, Prophet, shaikh, pir, murshid, Fakhruddin Iraqi
- Rumi And Shams: The Way Of The Lover
By: ross heaven | - Jalaluddin Rumi, the great Sufi mystic and love poet, was born 800 years ago, in the city of Balkh (now in Afghanistan), Eastern Persia, to surroundings of wealth and power. His well-to-do family, relatives to the king of Khorasan, were scholars, theologians, and statesmen, and it seemed clear that Rumi would follow them into a profession befitting a member of the elite.
Rumi, however, was something of a rebel, more motivated by freedom and the quest for love and truth, than by s ...
Tags: Rumi, Shams, sufi, Sufism, healing, mysticism, meditation, love, relationships, poetry
- Love's Simple Truths
By: ross heaven | - Love is the order of the universe and we are its atoms.
It is the ocean and we are its drops
Through love the heavens are brilliant;
Without love even suns and moons are eclipsed
Wherever and whenever people meet, it is never long before love and relationships their problems and confusions, their bliss and beauty - is discussed.
Love is as essential to us as air; a force that drives us all. It determines who we are, who we become, what ...
Tags: Rumi, Sufi, Sufism, shamanism, love, relationships, healing
- Darkness Visible: The "'˜powers Of Darkness' In Shamanism
By: ross heaven | - In an age in the Western world where there is an almost insatiable yearning for enlightenment, what could be more timely than an invitation to reestablish a sacred relationship with darkness?
Indeed, it is in the redefinition of darkness that we discover an entryway into a potent transformational experience that can assist us in rethinking the nature of both reality and healing. What might we learn about ourselves and the powers of the other world by surrendering to ...
Tags: Darkness visible, shamanism, dagara, Malidoma Som, shaman, myth, healing, ancestors
- Darkness Visible: Ceremonial Darkness In Shamanic Tradition
By: ross heaven | - My darkness falls suddenly and without warning.
One moment I am looking up at the night sky, marveling at the stars, like diamonds scattered on a jeweler's velvet, the next I am held from behind, with a blindfold across my eyes. Then I am spun three times so I am no longer certain of direction and led into a darkened room, where I will stay for five nights, always in darkness, blindfolded for most of it.
This is not a kidnapping. It is a ritual procedure condu ...
Tags: Darkness visible, shamanism, haiti, vodou, voodoo, initiation, joseph campbell
- Darkness Visible: Recapitulation
By: ross heaven | - Tibetan Bon shamans believe that we are already one year old when we are born. Our first year of life is spent in our conception and gestation in the womb, a time when we are conscious, aware, and learning about the world through the experiences of our parents (especially the mother, in whose energy field we reside). Their feelings and sensations are carried in the egg and sperm and then in the life force of the mother's blood. As a consequence, we are all born with certain predispositions, ...
Tags: Darkness visible, buddhism, tibet, meditation, joseph campbell, myth, shamanism
- Darkness Visible: Finding Light In The Darkness
By: ross heaven | - In the creation myths of the world there is always a time of darkness before the birth of the human race and, within this darkness, an undifferentiated oneness where all is God and everything is one. There are no human beings, only God-beings, or rather, aspects of God waiting to be born if a unified consciousness can have aspects at all.
And then something happens. God becomes lonely and longs for a partner, a beloved, or becomes curious about his powers and potential as a God. ...
Tags: Darkness visible, shamanism, healing, myth, joseph campbell
- Montana Fly Fishing - The Sheer Joy Of It!
By: Verlyn Ross | - Montana fly fishing is a true escape. You'll lose yourself!
After finishing off a down home breakfast, you stroll out of the local restaurant. You then hop into your truck and you head out through 20 miles of the most breathtaking highway you'll ever see.
Decorated with the most amazing wildflowers, and overflowing with majestic creatures, you cannot help but stare as you pass by beautiful mountains, plateaus and lakes. you can only think it's a dream. While spe ...
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- The Lawsuit From Hell
By: Ross Laguzza | - Upon arriving in hell, a gentleman--we shall call him Mr. Marklin--discovers that his new environs are something less than tolerable and, indeed, a good bit unpleasant. Being a modern man of the 21st century, he quickly formulates a plan: "I'll sue!" He has no trouble finding a plaintiff's lawyer who files a lawsuit against God, the creator.
The lawyer's theory is simple, yet profound: God created an unreasonably dangerous and ultra-hazardous condition (temptation) and failed to ...
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