What Is Shamanic Witchcraft? Your Guide To Understanding How It Works By: Rebecca Ryan | - Many people ask me to tell them more about Shamanic Witchcraft and how it works. I"ve been a public practitioner of Shamanic Witchcraft for years and I still find this such a big question! I"ll do my best to shed some light, all grace, please, as these ancient ways of making the unmanifest manifest aren"t easy to explain.
Shamanic Witchcraft, by my definition, is a blending of earth based practices. Shamanic Witchcraft, like all magick, is about liberation, indep ... Tags:shamanism, shamanic witchcraft, soul retrieval, hypnosis
Shamanism Course Offered Online Through The Ulc Seminary By: Eileen Smith | - I am not a shaman. I can never really be a shaman. In my opinion, there are two approaches to shamanism. One is to study and appreciate the history, development, and philosophy of the phenomenon called Shamanism. The other is to emulate what shamans do in order to approximate shamanism. The first of these approaches is rather easy one puts ones mind to it, one does the research, and finally one obtains the knowledge and/or understanding. The latter of the two is much more difficult: how d ... Tags:universal church, universal life church, ulc, religion, advice, spirituality, spiritual development, shamanism, paganism
Native American Shamanism By: Yamaya Cruz | - Shamanism is defined as a system of psychic, spiritual and emotional healing for the exploration and gathering of both the state of mind and non-material worlds. Anthropologists described shamanism as a technique of inducing ecstasy in which the spirit of the shaman leaves his body and travels to communicate with other spirits (through "Spirit Helpers") in order to acquire a healing power. In Native American shamanism, the healing comes as a process wherein an individual journeys to gather or br ... Tags:Native American, Shamanism, Spiritual Healing, Spiritual Cleansing
Shamanism Today By: Colleen Guy | - In the current Western world, many people are in search of a higher level of consciousness, and seeking more from their lives - rather than the ‘current culture’, which is focussed upon money, sex and power. A mid-life crisis or a period of deep change is often the trigger for this thirst to learn more about spirituality and shamanic practice.
This leads us to research, even Googling questions like "Who am I?", "Why am I here?", "What is my purpose?&quo ... Tags:shamanic practitioner, shamanism, shamanic practice
Shamanism Healing Rituals By: Paul Andrew Todd | - By some estimates shamanism has been around for over 40,000 years. Shamanism is typically practiced by the indigenous population of various races and practiced all over the world. In shamanism, both physical and mental illness is viewed as an imbalance or disharmony in the person. It is the job of the shaman to help restore harmony. When shamanism healing is being performed the shaman will travel to other dimensions of time and space to enlist the help of animal and plant spirits. There are thou ... Tags:Shamanism, shaman, shaman consciousness, hypnosis, hypnotherapy
Shamanism In Today's World By: Colleen Guy | - Nowadays in the Western Culture, a new culture encompassing a higher level of consciousness, seeking more from our lives, is replacing the standard focus on power, sex and money. This occurs most frequently when faced with a mid-life crisis, or during a period of significant change in life.
This leads us to research, even Googling questions like "Who am I?", "Why am I here?", "What is my purpose?".
Shamanism, What Is It? By: Graham Watt | - The word Shaman, pronounced Shah-man, was first recorded by an exiled Russian churchman in 1672 as coming from the Tungus people of Siberia. It has since become a commonly used word in the west, spread by anthropologists when describing any number of people in non-western cultures who practice healing arts. They would once have been thought of as witch doctors or medicine men, even seers.
Shamanic Journeying By: Colleen Guy | - I would like to share my thoughts and experiences about journeying to the three different worlds, namely the Upper, Middle and Lower worlds, starting with the Lower (or Under) world as it is known in Celtic Shamanism.
The benefits of meditation are well known and journeying is a visual form of this practice. It is similar to lucid dreaming where you are an active part of the dream rather than watching from outside/above. You should be completely relaxed and comfortable, with some pref ... Tags:Shamanic Journeying, Shamanic Journey, Spirit Guides, Power Animal, Shamanism
The Hummingbird Retreat Centre, Spain By: ross heaven | - When Spanish explorers first encountered hummingbirds in Peru, they called them joyas voladoras: "flying jewels." The hummingbird was revered as a sacred healer, a guardian of plants, the spirit, and those who needed healing or were training as healers themselves.
That is why the hummingbird is the symbol for The Hummingbird Retreat Centre. Located in one of the most peaceful and unspoiled parts of rural Spain, it offers a relaxing and invigorating space where you can escape from ... Tags:spain, retreats, writing, ayahuasca, shamanism, healing
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
Andean And Amazon (ayahuasca) Yoga Rainforest Retreats 2008 By: Howard G Charing | - A dedicated programmes in the Andes and the Amazon rainforest, which is focussed on an inner and deep self-exploration and encounter with the spiritual power of the land. This is an adventure into the magical world of the Andes, the Rainforest, and a transformative experience of the ancient mystical rituals of the plant spirit medicines.
Shamanic Healing And Soul Retrieval - Part 1 By: Jan Engels Smith | - Shamanism is an ancient healing art, dating back at least 40,000 years. It was used by most indigenous cultures in the world. It is a healing method that emphasizes that all experiences affect your soul and that all healing comes through the soul. In shamanic cultures, the care of the soul is extremely important. In fact, it is the most important aspect of healing.1 The shamanic belief is that a human being is first and foremost a soul having a human experience, not the other way around. If the ... Tags:shamanic healing, soul retrieval, soul loss, healing trauma, shamanism, energy
The Enigma Of Psychic Surgery In The Philippines Part 2 - Jun Labo By: Howard G Charing | - The enigma of Jun Labo.
Together with my colleague Patrick Hamouy (of Alternative Therapies) , we met with Jun and were his guest recently at his residence in the mountain regions of northern Luzon, its location and altitude in the Cordiella mountain range keep it cool and pleasant during the hot and extremely humid summer months. His house is somewhat of an Oriental palace, with pagodas, roof gardens, terraces within terraces, large statues of lions, eagles, frogs, gnomes, and with an ec ... Tags:philippines, health, healing, psychic surgery, psychic surgeons, medical, alternative, tours, travel, plant spirit shamanism, howard g charing
The Enigma Of Psychic Surgery In The Philippines Part 1 By: Howard G Charing | - The bare hand' or psychic' surgeons of the Philippines have been one of the most enduring enigmas of modern times. There has been much controversy about the so-called miracle healers of the Philippines. Their ability to open peoples bodies and defies not only conventional scientific and medical knowledge but also challenges what we consensually call reality. How can a human body open and close by touch? How can solid objects become permeable to allow a hand to move throug ... Tags:philippines, health, healing, psychic surgery, psychic surgeons, medical, alternative, tours, travel, plant spirit shamanism, howard g charing
November 10th - 24th 2007 Optional Extension Week - November 25th - December 1st 2007
A dedicated programme in the Amazon rainforest, which is focussed on an inner and deep self-exploration and encounter with the power of the rainforest. This is an adventure into the magical world of the rainforest, and a transformative experience of the ancient mystical rituals of the plant spirit medicines. This programme will t ... Tags:ayahuasca, amazon rainforest, javier arevalo, plant spirit shamanism, shamanism, shaman, plant medicines
If you ask me if people are unwell, the majority are unwell, in their spirit or mind, there are lots of problems today. They are particularly afflicted in the stomach, the solar plexus, and the belly button. It's the place of emotional pain, and also where we are joined to life. This is what ayahuasca is, the rope that connects us to life.
The Spiritual Traditions Of The Andes; An Interview With Doris Rivera Lenz - Part 1 By: Howard G Charing | - A look at the rich and powerful spiritual legacy of the Andean civilization which is only now being properly recognised after 500 years of obscurity. This interview of Doris Rivera Lenz, was conducted by Howard G. Charing & Peter Cloudsley. This interview appeared in Sacred Hoop Magazine Issue 57, and the book Plant Spirit Shamanism (Destiny Books USA).
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.
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.
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.
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.
... 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'.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ayahuasca, The Visionary Paintings, And Inspirational Words Of Pablo Amaringo. By: Howard G Charing | - Pablo Amaringo is one of the world's greatest visionary artists, and is renowned for his highly complex, colourful and intricate paintings of his visions from drinking the Ayahuasca brew. Pablo wrote the foreword, a spiritual and ecological message as the foreword for my book 'Plant Spirit Shamanism', published by Destiny Books (USA).
Alchemy, Shamanism, Organic Food, And The Doctrine Of Signatures By: Howard G Charing | - The 16th century alchemist and philosopher, Paracelsus, introduced in his treatise the Doctrine of Signatures , the concept that the Creator has placed his seal on plants to indicate their medicinal uses.
Underlying Paracelsus' treatise was the premise that nature was itself a living organism which must be considered an expression of the One Life, and that man and the universe are the same in their essential nature.
Shamanism And Divination By: H G Charing | - Shamanism is not a system of belief or faith, it is a system of knowledge, and divination is one of the paths to gain direct knowledge. Direct knowledge can be defined as that which is experienced first hand by the senses. Divination is not 'fortune telling', it is a way to a deeper understanding of events and influences surrounding a situation or person. Divination has always been an integral part of shamanism. One of the most important roles of the shaman has been to seek revelatory knowledge ... Tags:shamanism, shaman, divination, divine, howard g charing, plant spirit shamanism, healing, natural medicine
The Shaman's Path - A Journey Into Timeless Worlds By: H G Charing | - Shamanism is not a system of belief or faith, it is a system of knowledge, and is directly experienced first hand by the senses. Shamanism has always been a way for living as humans on our planet Earth, both in balance within ourselves and the world of which we are part.
The shamans say that plants connect us with nature because they take their nourishment directly from the earth, as well as the sun's rays, the air, and water. They allow us to know and recognize ourselves. A shaman must know this and must love his people to heal them. Here are just a few of the plant healers.
Shamanism And Yoga - Shamanic Trance Postures By: Howard G Charing | - Shamanism offers a way for people to become aware of their potential, and begin to explore their spiritual relationship to the universe, to other forms of life, and to each other. The experiences which come from shamanism help a person to evolve a deeper bond and respect for all of creation, and from this perspective you are likely to lead a life which is vibrant and full in harmony and balance, and which encourages understanding and optimism. The Shamanic path is a way to experience this expand ... Tags:shaman, howard g charing, plant spirit shamanism, shamanism, ayahuasca, retreats, workshops, peru, herbs, herbal healing, yoga, medicine, san pedro, healing,
We are not talking about passive agents of transformation, we are talking about an intelligence, a consciousness, an alive and other mind, a spirit, which of course we have no place in our society. Nature is alive and is talking to us. This is not a metaphor.
Terrance McKenna
Plant Spirit Shamanism - The Medicinal Plants Of The Amazon Rainforest By: H G Charing | - Working with teacher plants is known as the shaman's diet'. The purpose of the diet is to prepare the body and nervous system for the powerful knowledge and expansion of consciousness given by teacher plants.
In everyday life, the mind creates the illusion that we are separate from reality, and thus protects us, like a veil, from experiencing the vastness of the universe. Access to the truth without preparation could be a radical shock to the system.
The recapitulation of life force is the body of work, which restores or recapitulates lost life force. Soul Retrieval is one of the most well-known and effective practices to this end.
To understand how recapitulation practices work, we need to look at the multidimensional nature of reality and move away from a linear sequential perspective. From this expanded perspective, 'anything which has ever happened to anybody, anywhere ... Tags:shaman, shamanism, healing, soul, retrieval, ayahuasca, spiritual retreat
Medicine For The Soul - The Plant Spirit Medicines Of The Amazon Rainforest By: H G Charing | - 'Whether the plant is to heal the body or the spirit or
whether it is part of an apprenticeship, what makes it work
is your good intention towards the plant. They are beings,
which have their own forms or they can be like human beings
with faces and bodies. When the spirit accepts the person,
and the person has the will, the spirit grants them energy.
The path to knowledge opens, and the healing takes place'
Out Of This World - Shamanism Healing By: Eric Cho | - Many of the ancient cultures of the world adhered to one or the other form of Shamanism. This is a tribal healing tradition where a Shaman is said to transcend the boundaries of the conscious world and travel to a world unbeknown to the ordinary man. Here, the Shaman converses with spirits and come back with secrets that allows him to heal others, foretell the future, control the weather and even ward off attacks.
