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Plant Spirit Shamanism - San Pedro in the Andes

By Ross Heaven · 16 years ago

A magical journey to Peru to work with San Pedro, the legendary Cactus of Vision We are delighted to offer you this opportunity to experience authentic Andean shamanism, using the methods, plants, and approaches that ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: The Way of The Lover - Sufi healing

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

Plant spirit healing from a Sufi perspective Sufi, Sufism, Islam, healing, Rumi, plant spirit shamanism, herbs, herbalism, Prophet, Prophecy, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, shamanism According to Sufi legend, the Prophet Sulayman was the first ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Hoodoo plant magic

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Plant communication

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Planta maestras – the shaman’s teachers – part 1

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Cleansing the soul

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Pusanga – an interview with perfumeros

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

The healing power of fragrance. Plant spirit shamanism, perfume, aromatherapy, scent, incense, shamanism, shamans, healing, herbs, herbalism, love, pusanga, relationships, ayahuasca, magic, sorcery Fragrance has long been associated with the arts of love. In Japan, ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Planta maestras – the shaman’s teachers – part 2

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Darkness Visible: Ceremonial Darkness in Shamanic Tradition

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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, ...

The Way of The Lover: The religion of love

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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, ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Divining with Coca

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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. ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Icaros, the sacred songs

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Nature’s signatures

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

Alchemy, organic food, aromatherapy, homeopathy, plant spirit shamanism, nature, healing, shamanism, herbs, herbalism, Thomas bartram, james lovelock, gaia, flower remedies, flower essences There is one concept that underlies all work in plant spirit shamanism, which ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: San pedro

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism: The seguro

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 spiritual practices of the Ninja: Personal transformation

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

Dr Mark Atkinson is the founder of The Whole Body Healing Clinic in London and a pioneer in the field of holistic medicine, healing and personal transformation. He is an author and the complementary health ...

Love's simple truths

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Rumi: The way of the Lover

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 truth about men

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...

Plant Spirit Shamanism in Peru

By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago

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 ...