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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 ...
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 ...
Celtic shamanism
By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago
Is there such a thing as 'Celtic shamanism’? Probably not.
Do we have a native shamanic tradition within the British Isles? Certainly.
These two statements are in no way contradictory. It only seems that way ...
Shamanic trance postures for journeying
By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago
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 ...
Shamanic divination
By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago
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 ...
Soul Retrieval
By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago
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. ...
Plant Spirit Shamanism: The sin eater
By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago
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 ...
The spiritual practices of the Ninja
By Ross Heaven · 17 years ago
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, ...
The Spiritual Man through the Eyes of Jyotish
By Veno Trivedi · 17 years ago
The horoscope is a reference point for a particular time and place. The main reference point in the horoscope is the Ascendant because it is the main identifying feature of an individual. This reference point ...