Contemporary Shamanism

Becoming a Shaman in the Modern World

Most people who study a shamanic path fail to fully appreciate the role perception plays in moving them from point A to point B. Shamans learn to handle perceptual awareness with a subtle grace which...

Would you mind talking some about poetry and language and shamans? Words, our language, or any language humans speak, are imbued with the emotional energy of their speakers.  Shamans have always...

How is ecstatic trance different from self-hypnosis or visualization? There are some practitioners going around talking about shamanic trance in terms that are right out of a hypnosis textbook. The t...

  This is not a New Age site, nor does it concern itself with the pale resurrection of ancient traditions in the name of modern religious classicism.  Many people ask what shamanism is, but...

Shamanism Classes at Shamanscave First of all, the second attention is a name, a word, but the concept of what we are talking about has traveled through many cultures and practices over time. Differ...

The most difficult aspect of clarity, as it should be, is simply that we can no longer lie to ourselves and believe our self-deception. Clarity can create paralysis when it comes into conflict wi...

Shamans talk about energy all the time, either through metaphor, or directly, but most people still fail to understand the connections between their personal energy and the world at large. Seeing the...

The deathwalker is not a grim reaper; they are releasing that which is trapped, moving that which is beyond life, but not yet truly within the clutches of death. ...

Where do the Makers come from? I tend to think of the system - or rather, 'way of seeing' - as a package deal.  Think of it in terms of a box that is passed down through the generations.  T...

Shamanism is a dance across the unknown, a journey to test the limits of the human heart.  Shamanism devolves you, rebuilding you on a different model of what a human can be. Whether good or bad,...
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