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Kundalini and the Basics of the Spiritual Path (Part Three of Four)
By James Mann · 17 years ago
The kundalini, like any stimulative energy, will bring up suppressed material and you have to be willing to let go of that material and any desires (material attachments) you used to repress it. For this ...
Kundalini and the Basics of the Spiritual Path (Part Two of Four)
By James Mann · 17 years ago
6. Intuitional Knowledge:
It is hard to say how someone knows things by intuition, however, one of the strongest experiences I had during the awakening of my kundalini was that of receiving (revealed) knowledge. It ...
Kundalini and the Basics of the Spiritual Path (Part One of Four)
By James Mann · 17 years ago
Introduction
For centuries stretching back into the dim corridors of time, asian religions have spoken of a mystical force called the kundalini. Knowledge of how to awaken the kundalini, what it does, and what to ...
Why Do We Have to Practice Being Spiritual?
By Nina Amir · 17 years ago
Have you ever wondered why we those of us on a spiritual path are told to have a "practice"? Imagine if we all joined a spiritual team and got together every day for practice. What ...
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 ...
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 ...