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Plant Spirit Shamanism: Hoodoo plant magic

By Ross Heaven · 18 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 ...

Focus - your power to create

By Michael Mcgrath · 18 years ago

Unfortunately the majority of people on our lavish little green planet are not happy with their 'lot' in life. They are living lives of quiet desperation, unsatisfied with their relationships, careers or finances. What is ...

Managing Goals - Leaders Know How To Trim The Tree

By Andrew Cox · 18 years ago

Managing goals, leaders and trimming trees? Hang with me. Let me tell you, I am a goal junkie. I constantly set goals for all kinds of things in my life. They are all SMART goals ...

Depression and "the Secret"

By Tracy Crowe · 18 years ago

A lot of people are misinformed about what "the Secret" is. They watched the movie or read the book, read what they want to into it, jumped to conclusions, and assumed they know everything there ...

Find Happiness - Set Your Pet Peeves Free

By Beth Banning · 18 years ago

Stress relief is a primary concern for most modern-day adults. Even doctors will tell you that finding happiness and letting go of tension is a key ingredient when building a healthy lifestyle. What most people ...

Esteemed Self & Personal Growth

By Rajesh Gavali · 18 years ago

Your esteemed self is the individual who cannot wait to get up in the morning to sing your song and dance your dance. The dishonored self wakes up dreading the day, denying the dance, and ...

Darkness Visible: Ceremonial Darkness in Shamanic Tradition

By Ross Heaven · 18 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 ...