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Consider Shamanic Counseling

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Core shamanic practices are thousands of years old and are enjoying a current renaissance along with renewed interest all over the world today. For Westerners, it is often a stretch to not just consider but embrace this ancient healing art as legitimate. Part of this reason is because since the early 1900s, there has been a migration from the rural farming orientation that was this country’s foundation to the growing cities for factory work. This social trend was a significant shift away from what had been a centuries old relationship to nature that suddenly was becoming fractured. Most of us became “citified” as urban centers of commerce proliferated and the small family farm began its long decline. The reason this matters is because shamanism is really a nature-based relationship to life and the world. Read More »Consider Shamanic Counseling

How Are You Connected?

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People respond to this question in many ways. When I was growing up, there was no Internet and so there were no smart phones, email or Facebook. Since the proliferation of many information-based technologies, being connected to others is generally through electronic means. Being connected to others through these various information-based technologies means instant communication through Wi-Fi and other Internet-based communication systems. We’re even connected to satellites orbiting the Earth through our cell phones and our multi-media systems. Today in 2013, when somebody asks you how you are connected, it’s generally understood to be through some social media connection. Being able to participate in webinars and teleseminars with people from all over the country, or throughout the world is now done every day through our computers and smartphones. To me this is totally amazing and it’s through these electromagnetic fields of information and various frequencies that we are able to share all this information instantly. In the highly industrialized first world countries as well as emerging third world countries, this is becoming the social norm as accessibility to all of these various information-based technologies is spreading like wildfire. It is redefining the human experience and culture at large.

When I was in my 20s and 30s, “being connected” was a reference to one’s spiritual relationship to others and the universe. In the 60s, many spiritual teachers from India and Japan and even Tibet started coming to the United States to teach. Gurus, yogis and spiritual masters began to emerge onto the American cultural scene.Read More »How Are You Connected?