Plant Medicine Retreat: How to Stop Settling and Start Choosing Your Life
By Carrie Brightwell Your life looks good on paper. You’ve got the material things, the income, the relationships that function, and people see you as capable and wise. Yet inside you feel split. There’s that quiet sense of “this isn’t it”, and you’re yearning for something more. You’re under-expressed, quietly resentful, and carrying the fear […]
The Underworld in Shamanism: Journeying into the Unconscious
Discover the meaning of the shamanic underworld and how underworld journeying can help with soul retrieval, ancestral healing, and releasing destructive energetic patterns.
Why Feeding Our Ancestors Matters in Shamanism
Explore the benefits of feeding ancestors in shamanic practice, including ancestral healing, physical health, spiritual protection, and abundance. Ancestral reverence has always been an important part of shamanic cultures, but why was it so important? Although we tend to believe that souls of the dead reincarnate, there is also some part of them that remains […]
Demonic Possession
In order to understand demonic possession, we first need to define what a demon is. It’s an ancient Greek word meaning an astral being with wisdom. They weren’t necessarily seen as bad, but were often invoked to get answers to questions and learn mysteries. This is not the kind of demon that generally causes problems. […]
Tulpas and Orbs of Life
What they are A Tulpa is a Tibetan concept but is much like the western idea of egregores, artificial elementals and servitors. It is basically an artificially created but intelligent being, that is given power to perform a particular task. Whenever a lot of energy is focused into one desire, it will begin to develop […]
Sex and Vodou: Messages from Ghede
Ghede is the Vodou Lwa (deity) of sex and death. Ghede is constantly amused by man’s base sexual motivation, and his constant need to hide it within something else. Having been “ridden”* by him many times, and having heard many of his discourses, I have decided to compile some of his basic messages. These cover […]
Shamanic Journeying – Tips & Keys
Levels of Consciousness There are different levels of Shamanic Healing which deal with the different levels of consciousness. To some degree, the levels of consciousness are flexible – boundaries blur and you can divide consciousness into as many levels as you like. However, for simplicity, we will divide consciousness into conscious, subconscious, unconscious and super-conscious. Within […]
Healing Through the Runes
The Norse Runes are very powerful and versatile tools. Being the building blocks of creation, they can be used in any type of magick. Here we discuss how they are used in healing. This just touches upon the healing we practice on my Tethatu Shamanic Healing Course. Rune means whisper or secret. It refers to […]
Shamanic Healing in Devon
The wildness of the Devon countryside is perfect for invoking the powers of the Ancient British traditions for shamanic healing. With its old trees, clear rivers, rocky Tors, wild herbs, Dragons and portals to other realms, it is the perfect place to gather power and learn about shamanic healing and magick. The British tradition of […]
Shamanic Healing and Magick
There is a very good reason for practising shamanic healing and magick together, as the shamanic path of healing is based on a magickal worldview. Shamanism does not separate the different levels of reality, but recognizes the interconnections of all levels. Problems with the physical health often have their cause in suppressed emotional trauma or […]