For a long time I've been fascinated by names. In many traditions we are given different names and titles as forms of initiation. During the confirmation ceremony of Catholics children receive a Christian name, usually to honour a saint or a relative named for one. In medicine traditions people are offered names by teachers and [...]
'The Wound is the place where the Light enters you' Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Rumi) This is my first post on the controversial topic of 'Twin Flames'. I've kept away from this terminology and I've kept aloof from indulging when others use it. Yet in nature when you see a pattern; you learn how this [...]
'Shaman' has become a shorthand term in the west. Taken from the word 'Saman' meaning 'healer' in the Tungus language and culture of Siberia. Some are in resistance to this term in Western technocracies, believing that what this word represents can only exist in indigenous societies. Ironically this belief is in contradiction to the essence [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IAayleb5Ck In the above video a priestess kisses a cobra three times to bring rain to her people. This is an act of someone with much more than wonderful reflexes. In actuality her strength is in her lack of reflex, her non-reactionary dance with serpent, that deflects but never rejects him. She is a woman [...]
A labyrinth is distinct from a maze as there is only one path to the center. Although complicated, it's not fruitless trickery, but an allegory for the meditative processes of life. It is the archetypical representation of the Medicine Walk. The labyrinth does not just take us through life but also through ourselves. We can [...]
To put a massive topic into a brief synopsis; it is the awakening of the latent potential of the soul. Sometimes felt in strange rushes through the body or heightened awareness of energy held within oneself. Often referred to as spiritual emergence, it is the rising of a greater consciousness through the energetic body. Many [...]
“Be the light you want to see in the world” - (probably misquoted from) Gandhi. Some vintage good advice there. Right? Maybe. The way I originally encountered this saying was in fact; ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. Change... Therein lies the massive difference. First of all what is ‘light’? When [...]
