The problem of cultural misappropriation, well, there's a lot to learn about, through the example of the sweatlodge deaths in Colorado. I'm an enrolled member of the Iowa tribe. I have seen over and over certain situations ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night about being trapped in a cave. A huge piece of cliff had fallen outside the usual entrance and that way was blocked. So the only option was to climb this slippery pile of boulders deeper in the cave that led to another crack above that led outside, about 30 feet up. There was a choice between dying in the cave or dying by ( Read more... )

…The natural world that most Europeans regard as merely a pleasant backdrop to more pressing everyday concerns, consists of ‘deeply mysterious powers and entities with whom the shaman enters into a rapport’ …There are ‘multiple nonhuman sensibilities that animate the landscape’ including plants, animals, insects, forests, winds, and so on, and if ( Read more... )

Shamanistic landscapes are cosmic, that is, with the axis mundi (center pole, world tree, etc.) or tunnel/flight routes connecting this world we live in (the middle world) with the above world(s) and the below world(s ( Read more... )

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Practices from Endredy’s EcoshamanismSeeing in systems ( Read more... )

This is the first of a series of posts looking at selections from European, Native American and Chinese geomantic systems, along with the Shamanic worldview (the previous post), landscape history, bioregionalism, and animism, especially the concept of the Genius Loci (Spirit of Place) and Anima Mundi (Life of the Earth) -aka Hina Maya (in Ioway: ( Read more... )

1. The shamanic universe is holistic and dualistic. All things are interrelated, as in the Lakota saying, mitakuye oyasin, "All my relatives." At the same time, the universe is made up of binary sets, binary opposition/opposite pairs, such as big-little, dark-light, alive-dead, etc. The binary sets are mediated, or can be, by a third factor, which ( Read more... )

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