By Ben Boomer, CSEE Board President Coyote plays a big part in Navajo culture, and was very much a part of my childhood. Those coyotes are an hilarious and tricky bunch with their
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The Q’ero Despacho Ceremony
How to Create an Altar as a Focal Point for Awakening Your Spiritual Self
By Katherine Skaggs, CSEE Board Member Creating an altar is a spiritual activity of intention as much as it is a physical endeavor. Altars can be communal, public or absolutely personal and tucked
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Icaros: The Power of Song
by Stephen Vierra (CSEE’s newest Board Member) Quantum physicists will tell you that the reality we experience everyday is made up of different frequencies of vibration. High vibrations and low vibrations, creating the
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The Role of Art in Shamanism
By Visionary Artist and Shamanic Practitioner Katherine Skaggs As an artist, and shamanic practitioner, I have been interested in the healing powers of art for some time now. Growing up as an artist, I
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Shamanism and Its Benefits in My Life
by Mary Ann Eddowes Lima – Perú Shamanism is a way of living, of being aware of the unity and the inter-relationship of all in the Universe and work with the light energies
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What do the patterns on the Shipibo textiles mean?
The pattern you see below was created by the Shipibo, and indigenous tribe that lives in the Amazon Jungle in Peru. The Shipibo see and hear these geometric patterns in nature and reproduce the designs
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Herlinda Agustin Fernandez, a Shipibo Shaman
by Katherine Skaggs And it seems with my commitment to go back to the jungle in November (2013), I was finally able to finish the painting of Herlinda, which I began in 2011
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Shamanism: Approaching Indigenous Wisdom with Care and Respect
by Ben Boomer Shamanism has grown in popularity as an idea and practice in the modern world. Shamanism is defined by the recognition of a common wisdom based on ancient or indigenous spiritual
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Ayahuasca
In his book Breaking Open the Head, Daniel Pinchbeck writes, “While psychedelics are outlawed, 27 million Americans currently take antidepressants such as Zoloft or Prozac. These days, most people are far more suspicious
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