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 True Nature of the Heart is Neutrality
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I figured that a teaching about the heart seemed appropriate. For indigenous people all over the world the greatest path of power is the path of the
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Medicine and Healing
by James Pittman A Cree medicine man traveled to a Unitarian Universalist summer camp beside a beautiful lake deep in the Adirondack mountains when I was there as a boy, and our
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Journaling: A Way of Self Healing
by David M. Ross, LCSW Journaling is a powerful form of self-therapy and self-healing that engages us in shamanic right-left, right-left back and forth eye and hand/arm movement. All that is needed is
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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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Joy Must be Respected and Savored
By CSEE Board President Ben Boomer The steady rhythm of my heart beating as a metronome to an ancient song, sung in a language I don’t speak, but with a meaning that would
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Sage Advice
By Ben Boomer My step son is 13 and he loves it when I Sage the house at night before bed. I had given him his own Abalone shell and a white Sage
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Prayer, a Useful Tool in Shamanic Practice
by John Flynn Speaking from experience having been raised Catholic where praying in most instances was a rote list of needs and wants done with a begging mentality and from a place
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The Transformative Power of Shamanic Wisdom
By Parminder Randhawa Have you ever had the desire to transform something in your life? Maybe a habit, a relationship, your environment, or some other aspect of your life? I often feel as
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