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Shamanism & Spirituality

ShareThere’s an interesting article on Castaneda today at Salon.com that’s worth reading see: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/04/12/castaneda/index.html
It makes me think of Joseph Campbell’s point that people confuse story with reality. But then what is real? I’ve found Castaneda’s work beautifully poetic. Many people are happy to live in the fiction they’ve made up for themselves of their every [...]

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The Shaman

by Michael Roach on October 10, 2006

in Shamanism & Spirituality

ShareThe shaman operates from an ontological position. So while yes there is experience, the decision is made from the basis not of understanding but knowing. But then that knowing comes from being able to know what to do when you don’t know what to do. In my opinion the word transpersonal fits. The information is [...]

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The Tracker

by Michael Roach on May 23, 2006

in Shamanism & Spirituality

ShareIt’s always the ‘translating the experience into words’…
And yet you could just ‘have the experience’… Without attaching words or labels to try to represent it in ways that it’s not or never can be.
By attaching words you either create value or remove value from the experience.
The experience is just what the experience [...]

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4th Way

by Michael Roach on February 10, 2006

in Shamanism & Spirituality

ShareIf you’re in the excitatory the system is open to possibility, and you can do new stuff.
If you’re in the inhibitory the system is closed to possibility, or you’re thinking about how you do stuff based on existing information. If you’re thinking about it, you’re in analysis and the system is not open to [...]

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ShareThe problem with ‘True Magic’ is that it is ‘as above so below’. Might I suggest ‘REAL MAGICK’ is more ‘as below, so above’. 
I used to see the people who were really into ritual when I worked in a mental hospital…
It was another Michael that said about being able to see the maiden [...]

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