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Open ritual, Milwaukee

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:00 GMT

Hi all, Just wanted to remind folks that tomorrow's ritual is open. We'll be open at about 6:30 pm for potluck dinner. Thanks all! -shauna *Tending the Clan

Re: File - Welcome to Shamanic Alchemy

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:05 GMT

Hi all, I realized I never posted an intro. My name is Shauna, and I was raised by my hippie parents in Grafton/Cedarburg area north of Milwaukee. My parents

Leadership & Community Building workshop, Nov. 14-15, Milwaukee

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:55 GMT

Greetings all, We're expecting about 20 people at this weekend's class and there's room for more. Some folks have asked me if you have to attend the whole

Shamanic, symbolic meaning of crystal glasses and glass

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:18 GMT

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Throughout summer and now, into this autumn, I have collected shards of pottery and glass to arrange within the rock garden I began keeping last spring, outside the back door.

Clear, green, and brown bits of glass are the easiest to find. Blue, red and pink are rarer treasures.

Interpretations of color meanings are easy to find on the Net. I like to add "in the moment" meanings, as I am guided by spirit and spirits.

The tiniest fragments, including the sparkly jewels of car window safety glass, intermingle with red and black chunks of lava. I place larger glass chips sharp-side down, well out of the way of paws and feet, on either side of a meeting place for fancy, multicolored river stones and plainer gray to pale limestone and agate street-found rocks.

Broken or shattered containers remind me of alchemical processes finishing up and releasing new energy flows and patterns into the universe. Next, I remember and wonder over the Big Bang (or Bounce or Shift) itself.

Also, I am attracted to brokenness for the openness it brings--and for the damage to any pretense of perfection it assures.

Yesterday, another kind of broken glass presented itself. I found broken green, purple and clear lead crystal goblets scattered around a dumpster!

Cups have always carried deep meanings. Again, the shattering of them is usually creative and re-creative.

I am keeping these sharp, intensely scintillating splinters hidden within a covered baking pot in the sanctuary, while I shamanic journey and dream on their mythic or symbolic meanings.

I shall reflect a while, then wait and watch for clear or refracted messages to shine or glint.

Shamanic and other uses of Yellow Root

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:49 GMT

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I shamanic journeyed to a plant I had met in a dream, who was introduced by the name Yellow Root.

What healing help can Yellow Root give?

Yellow Root is part of the Buttercup Family and has, according to Drugs.com (and clinically speaking) no proven effectiveness in treating any ailments. Taking Yellow Root internally during pregnancy is even cautioned against because one of its active components, the alkaloid berberine, might stimulate uterine activity.

In folk medicine 2g of the Yellow Root rhizome is made into a tonic or antibiotic and immunostimulant medicine for mouth and throat infections. It is used frequently to remedy childbirth and uterine troubles--when contractions were desired--and given as a sedative, hypotensive and choleretic. Sometimes Yellow Root was used to treat diabetes.

But Yellow Root is another name for Goldenseal--which contains berberine also, and is used by herbalists to treat most of the same conditions and more.

On my follow-up shamanic journey I was guided to know that the plant I had met in my dream was the low-growing subshrub with purple flowers, going by the scientific name of Xanthorhiza simplicissima and growing along shady riverbanks. Yellow Root's namesake yellow roots can be chewed for tonic effect but are usually boiled into a strong, bitter tea then sweetened with honey.

The spirit of this Yellow Root had grown across my life and this dream to help me heal and transform several strong, bitter childhood memories of betrayal that were growing out of proportion and becoming troubling. Whenever my shamanic assistance is requested around a topic I suppose that whatever is challenging my visitor is living within me too, and I begin by dreaming on that.

Shamanic uses of Yellow Root, or any plant, might or might not match or overlap other uses in alternative and folk medicine. Always, I notice resonances between ordinary and non-ordinary uses.

I brewed, sweetened, and sipped the transformational tea in non-ordinary reality, shamanizing for myself in order to help the person who had come requesting spiritual assistance. I felt soothing strength in my throat for telling new stories of deeper understandings of past events, then abdominal pulsing, as if old shapes were flexing and dancing out of me.

I will do my best to connect with the plant in this world soon, too.

Yellow root is brightening up my life today and I am wearing a yellow shirt to ground and activate the shift.

What are the healing properties of Chalcopyrite crystals?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:10 GMT

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Crystal healing intuition-sheet on Chalcopyrite:

Chalcopyrite crystals are credited with diverse healing properties in folklore, metaphysics and alternative medicine, though medical science attributes reported improvements from crystal healing to the placebo effect.

Features

The metallic mineral Chalcopyrite (CuFeS2 or Copper Iron Sulfide, also known as Bornite) is commonly called Peacock Ore because its dark golden or brassy luster often shines with purple and green iridescent highlights. Chalcopyrite belongs to the tetragonal crystal system but occurs most often in massive form. It is an important source of copper.

Folklore

In folk medicine Chalcopyrite is suggested for hair loss prevention and as a remedy for throat, bronchial, lung, and brain ailments.

Metaphysics

In metaphysics Chalcopyrite is associated with developing and deepening inner vision, freeing stuck spiritual and vital energy patterns, and grounding meditation, prayer and exercise.

Alternative Medicine

Healing properties of Chalcopyrite in alternative medicine include fever and inflammation reduction, DNA repair, and the protection of crystal and energy healers during sessions.

Alchemy

The elemental components of Chalcopyrite reveal a restorative alchemical process. Copper, associated with Venus, female energies and creativity, joins iron, the symbol of Mars, male energies and strength. Both are acted upon by sulfur, representing fusion within the Sun, radiant expansion of life and the soul’s transcendence of opposites.

Etymology

Chalcopyrite comes from the ancient Greek words khalkos (meaning copper) and pyrites (meaning fire striking stone). This etymology points to additional life transformation processes–containing, conducting, and igniting.

Where does the healing power of gems come from?

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:48 GMT

The healing power of gems may never be proven scientifically because it is the metaphysical or symbolic properties of semi-precious and precious stones that are invoked as complementary and alternative medicine remedies.

Methods

The healing power of gems may be stirred up through personal, traditional, or published correspondences in numerology, sacred geometry, and astrology. Or combine shamanic methods with all or none of the above.

Shamanic Ways

To touch the healing power of minerals and crystals directly through shamanic experience, journey or dream into each gem or its representation in memory, imagination, or art. Shamanize to get to know the spirit of each stone.

Then shamanic journey or dream on a healing or beneficial change intention for yourself and others.

Meditation

Bring the healing power of gemstones into your mind, heart, and gut by meditating, through your favorite method. When you are full of healing power, circulate it through your soul and body, then radiate it outwards into your world.

Layouts

Create a shape with your healing crystals and stones, incorporating numerological, geometrical, and astrological associations, or not, as you are nudged by spirit and spirits. When ready, lie down within it for a shamanic journey, dream, or meditation on the healing or transformation you desire.

Or, lay the stones down in a smaller configuration on your altar or within other sacred space. Let this shape remain there for a while or disperse it right away, according to the nature and particulars of your prayer intention and how you are guided.

Agreement

Gems and stones are beings in the shamanic way of relating to life and the universe. When you need two or three to agree in prayer or shamanizing, they can be there for you!

Imagine that crystals and rocks are friendly ambassadors from the realm of the divine within, carrying healing gifts from heaven on earth.

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Spirit definition is impossible

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:22 GMT

WOW. I was asked to define spirit!

Coming up with a spirit definition to satisfy everyone is impossible, yet the exercise of trying to accomplish this task can deepen spiritual awareness.

Etymology

Our word spirit comes from a Latin word for both soul and breath, spiritus.

In Other Words

In ancient Greek spirit was pneuma (πνεύμα), also the word for breath which later came to mean spirit or soul.

In Sanskrit: The words akasha (the element filling and flowing around celestial realms) and ātman (breath in Indo-European but coming to mean soul, self, or ego in Hinduism and Buddhism) and prana (vital force or ) all express spirit.

The Hebrew words ruach (רוח; wind) and Ruach HaKodesh (רוח הקודש; divine wind) mean spirit and Holy Spirit.

In Chinese culture the word qi (air) meaning vital energy-flow can also express spirit.

From early on, in most (if not all) languages, spirit collected many meanings, connotations, and associations.

Interconnection

Spirit was usually linked to universal elements and vital functions.

Perhaps spirit definition began with wind breezing or water churning or earth quaking or fire crackling near a solitary someone hooked on pondering cosmic mysteries.

Spirits

In shamanic ways, as well as in many earth-centered and New Age religions, spirit is one and whole, yet is related to as an interconnecting and multi-dimensional many (many!) spirits.

Besides keeping company with animal spirits, shamans work with spirits of elements, minerals, plants, and many more kinds. Spirits can be visible or invisible; ordinary or non-ordinary; earthly, extra-terrestrial, celestial, or other-dimensional.

Caution

Spirit definition can easily be taken seriously or literally, which takes the fun out of it. BTW, my favorite word for spirit is FUN.

Placing dogmatic limits on spirit and spirits is as futile as trying to catch the wind, or collect the oceans in a bucket, or...go ahead and make up your own metaphor for it.

I am sure you already understand.

Oops! Because the spirits of Zemanta.com kept 'helping' I couldn't resist letting this post become a Wikipedia-fest.

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Shamanic Dreaming a Dragon

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:23 GMT

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Last night I dreamed strange basement noises! I woke up to visions and imaginings of a bright green dragon thrashing and thumping down there.

This building's basement is nicknamed 'the dungeon' by the property management company's maintenance staff. Once I recommended charging tourists admission for 15 minute tours of it as a House of Horrors.

The stairway down is under a padlocked outside crawlspace door on under my back window. I have a key just in case I need to get to the circuit breaker panel.

I knew I had dreamed and imagined the green dragon as a shamanic experience. But, of course, this morning I ventured down into 'the dungeon' to investigate anyway.

Everything seemed as usual - a dim, dank, musty, labyrinthine mess. Shifting into a light trance I wandered through the cluttered rooms, blurring my eyes on purpose, tilting my head leftwards and rightwards, sneaking side glances all around.

But nothing jumped out at me or struck me as unusual. Just as I was about to climb back upstairs I was drawn towards the northeast corner directly under my sanctuary.

Then I spotted a cardboard box I had never noticed before, all by itself, up high on a built-in storage shelf. Coat hangers and papers were sticking out and it did not look interesting enough to bother with.

The business tenants of this building do not use the basement for storage. So I supposed this box had been left behind by a previous occupant of my space, which is leased as an apartment to allow this historic building to keep its 'mixed use' zoning (advantageous to the owner, somehow).

I reached up and over the side and pulled out college course notes and a geology textbook, and then felt a bumpy, pottery-type surface. When I tugged this irregular object out, I was delighted to find myself holding a bright green ceramic dragon!

Maybe last nights dream-commotion was this mini-dragon signaling its desire to reside in the sanctuary room instead of under it!

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Shamanic Raccoon Moment

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:44 GMT

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Raccoon visited! My colleague The Tortoise Cat has yet to update her blog and tell of her Raccoon adventure, so I will share my side of the story (that I already tweeted) about a visit from Raccoon on September 13th, a Sunday morning. Tortoise Cat is a sweet, bold, fierce little kitty, but a reluctant blogger.

We both savor the fresh, night breezes of summer and we start early and stay late. As the weather permits I sleep next to the screen door, most nights from June through September. It is the next best thing to stretching out under the urban light filtered clouds or stars. Tortoise cat sleeps on a chair nearby or watches for mice and other critters through the screen.

In the wee morning hours Tortoise Cat was fussing to go all the way outside so I let her sit on the steps, attached to her longer backyard string. I lay back down, remaining restfully alert, just in case. Too soon I heard her yowl and jumped up, though I was not too concerned.

As I opened the screen door to peer out, supposing she had tangled her string in the deck chair already while chasing a mouse and was calling for my assistance, a terrified, medium-sized Raccoon shoved me aside and rushed in! By the security floodlights shining through the window I stared, thoroughly amazed, at this hefty young fellow who was sitting up on my bedding with paws stretched towards me, mouth opening and closing, with what looked like tears moistening the dark fur mask around his glistening eyes.

I cannot say how I knew this Raccoon was a male. Tortoise Cat and I have met the neighborhood Raccoon family and are somewhat acquainted - at a distance. We catch sight of them often, stealth-ambling past us on the way to or from the dumpsters, usually between mid-night and 3AM. Raccoon mom is huge compared to her two bulky 'teenagers' who I (somehow) take for brother and sister. The three littler ones who run behind? I have yet to get any notion of their genders.

"Hey, little guy", I said, "that Tortoise Cat is LOUD but she's tiny. You're almost 4 times her size, so muster up your courage, young friend, and hurry back outside so your folks won't worry!"

My Raccoon guest appeared to agree and crawled cautiously back into the doorway and peered out, but froze when he saw the Tortoise Cat still blocking the steps. I called to Tortoise Cat to show courtesy to our guest and make way for Raccoon's safe passage by, but, as usual, she did not comply with my wise instructions, and stood (well, actually she sat) her ground and began emitting a low, eerie, rumbling, surround-sound synergy of moan, groan, and growl while her eyes glinted and glared.

Then Raccoon uttered a trilling screech, crawled up onto the railing, jumped down, then scurried gracefully through the bamboo bushes and back into into the safety and comfort of the deep night's shadowy shrubs and darker corners. His mother and siblings must have been waiting nearby.

I was wide awake and this encounter happened in ordinary reality. Yet, as Raccoon is a long-term shamanic helper, I know there were messages and gifts in this visit. I realized how great a privilege this was and I feel highly honored. One night (or day) soon I will remember a shamanic dream with Raccoon and learn more.

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Shamanize as a kaleidoscope, on the chaotic tension...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:57 GMT

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Allowing poetry to dream into me is a shamanic way I used to practice more often. This free-verse poem - as it might be called by some - dreamed in with September. It seems more than a wee bit weird and nonsensical to me but that is the kind of poem I usually get.

Years ago I used to receive and write a shamanic free-verse poem every day - or, rather, words blown and strung together like this. Because I didn't call my shamanizing by any s-word or this sort of composition poetry when it started happening back in childhood. A high-school teacher assured me I was writing free-verse poetry but I called it 'word-juxtapositions' instead.

I don't recommend this as a once-a-day spiritual practice. It is too intense and does not make enough ordinary sense, and the temptation to re-work it into a more comprehensible form can hit hard.

As a shamanic poem I take this (like all the rest that came to me) as a whole, as a way of spirit-delivery of healing and transforming power, a container holding answers to prayer, that I don't need to (and should not try to) decipher or translate.

Shamanize as a kaleidoscope, on the chaotic tension...

between earthy limitation
just humming along
and cosmic springing-free, then

howl outlandishly...

between shaking containment...repetitive recombining of primary and secondary multi-colored building blocks
...and the next black and white, silver and gold, big-bang rainbow catastrophic surprise,
this universal serendipitous system of mercurial methods, always revealing itself

as just ordinary points

yet cosmic egg sets, of zeros and ones, set spinning around this expanding, accelerating circus circle,
though each radiating waving particle point of (visible and invisible) fields of resurrection is already spiraling probable
simultaneities inwards

and outwards...an infinity of infinities...

of infinities of orders of infinities...of parallel, perpendicular, tangential, and oblique yet ordinary, everyday, sharp fuzzy lines...
expressing worlds of thoughts, words, and deeds as complex designs of weaving
yet raveling multi-directions and multi-dimensions, eventually creating...

your Shaman Costume!

Oh let me only touch this flowing, glowing
super-asymmetrical, inexplicable, webby resonating deep space, material-energetic, earthy garment for a moment...
as the shaman passes amid the wild pressing crowds of expectant, jubilant confusion within me,

and wonder forever over the seamless holey wholly hol-y healing feel of it...
shimmering, glimmering, mysteriously holding and releasing so many sparkling arrays of vibrating

cooking vessels simmering uncertain, as yet undetermined, transformations

harmoniously jumping, falling, tumbling, dancing up and down and on and off this cliff,
or edge, or humpty-dumpty wall...singing into this abyss
thereby dream-seeding all of

this earth...the deeps, the seas, the lands, the skies...all commonplace,
known and unknown, sacred places...each stuffed with primary quintessentials,

every one of them hatching and scattering into wand-points

all over again, the same as always...
like never before.
(Patterns rattle, drum, and take steps while fringes fly...!)

The original shamans didn't...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:55 GMT

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LAST very long! They were soon assimilated or forgotten, then seemingly seamlessly replaced by the ordinary shamans who we call shamans today. The original shamans didn't...

Bow to authorities
Stick to old stories

This is why whatever shamanic teachings you receive through books, DVDs, workshops, gatherings, apprenticeships, mentoring, courses, and any of the ways that shamanism is - that is, that shamanic ways or shamanisms are - passed on are really, mostly or partly shamanistic, meaning not quite shamanic (not quite meaning 'almost but not quite' all the way to 'not by quite a lot'). The original shamans have all been magnified by space-time then stuffed into spacey-timeless myths, or they are perfectly unknown in this world, lost to consciousness through history's mists.

The original shamans are universal yet singular, living in the neighborhood but are not of it. The original shamans are NOT the keepers of stories - they receive and keep stories only in order to be the shifters of stories and the dreamers of new stories.

Many of the original shamans drew followers even though they kept saying "Go away now! Go on, go YOUR way. Go be your own shaman!" Except that the original shamans hadn't heard of the word shaman.

Many of today's ordinary shamans suppose that they are already living and representing the secret circle of the original shamans. But supposing is sub-posing, placing under, and that's just another kind of shaman-istic.

Shamanistic is as far as you get on the way of the shaman if you insist upon bowing to authorities and sticking to old stories - regardless of how many shaman-techniques you learn and initiations you receive, no matter how powerful these are. And shamanistic can be life healing and transforming enough, for now - or not.

If it's not...then DREAM an original shaman, within yourself, and dream your ceremony of giving away all your stories, and dream your next step after giving up on all your sources of authority. Then forget it and shift on. Or shift on and forget it. (Repeat this as necessary.).

Dream Adventuring On With Stoics, Skeptics, and Cynics - and a New Traveling Companion

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:39 GMT

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Wow! Before dawn I woke up in mid-dream...wondering why a loud anachronistic circle of ancient Stoics, Skeptics, and Cynics had been shouting at me back in a mix of lifetimes during the Golden Age of Greece. What do these philosophical ancestors of mine want this go round?

Even weirder, I was remembering, a pale speckled parrot-like bird with a stoical expression had been perched on top of a severely pruned tree at the center of the circle the whole while, talking stories with happy endings, all but drowning out anyone else. This strange but wise and old bird often barked and head-tilted side to side to punctuate the performance.

"All religion is for the birds!" is the only - unusually pedestrian - message my brain kept chirping as I searched for deeper meanings and profounder interpretations. This sketchy dream scene is all I recall but I suppose more will come back to me later.

Or, maybe not. Other messages might have arisen from my inner well of knowing and been delivered though symbolic packaging while I was being distracted.

Or maybe my new bird buddy will reappear and tell more. Or &os;all of the above&os; might happen, bit by bit, and I will accept it - no matter what - as part of the wondrous fun of life.

Shamanic journey to the everyday world of your dreams and hopes!

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:04 GMT

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Here is a shamanic journey my circle is taking: First clear and ground yourself in your usual, favorite way(s) - incense, herbal bath, nature walk, or however you do it. Open your sacred space-time circle and non-ordinary travel portal expectantly.

Rattle, drum, sing, and dance a while. This activates dreaming, enthusing, speaking, and taking steps and resonates everything into one inter-flowing whole.

Imagine yourself in your safe, spiritual non-ordinary middle worlds haven and departure nature-scape. Travel from there (through the conduit of your choice) to the lower realms and request assistance of a trusted spirit helper. The intention of this shamanic adventure is finding and experiencing and empowering in the spiritual world, the physical world we wish, hope, and desire to leave future generations of earth children.

Be guided and challenged by spirit and spirits to this potential new world as it exists as pure potential. Meet and get acquainted with at least one spirit being within it. Ask what to shift about yourself and your particular little bit of the present world to help bring the desired world into ordinary reality as soon as possible. Look for and receive a symbolic, potent gift to bring on the next stage of this excursion.

This symbolic gift spirit-power container might be given to you in a natural or abstract form - a rock or stick, perhaps, or a geometrical ornament. Receive this gift and thank all beings.

Then journey to the upper realms and request assistance around this intention from a trusted spirit helper there. Ask to see possibilities - an array of beings and events changing the world for the better, into the potential new world you dreamed in the lower worlds. Allow the spiritual energy-flows of these visions to sweep-away the power-gift you carried up.

Then, thank all beings, and accompanied by all of your helping spirits, return to your sacred departure place and sit in circle waiting - calm and relaxed. When your possibility-infused gift drops into the center of your circle, rejoice and give thanks and return to your ordinary-reality circle and rattle, drum, sing, and dance yourself back to everyday consciousness.

Jot down details and make a list of self-changes and steps to begin living your new world. Sleep on this shamanic journey overnight - no need to remember any night-dreams about it (but OK if you do). This is a way to plant the dream-seeds of potential, possibility, and power you brought back in your spirit-gift. Another way to activate your gift is creative and/or expressive art-play.

Then begin making these envisioned self and local changes, one by one, day by day.

Shamanic imagining is another way of getting REAL

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:18 GMT

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Are shamanic ways imaginary? When I emphasize imagination in shamanic practice it might seem as if I am debunking shamanizing. Well, one person's debunking can be another person's enthusing.

I used to suppose I could categorize my shamanic shifting alongside the traditionalists, new-agers, esoterists, occultists, complementary and alternative medicine practitioners, and shamanistic or earth spirituality and religion participants. These are the directory categories where websites associated with me are still listed, because while I was signing up there seemed no other fitting category for my interpretation of contemporary shamanism.

As beneficial and transformational as (most of) these other types of practices can be, not much of any of what is listed in the paragraph above is what I am doing and intending now. Less and less of it relates or even resonates with my current shamanic practices.

I am not about to (futilely attempt to) redo directory listings around the web. Link directories are almost obsolete now anyway, and my old links will probably be way at the bottom of a way-back page by now.

I stopped signing up for new online directory listings anywhere a while ago. Nowadays I am making sure my webpages reflect clearly what I do and don't do, even while my understandings continue to shift, so whether folks find me through from an old listing or a social network profile they can read my newest view. (Ceremonial officiating and ministerial services listings are easier because my ministering is, and is likely to stay, very earth-religion - and almost any-religion - friendly.)

For me shamanic ways are 96% Art - Performance Art even though they can also be a combination of prayer, meditation, and healthy living. I tell anyone who asks these days that shamanizing is mostly (non-ordinary) dreaming and imagining flowing into purposeful (ordinary yet extraordinary) embodying: creatively expressing one's inner shaman-artist's faithful, hopeful visions and CHOICES of new, better life on earth, from inside-out, with one's Self as the message-incarnate, though individual, singular, original multi-media performing.

This is how I shamanize and teach. I do acknowledge and respect other understandings, interpretations, and practices of the 'way of the shaman' - even as I part company with most. And, as I have written often, just because I am calling shamanic ways imaginary and artistic does not mean I am saying they aren't real. Imaginary and pretend are powerfully real and wondrously reality-shifting, in my experience.

What about the other 6%? Well, for today, for the fun of it, I'll say that the rest is mostly Science(s) with a dash of the universe's own mysterious, trade-secret blend of ordinary (scientific) and non-ordinary (mythic) whole-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts CHAOS!

Topic change: Please visit some of my Squidoo lenses, where I am continuing my self-education, selling some stuff, honoring favorite places, and more! Many of them are new, opened so I could keep adding on, and all are undergoing continuing polishing.

My online retired blogging companions shapeshifted!

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:35 GMT

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Wow, big shapeshifts have happened recently! I have been doing my best to let go, live the fun, and keep on my shamanic way, shapeshifting along, adjusting to these drastic yet not unexpected changes.

Soon I will be removing the links to my (former) blogging companions' blogs (and listserves), allowing those sites to rest in peace but remain on the web as archives and memorials as long as the servers allow. I embrace the internet and they - named on the net Rezzee, Crabbee, Alan, Sharon, Tom, and L.C. (son of Teal and Chammy) and Sharandet (L.C.'s wife now) - tried blogging and social networking and cyber-shamanizing, then variously realized they didn't like it after the novelty wore off.

Now they have shapeshifted their shamanic circle offline into a new kind of cloistered yet close-together scattered site spiritual intentional community, that exists, nameless and unnoticed and un-sectarian at the edges (shamanic fringes?) of an ordinary reality community, somewhere not so far from here. I have agreed not to tell those spacetime coordinates.

This move rattled and drummed around then sang and danced to life out of an enduring dream shared around our circle for quite a while. But, even though I have kept daily and seasonal prayer cycles for years, I know the cloistered life is not for me (yet, anyhow).

Via snail mail I send lists of intentions for shamanizing. I receive reports about once a month (and ongoing support). We shamanic-dream as a circle often, still.

The other big shapeshift: Elders Teal and Chammy both shapeshifted from earth life into universal LIFE earlier this summer by dying of 'natural causes' a few weeks apart, both well over 90 years old, healthy for almost all of their days. For the last few years we have not been able to visit in person very often but I do still miss their earthy presences!

These two wonderful shapeshifts are interconnected directly, which is why so many changes have happened almost at once. I was stunned and grief-stricken by so many life-shifts in such a short period even while I was ecstatic, even though I consider it all GOOD NEWS.

I suppose this paradoxically ecstatic grieving is the main reason why my blogging all but stopped - and so soon after I had gotten off into an enthused, fresh, energized 'starting over' much earlier in the year. I am ready to get back to it now, though.

Shamanic Journey For My Mouse Neighbors

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:59 GMT

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I had been wondering when an exterminator would arrive to kill rodents in the building. It happened last week.

Psychotherapists and psychiatrists with offices here were reporting unscheduled mouse consultations, happening in broad daylight. Tortoise Cat was playing nightly with one catfood-craving mouse buddy. The other mice were staying away from our space, probably because Tortoise Cat is a skilled, clever hunter.

I assured the exterminator that Tortoise Cat had our territory covered, then shamanic journeyed to do what beneficial reality-shifting I could. I met up with Chameleon in the non-ordinary lower-realm forest where we usually confer then we headed back up to this middle-world and descended into this office building's basement.

Mouse soon joined us there for a chat. Mouse thanked me for my concern, but amazed me with the news that the mice know how to use the exterminator's poisoned traps as an opportunity to shapeshift directly through the middle-world! So everything is going according to DREAM.

Furthermore, some of the mice, including the Tortoise Cat's play buddy, had simply crept stealthily to another nearby safer location. Mouse instructed me that this longstanding cycle helps shuffle habits, keeps complacency away, re-balances (and strengthens) the urban mouse populations, and restores a pinch of re-creative quirky chaos to life for them and for all.

Tortoise Cat might miss her play sessions with Mousy but she seems to understand the wisdom of these ways.

Fortune Cookie Shamanic Journey

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:59 GMT

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Now and then I shamanic-journey the middle world with fortune cookies! I never take this spiritual quest the same way twice.

As with all shamanic navigation I never go without a genuine, heartfelt intention after consecrating sacred space-time around me. Next, I open a box of fortune cookies and select one for each sacred direction and lay them out before me. I usually include 8 compass points plus the center, but more or fewer travel directions can be used, as you are guided by Spirit and Spirits.

For me the directions are verbs, sets of inner alchemical processes with many associations. So I plan this shamanic journey's itinerary to resonate with the intention I am seeking assistance with.

If my quest intention has more to do with health, vitality, finances, luck, skill, or other practical matters I begin by seeking out a familiar shamanic helper from the lower-worlds. If my intention has more to do with wisdom, knowledge, or understanding I begin by seeking an upper-worlds shamanic guide. Often I enlist the protection and guidance from both the lower-worlds and upper-worlds.

Then I allow myself to be guided around the directions of the middle-world, seeking a non-ordinary fortune cookie in each. The non-ordinary fortune cookies I find are usually made of an alloy of sacred metals and are usually decorated with a symbol which I do my best to study and remember before adding each cookie to my bag or pocket or crystal and continuing along the way.

The shamanic middle-world(s) can be confounding but with help and guidance from Spirit and Spirits and this relatively simple task of collecting a non-ordinary fortune cookie for each sacred direction I have decided to visit I almost always stay on track. Between directions obstacles loom, however.

It has happened that I have had to make more than one shamanic journey. This shamanic journey can be completed in any number of sessions - such as one session for each direction if this proves necessary.

After I have visited all the directions where I have placed a fortune cookie I return to ordinary-reality and jot down the story of the shamanic journey before I forget it, especially the symbols (if any) on the non-ordinary fortune cookies and/or any shapeshifting I observed or other changes in the cookies or messages I received, all according to what I experienced. These details are all parts of the 'answer' and assistance from Spirit and Spirits for this shamanic journey's intention.

Then I eat the cookies for each direction in the same order as I traveled through non-ordinary reality to gather them. I lay out the ordinary reality fortunes before me and sing them in a song and create and dance a dance to go with it.

You may create a picture or other artifact, instead of or in addition to the song and dance, around an overall theme suggested by the non-ordinary and ordinary fortune cookies. This is to give thanks and to ground and activate the spiritual shifts of this shamanic journey into life in this world.

Shamanic Shift Center's Contact Portal

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:11 GMT

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Greetings! Welcome to the contact and news portal for Elizabeth of Shamanic Shift Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin! To contact Elizabeth, Shamanic Shift Center, or Companions Circle, click the CONTACT tab above.

The contact form ABOVE is the best way to send a message to Elizabeth of Shamanic Shift Center and Companions Circle Church. The ‘long list' of other websites and webpages is listed on the sidebar so you can find Elizabeth, shamanic minister and co-founder of Companions Circle Church, the non-profit umbrella organization for Shamanic Shift Center (Milwaukee and online), around the web.

Schedule and Events: For information about Shamanic Shift Center's ongoing schedule and services, such as the Friday night shamanic circle, visit our monthly Events and Updates portal. Register ahead for the shamanic circle here through the contact form or by calling 414-289-8661 or by tweeting it @ShamanicShift.

Blogging: Please visit the Circle's Blogspot. Elizabeth's other blogging, link blogging, and tweeting are linked at FriendFeed/ShamanicShift. Also, please do join Elizabeth on Twitter by ‘following' @ShamanicShift (who follows back)!

Shamanic Shift Center is for practicing and teaching new shamanics and shamanic innovations for everyday life. Companions Circle is a church of shamanic ways of self and reality shifting towards better and best through direct experience of Spirit and non-ordinary reality. Shamanic Shift Center, our circle's non-profit shamanic mission to Milwaukee, the world, the internet, and the universe is contemporary and original – not linked directly historically to any indigenous spirituality, culture, tradition, or religion.

This post and the sidebar will update but there won't be new posts while we use this site as our contact and news portal.

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Where to find me and Shamanic Shift Center besides MySpace

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:11 GMT

Greetings - It's Elizabeth checking in at MySpace, for Shamanic Shift Center! The picture is of The Tortoise Cat, my colleague, enjoying wildlife dreams in our sanctuary's mini-garden next to the eas...

Shamanic Shifting Fireworks

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:13 GMT

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Fire-works, over water, bursting in air, bouncing off bluffs and buildings:

Several thrilling fireworks displays energized Milwaukee's east side lakeshore lands around me. I listened from the back porch, taking breaks from my office transformation project.

The deep, resonant, shocking vibrations, lights, and colors reflected and reverberated all around and within. It felt like I was getting an extreme healing, cleansing, radical elemental night spa treatment.

So at the Friday, July 3 circle, I shamanic journeyed for more of my own inside-out life-shifting, purposeful, beautiful, spiritual explosions. This is a shamanic journey I will take periodically.

In everyday reality fireworks are dangerous fun. For many fireworks are frightening and disturbing, even panic-attack triggering un-fun, or unwelcome reminders of warfare, destruction, and death. Folks are injured and even killed every year 'playing' with firecrackers, bottle rockets, and the like. Even expert pyro-technicians lose limbs or lives setting up, practicing or putting on the public displays.

So a shamanic journey for fireworks isn't for everyone! On this adventure my internal fireworks were predominantly green and red and appeared to be arising from a barge that was sailing towards me over the calmest waters I have ever seen. After I returned to ordinary-reality I drew a picture and improvised a dance to activate and remember the energy-shifts that I know happened and are happening still.

Shamanic ways for solving everyday troubles & widening wellness

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:51 GMT

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I am a neighborhood and universal modern shaman (with a small 's') who stands aside from a lot of things. I do my best to stay centered on my purpose - helping anyone I can - and usually I steer clear of, and journey WAY around, a lot of energy draining controversy.

Staying centered, while sanding aside, while steering around - yet pausing at breathtaking edges now and then - gets easier and funner now that I have developed the knack into a shamanic dance-habit. Of course, writing about it breaks this healthy habit, briefly.

I practice shamanic ways and hypnotic ways for self-change aside from any and all western medical (also called allopathic) diagnoses and interventions - and aside from most New Age and other kinds or schools of complements or alternatives as well. I chose - years ago - to work under my ministerial and consulting hypnotist credentials rather than my (still valid, for the record) Wisconsin licensed clinical social worker credential. And I shrink away from, without opposing or attempting to debunk (though I have my doubts), much of what is often called complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as well.

Because: Given any being or situation calling for help and change, I have found, over many years of practice, that when motivation, attitude, healthy lifestyle choices, and everyday troubleshooting are shamanized and/or addressed through hypnosis and related techniques such as self-hypnosis, guided imagery, relaxation, storytelling, and more, MAJOR life-shifts for the better happen, all without and beyond pathologizing what comes before me under any type of terminology.

This 'everyday help for ordinary problems' approach can complement most, if not all, standard, government-licensed medical or mental-health, but is not offered as a replacement for any of it. And this simplifying, ordinary-reality centered approach can complement most complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as well. But as intentions go, complementing is near the bottom of my top 10.

I do not offer shamanic or hypnotic ways as complements or alternatives to anything. The methods I practice work best to change ordinary rather than pathological trouble patterns. Still, I hear back that beginning and ending with activating and enhancing wellness brings remarkable, lasting relief and renewal.

Shamanic session = I facilitate YOUR shamanic journey!

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:17 GMT

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As a neighborhood and universal shaman I can shamanic-journey on behalf of others, but my aim and emphasis is teaching and facilitating interior voyages for the knowledge and power to self- and reality-shift on purpose. Shamanic Shift Center is designed and kept as a portal for connecting to Spirit, and many find it to be a trance activating place. 'Hanging out' here for a while of interacting with the rocks, crystals, essential oils, art-play materials, books, percussion instruments, divination and meditation cards, theme shrines, and more, can be waking, awakening shamanic experience by itself.

Within this portal environment, I can share many older and newer ways and means to psychonavigate within, towards powerful new dreams and patterns, so you can bring back your own re-creative stories and energy-flows of change for the better. Besides drumming, chanting, dance, storytelling, and other adapted, universal shamanic ways, I facilitate soul travel with modern methods of consciousness-shifting, such as self-hypnosis and guided imagery.

There are as many ways to shamanic journey as there are spiritual adventurers. As with all prayer and meditation treatments, all the spiritual healing and transforming is accomplished by Spirit and Spirits, as each journeyer understands those words and concepts. When you engage in a shamanic session YOU become a shamanic shift center and living portal for inward spiritual change to grow into outward, everyday changes.

More ways of a neighborhood shaman

Sat, 30 May 2009 02:45 GMT

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I am listing several characteristics of a neighborhood shamanic practice to better understand my own ruminations around this topic:

Tendencies (not hard-fast rules) of a Neighborhood Shaman...

-- Individualizes a healing intervention for each being, place, or situation at hand; does not go by a recipe book (even if familiar with several)

-- Re-directs the current energy-flows and patterns into a one-of-a-kind shamanic shifting process instead of attempting to fit symptoms or signs into theories or formulas

-- Shamanizes indirectly (yet cleverly) catalyzing and facilitating purposeful change through arts and entertainment with symbolic, mulit-level songs, dances, and stories and little or no direct advising or suggesting

-- Draws from the natural and social support present in ordinary reality on the block or around the corner rather than seeking the exotic or weird or faraway as remedies (through nothing is off-limits)

-- Draws and adapts from (but takes care not confuse) diverse fields of knowledge and practice whenever and however it serves the present purpose, without adopting set-in-stone canons of dogma, or belief systems, or paradigms

-- Views problems and challenges first as the natural consequences of changeable behaviors and longstanding habits (on many interconnecting levels physical to spiritual) rather than deep-seated pathologies or fatal flaws

-- Focuses most upon changing what can be changed here and now and going forward rather than untangling past complexities (because a "change the things I can" and leave the rest for a while approach deepens awareness steadily and brings unconscious content to consciousness as needed and allows A LOT to be untangled and rewoven by Spirit and Spirits anyway, in harmony with the healing intention at hand)

-- Seeks and works to activate and enhance healing and transforming solutions already present within the presenting being, place, or situation

-- Develops her own techniques and methods

-- Works locally on behalf of the Earth and whole universe; most concerned with transforming this world for the better rather than transcending ordinary reality; shamanic shifts now by now, here by here, case by case, radiating healing outward through all space and time from this self and this neighborhood

-- Opens and keeps open a neighborhood center and circle as a conducive environment for all-of-the-above to happen on a small scale, day by day

Other approaches to shamanic ways may overlap or blend with this and one another: Traditional (seeking a direct link to indigenous spirituality or religion), New Age (merging with a blend of magical, mystical, metaphysical, and 'complementary and alternative' transforming and healing systems), Mainstreaming (aiming for recognition or licensing within the western medical model), and Large Group Awareness Training (the workshop and 'intensive' circuit).

Shamanic ways can bypass patterns and authorities!

Fri, 22 May 2009 01:59 GMT

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Let LIFE keep liberating Life! Let there be NO resting place for humankind. Let us adventure beyond all limits, boundaries, and edges of space-time.

Along with soul (or self) consciousness and language humans have evolved the need and the knack for seeking and finding patterns, meanings, bigger pictures...and higher authorities behind the patterns. We revere diverse celebrities and obey an array governors in ordinary reality. But our absolute favorite higher authorities are idols, figments, or supernatural (impossible) beings who float forever, ineffable, above nature and everyday life, who intervene capriciously or judiciously, seldom or daily, in our worlds, and continue to trouble us and our families, clans, bands, tribes, communities, and nations in all our affairs through their called and chosen (and so-called chosen) ministers.

What frees us as a species seems to capture us again at every turn on the spiral path of life. The natural spiral of 'life freeing life' seems to slow to a torturous grind as ages pass. Some speculate or argue that evolution of sentient beings always leads to extinction or doomsday but I dream otherwise.

I live and teach shamanic ways as my best response, so far, to a persisting, perplexing, irrational, irresistible inner (inborn?) calling to 'minister' (in Mystery, Spirit, or Whatever...?) because the ways of shamans offer the most life-shifting, soul-freeing, world re-creating POWER with the least built-in necessity to bow down to authorities, lesser or greater, or to follow traditional patterns, organized or unorganized. Paradoxically, religions offer a branching Tree Of Life of interior ways of relating to and changing reality on purpose to balance outer ways such as the sciences, yet the ways of religions eventually turn these soul connections into comfortable niches where further growth is slowed and stunted, or even nip the buds of new spiritual growth into dead ends.

Here I am the founder of a church (by the IRS definition) or 'religious institution' (by my insurance agent's definition) or center and circle (as I say) of shamanic ways who does not want to offer religion at all, who aims to catalyze religion-free zones and stir up small circles of churchless spirituality. No, I do not even want to offer 'spirituality' because this softer sounding word is being used more and more to refer to personal or unorganized or new (or 'new old') religions or belief systems or other patterns of Complementary and Alternative healing or transforming that are currently, quickly, and relentlessly being chiseled into stone anyway.

Update: I came back and linked the Scientific American article. I had not read it before writing the above post. I found it several hours later.

What I am attempting to express here is that I experience and I understand that many or most humans experience soul-icity and spirit-icity permeating the realms, directions, dimensions, levels, and orders of reality, however each individual describes ALL THAT IS. Other kinds who exist need not be related to as more than just that - others, or friends or companions, hopefully. One can live Earth sustaining ways and reconnect to Nature without ascribing anything to supernatural agents or forces.

Objectivist Ayn Rand wrote many words about the soul. I remember watching an interview where she repeated the word soul so often it shocked the (atheist) objectivist friend of mine who was showing me the video.

But I know this enchantment wells up from within to be encountered and comprehended through dreaming, imagination, and art - and played with. I opine mystical and magical experience is a key component of human nature so it must be natural, a specific expression within humankind of some universal quality, more aspects of which will eventually come to light and be described scientifically, as humankind continues this life adventure.

I find that doing this play on purpose as prayer treatment through shamanic ways does shift reality for the better (slowly or rapidly, through tiny to huge, physical and psychological, and ordinary or extraordinary means) without any need for the 'supernatural' or the set in stone patterns, systems, and traditions of religion. Playng and pretending are powerful.

I keep a simple, flexible cycle of shamanizing periods and allow my internal non-ordinary reality 'map' of archetypes, symbols, and processes to shift as I journey on, so I can keep most of the FUN of magic, mysticism, and alchemy without much of the seriousness. Weird as it may seem, this way of practicing shamanic ways has not diminished but increased my friendly respect for all kinds of life and reality.

Yet so many folks seem to want - or insist upon - elaborate trappings, traditional patterns, and exterior agents or sources of authority. Well, we shall see what happens as the ages roll on...!

Welcome...But this list isn't active now...Yet....

Wed, 20 May 2009 01:16 GMT

Welcome anyway! I have already advised list members to change their settings to web only (no emails). Because I approve requests to join when they appear to

Universal neighborhood shamanism is my open-ended mission

Wed, 13 May 2009 02:18 GMT

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Where is this shamanic life journey leading? A shaman opens and keeps open connections between the ordinary and non-ordinary aspects of all that is for the purpose of catalyzing life-shifts for the better. That is what I am aiming to be and do.

A shamanic understanding paradoxically encompasses and creatively combines, yet does not confound or confuse, diverse views and ways of experiencing reality - scientific, artistic, philosophical, and religious (and all the branches and subcategories thereof). I am called to practice shamanic ways as the most open, flexible, freeing spirituality and life-way possible.

A 'neighborhood shaman' lives a mission to embody this bridging of the outward, measurable material and the inward, intangible spiritual worlds as an individual center of ongoing shamanic shifting, of self and reality at once, on behalf of a particular local environment. For me, this is best done on a small scale, one to one, shift by shift.

A neighborhood shaman is also a 'universal shaman' who dreams up then radiates, flows, breathes, and acts out local changes to shift the whole universe, eventually, from the inside-out. A universal shaman is free to adapt to the present situation at hand for healing any transformation method, ancient to contemporary as well as invent new ones. This approach is the opposite of any sort of traditionalism or dogma or codified belief system.

I started living full-time, on purpose, as a neighborhood universal shaman over 20 years ago. I see more and more practitioners and organizations in the worldwide revival of shamanic ways developing and mixing and matching various characteristics of Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATs) and related methods such as NLP, New Age or Wiccan or indigenous peoples' religions, esoterism and the occult, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAMs), and mass (or 'viral') marketing, all of which is OK by me.

But I am moving away from all of this, as I am pushed by Spirit and Spirits, towards "I don't know what to call it yet or ever!" except universal and neighborhood shamanism. So I am attempting to write an eBook about this when I can barely blog about it, LOL!

Am I being called to fly from this crossroads?

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:04 GMT

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Who wants to host a contemporary resident neighborhood shaman...and Tortoise Cat colleague...and a rock and crystal 'garden' shamanic prayer-place? I have kept office and residential space-time in this building on the corner of N. Astor and E. Knapp Streets on the east side of Milwaukee, WI since 1997. This location was chosen by Spirit and Spirits but now it feels like a spirit-nudge to fly onward has begun.

So far no specific flight destination has been revealed. Only a few fleeting hints have flashed through my dreams.

I have begun questing a vision of the best next space-time coordinates for Shamanic Shift Center. Maybe this nudging into flight will turn out to be symbolic, metaphorical, psychological, and spiritual as in the past. Maybe a material move to another property and landlord in this neighborhood will be shown...or maybe a farther adventure.

I hope, if a physical move is being inspired, that the new location will have a few parking spaces officially or unofficially available nearby to encourage more visitors! Cheaper rent is not on my brainstorming list of attributes of the ideal new abode - just an affordable, competitive, and fair $amount-per-square-foot, depending...upon many variables.

My (as Companions Circle's and its central project Shamanic Shift Center's) current neighborhood and universal shamanic non-profit (501.c.3 approved) mission is:

-- keeping open a modern-day shamanic sanctuary and 'churchless church' (facilitating direct connecting with Spirit, allowing anyone to bypass religions, belief systems, and institutions)

-- ongoing shamanic shifting of self, neighborhood(s), world, and universe towards the better through daily and seasonal prayer-treatment and energy-healing periods and cycles

-- keeping demystified, universal, original, contemporary shamanic teaching and consultations accessible through open-ended, individualized mentoring (the oldest-fashioned 1 to 1 way)

-- non-sectarian spiritual, supportive, and self-change counseling or coaching (not necessarily 'shamanic') for anyone who needs and wants it

-- ceremonial and sacramental officiant services such as marriage (and handfasting and LGBT unions until laws change), dedications, consecrations, initiations, blessings, baptism, creating sacred space-time, rites of passage, and more

-- and even more...that is, some other functions and things that are not occurring to me while I write this

So I am blogging today about this quest and question - to fly or stay here - to open up my mind, heart, and gut more, to whatever I am being nudged towards. Bring it on, Spirit and Spirits!

Another nudging I am (still) noticing...Find a creative, do-able way to renew my ministry to General Mitchell International Airport (GMIA). While I worked there for several years, pre- and post- 911, I was able to provide ad hoc travelers' aid and unofficial chaplaincy services...and entertain spiritually.

Maybe I'm being called back to the GMIA main concourse, to hang-out 1 day/week. I have been shamanic journeying on this question since I left formal employment there for full-time self-employment here.

I see myself in the middle of the airport, being of service again, in impromptu and unexpected ways, through brief encounters as before, but differently, with many more restrictions since I no-longer work on on the premises. I know I am also called to write a book, eventually, about my 'shamanic' (and exciting and funny) ground handling (airport 'ramper') experiences. Being there regularly might help move that cause out of the dream stage.

Neighborhood shamanism and networking

Sun, 03 May 2009 06:20 GMT

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Through Shamanic Shift Center is Milwaukee I practice neighborhood shamanism - connecting with Spirit and Spirits in, as, through, and on behalf of beings, places, and situations closest to and spiraling outwards from the corner of East Knapp and North Astor Streets. Through online social networks I am being guided and nudged by Spirit and Spirits to find and shamanize within internet neighborhoods too.

I decided to stop resisting and go ahead and activate and re-activate profiles on other social networks besides Twitter, the site where I began 'social networking' in ernest. I am finding and befriending (or 'following' where that is the term, though I always mean 'befriend') but I am NOT going to disconnect with anyone who connects than 'un-friends' or 'un-follows' me.

I will keep following back when followed and unfollow who unfollows only on Twitter. Everywhere else I will rove around in open-ended darkness or light, and befriend whoever I meet and whoever greets me, and remain a friend. Well, I mean that I intend to make and keep cyber-friendships with as many as I can, to keep growing cyber-neighborhoods, and keep learning more about all of this can mean.

I have no vision yet about goodnesses or blessings that may come of this. I know I cannot post daily updates on so many services. For now I am being guided to keep connections open and wait for signs of desireable potentials and possibilites to energize.

Of course every day is (an) Earth Day!

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:04 GMT

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What I did for Earth Day 2009: Recycling is only one of the thousands of Earth Day action topics, easy to do and easy to pretend to do. This east side Milwaukee neighborhood is the abode of many professionals and college students, but recycling participation appears to be about 50-50, from what I saw yesterday.

I found hours of Earth Day activity just recycling what was carelessly or lazily (or even deliberately) tossed into the garbage bins or dumpsters around a few of my city blocks. This became my 2nd Earth Day 2009 action. My first action comes last in this post.

I enjoyed the dumpster diving exercise of removing many, many cardboard boxes and recyclable containers from the trash and the sidewalk near trash pick-up areas, separating out the contents (the liquids and food, the packing foam, the reusable items, and the just plain garbage), and breaking the cardboard down to size, and fitting everything into the appropriate, freshly emptied recycling containers. Then I donated some re-usable household items to a local thrift store and that was even more fun.

Maybe, I mused (both amused and not amused) these non-recyclers suppose that no one will ever know who they are after they hastily, wastefully, stash their stuff just any old which way in the trash collection area of their homes or offices. To me, the non-recyclers from this office building and the apartment building next door were easily identifiable from the items they tossed. But I wanted to get more done and stay happy so, deliberately, I stopped noticing evidence soon after I started.

I worked as a private detective for a little while and owned and managed cleaning services for many years and I build art from found objects as a shamanic shifting process, so to me, garbage sings out - and even dances - many sad and funny stories. Probably, many around this artist-infested neighborhood do see and hear as many signs and wonders in the garbage as I do, but I can tell that most around here try not to look twice at garbage or give it a second thought.

But, neighbors...! It does NOT matter that I know, now, how you practice helpful, healing therapies or study ways to make the world a better place or exclaim fervently "I believe in global warming...!" or similar (reduced to the) absurd words, but then toss the extra stuff that you bring across your thresholds of life in the big city just any old where you can get away with. And my opinion does not matter, really. You know, and god or ultimate reality as you understand it knows, and the Earth knows...and will tell all eventually!

Now a similar message goes out from me to you several folks I see regularly, sitting, idling your car engines for 5-15 'extra' minutes, waiting for whatever happens next in your life, unapproachable and irreproachable, listening to tunes or tapping on a laptop or PDA inside, with an 'endangered species' license plate and/or green-themed bumper sticker(s) advertised politically-correctly outside. Yes I see you, haha.

And HEY YOU, the sizable subset of you engine idlers who also smoke inside your sacred vehicles (your cars and your bodies) during these several precious, stolen moments of exhaust emitting solitude...Yes, YOU ARE being watched as you flick your ashes out that thin window crack onto the face of our Mother Earth. But - oh yeah, reality check - I am not worthy, though I rant, to throw stones at you or anyone for my aim is far from perfect yet and I live in a glass house myself still!

Every little, personal, local action flows into Gaia's universal, creative, chaotic cauldron and new patterns of global and cosmic effects (upon us and generations of children) are always, in all ways emerging, sooner and later, through, in, and as ordinary, measurable matter, energy, space, and time. We can fool ourselves and most of our neighbors and colleagues, day by day, temporarily, but no one fools Mother Nature for even a single moment.

When I wonder how to 'live green' more deeply and most effectively I am humbled, awed, and terrified by the simplicity and complexity of it all - all the interconnecting, interrelating, and overlapping topics and sub-topics, issues, solutions, controversies, questions, and research that comes under the jumble of headings and headlines - environment and environmentalism, sustainability and conscious capitalism, ecology and eco-spirituality, climate change and global warming, and all the rest of so many more. I am happy and grateful for the easy, do-able, tiny actions I can live with every day while I keep learning, changing, and growing greener!

Pretending on purpose is a powerful shamanic technique so I shamanize daily over and around all green-washing I notice others or find myself still doing. I stop judging as soon as possible and start dreaming and visioning my and everyone's weak to strong green vibes transforming into healthy, balanced, vital, impeccable, fun restoring green living waves.

My first and last Earth Day 2009 action was going outside, walking around, noticing as much beauty and harmony as possible during this present, local, earth day. I resolve to keep doing this every coming earthy day.

Green shamanic dreaming

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:09 GMT

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At the Friday night shamanic circle: I shamanic journeyed as I drummed for the others. I was seeking a healing, transforming, and divining vision of Green Synergy.

Our circle's Spring theme is Green Synergy. I desire the harmonious, beautiful re-unity of green flows and patterns through my self, this neighborhood, and the world. I expect new earthy, hearty, successful, going, growing, life sustaining, now enhancing eco-spiritual patterns and flows to show soon.

This shamanic journey became a deep, vivid, ecstatic dream! I climbed a tall Oak tree and it's branches grabbed and rocked me, swinging me in wider and wider arcs, until it hurled me powerfully into outer space then way beyond the middle worlds. I felt I was moving near light speed as I soared through several membranes - of dimensions, levels, and otherworlds - until I slowed enough to gaze around at glittering, non-ordinary starry expanses.

Soon I realized I was approaching a fantastical, improbable, and wonderful Green Cow Nebula. This Green Cow Nebula was dancing and singing. Maybe I will trance-dance later to remember more of this improbable performance.

The spiral-whirling, vibrating vortex mouth of this celestial green cow drew me nearer and nearer then sucked me in whole. But soon I began to be chewed to bits by titanic teeth and primal forces. Then I was swallowed and a long, energetic, pulsing digestive process began.

This Green Cow Nebula has 13 stomachs, one for each color of the rainbow (with its contrasts, complements, shades, and tints flashing though) and 3 extra stomachs which appeared to feature green to blue-green wavelengths and lush vegetation, and the final (finale) stomach full of single, double, triple, and quadruple rainbows that were also rivers or bridges or ships and many other shifting shapes! I passed through all of these stomachs and on and on through a resounding, disorienting darkness...until...Well, let me put it this way....

A sudden, stupendous, blast of WIND puffed me all the way back to ordinary reality, where I was delighted to find I was still drumming for the Friday night shamanic circle!

A green shamanic costume, of many shades, tints, and intensities

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:48 GMT

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Our circle is shamanizing Green, in green, all April! Changing reality for the better though costume and color shifting is another of the more fun ways of taking shamanic action around a situation in need of help.

Earth Day is April 22. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson instituted this holiday of awareness and environmental teaching in 1970. Over the years Earth Day has become more and more political and social activist.

But there was already the 'Vernal Equinox Earth Day' being celebrated around the world at the tipping points of northern hemisphere mid-Spring or southern hemisphere mid-Autumn, the traditional and seasonal periods of spiritual and material transition and transformation, of beginnings and endings, of reaping and sewing. At a UNESCO conference on the environment in 1969 peace activist John McConnell introduced the concept of celebrating, officially, a global, equinoctial Earth Day. This other Earth honoring holiday was celebrated in many cities and communities in the United States and elsewhere during the 1970s and became the United Nations Earth Day.

My response to there being two Earth Days is "Hooray, TWO Earth Days!" But having two Earth Days seems like less rather than more to many and has generated controversy and division among green-folk.

I researched and found out that, among Green Folk, there are light greens, lite greens (as in green-washers), dark greens, and bright green (technogaian) environmentalists. I'm sure there are more kinds of greens besides these. So a Spring 2009 theme for our circle is GREEN SYNERGY.

Let us costume ourselves re-creatively, inside and out, in many tints, hues, saturations, and brightnesses of green. Let us re-unify green wavelengths, frequencies, and energies within each of ourselves in our shamanic dances, songs, and stories, each in our own ways. Let us splash green's complementary and contrasting colors into the mix, too - intentionally, playfully, and powerfully.

Happy Spring Holy Days Everyone

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:01 GMT

Hi Everyone, Since this group/circle is mostly dormant I decided to post an update (like I did just before at Shaman Fools) to save it from being deleted and

Happy Passover (continued), Holy Saturday, and Easter (and an update

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:29 GMT

Happy, fun Spring, Everyone, Spring shows and tells it all without the liturgical follies - but it's ALL fun to me. Happy holy days to all! Most of our

Hungry spirals haiku

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:36 GMT

Hungry Spirals Haiku
by Teal Talking Raven

Life's spirals eating

us alive, alive, alive...

Nothing can stop them!

Nom, nom, nom, nach, nach...

delicious...equisite...YUM!

Spring the relentless

Hungriest season,

eat my heart out, why don't cha?!

Yes...I'll die laughing.

Celebrating sea gulls on winds of changes

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:24 GMT

We visited Milwaukee again this weekend! Every visit we say it might be our last - mostly because of our older ages.

One of my favorite Milwaukee walking shamanic journeys is to, around, and back from the Milwaukee Art Museum. I usually connect with many favorite bird spirit allies along the way.

The near freezing wind gusted against me mightily but I plodded on because road trips like this are so rare. Chammy had gone to the Milwaukee Public Museum (his favorite) instead, with our friends and neighbors, a much younger, lovely, thoughtful, generous couple we had hitched a ride with.

So my dear Chammy stayed warm while increasing his scientific knowledge while I tramped around in the weather. I have never enjoyed museum exhibits because I long to see 'artifacts' still in sacred use or naturally decaying.

The sky shifted from blue to gray and back again many times. The grasses were half brown, half green. Bright green Tulip and other Spring bulb sprouts had grown to 5-6 inches high already.

We arrived Friday night for the 7pm Shamanic Shift Center circle, then stayed at the Astor Hotel across the street. After coffee and rolls in the hotel's charming little east facing tea room we set out on our separate ways, me bundled up in 3 layers.

Saturday was partly sunny and chill and the clouds had won over the sky by the time we rejoined our friends. Chammy doesn't like Daylight Savings Time but (partly) because of it we had scenic dusky views most of the way home.

Here Spring springs without any troubles

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:50 GMT

Image by Sascha Grant via Flickr

Maybe Spring is the longest season even though it seems to spring up on us! Spring begins before the Vernal Equinox, way back on some secret day during February, as soon as the first warmer, that is warm instead of cold, teaser day dawns, delights, and dusks. As soon as that happy surprise strolling-around-in-shirtsleeves day happens I know Spring is underway, though mostly hidden underground, volcanically bubbling life around and upwards within seeds and roots.

Spring 2009 unfolded in a series of catastrophes for many around the nation and the world, showing how violent and furious life can be. A steady series of economic, financial, and social blows seemed to match an unremitting sequence of large scale or acute Nature traumas - fires, floods, blizzards, earthquakes.

Climate and other earth changes (no matter what the causes) are certainly bringing on worsening ecological distresses and accelerating the extinction of living beings. This energy of troubled elements calls out to me for creative redirection.

Image by nimboo via Flickr

Life for us in this seeming refuge called southeastern Wisconsin stayed comparatively calm and safe but I could feel the blows and shocks from afar reverberating underfoot and within soul. Visits to nearby Milwaukee show me how much even light pollutes earth's ecosystems and severely attenuates humankind's view of the night sky and its inspirational, encouraging, beckoning planets and stars, the ancient life-adventure navigation beacons that used to help us reach beyond all apparent arising limitations.

How do I re-create and resolve these disturbing patterns within myself as a shamanic death and resurrection prayer? I take ordinary-reality action through charitable relief and social change efforts as much as possible then I wait.

I sit and take in as much as I can of what is and breath and dream on it. Then I stroll and imagine on it.

For every scenario of suffering that appears I superimpose and transmit one of this haven's vibrant, beautiful images. Who knows if or how this is effective? If it changes me, it changes the universe by that much, is my conviction, and some days only my 'act as if'.

Non-ordinary connections wide open...Ordinary connections slower

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:17 GMT

The topic I am pondering today is connections. My internet connection has become tricky. I chose mobility over speed and now use a USB 3G AT&T laptop connect device called the Mercury. When I travel it works well with the 3G signal but here at my usual location there is usually trouble. This sanctuary is a radio wave dead-zone and that might be considered a non-ordinary connecting &os;feature&os; by some.

Here in this space I can get a more stable but slower 2G connection which allows me to browse but times out when I am using advanced blogging platforms. This post is a test of 2G here.

Or, I can pack up and stroll a few blocks to connect with WIFI (free many places or included with my plan if the WIFI is AT&T). Today I am amid planning a new strategy and routine, how to best reorganize my work day based around frequent short-distance travels to whereever I can set up shop and use WIFI to get my publishing and writing done - or maybe connect with the Mercury if I can find spacetime coorinates where it can pick up the faster 3G signal better. I cannot afford both DSL (or cable) and the mobile connection and I must have the ability to connect on the road. So...

With a name like Mercury, I might have forseen these challenges! Mercury is a trickster but connects happily and harmoniously while were traveling.

Randi keep debunking and dowsers keep dowsing!

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:08 GMT

Quoting Randi speaks truth! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine:I?ve already mentioned that my man Randi has started a new video series, but I wanted to call your attention to this week?s in particular. Randi is on his game here, funny and fierce and

We exchanged shamanic Valentine's Day masks

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:37 GMT

Image via Wikipedia

Happy V's Day, belated! Valentine's Day is tied to themes of fertility, courtly love, poetry, and martyrdom. Martyrdom?

Two or three or maybe 14 Saint Valentines lived during the Christian haydays, whose energy-flows and life patterns now seem merged. At least the first two Saint Valentines were martyrs to keeping the faith yet no one knows very much about any of them.

Maybe it was the vibrant RED of the Eucharistic vestments and altar trappings on feast days in honor of martyrs against the priest's alb and white linens that linked the martyred Saint Valentines to the theme of lovers joining. Red and white as colors are alchemical lovers.

Red, the color of wine, roses, and desire and white the color of bread, lilies, and snow, dance together yet separately, through this originally Pagan celebration of Spring's earliest dreams and hints of bright flowers and happy birdsongs. Then they flow into our modern Valentine's Day red on white love tokens.

Anyway, this year Chammy and I commemorated and blended all the themes and energy-flows of Valentine's Day by making each other Valentine's Day shamanic masks. Can you imagine that?

Oh, more belated happy day wishes! Happy Friday the 13th, too! This year there will be two more Friday The Thirteenths (in Live Science).

Before I was old enough to know of the common superstitions about unluckiness around the number 13 or Friday, my Grandmother had instructed me that 13 was her special luckiest number and Friday was her extra-lucky day of the week. She never told me why and now, as I remember her, I suppose it may have been for secret reasons, and/or to keep me from being afraid of the number 13 or of anything numbered 13 or of Friday the 13th.

Ordinary everyday shamanic journeys and jaunts

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:52 GMT

Previous assignment from Philosopher Zeno:

I am to create a piece of shamanic art blending symbols for "happy stoicism, compassionate cynicism, and serene skepticism" and await further instructions. [Here is the Link to that previous post.]

I did create a shamanic mask expressing those qualities to go with the healthy, invigorating drink I invented for Crates. I am still dancing with the mask and drink, amid this ceremonial shamanic attitude shifting process. When I am finished I will upload a picture.

New ordinary-reality mini-challenge: My 3G internet connecting device includes Trickster, in the software or the hardware - probably in both! In Shamanic Shift Center&os;s space this USB-wand device receives and sends from one sacred place (and direction and height) only. WIFI connecting options are plentiful around this east side Milwaukee neighborhood. Maybe I am being guided to shift out of here and into public cafes for planned ahead periods of blogging, Squidooing, and other content production and correspondence.

This coming week I will test the 3G device as I travel out of town on a few short jaunts, that can be shamanic jaunts for gaining understanding around and within this situation. This may be an opportunity to learn more from Trickster. Also, while the window of opportunity for exchanging this particular 3G laptop-connect device is open, I will test it in as many places as I can.

ATT tech-support put in a trouble ticket because the agent became convinced the unstable internet connection I am getting is a network issue. I am supposed to get a follow-up call in a day or so about that. I agree there is a signal reception issue of some sort but I am almost certain that the device and communications manager have Trickster in them too.

Other networking and connections: I am looking to reach out more purposefully though social networks and shamanic organizations. But I know I must begin dropping some memberships and web presences to make spacetime in my schedule to link up some new - and hopefully more creative, harmonious, and effective - community shamanizing connections.

Wow, Milwaukee is blanketed with snow again!

Feed digests for science and religion news stories

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:53 GMT

Image by DaylandS -Married 20 Years on Feb 13th via Flickr

Two RSS feed digests you can subscribe to: Unless or until Feed Informer ceases its feed digesting service our circle has a Plus account there. Currently we can digest 100 news sources into 100 RSS feed digests which can show 100 items.

We have not been able to pay up for this wonderful service due to ownership and other changes (from what used to be Feeddigest). The message on the account details page at Feed Informer's website still states that their payment service is being transitioned, and not to worry, that our service will continue. So far we have been unable to connect to find out more. The login that is supposed to allow us to join a support forum won't work and comments left on their blog just get deleted without response.

So the feed digests I am about to tell about here could cease to exist suddenly. In the meanwhile we keep using the service. We also display these feed digests on Shamantic!'s old portal website, here. The URLs to subscribe are below. (You can substitute 'atom' for 'rss' if you prefer the atom version.)

Chammy curates a feed digest of science news and blogging -
http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/SOW9YQK6N7.rss
So far this digest draws from 35 sources.

I curate a feed digest of religious and spiritual news and blogging -
http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/ISZJ4VGZ9R.rss
So far my digest only draws from 11 sources.

Update 2/15 - I have about doubled the number of feeds included in mine.

I wrote a wings poem while celebrating birds and trees

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:16 GMT

Image by Sergey Yeliseev via Flickr

New NOW Wings

A Free Verse Poem
by Chammy

Wholly, Holey, Holy
HEAVEN as Earth,

Multi-holi-dimensional rainbow incarnate,
seamless, stretched thin, garment - of
LIFE, the universe, and this fool,

Gravitationally distorted, wildly warped, expanding container,
nevertheless, the best for making LIGHT
of anything,

Wrap around me, rapt, in this cosmic fun!

Refine and purify me
with each uncoiling weirder, wispier, wickeder
spacetime moment,

While impossible, unauthorized,
ultra-shiny, extra-blazing new now-WINGS unfurl

on my feet,
on my heart,
on my head!

Also: For me, this is the month and season for celebrating birds of all kinds. They are springing into singing every morning. And to go with celebrating the birds of earth, another New Year is happening.

Tree New Year! The New Year of Trees, or Tu Bishvat is Monday, February 9th, 2009. This is a Jewish holiday so it begins at sundown, Sunday, February 8th.

Comet Lulin is visible! The green Comet Lulin now on approach for a fly-by can be viewed with naked eyes under the darkest, clearest night skies. Lulin will pass closest to Earth (0.41 AU - 38 million miles) on February 24th. Lulin's green color is from cyanogen (CN) and diatomic carbon (C2) glowing in sunlight.

*More...Update...A Penumbral Lunar Eclipse!* The first of four penumbral lunar eclipses in 2009 happens Monday, February 9th. It will be visible in the western United States at 6:38am (Pacific Time, or 1438 GMT), and many other places, but not here where the moon will have set.

Wow...That is tomorrow early morning, already, as I add this! Healer Diana Allen shares a more astrological perspective of it.

Healworld and Prayer-Request Twttrstrm Shout-Outs

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:27 GMT

Image by Shamanic Shift via Flickr

Where would you like Twitter Healers to send healing? Go here to shout-out your answer. There is also a module for voting for the next featured location. Our circle participates with the Twitter Healers every day sending healing energy-flow towards the location chosen for the day during shamanic dreaming, journeying, and prayer-shifting periods. When we give healing attention to one place it radiates over the net to all places and the whole world.

What topics, peoples, situations, events, and individuals would you add to our circle's prayer-shift list for daily shamanizing? Our Twttrstrm shout-out is here. Our prayer-list is here. Please join in, whether you tell about it or not!

Calming vitalizing road trip along Wisconsin Hwy 18

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:35 GMT

Image by Heyes via Flickr Road Journey: I'm blogging from Shamanic Shift Center in Milwaukee tonight! Chammy and I will be staying at the Astor Hotel across the street, nothing fancy. But we are both too old to bed down on the floor anymore, I hate to admit.

It is rare to be here in Milwaukee and even rarer to be able to attend the Friday night circle in person. We are among those who join in, in Spirit, every week through non-ordinary reality.

We traveled here with neighbors who are visiting relatives and shopping. I was very happy that we drove along Hwy 18 most of the way so I could peer through the tree branches for glimpses of Red-Tail Hawks, Barn Owls, and Crows.

The drive was calming and vitalizing. I blurred my eyes and tilted my head sideways as I gazed out the car window. I spotted several raptors perched in barren branches, none circling or soaring, and many crows, some perched but many more climbing and diving, as if for fun.

We shall be returning to our hideout tomorrow night. Now already we are amid deciding between visiting the Milwaukee Public Museum and the Milwaukee Art Museum for a challenging excursion tomorrow. But we may go sight-seeing from a Yellow Cab instead if we can reconnect with our regular driver.

A young lady named Ann who drove up from Chicago was here for her first visit to the Friday night Shamanic Shift Center circle, but not her first shamanic journey. Tonight the circle's overall intention was catalyzing more emerging beautiful, crystaline pockets of order from chaos of all shapes, sizes, forms, and kinds throughout the world.

Update: Due to the hospitality of another circle companion (who did not attend the circle) we have overnight accomodations in an extra bedroom. And we are turning in early! Elizabeth was simmering vegetable, rice, and bean soup during the circle which was delicious for summer with sourdough bread.

Celebrating sunspots as the days glow lighter

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:22 GMT

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This blog is still about seeking and finding beings and wonders to celebrate. I celebrate both natual and human wrought wonders.

Today I visited SpaceWeather.com, usually my first stop on the web, and found, natually, a new cause for celebrating. I had just been expressing my appreciation to our sun as I took my daily walk, outside again, noticing the longer day, basking in the warmer temperature.

Then I read that a new Solar Cycle 24 sunspot was born two weeks ago over the sun's eastern horizon. NASA has been watching it though the STEREO mission, through the ultraviolet telescopic lenses of two identical spacecraft orbiting opposite each other. Now NASA is showing the world this weirdly green (and hey, that's OK by me) amazing little movie of it.

So today in my shamanizing I'm celebrating these wonders of space weather and rocket science! (When I was a child all of rocket science was still in the dreaming stages of life.)

Re: info

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:30 GMT

Hi Gina, Andrew, and Any One, Here are only a few words from my (semi-)retired self: Elizabeth does live a deep understanding of shamanic work and play and

A new 8 dimensional 248 point exceptionally simple 'Theory of Everything'?

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:19 GMT

Quoting The Daily Galaxy (about Garrett Lisi's new radical Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything':The new theory reported recently in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

Re: info

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:48 GMT

I just wanted to vouch that Elizabeth is a great teacher and you can learn many things from her. Good luck on your adventure Gina! Best wishes, Andrew

Happy New Year greetings and an update

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:24 GMT

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