Why do you call your practices, 'Contemporary Shamanism'?

My way of being a shaman is not typical in a traditional sense, yet at the base it is very typical and very traditional. I refer to what I do a...

How does a place get haunted? What is haunting?

First of all, ghosts are real, but they aren't real in the sense held in the popular imagination.  Let's take a house that is, say, one hundred years old...

Can you talk about shielding?

In some sense you can do that, but you will have to expend a great deal of your energy to maintain that position.  It also tends to make you very rigid in some ways, all t...

Can you define 'allies'?

An ally is any energy which can be accessed for either good or bad that is outside the general

makeup of human energy.  As an example, all plants are like people, each species u...

How do shamans find people energetically?

This takes us in to a concept that is very hard for people because they try to break it down mentally and it really won't break down mentally. It's outside our...

What is a shaman, energetically?

Energetically, a shaman is a nugget.

 When you look at human energy, what you see is that nice big shape with all that stuff roiling inside and all the areas of a perso...

How is the concept of a predatory universe different than the notion that there are dark forces at work in a battle for men's souls?

When I think of predatory, I think of something actively stalking it...

How do our personal predilections affect us?

First, we need to understand what our personal predilections are.  Each of us is born with certain predilections, that simply means certain ways in which ou...

So how do people become shamans?

"It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air -- there's the rub...

In the context of the modern world, what does a shaman do?

Shamans are healers of souls -- this was and still is their primary function as healers. People often confuse the traditional shaman with the ...

Can you explain how we can use our personal death as an ally?

"Life is but a player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more, it is a tale, full of sound and fury, told by...

Can you talk a bit about how we are connected to this world?

We are connected to the world through our accumulation of energy, the energy we are born with.  We begin assembling this reality as soon as ...

What is soul retrieval?

I guess the issue here is one of cosmology. The difficulty for the Western Mind in all this is how it is trained to perceive itself as a distinct and seperate entity from all ot...

Why do you say my brain is trying to kill me?

Your brain is a wonderful thing, an amazing piece of engineering and a marvel of perceptual sensitivity.  The only problem is -- it lies to you on a regula...

When we're dealing with expectations we put on ourselves, for whatever reason, how important are the emotions involved?

The main emotions are important, but the underlying patterns are where the real p...

Can you talk about the primary paths of shamanism?

As in dreamers verses stalkers, or oracles and seers and such?  Ah well, that's the Castanedian approach. I can see how they would break it down that ...

I'm interested in the similarities between reiki and shamanic healing.  My general question is just some information on where there diverge and interconnect.

Reiki channels specific energies, or bands ...

Where does anger come from and what creates it in our energy?

Before we get angry, we get afraid.  We also build anger and store it in our energy and our bodies.  The question is where you draw the lin...

We're always on the brink, we just don't realize it. That's the short answer anyway. When you think about the Recapitulation and examine it from an objective first world viewpoint, it obviously can't ...

What is Grounding?

Well as the word implies, it is working with the ground in one way or the other.  Grounding is the process whereby we do two things: we first use earth energy to balance ourselves an...

Is there an easy, or even possible way to determine what kind of energy one can relate to?

Let me step in and cause trouble.

Everybody uses tools and metaphors. Whether it's tarot, astrology, nephrology...

Is there a way to determine what kind of tool is right for me?

Let me step in and cause trouble.  Everybody uses tools and metaphors.  Whether it's tarot, astrology, nephrology, or totem animals, they...

Why is the energy of human beings seemingly so complex?

We, as human beings, even those of us who sit on the evolutionary fence, have natural paradoxes which run through our energy.  On the one side we...

Could you explain how perception relates to the attentions?

Perception is relative, just like the big relativity thingy says.  The problem is we are locked, or most of us, are locked into a certain way...

The dance metaphor is a good one.  Competing intent is when you form an intent of your own, and you try to butt ...

What is this stalking thing you talk about?

We have talked about intent, dreaming, recapitulation, fear and now we've come to stalking. The rest account for about ten percent of your energy the way it ...

Is there such a thing as setting too strong an intent?

There can be, especially in cases where it becomes overkill.  The key with setting and applying intent is to gage the situation; use the intent an...

What is shamanic will?

I haven't talked about will before, though it is a crucial element of personal energy, for the simple reason that when we exercise intent, we naturally apply will to the effort....