Maria Sabina was an amazing ceremonial leader in Oaxaca, Mexico. When I was a graduate student at Pacifica Graduate Institute, I found several old audio tapes in the bookstore. I bought a speech by Rolling Thunder, the Cherokee Medicine Man, an ayuaska ceremonial recording called “Songs the Plants Taught Us”, and a tape of Maria [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Native American Church’
Magic, Mushrooms, and Maria Sabina
Posted in entheogens, Erotic love, Peyote Ceremony, sacred ceremonies, tagged ayahuasca, Coyote, Native American Church on May 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
911 and the Faerie Princess
Posted in Dreams, Elder Activities, Initiation, Synchronicity, tagged Indigenous, Native American Church, Santo Daime tradition, Sweat Lodge on April 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Eight years ago my sister gave me a rattle from Maui. It was a Kahuna’s type of rattle. I have carried it with me for years and eventually gave it to my spirit son from Hawaii. He left it in his brother’s apartment and thought he had lost it. When he showed it to me [...]
The Spirits Have Already Arrived
Posted in entheogens, Liberal Catholic Church, Peyote Ceremony, Reincarnation, sacred ceremonies, Spirituality, Synchronicity, Theosophical Society, tagged ayahuasca, Coyote, Dreamwork, Native American Church, trickster on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Synchronicity is a way the soul is making meaning of personal experiences. This morning, the first day of Advent in the Liberal Catholic tradition, was focused on Discrimination. The visiting Celebrant scheduled to perform the Liturgy canceled last night and the Rector gave his sermon “from the hip”. He began with a quote from the [...]
Song and intent, the channel for spreading love and blessing
Posted in Leadbeater, Liberal Catholic Church, sacred ceremonies, tagged ayahuasca, Divine Intelligence, Native American Church, Santo Daime tradition, Spirituality on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bishop Charles Leadbeater wrote a lot about his clairvoyant visions. He could see the Angel of the Presence, an agency of the Christ, creating a spiritual temple during the Divine Liturgy. This temple is constructed through the combined energies of the people and the clergy, who provide love and devotion during the service, the building [...]
Clowning Around
Posted in Mentoring, Peyote Ceremony, tagged Coyote, Indigenous, Native American Church, trickster on May 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Sacred Clowns could make fun of the chief or medicine man without fear of reprisal. That was the way it used to be. We read about it in books. But is it still happening? Sunday morning, at the end of a Native American Church Ceremony, we were shaking hands, saying “Good Morning” to the participants. [...]
We are all related
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Grandmothers and Aunties, Native American Church on May 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A few years ago a carefully hidden secret popped to the surface of our family consciousness. The story my mother told was that our German great-grandfather married “beneath his station” and decided to emigrate to America. He became a dairy farmer in Racine, Wisconsin. The family spoke German, as did many of the other immigrants [...]
Dreaming Together
Posted in Carl Jung, Dreams, Mentoring, tagged Alchemy, Eagle, Harry Potter, Native American Church on January 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My dream: the protection spell showed itself from another dimension. I realized it was my young friend and apprentice (in the 21st century) who had cast it, to protect me in another reality. It was like the hint of something barely visible, but undeniable none the less. The young men were the same essence, the [...]
The Evil Twin
Posted in Mentoring, Psychology, sacred ceremonies, tagged Healing, Men's Movement, Native American Church, Shadow on December 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I met the Otter on the beach. He didn’t talk much, just joined my group doing the Cherokee Dance of Life. It was spontaneous. Hottest day in Seattle on record for May and there were lots of young people on the beach that day. Most were from the Reservation or had Native Blood and they [...]
Magic Beads
Posted in Peyote Ceremony, Spirituality, tagged Dreams, Native American Church on November 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Twenty three years ago a six-year-old gave her teacher a key chain made of psychedelic colored beads. She was graduating from kindergarten and traveling to her new home on the east coast. My wife decided to drape the beads over our rear view mirror. The key chain had been made by an Arapaho Medicine Man [...]
The Magic of the Medicine
Posted in entheogens, Peyote Ceremony, Spirituality, tagged ayahuasca, Coyote, Native American Church, Synchronicity on November 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thirty one years ago a Papago Medicine Man named Meyalo gave me the name “Teacher of the Stories of Life”. Along with the name came a feathered headband. It was simple. It had a butterfly design made out of pheasant feathers in the center, a symbol of transformation. Superimposed upon that was a circular silver [...]
