Alberto is such an amazing storyteller and teacher. I am looking forward to this latest book! Here’s a preview he sent in his newsletter. Old Ways, New Prayers A preview of Dr. Alberto Villoldo’s upcoming book, The Heart of the Shaman: Stories and Practices of the Luminous Warrior To this day, Shamans practice the […]
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 30
By Kitty Norris on July 30, 2016 in Andean Cosmovision, Beginners’ Mind!, Challenges!, Compassion, Despacho, Empathy, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, From my own teachers, Healing energies, Karma, Meditation, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Mindfulness, Relationships, Sacred Space, Shamanism, Spiritual Worlds, Spirituality
Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 30 “You want to know who’s a real medicine man? He’s the one who doesn’t say ‘I’m a medicine man.’ He doesn’t ask you to come to him. You’ve got to go and ask him. And you’ll find he’s always there among his own people.” — Louis Farmer, […]
The Despacho
By Kitty Norris on December 2, 2014 in Despacho, Dreams, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, From my own teachers, Gratitude, Peru, Protection, Shamanism, skills for our tool kits, Wellness and Prevention
Q’ero Elder Don Manuel Q’ispe, in a presentation at Canyon de Chelley in May 1997 (translated by Jose Luis Herrera), spoke of despachos this way: “The despacho is a gift–a giving back of what we receive everyday in our lives. We seek, through the despacho ceremony, to bridge the ordinary and non-ordinary realms; to establish […]