The dream state is more fluid than everyday life seems,

It has become more rather than less difficult to give birth at home in the last decade. Hospitals have co-opted the home-birth movement, creating “birthing rooms” and “alternative birthing centers” to seem as if they are carrying out the philosophies and ideals of that movement.

Shamanic art remains shamanic, even after the process is completed and the result is set free into the world. Made in a state of healing trance, the cards transmit the healing power to whoever uses them. That is why tarot cards work so well, even for those who don’t necessarily believe. The healing intention that comes through the trance experience

Life itself, with all its seeming concreteness, is really a dream in which we have the possibility of making choices in every moment and changing the dream: flying, making love, shape shifting, experiencing the impossible. The amazing synchronous connections between what we dream and what we experience in the daylight hours should be enough to

Frequently they are pregnant or giving birth. Stories behind the use of sacred medicinal herbs and plants that grow wild on the planet often include something relating to pregnancy and birth, leading me to think that the earliest uses of these plants might well have been for calming and relieving the pain of women in labor. Peyote, for example, was

Like the bleeding time, it’s a kundalini experience. There has to be ecstasy in it. Tune in and let the Dark Goddess have you, and I know the outcome will be renewal.

As esoteric teacher Alice Bailey points out, what we call thinking is nothing but regurgitated programming in our brain-consciousness.

In surrender to her, we leave the problem in her hands; in allowing ourselves to be used in the healing of the planet, we become part of her solution.

that were so natural and such a normal part of life, perhaps it would be discovered that you had some particular gifts in relation to it all, and you would be recognized as a young girl and then given the benefit of the teachings and the practices that would develop your gifts into useful skills for the healing and well-being of your community.