When we practice coming into contact with the deep reality our dreams are wanting to express to us and through us, we open to an invisible level of life that contains much of what is missing from our daily routines.

never seems to occur to the researching scholar that he can’t see what the shaman is capable of seeing because his vision is not properly developed.

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 conf

Something needs to validate the intuitive movements all along the way;

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.

Menstruation is the perfect time to perform ritual, using your menstrual blood as the potent elixir of magic and visualization. Make a protective or healing amulet for yourself, and smear it with your own holy blood. Feed your plants. Wish for what you want in your life. Never use your blood for harm or to control anyone else; let the sorcerers hav

Sometimes just this change (from past to present) will open the dreamer to the deeper levels of her own dream, without having to do any work. In the same vein, the first level of dreamwork I ask people to do is the shamanic level of “real information.” How much real information is in this particular dream?

The work for a contemporary female shaman is to stop behaving in conditioned, habitual, unhealthy ways and begin to act from within.

These addictions have been structured into our beings, like knee-jerk responses to stimuli, so that they constantly distract us from our true path and obscure our vision.