The Accidental Shaman: Journeys with Plant Teachers and Other Spirit Allies

Years later, he would write of his work among the shamans of the Sibundoy Valley of southern Colombia: “The shamanism of this valley may well represent the most highly evolved narcotic consciousness on earth.”

Another key point is that we are our own best healers. I know this from my own healing journey with systemic lupus. The ceremonies and prayers I experienced with traditional healers have helped me restore my health back into wholeness. At an energetic level, my belief in my healing transmits energy to my four bodies and restores my health, which th

Part of any shamanic awakening must include an opening of the dream channels and the uprushing of amazing and illuminating material from the unconscious.

Among the Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea, shamans supposedly heal other people by “traveling in their dreams to power places in search of their patient’s lost souls.”

these shamanic practitioners is lucid dreaming, which they equate with death and use as a technique for removing the influence of past traumas from the mind.