Sublime

Professor Michael Harner, a world authority on shamanism, speaks of the shamanic way as one which is best defined as a method to open a door and enter a different reality.

Without directly imitating or in any other way co-opting the principles and practices of the NAC, its ways may be able to serve as role models for the renaissance of effective ceremonial practices that will play an essential role in the birthing of the “Future Human” and the regeneration of sane and sustainable societies. The container created is h

I especially enjoyed the work of Sir John Woodroffe (1865–1936), a.k.a. “Arthur Avalon,” who—while prominently serving as Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in British India—spent his private hours explaining, defending and ultimately practicing in the then widely reviled Hindu religious schools of Shaiva and Shakta Tantrism.

Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Being Awake and Aware in Your Dreams (1985)

As modern shamans, we also know that if a person wants to be healed of disease and be truly free and enlightened, then it is essential to strengthen the feminine life force within. This requires fasting, prayer, and meditation, combined with the use of healing herbs and plants.

It’s called the parable of the Dream Machine.

This particular kind of extended ritual practice is taught as part of the curriculum of the magical training organization IMBOLC. This organization was founded in 1992 by Roland Gabler in Kempten, Germany, as an independent study institute, and it offers an in-depth magical training for the solitary practitioner in all aspects of Western hermeticis