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Another Encounter with a Jinn

My essay on my conversation with a Genie in Egypt last December and posted on the SharedWisdom website has been very well received and widely shared with many comments posted. Let me now 'revisit' this topic and offer you yet another such unpublished encounter with...

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In General…

Jill and I are in full swing with our teaching schedule now stretching toward Summer. We have had wonderful sweet workshop groups this Spring that have been deeply nurturing at the soul level at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California; at Breitenbush Hotsprings...

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Australian Aboriginal Wisdom

We Westerners live in a world of continual and unrelenting distraction. Our days begin with the newspapers in the morning, our work world during the day, and television, other entertainments, or the internet in the evenings. In addition, there are our...

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On The Trail

Jill and I are currently on the trail teaching workshops on the US mainland—a Visionseeker level 2 in Sonoma, California two weeks ago, followed by a book signing for 80 people in Portland, Oregon at the New Renaissance Book Shop, followed by a Visionseeker level 1...

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The Dreamer

In Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation, co-authored with my friend and colleague Sandra Ingerman, we have created an entire chapter devoted to Dreams from the Shaman perspective. So allow me to gather some thoughts about this...

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Rain – Making

On Saturday afternoon, March 6, 2010, I scheduled a book signing followed by a mini-workshop at a local bookstore called Kona Stories here in Kainaliu (in south Kona.) This event occurred in response to the release of my new literary endeavor—Awakening to the...

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Millennials, the “Generation Next”

For you scholars and fans of scholars.... The term "Millennials", like "Generation Next", is in reference to people born in 1981 and beyond. The Millennials are of age now to discover their trends of behavior, attitudes and beliefs, especially about religion. They...

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The Perennial Philosophy

The perennial philosophy is a worldview that has been embraced by most of the world’s spiritual thinkers and teachers. The American philosopher Ken Wilber has written about it in his book Grace and Grit (1991), in which he calls the perennial philosophy ‘universal’...

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Shaman Healing