The Courage to Create a Blog Entry
If only..... blogs wrote themselves. Sigh. Storywriting is very different than storytelling, my preferred version. Yet I have been told that I write really good personal, pen-scripted letters (yes - another preference). So facing the laptop, with the self-appointed...
Interview by Hillary S. Webb with Hank Wesselman Phd.
Adapted from Traveling between the Worlds: Conversations with Contemporary Shamans by Hillary S Webb, Hampton Roads, 2004. Anthropologist Hank Wesselman has been described by his peers as possessing "the sober objectivity of the trained scientist with the mystic's...
Core Beliefs & Values of the Transformational Community
Are you a member of the transformational community? My book Visionseeker presents a profile of this growing transformational community of worthies, as well as a partial list of their core beliefs and values: Here the list with a footnote or two... Core Beliefs The...
Hawaiian Perspectives on The Matrix of the Soul
As an anthropologist who has been investigating the early stages of human evolution in Africa for more than 35 years, I suppose it was inevitable that my curiosity would draw me toward the evolution of human consciousness. A series of spontaneous altered states...
The Modern Shaman
In the Western world, when we hear the word "shaman," most of us tend to conjure up an image of a masked and costumed indigenous tribal person, dancing around a fire in the dark, involved in some sort of mysterious ritual, accompanied by singing and drum beats. But...
The Transformational Community
Allow me to offer some of my insights as a professional anthropologist about the Transformational Community, an important subculture that has appeared in the Western world. Perhaps through consideration of their closely held values and beliefs, we shall gain...
Shamanism – A Heart Path
A new sense of the sacred has appeared in the Western world, one that incorporates spiritual realization, personal growth psychology, and being of service all in one orientation. This spiritual reawakening is generating a real change in attitudes as we move into...
Millennium Message
Everyone seems to be sending out inspirational millennium messages these days, so here are some thoughts derived from encounters with members of the modern mystical movement over the past 18 years. These meetings with remarkable people have led me to suspect that...
Three Stages of Spiritual Unfolding
Many of you are aware that we were drawn into connection with a Hawaiian kahuna elder named Hale Makua during the last eight years of his life. One of the things that we discussed across that time was our uniquely human experience of spiritual unfolding--a process...
Shamanic Personal Transformation
In our previous article The Three Stages of Spiritual Unfolding, we offered some thoughts about our uniquely-human spiritual unfolding that takes place in stages during our lives. We began with Belief and mentioned how our belief systems can be greatly sustaining...
