A man in a white suit stands on a perfectly square platform in the middle of the desert. The dark blue sky of a setting sun recedes to the horizon behind him. He is walking into a light. The light is the light of an old-fashioned film projector. The man carries in his hand a [...]
Category Archives: Shamanism
Hidden Symbolism of the Christmas Tree
December 3, 2006 – 11:01 am
At the risk of completely violating a point I made only yesterday, I’d like to offer that the Christmas tree depicts the same thing as do concepts related to Kundalini energy rising through the body, as does the life and ministry of Jesus, especially his ascension to Golgotha – the place of the skull, and [...]
Living Borders
October 3, 2006 – 11:26 am
Another strange thing I have noticed thanks to my job: plants simply don’t recognize human borders. Plants will climb over or slip under fences, sneak their way around corners and up walls, and generally make a mess of nice clean edges. And yet, at the very same time, people regularly use plants to demarcate borders [...]
Rev Max Interview
January 7, 2006 – 4:15 pm
Rev Max (a pseudonym) is the deranged mind behind Enemies.com, the weird art website which first exposed me to gnostic myths and symbols in the late 1990’s. I didn’t actually get really into gnostic thought until several years later, but I always really loved Max’s out-there artistic vision. So I was very excited when earlier [...]
The Shamanic Sickness
October 10, 2005 – 11:43 am
I just found something that I think adds an interesting layer into our recent debates on what exactly constitutes shamanism. I realize this person’s views are rather extreme and many people who’d like to consider themselves shamans will probably chafe at this – and that’s exactly why this viewpoint is so interesting. It’s polarizing.
This part [...]
Harner on Spiritual Reality
September 22, 2005 – 10:02 pm
This is an interesting excerpt from an interview with Michael Harner who has done extensive work with shamanism.
I might say something about spirits, because it’s a strange word to people. What is a spirit? In 1961, when I was with the Conibo Indians in eastern Peru in the Amazon, I was training using ayahuasca with [...]
