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Death For Newbies: Part 2
As I revealed in my last shamanic blog, I am going to be resting my Newbies series for a while, although, please do feel free to email me any suggestions for future articles, which you would like to read, as I want to publish a few articles about my experiences in Egypt and my subsequent…
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Audible Review: The Shaman in Stilettos
In this week’s Audible Review, I will be discussing Anna Hunt’s novel, The Shaman in Stilettos, the true tale of how a modern woman falls for a charismatic shaman in Peru. The Shaman in Stilettos You have to give it to Anna Hunt – it’s a cracking title. In fact, I first heard about this…
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Cacao For Newbies
This is the seventh in my weekly (every Friday) series of blog posts ‘For Newbies’, in which I attempt to outline the basic practices and terminology of shamanism in as clear and easy to understand prose as I can. This one is about the sacred plant medicine, Cacao. I enjoyed reading about Ayahuasca in your…
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Ayahuasca For Newbies – Part Two
This is the sixth in my new weekly (every Friday) series of blog posts ‘For Newbies’, in which I attempt to outline the basic practices and terminology of shamanism in as clear and easy to understand prose as I can. This one is about the sacred plant medicine, Ayahuasca. I’ve split this article into two…
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Ayahuasca For Newbies – Part One
This is the fifth in my new weekly (every Friday) series of blog posts ‘For Newbies’, in which I attempt to outline the basic practices and terminology of shamanism in as clear and easy to understand prose as I can. This one is about the sacred plant medicine, Ayahuasca. I’m going to split this…
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Creative Use of the Audible Format – Part One
Apologies for the delay in posting this, which was due to an extraordinary visit I undertook to Egypt (details of this, coming soon to this website!). This is the fourth in a regular weekly series (every Wednesday) of 4 Audible reviews, broken down into the categories, which I selected for my first Audible blog (Dan’s…
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Shamanism for Newbies
I thought that I would start a new weekly (every Friday) series of blog posts ‘For Newbies’ to outline the basic practices and terminology of shamanism in as clear and easy to understand prose as I could. I’m going to start with the question my mother regularly asks me… What exactly is a shaman? A…
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Embrace of The Serpent
‘Embrace of the Serpent’ is a film about the Amazonian shaman, Karamkate, who travels the river, forty years apart, with two separate German ethnologists, searching for the mysterious and psychedelic Yakruna plant.