Category: shamanism
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What are you REALLY looking for?
What are my MOST POPULAR TAGS? What are my MOST POPULAR POSTS? And what is it REALLY that you’re looking for from The Savage Shaman?
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Viral Dancing Nuns
To modern Western culture, the dancing nun is a contradiction in terms, or a merely laughable moment that peaks on social media for a while, and is just as soon forgotten. But I would argue the import of the dancing nun is far more profound.
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Ritual Sacrifice: A Solstice Tradition
In our family, we celebrate Yule with the ritual sacrifice of a wild evergreen from the woods surrounding our property in the Colorado Rockies. We hike out in the woods on a sunny day, we choose a tree and ask its permission to be sacrificed. We make offerings of song, dance, sacred substances and herbs,…