by admin | Mar 29, 2017 | Mikkal's Blog, Upcoming Events, Workshops
In this workshop we are setting aside a day just for shamanic drum journeying, as a community. There will be no workshop fee for this day. We will offer both basic and advance journey themes, so that new people are invited to come and experience Crows Nest, and those...
by Mikkal | Nov 4, 2015 | Mikkal's Blog, Workshops
JUNG AND AMAZONIAN SHAMANISM IN SYNTHESIS: An Intensive Retreat Interfacing the Power and Wisdom of Jungian Psychology With AYAHUASCA Ceremonies. Dates: March 13-20, 2016 Location: Iquitos, Peru KM 15. Lodging and ceremonies at Ayahuasca Medicine House, in the...
by Mikkal | Apr 12, 2015 | Mikkal's Blog
The power of age-old entheogenic medicines ceremonies to facilitate deep healing of addictions, traumatic stress, depression is increasingly being confirmed. It gives me great pleasure to share this deep and moving story of Erica Baran Fasano, and her finding profound...
by Mikkal | Apr 9, 2015 | Mikkal's Blog
PSYCHOSHAMANISM AND TRAUMA The shamanic image here is of a shamanic power animal finding and retrieving a lost part, usually referred to in the shamanic idiom as a “lost soul.” The Bear clasps the child part closely, safely, and lovingly as...
by Mikkal | Feb 17, 2015 | Mikkal's Blog
Creativity and Healing: Some Jungian and Shamanic Perspectives C. Michael Smith, Ph.D. © 2015 “Art is the proper task of life.” -Friedrich Nietzche If you live from the heart, you will continually dip into the immensely creative Dreaming Field, and from it...
by Mikkal | Jan 30, 2015 | Mikkal's Blog
DEPTH IN ANY DIRECTION: Imagination as the Door In the previous blog on “DEPTH AND THE MEDICINE OF THE HEART, PART 1,” I mentioned my conception of depth as not confined to the downward direction alone, as James Hillman richly, and usefully made it...
