Stepping Over The Edge: An Invitation
March 30, 2010Telling this story is the last part of the drum beat – the vibration that follows the collision of beater to leather.
Category: Stepping over the edge
Stepping Over The Edge: Ancestors
March 27, 2010I like to imagine what my wildest Pagan ancestors would say to me if they were sitting beside me now. Likely they wouldn’t caution me to be especially concerned with respect or propriety when exploring my spirituality.
Stepping Over The Edge: Open Message To The Dead
March 18, 2010I’m telling you this now because I want you to know something – I’m coming for you.
Stepping Over The Edge: Into The River
March 2, 2010I want to gather each story from the river and share it with you; slowly, gently – like drinking warm honey
Stepping Over The Edge: The Way A Snake Sheds Its Skin
February 22, 2010I turn to the concrete circle in the middle of our acre of land surrounded by a forest of Oaks. Bowing, I step across the threshold and begin to dance.
Stepping Over The Edge: Joining The Circle
February 8, 2010I became a member of the tribe of Shamanic Workshopper’s shortly after graduate school.
Stepping Over The Edge: Dancing With The Dark Feminine
February 1, 2010“I used to be afraid of the dark until I had my first child. Then I had to get up in the middle of the night to breast feed her. It was through that experience that I came to know the dark was sacred.”
Stepping Over The Edge: Bone Journey
January 23, 2010I knew this bone was held by the ancient people that fed on the animal it came from. Holding something stone that was once living opens a world of possibilities.
Stepping Over The Edge: Chop Wood, Walk Through Darkness
January 13, 2010Last night I was surrounded by at least a dozen spirits, they were tossing me around like laundry in a dryer.
Stepping Over The Edge: Coyote Friend
January 7, 2010During our brief friendship Ernesto took me under his wing, trying to help me to understand what I’d been going through.
Stepping Over The Edge: Writing As Re-membering
January 4, 2010I keep backing away from my keyboard, finding excuses to be distracted. Its been far more difficult writing about this part of my past than I thought it would be.
Stepping Over The Edge: Feet On The Path
December 27, 2009The dreams, visions and waking shamanic experiences started several years before I found my way to a Shamanic Practitioner
Stepping Over The Edge: Outlaws
December 21, 2009What would you do if after years of hearing voices you woke up one morning to them saying “It is time; now they are calling you.”
Stepping Over The Edge: The Shaman And The Samurai
December 11, 2009only heard about Rolling Thunder because I was taking Iaido lessons from one of the last living Samuri.
Stepping Over The Edge: Coyotes Formula For Change
December 7, 2009I felt like my head had been cut off, filled with hysterical laughter and put back on upside down.
Stepping Over The Edge: Re-discovering Shamanism In The Western World
November 30, 2009Nina was experiencing a call to a sacred practice. That calling has been ringing out for at least as long as we have had language, story and song.