BLOGS THAT YOU SHOULD READ: This stuff is very difficult to write about, and harder to understand. I have to put down my daily happenings in blogs, like a diary; and occasionally I get a blog that will help you...
HOW I BECAME A SHAMAN 02.27.08
YOUR BRAIN ON YOGA 02.24.08
SHAMANIC MEDITATION 01.07.08
CONCENTRATION BREATH 01.05.08
.. "SMALL PENCIL DRAWINGS '06"ABOUT THE MEDICINE WAY
The Medicine Way is as old as Mankind. Many people are familiar with the 'Medicine' practiced by Native Americans throughout their history. What I teach as 'The Medicine Way' is an evolution of these universal practices. Indigenous populations around the globe all lived in a 'Medicine Environment'. Pure, wild NATURE is Medicine in itself. The 'Way' practiced by the indigenous peoples was simply the utilization of properties and faculties found in the natural environment.
Today, many places in the world have been stripped of wild Nature, and of the Medicine that is a part of Nature. The indigenous peoples perhaps took for granted some things that we need to re-discover.
During my Initiation as a Shaman, I was guided to reclaim much of this knowledge, in a new context. The evolution of The Medicine Way brings to us today a set of solutions to problems that don't seem to respond to conventional, 'non-Medicine' approaches.
Central to this new Medicine Way is the study of EARTH ENERGY VORTEXES, and the teachings of THE ALLIES. Each of these concepts came to us via the works of Carlos Castaneda. In the first chapter of his first book, "THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN: A YAQUI WAY OF KNOWLEDGE", Carlos is told to find his 'spot' on don Juan's porch. Later he is told that the 'Allies' will teach him many things. These two elements were instrumental in bringing me the energies which helped my transformation into a Shaman.
These energies are with us everywhere, all the time. It is our perception which can open us to their utilization as 'Medicine'. Central to opening our perceptions is the practice of yoga. Only through yoga can we enter that certain place where mind becomes spirit, while retaining a focused awareness on that process and that process only. In addition to yoga, the use of quartz crystals is essential to establish a genuine link with spirit entities as we open our third eye. Opening the third eye allows us to develop the discernment and discrimination obtained through yoga, into what Castaneda calls 'SEEing'. 'SEEing' is an essential ingredient of The Medicine Way.
Castaneda also brought to us the concept of 'THE TOTALITY OF THE SELF'. Once one forms the link with the world of spirits, one is able to enter a realm in which the self is greater than any of us can imagine. This can be likened to what some call the 'out of body experience', or the forming of 'the double'. My teachings are designed to assist you in opening to a greater participation in a larger universe.
I like free thinkers. People who aren't afraid of the inner adventure.
I'd like to meet people in Yakima who can join me in my yoga and healing work. I'd like to meet people who can help me establish THE WHIRLWIND FOUNDATION, to promote knowledge and application of the Medicine Way. I'd like to meet people who can help me set up an art studio; and establish a high quality NEW AGE SHOP IN DOWNTOWN YAKIMA, TO HELP WITH DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION. I'd like to meet models, photographers, and VIDEOGRAPHERS (amateur or professional) to help me develop presentations of aspects of Shamanic Yoga and other aspects of The Medicine Way. I'd like to meet someone who could sponsor a meeting room where I could hold discussions and demonstrations, and teach yoga--in their home or office place. I'd like to meet a grantwriter! and some investors...
It's time to act. Life as we know it is beginning to suck. The great American Dream is losing steam. The Medicine Way can be an assist to every person, right at home, or at work. It's time to create something for the planet.
VORTEX GARDENING
The goal of my work is to build an environment which GENERATES ENERGY. I use the energies of the earth to form the foundation of the MEDICINE ENERGIES which allow me to hold the incredible energies of the spirits who live with me. I like to work with people to show them how to cultivate and develop the energies of the vortexes which are everywhere around them. Higher Consciousness is yours for the asking, but it takes constant application to achieve it. Read blog for 12.25.07.
.. "ASPECTS OF THE MEDICINE WAY"..
ABOUT SHAMANIC YOGA
Many problems we face in life are the result of our lack of relevant knowledge. Our civilization has outgrown the concepts and paradigms that shaped us in the past. Religion and Science seem to be directed toward divergent ends, and neither actually reaches us where we live. Modern pharmaceutical medications do more harm than good, and religion causes more strife than peace. The answers lie elsewhere.
Yoga, as it is commonly thought of in America these days, has been swept away from its roots to become more similar to an aerobics class than a crucible for the spirit. Over the years, as I became a Shaman, I began to develop a yoga that was formed around my immediate needs, and the needs of my students and healing clients. I moved away from the notion of a 'workout', toward methods of reintroducing basic knowledge about the body we live in and the things that influence it.
Our thoughts and concepts of reality are largely shaped by the prevailing paradigms of religion and science, to the point where we have become oblivious to the knowledge available to us from our own bodies. Through the techniques of Shamanic Yoga, we can reawaken the mind to form a union with the spirit world, which is the fundamental dimension in which the physical body exists. We are spirit. Through the techniques I have developed, we can learn to discern the forces within the body which bring us to health. We can learn to intercede in the world of spirit, to forestall the forces of illness. We can develop a more complete and accurate understanding of who we are as biological entities, sociological entities, and spirit entities; this knowledge will help us in our relationships, and free us from the misguided attempts of science and religion to deal with phantom solutions to our problems."Moonlight"--It's central theme that being human is the most desirable state of existence squares with what I have learned from my years of adventures with non-human and extra-human entities incarnate in human form. The pure human heart is the ultimate achievement of the long process of evolution, which has produced entities such as vampires, and the other creatures of myth. It is in the realm of human mortality that the cosmic issues of good and evil can be resolved. We are at the threshold of a time when we will be able to return the planet to its original state of balance. But first we have to break the control of the parasite beings who have warped the energies of our world. Their greed and stupidity have corrupted our Gods. They feed on the energies of humanity. This is what causes wars and the toxicity which ruins human relationships. It is only by entering the world of spirit with power and consciousness that we can bring about a victory over those who would destroy us.
Shaman's Drum Magazine; The Way of the Shaman, by Michael Harner; I Ching; all of Carlos Castaneda's works; "Shamanic Voices" and "Shaman: The Wounded Healer" by Joan Halifax; "The Sorcerer's Crossing" by Taisha Abelar;
Tom; Martin Luther; Carlos Castaneda; Pablo Picasso; C. G. Jung; Donald Trump; Andre Breton; Hugh Hefner; Fred Miller (Miller Brewing Company);