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Shaman of the Streets: March 2012
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Shaman of the Streets. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Unhappy Medium: Why I'm Not An Initiate in Any Possessory Traditions. I just had another run in with someone who was absolutely horrified that I have an altar set up and work with spirits at all when I am not initiated into his. Way, according to his. Tradition's rules, I am incompetent, fooling myself and otherwise Doing It Wrong. And he topped it with another old saw: I am Endangering Myself. Then you have people who would be happy to teach me- for a gr...
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Shaman of the Streets: June 2014
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Shaman of the Streets. Thursday, June 19, 2014. Final Follow-Up, and Why You DON'T Want a Lot of Divine Intervention. Here are three very good reasons. Most spirits and gods simply are not powerful enough to meddle with physical-world causality on more than a subtle and sometimes very gradual level. Imagine the chaos when Poseidon, for example, lets us all know what he really thinks about the Pacific Garbage Patch. Or Thor gets into it with Hercules in the middle of a major city. Or Babaluaye get...I don...
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Shaman of the Streets: Shamanism and Mental Health Part 1: Prejudice, and Differentiating Noise from Signal
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Shaman of the Streets. Monday, August 11, 2014. Shamanism and Mental Health Part 1: Prejudice, and Differentiating Noise from Signal. 8220;A shaman is someone who swims in the same ocean as the schizophrenic; the difference between the two is that shamans know how to swim in it.” —. But rather "does their (potentially) living with mental illness invalidate shamanic experience and insight? Let's talk about bigotry for a moment. What is the quickest way to publicly undermine someone's point of view? The re...
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Shaman of the Streets: Check-in after a very long time....
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Shaman of the Streets. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Check-in after a very long time. Here is a link to a free Binaural Beats web site. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Give me a break. Said it better than I. Shamanism and mental illness. Why I work alone. Spiritual Leader, My Butt: Some Blunt Suggestions . Revisiting the Unhappy Medium: Pagans Talk about E. Check-in after a very long time. Picture Window template. Template images by Nikada.
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Shaman of the Streets: Revisiting the Unhappy Medium: Pagans Talk about Exploitive Elders
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Shaman of the Streets. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Revisiting the Unhappy Medium: Pagans Talk about Exploitive Elders. I just finished reading Lydia Crabtree's heart-wrenching article on the sexual exploitation currently being exposed in the Pagan community, The Fish Rots from the Head Down: Squid Eye and Sexual Exploitation. The first thing I have to say is: go read it. She describes the issue better than I could. Since the arrest of Pagan elder Kenny Klein in March. I wish that I had some way of helping ...
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Shaman of the Streets: April 2014
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Shaman of the Streets. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Spiritual Leader, My Butt: Some Blunt Suggestions on How to Cope When an Elder In Your Spiritual Group Turns Out to be A Perverse Piece of Crap. As promised, below is a practical follow up to this post. Here is a list of things that I wish someone had said to me before I ever joined the Pagan group where I was molested and harassed by an "Elder in good standing". Hopefully it will help others who encounter a group run or co-run by a predator. They have ex...
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Shaman of the Streets: January 2012
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Shaman of the Streets. Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Can't We All Just Get Along? This morning, I was distracting myself from a series of nasty dreams with a bit of browsing on my social networks, and a theme emerged very quickly. Multiple petty arguments over Pagan and Hoodoo praxis? Check A supposedly respectable Haitian style Houngan taking the third opportunity in as many days to pettily and passive-aggressively snipe at a group of New Orleans style practitioners? Check check check check check. And so...
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Shaman of the Streets: March 2015
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Shaman of the Streets. Sunday, March 29, 2015. No Longer of the Streets? I stopped posting in large part because I had to set aside my practice in favor of a massive material-world overhaul of my life. I am leaving the Bay Area! My partner and I decided on this about five months ago, and everything we have done up until now has been preparing for it. I'll be posting again on spiritual matters once the move is done and I am settled again. Meanwhile, the story of my trip can be found here:. Give me a break.
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Shaman of the Streets: Unhappy Medium: Why I'm Not An Initiate in Any Possessory Traditions
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Shaman of the Streets. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Unhappy Medium: Why I'm Not An Initiate in Any Possessory Traditions. I just had another run in with someone who was absolutely horrified that I have an altar set up and work with spirits at all when I am not initiated into his. Way, according to his. Tradition's rules, I am incompetent, fooling myself and otherwise Doing It Wrong. And he topped it with another old saw: I am Endangering Myself. Then you have people who would be happy to teach me- for a gr...
