When I was a teen I was very much into play. I would not play the games of children, but I would play at different things. For example, if I was shopping with my mother in a grocery store I would pull random things off of the shelves and put them in the shopping carts […]
Waving our Flags
It is estimated that in the twentieth century alone, human beings managed to kill more than two hundred million other human beings in wars and through genocide. Human beings seem to be unique among the planet’s organisms in that we harm and kill other humans not just to protect ourselves physically, not just in pursuit […]
Acceptance
So many people have difficulty with the concept of acceptance. They think that it means that they must accept absolutely everything that is thrown at them, whether it is nice or abusive or anything in between. Acceptance does not mean that we have to put up with horrible behaviour from others in our lives. To […]
The Rebel
A rebel really does not have to strike out against anyone or anything. Most often people think that they do. But what a rebel is really doing is rising above all social, religious and political expectations and paradigms. Being a rebel is a journey of self-discovery. The Centre Stone on the Medicine Wheel holds teachings […]
The Creative Mind
Over the many years that I have been working as a professional shaman there have been numerous observations that I have made regarding the “complimentary medicine” field. I put that in quotation marks because that is what main stream people call it. I actually call it TRADITIONAL because it has been around for, oh, 40,000 […]