I talked to a therapist offering psilocybin therapy in Oregon recently. I was saddened to learn that a legal psilocybin treatment can...

Sometimes people ask what title we have to offer ceremonies. Are we shamans or curanderos or some other term.... I might answer different depending on my mood, but my favorite answer is probably "I am an assistant to the Spirits." It reminds me of a quote from Grandfather Wallace Black Elk talking about the chanupa pipe used for Lakota ceremonies: "There are only 3 ways to walk with the sacred pipe. You can walk ahead of it, and if you do that you are a dead man. You can walk beside it,...

I wanted to share a short article here that has interviews with 3 different traditional shamans. It gives a very accurate picture of...