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With spontaneity comes wildness–both emanate from deep within creatures. Berry comments: Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being.
We are meditating with Thomas Berry on how “the shaman functions in a less personal relationship with the divine. He is more cosmological, more primordial,
Today marks the third “Birthday” of our Daily Meditations which we deliberately launched on Mother’s Day in honor of Mother Earth and the return of
Yesterday we meditated on the important work that rupture sometimes plays in bringing forth the shaman in self and society. David Palladin, John of the
We have been meditating on the return of the shaman in our time predicted by the great eco-prophet Thomas Berry. Speaking of shamans, let us
Another way to unpack the “more primordial” is to undergo rupture, loss or deep suffering. I pose this important question: Are the ruptures we are
We are meditating with Thomas Berry on how “the shaman functions in a less personal relationship with the divine. He is more cosmological, more primordial,
If Thomas Berry is correct, that our species is in need of more shamans, let us take a harder look at what he is saying.
Thomas Berry continues his exposition of myself as shaman and sets it in a context of “what it means to be human” and of what
For a week or so we have been discussing shamanism in our DM’s. I rarely choose to insert myself explicitly into my teachings, but given
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