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Like shamans everywhere, Emily was very much in touch with animal spirits and named those who taught her the most, for example the hummingbird and
Dickinson is, like Eckhart, not pining for a goal or a “Why” but rather coming to realize that the journey, the Way, is eschatology enough.
We are recounting the life and work of Emily Dickinson in light of the shaman archetype. First, she underwent a kind of rupture that resulted
We have been discussing the shaman as understood by David Paladin and others.Is Emily Dickinson a shaman? In his book, Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman
David Paladin instructs us about “the three worlds of the shaman”—the Middle World, the Lower World, and the Upper World. We live our daily lives
We have been meditating on the shaman for a number of days in our daily meditations. I give credit to Thomas Berry for his insistence
I am grateful to Lynda Paladin’s for reminding me that I had written a Foreword to a second edition of David Paladin’s book, Painting the
We have been meditating on shamans and shamanhood, inspired by Thomas Berry’s challenging observation that what the world needs today is “fewer priests and fewer
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,
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