
Shamanism: The Roots of Religion, Art and Creativity
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
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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,

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,
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