Photo by geralt via Pixabay by Maria Isabel Pita © 2018 “We can do nothing better than abandon ourselves to God.” i Saint Theresa of Avila called the Christian mystical practice of Contemplation the Prayer of Quiet. If you feel you are called to learn more about it, I wholeheartedly recommend The Cloud of Unknowing, With…
Photo by AdinaVoicu via Pixabay by Daniel Oldis © 2018 In 1964, at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco, Dr. Joe Kamiya was able to train sleeping subjects to recognize they were in REM dreaming and indicate this by pressing micro switches on their thumbs (other research has shown…
Photo by Vivolino via Pixabay by Jan Van Ysslestyne © 2018 Before I begin this article, I need to define the parameters of a “shamanic journey.” There are two competing views of how shamanism is defined in the field of anthropology. The first defines a shaman as a healer from indigenous animistic tribes. The other approach…