[Author's Note: Please watch the film before reading this, I don't want to spoil it for you!] It's no small wonder that the artistic establishment would produce a film like Encanto in this stage of our world-myth, or that the collective consciousness would receive the film with such great enthusiasm. Divinity is working powerfully through … Continue reading Analyzing Encanto: Is Humanity Trying To Heal Itself?

Thoughts of the world raged, speeding by dangerously like the frenetic cars and trucks on their long journey along interstate 10. Most seemed to be heading to a home far away, Texas, New York, after an extended holiday vacation. I was on a pilgrimage to one of my spiritual homes: Essence of Tranquility, a hot … Continue reading The Essence Of Tranquility & Divine Felines

I made a pilgrimage on February 1st, 2021; it was Imbolc and the day of honoring the symbolic birth of one of my most important ancestral deities, the maiden goddess Brigid. I was drawn by the dream of a flowing stream, and the recent winter storm that broke an 8 month drought gave promise to … Continue reading Brigid’s Birth, Industrial Invasion, and Remembering the “Song Of Creation”

We're in a time unlike any other, when so many of humankind's collective choices are coming into question. As an animist I’ve been able to find strength by placing my focus on the law of nature. Those archetypal, inescapable, eternal truths. This incarnation of man cannot continue to live out of balance with nature, and … Continue reading Reverting to the Law of Nature

Everyday our actions, thoughts and feelings are a direct result of the numinous movements of our powerful unconscious; the energetic doldrums originating in the spirit-world. Embarking on prayerful, psychic journeys with the aid of our spirit helpers through the ancient practice of shamanic journeying allows us to authentically experience the forces that inform our waking … Continue reading The Numinous Forces of the Spirt-World: Healing Shamanic Journeys, Tuesday 1/21/20

One of my most sacred places in Arizona's Sky Islands There’s nothing quite like visiting our own sacred places in nature...it gratifies our senses with inexplicable magic suited just for us. We can’t always escape to these power spots, but we can visit them in non-ordinary reality, the spirit realm -- and experience them in a new … Continue reading Visiting Our Sacred Places: Healing Shamanic Journeys, Tuesday, 5/21/19

A Drum Journey Circle offering, Every Third Tuesday at Tucson’s Web Of Life Animist Church (directions) Sacred Petroglyphs at Ironwood National Monument, Arizona Last month’s journey circle turned out better than expected-our attendees experienced two gratifying journeys connecting with our animist ancestors who once inhabited this valley. We were blessed to experience their magical way … Continue reading Back To The Garden-Continuing Time Travel Journeys on 12/18/2018

A monthly Drum Journey Circle offering at Tucson's Institute For Shamanic Arts Santa Cruz River, photo by Margarethe Brummermann For aeons, our planet flowered in resplendent harmony. Vibrating to the cyclical rhythms of nature, a powerful resonance was established, ingraining sacred patterns and psychic currents that we can still perceive today. As animists, we long to … Continue reading EVENT:Back To The Garden-Time Travel Journeys

In the name of all that is holy and sacred, I greet you and honor you on our blessed journey on this blessed planet. Perhaps no subject in our culture has been as obscured and manipulated by propaganda as the truth about the lifeway (and spiritual orientation-they are so interconnected) of our Animist Ancestors. What … Continue reading Reviving the Sacred