Archives: 2008 August

by Shaman Maria
I was amazed how fragile things could live undisturbed in the rainforest while we humans lived in turmoil.
- Maria Gurule
Many people return to the jungle. Once it’s in your blood, you cannot stay away. It’s like the call of the wild, a retreat from the trappings of the modern world. You connect […]

by Trish Donroe Barker
Jigsaw puzzles are hardly new. They’ve been around since the 1700s, and have evolved from hand-cut wooden educational tools to a huge industry targeting children and adults alike. They have certainly stood the test of time, providing education and hours of peaceful time passed. What studies are now showing is that these […]

by Marlene Buffa
My niece Taylor, when asked how she enjoyed first day of school, responded with a sigh, “I went to school, I learned everything and I came home.”
The innocent child, unaware of her wisdom, went about her playful activities after a hard day at kindergarten. Unbeknownst to her, her declaration offers a lesson […]

Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more.
Ask Your MamaTM
The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality
by ©Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Dear Mama Donna,
This has been a nightmare year for me. One terrible thing after another has been happening. My whacko neighbor keeps hinting that she […]

The View Through The Medicine Wheel; Shamanic Maps of How The Universe Works
By Leo Rutherford
O Books $29.95 215p
Facing a mid-life crisis after working in the manufacturing industry for twenty years, Leo Rutherford moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1977. During the years that followed, he studied the teachings of the Shamanic […]

RE-CREATING YOUR SELF
By Christopher Stone
Last time, I explained how the person that you described in Adventure 1, Your Now Self, is, in truth, an other-created, not a self-created, person; someone who was spoon-fed beliefs about your self, others and the world in general by the influential people from your early years.
As you progressed in school, […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Welcome to the peak of Leo season, as the Moon joins the Sun, Venus and Mercury in Leo. It brims with generosity and spectacle, but we truly are the center of our worlds, immersed in our own experience, and may find hard to get out of it to walk in another’s shoes. […]

by Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
The summer cross-quarter day was celebrated
by the Saxons as Hlaf Mass, *Feast of Bread,*
and by the Celts as Lughnasadh, *Commemoration
of Lugh.* Lugh was the grain god, son of Mother
Earth. Every August he was sacrificed with the
reaping of the corn only to be born again in the new
shoots of spring exactly […]