healing
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HEALING WITH THE HELP OF IMBABURA AND COTOCACHI
Mama Maria climbed the stairs of her two bedroom concrete home in the small town of Iluman, Ecuador to get something. What could it be? I had arrived to her place half an hour ago. It had taken the taxi a few minutes to locate her clinic, since the sign announcing she was a “yachak” Continue reading
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Clearing Crystals and our Lives
Clearing crystals is a hotly debated topic among folks interested in crystal healing and other sacred uses of stones and crystals. Many of the popular books on this topic outline techniques to use for clearing supposedly ‘negative’ or ‘heavy’ energies from our crystals and stones. When I give workshops, this is a frequent question that Continue reading
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COMPLEMENTARY DUALITY
Complementary duality is one of the central precepts of indigenous Andean and Aztec/Toltec wisdom and spirituality (as well as many other spiritual traditions and cultures). In the origin myth of the Toltec, our world was begun by two beings (not one). Colloquially translated as “Mr” and “Mrs” – they are believed to together have created Continue reading
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Healing with Obsidian Stones
“It is as easy to cure cancer as a common cold,” my teacher of obsidian tools – Sergio Magana – told us in class. “Hard to believe, but at an energetic level this is true.” He then went on to tell us two remarkable stories about healing using obsidian tools. The first was about an Continue reading
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BRINGING ABOUT REAL CHANGE
This time of the year, many of us reflect upon 2017 and consider what we would like to change for 2018. We may make a resolution around an area or aspect of our life we would like to change for the better. Perhaps we want to lose weight, or exercise more often, or feel less Continue reading
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Teaching what we don’t know
We are brought up to think that we should only teach what we really know well. Expertise is so highly prized in our culture and many of us spend long years and decades of our lives studying enough of some topic to be able to be considered a teacher. And yet, perhaps, in some cases Continue reading
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TEACHING WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
We are brought up to think that we should only teach what we really know well. Expertise is so highly prized in our culture and many of us spend long years and decades of our lives studying enough of some topic to be able to be considered a teacher. And yet, perhaps, in some cases Continue reading
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SELF-HEAL
You might have pulled this scrappy plant out of a prized garden bed or your lush green lawn this summer. Its scientific name is Prunella Vulgaris, but this creeping, purple-flowered, low-lying plant is more commonly known as “Self-Heal.” Highly regarded in Chinese medicine for healing a vast array of health problems and widely used by Continue reading
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HEALING AND POLITICS
Published in the Monadnock Shopper News – February 8-14, 2017 This column is supposed to be about healing and often we are told that talking about politics or anything that could be confrontational and divisive is not healing. But I beg to disagree, especially now given events in the political arena that seem to be Continue reading
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Crystal Message for Keene #2
I come to tell your community that the time of the clans and cliques is done. It is time to unite, to come together with gentle words and without undue strife. To forward collectively the cause of this land, which is to protect the energies of the mountains, lakes and rivers. You are a valley, Continue reading
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