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One of the things I love most about the Andean shamanic tradition is that it is fundamentally optimistic. It does not begin with the assumption that life is happening to you. It begins with the understanding that life is responding to your evolution. This does not mean that difficult things never happen. Challenges, losses, disappointments, and uncertainty are part of the human experience. The…

In our modern world, science has become the dominant authority on truth. If something can be measured, weighed, quantified, or reproduced in a laboratory, it is considered real. If it cannot, many people dismiss it as imagination, coincidence, or wishful thinking. Yet there is a fascinating clue hidden within language itself. The word science comes from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge.”…

One of the most fascinating things I observe in my work as a Shaman with clients is that people rarely tell you everything through their words. In fact, some of the most important information is often found in what appears to be a completely unrelated answer. Imagine asking someone about a particular family member, a business strategy, a relationship, or a challenge they are facing. Instead of…

For many years, I have contemplated a question that continues to emerge in my work with clients, in ceremony, and in my own spiritual journey: What if Earth is not simply a place where we are born, work, struggle, and eventually die? What if Earth is actually a school? Not a school in the conventional sense, but a vast and sophisticated training ground for consciousness itself. When I look at…

Understanding Fatigue, Anxiety, Vivid Dreams, and Other Unusual Sensations During Spiritual Growth and Personal Transformation Have you ever made a heartfelt request to the Universe, Spirit, God, or your Higher Self and then shortly afterward begun experiencing unusual physical sensations? Perhaps you asked for greater health, a loving relationship, more abundance, deeper purpose, or a more…

A marksman understands something most people never fully recognize: the world is not experienced all at once. It is narrowed. Filtered. Focused through intentional attention. Before the trigger is pulled, there are layers. Distance. Wind. Motion. Possibility. The eye enters the scope and reality shapes around a concentric circle. The outer world fades into blur while the center becomes…

Many healing traditions throughout the world begin from a fundamentally different perception of human discomfort than the modern medical model. In the shamanic or “transmuting” approach, symptoms, maladys, emotional heaviness, or energetic disturbances are not automatically perceived as permanent diseases or fixed conditions. Instead, they are understood as energy communicating imbalance,…

There are moments during energy (mesa) work when the arrangement no longer feels directed by the hands. The field begins organizing itself. Recently, while working with the outer stone pattern of my shamanic mat, mesa, I noticed something I had not consciously designed. The outer stones had formed the nearest approximation to a seven-pointed celestial structure, the ancient pattern associated…

I just returned from Peru. This time it was a visit designed to reconnect with family in Peru and to explore new places as a tourist, but in the end I was also inwardly compelled to go visit one of my Master Shamans, Carlos, while in Cuzco. The last few times I had visited Carlos, he’d mentioned he wanted to take me to a very private sacred site and do a ritual to connect with the heart of…

Two turns before arriving home, I stop at a red light. There are a few cars in front of me, all of them look expensive. This is because I am in an affluent commercial area of Miami. There is one small car that does not fit that profile. It looks a little beat up and old, from the 2000s maybe, one of its fenders slightly unhinged. Out of nowhere, a white bag floats and sways with the wind. As the…

Imagine waking from a dream and finding yourself before three presences: one small and shy, one that feels like the closest friend you have ever known, and one so authoritative you cannot meet its gaze. In the dream you have just left, you spent years running from something unseen. Only now do you recognize that it could have been paradise, had you trusted yourself within it. Then the…

There is a moment in every person’s life where things stop feeling random. The same types of problems begin to repeat themselves. Money fluctuates in familiar ways. Relationships go through the same issues. The body expresses symptoms that are not new. At that point, the question is no longer what is happening. The question is about cycles. In the Andean understanding, reality is not divided…

To live in a functioning society implies complying with the majority. If everyone agrees that throwing garbage out of your window is unacceptable, you simply cannot do it—and that supports a clean city. We are now at a point where even private thoughts risk being perceived as noncompliant by groups around you that can turn hostile, even physically violent, in an instant. In early training,…

If someone you love develops a mysterious health condition, you quickly discover how uncertain the modern system can be. You begin responsibly. You see a doctor. Then another. Then specialists. Tests are ordered. Opinions multiply. Yet the central question often remains unanswered. What is actually happening? I often meet families at precisely this point. By the time they contact me, they…

One situation resolves, another appears. One obligation is handled, another arrives. Life becomes a sequence of necessities that demand attention. After a while a person begins to notice something important. The mind has become very effective at reacting, yet it has had little opportunity to examine the deeper patterns guiding one’s decisions. When we sit together and look carefully at this…