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# The Visionary World Of Ayahuasca - Plant Spirit Shamanism In The Amazon
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article explores the visionary and spiritual realms of the Amazonian brew Ayahuasca. This extraordinary world to which we are transported by plants is not accessible through the verbal rational mind but through dream language or an expansion of the imagination. Thus dreams & our imaginative powers act like doorways during a plant diet and connect us with the plant spirit.

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# Shamanic Trance Postures - A Visionary Path To Esctastic Experience
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article explores the ancient teachings, how discrete bodily postures can generate deep, spiritual, divinatory, and healing experience. This body of knowledge was re-discovered in the 1970's by Felicitas Goodman.


# Plant Spirit Shamanism - The Medicinal Plants of the Amazon Rainforest
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] The traditional shamans and healers of the Amazon Rainforest have been working with some of the most remarkable plants which have both powerful medicinal and psycho-spiritual properties for many thousands of years. This article explores these ancient traditional ways of the plant shamans by the author of Plant Spirit Shamanism (published by Destiny Books USA)


# An encounter With an Extraordinary Healer From The Philippines
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article documents the work of one of the famous psychic surgeons of the Philippines. These remarkable healers carry out operations with their bare hands. The author holds special tours to meet and work with the healers of the Philippines.


# Plant Spirit Shamanism - Developing Your Relationship With The Plant Spirits
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article explores the deep spiritual connection that we have with plants, and illustrates ways to develop this relationship.


# Ayahuasca Retreats In The Amazon Rainforest - An Encounter With An Amazonian Shaman
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] After being virtually ignored by Western civilization for centuries, there has been a huge surge of interest in Ayahuasca recently. There is a growing belief that it is a kind of ‘medicine for our times’, giving hope to people with ‘incurable’ diseases like cancer and HIV, drug addictions and inspiring answers to the big ecological problems of modern civilization.


# The Cactus Of Vision - San Pedro And The Shamanic Tradition
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Shamans from different cultures and traditions have been using psychoactive plants since the dawn of human emergence. These plants have been used traditionally for guidance, divination, healing, maintaining a balance with the spirit or consciousness of the living world.


# Shamanic Divination - An Exploration Of Traditional Divination Practices
[Health-and-Fitness:Meditation] This article explores the traditional practices of divination. Divination is not fortune telling, but a way to obtain a deeper understanding of the circumstances affecting a situation or individual.


# Soul Retrieval - A Traditional Healing Practice
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] This article takes a good look at Soul Retrieval, an ancient body of practices which can restore well being and healing transformation. The ancient practices known as 'the recapitulation of life force' is the body of work, which restores or recapitulates lost life force. Soul Retrieval is one of the most well-known and effective practices to this end.


# Medicine for the Soul - Plant Spirit Shamanism of the Amazonian Rainforest
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] An exploration of the sacred plant medicine practices of the Amazonian shamans. This article takes a good look at these traditions, with field interviews of some of the leading shamans of the region.