Shamanism – Traditional Healing

Ross Bishop Shamanism June 7, 2018Emoto, herbal remedies, ice crystals, Mayan, prayer, shamanism, soul loss, traditional healing 0 Comment

One of the intriguing things about traditional healing is that its practice is remarkably similar no matter where you go. Traditional healers from different disciplines can often work together because after thousands of years of refinement they have independently distilled the healing process to its essential and most effective essence. Regardless of race, culture or geography, when itRead more

Working With Your Shadow

Ross Bishop Childhood Wounding, Shamanism June 7, 2018July 10, 2018emotion, our dark side, our wild side, rebel, regression, shamanism, stress 0 Comment

Draw a line through your life dividing it in half. The part above the line is your daily life – your job, your relationships, your kids, housework and friends. This is the area that is mostly under your conscious control. It is where you balance your checkbook and decide where to go for dinner. The area below theRead more

Healing

Ross Bishop Shamanism June 7, 2018excluding, healing, sacrifice, shamanism, soul loss 0 Comment

In the Western world, healing is a lot like plumbing repair. You fix what is broken. A bad heart is simply a bad heart and you deal with it. And we have developed some simply phenomenal techniques and technologies for doing that. In more traditional societies the healing process requires that in addition to dealing with the immediateRead more

Healing – Part II, Sacrifice

Ross Bishop Overview, Shamanism, The Spiritual Path June 7, 2018June 26, 2018contrition, healing, profane, profanity, sacrifice, shamanism, wounded inner child 0 Comment

(In Part I we looked at the role of belief in shaping and limiting the healing process. In this part we will consider the pivotal role of sacrifice. This has been excerpted from my book, Journey to Enlightenment.) Our ancestors viewed life as being either sacred or profane. Profanity was that which stood outside the God Space, it couldRead more

Healing – Part I: Belief

Ross Bishop Life Experiences, Overview, Shamanism June 7, 2018July 10, 2018belief, disease, shamanism, soul loss 0 Comment

If you lived in a traditional society and presented your tribal shaman with a case of cancer, arthritis, heart disease, snakebite or the breakup of a relationship, the shaman would address the immediate problem and then search for the deeper emotional or psychic disturbance that was causing your dilemma. In traditional societies, the healing process requires that theRead more