Indigenous Shamanic cultures tell us that our modern industrial world is stripping us of our connection to spirit and blocking guidance from our ancestors. Without this connection, we risk not only a loss of purpose in this life but also the potential to reincarnate in others. For this episode we discuss the fascinating and shocking initiation experiences of a lost shaman and ponder the consequences of ignoring the unexplained.

We also travel beyond the 7th gate for our Plus+ Members and find out what happens with you play a complex game of chess with Bigfoot in the forest.

Links

• Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
• Malidoma Patrice Somé Finding your life’s Purpose Through Natural Rituals, and Community
• Covert Syncretism: The Reception of South Africa’s Sangoma Practise and Spirituality by “Double Faith” in the Contexts of Christianity and of Esotericism
• White Sangomas: the manifestation of Bantu forms of shamanic calling among whites in South Africa
• Malidoma Patrice Somé: African Ritual & Initiation — Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove
• Encounters with cupping and shamanism in Tanzania
• 2021 – Birth of a new world: astrological predictions

Plus+ Extension

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• Don’t Look Behind You: Following Ghost Roads Into the Unknown
• Beyond the Seventh Gate: Exploring Toad Road, the Seven Gates of Hell, and Other Strangeness in York, Lancaster, and Adams Counties