Podcasts about medicine men

Ep 349- Joining us this week n the podcast is Jose Mendoza. After studying and practicing Western medicine for years, Jose began a journey to discover the teaching and wisdom of Eastern traditional medicine. Often called “Chinese medicine, ” the practice involves finding balance and harmony in the body and spirit, using a number of … Continue reading "Ep 349- “Mysticism, Strange Happenings, Medicine Men, and Healing” with Jose Mendoza"

Send us a textI sit down with Dr. Robert Klitzman—director of the Masters of Bioethics program at Columbia University—to delve into the complex intersections of medicine, ethics, and culture. In this episode, we explore fascinating stories from Papua New Guinea, the cultural roots of disease understanding, the profound vulnerability of patients, and the challenges of doctor-patient communication. Dr. Klitzman's insights on holistic medicine and the ethical dilemmas in modern healthcare are both thought-provoking and deeply human.Robert Klitzman's work: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/doctor-will-you-pray-for-me-9780197750841https://amzn.to/42RVgDLInside GenevaInside Geneva is a podcast about global politics, humanitarian issues, & international aidListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showVisit my NEW Website! https://www.christopherbalkaran.comCheck out my Instagram/Tik Tok for daily posts: Instagram @openmindspodTiktok @openmindspodcast

Yes, it's another episode babes, and dropping this weekend, so hot on the heels of the last-it's amazing what you can do when you're confined to bed with the stomach flu! This time I'm introducing you to Ben Oofana, who began life as a young man drawn to indigenous cultures and wanting to learn as much as possible from the medicine men who practiced in those days. Ben has stories that are difficult to believe, but the very fact that they happened means that yes, all, there is so much about healing the body and mind that we haven't tapped yet...and I, for one, find that ridiculously exciting! What a frontier to investigate!! To read up about Ben and the work that he is doing in the world...click here!  I am so grateful to Ben for sharing all of his stories and being so generous with his time! DON'T FORGET TO RATE AND REVIEW MY FRIENDS! Also, your bit of beauty...a link to the THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS in Washington D.C., an old film of the Hopi Snake Dance! Although the footage is grainy, you can see that many of the participants are holding snakes...a truly powerful event, and one filled with meaning and beauty! 

Yes, it's another episode babes, and dropping this weekend, so hot on the heels of the last-it's amazing what you can do when you're confined to bed with the stomach flu! This time I'm introducing you to Ben Oofana, who began life as a young man drawn to indigenous cultures and wanting to learn as much as possible from the medicine men who practiced in those days. Ben has stories that are difficult to believe, but the very fact that they happened means that yes, all, there is so much about healing the body and mind that we haven't tapped yet...and I, for one, find that ridiculously exciting! What a frontier to investigate!! To read up about Ben and the work that he is doing in the world...click here!  I am so grateful to Ben for sharing all of his stories and being so generous with his time! DON'T FORGET TO RATE AND REVIEW MY FRIENDS! Also, your bit of beauty...a link to the THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS in Washington D.C., an old film of the Hopi Snake Dance! Although the footage is grainy, you can see that many of the participants are holding snakes...a truly powerful event, and one filled with meaning and beauty! 

Medicine Men vs Politicians -this segment is about comparing the differences and similarities from these two leadership roles that have evolved over time as clashes of characteristics may leave the people confused about following either one. #Gifts_Versus_Curses

Enjoy this episode? Please share it with at least ONE friend who you think needs to hear it!  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to tap into the hidden realms of your dreams and unlock deeper layers of your consciousness?  In this episode, we are joined by Joel Schafer, a personal empowerment mentor and shamanic dreaming arts teacher. Joel shares his journey from exploring Toltec teachings and psychedelics to discovering the profound work of Carlos Castaneda. With insights drawn from his experiences with medicine men, women, and healers, Joel dives deep into the shamanic dreaming arts and how they have shaped his life and practice.   Episode Highlights: Joel's Journey to Toltec Teachings: Hear about Joel's start with Toltec teachings, psychedelics, and how he discovered the work of Carlos Castaneda.  Medicine Men, Women, and Healers: Learn how the wisdom of these healers shifted Joel's life and approach to shamanism.  Shamanic Dreaming Arts: Explore Joel's work in the shamanic dreaming arts, including how to empty your story and become more resilient.  The Gates of Dreaming: Discover how the gates of dreaming lead to your parallel being and what working in these gates feels like.  Training Awareness: Understand how you can train yourself to perceive energy with your whole being and the significance of awareness in this practice.  Astral Entities and Their Origins: Joel explains where astral entities come from and what they are in relation to shamanic dreaming.  Recapitulation and Taking Back Your Power: A breakdown of recapitulation, what it is, and why it's necessary for reclaiming personal power.  Power Plants and the Energetic Body: Insights into the role of plant medicine, why it's sometimes necessary, and how it affects the energetic body.  Understanding the Flyers: Learn about the “flyers” and how understanding them helps you navigate what's happening on a deeper spiritual level. Shamanic Principles and Practice: Joel emphasizes the consistent work needed in shamanic practices and how to integrate these principles into everyday life.   About Joel Schafer  Joel Schafer is a personal empowerment mentor and teacher of the shamanic dreaming arts. With years of experience in Toltec teachings and practices, Joel guides people on a path of reclaiming their vital energy and attention. Through online courses, one-on-one mentoring, and in-person workshops, he shares powerful, non-linear techniques based on Toltec knowledge. These methods help individuals discover their purpose, heighten their awareness, ground themselves, and reclaim their focus. Joel's approach blends practicality with magic, offering clear, transformative solutions to life's challenges. Resources: Joel Schafer's Next Online Course: Multiplicity https://www.joelschafer.com/multiplicity  Joel Schafer's Next In-person Workshop (Missoula, Montana): Seeing the Mirror https://www.joelschafer.com/seeing-the-mirror      The Way Forward podcast is sponsored by: NEW BIOLOGY CLINIC: Experience individually tailored terrain-based health services with virtual consults, practitioner livestreams, movement classes, and more. The New Biology Clinic's motivation is to make you healthy and keep you that way. Visit https://NewBiologyClinic.com and enter code TheWayForward for $50 off your activation fee. Members of The Way Forward get the full activation fee waived. 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It is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure a condition; nor is it to be considered medical or legal advice, opinion or recommendation. This information is presented in the spirit of service for all.   0:00 - The Shamanic Dreaming Arts, Recapitulation & Castaneda 2:14 - Introduction  4:08 - Start with Toltec Teachings 13:13 - Allowing Your Dreams to Guide You 17:14 - Shamanic Dreaming Arts  30:50 - Consuming Powerful Materials & Practices Without Cult Mentality 38:50 - Dream Gates  48:12 - The Clay Molded Man 57:52 - How Can We Detach and Still Be In Love With This Reality 1:03:01 - Distortions of the New Age Movement  1:14:42 - Power of Awareness  1:20:44 - Perceiving Whole Energy 1:25:36 - The Art of Controlled Folly 1:33:24 - Astral Entities  1:39:18 - Deeper Layer of Awakening -  1:46:07 - Recapitulation  1:56:10 - Cultivating the Lost Memories 2:02:37 - Importance of Power Plants  2:09:54 - Being Ready to Receive the Second Awareness  2:20:36 - Differentiating Your Thoughts From the Flyers  2:28:20 - Is There a Reincarnation Soul Trap? 2:38:28 - Closing Thoughts

ZocDoc.com/GG- to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today.  Ghosts and Grit With Jack Osbourne is sponsored by BetterHelp. https://betterhelp.com/GHOSTS-  10% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH with BetterHelp   Join the Family NOW @  https://osbournemediahouse.com/ Join Jack's Patreon- @ JackOsbourne Join Jack Osbourne and psychic medium Cindy Kaza as they delve into the one and only Skinwalker Ranch on "Jack Osbourne's Most Haunted." The duo delve into the Ranch's notorious history, investigating baffling UFO sightings, perplexing disruptions of technology in photographs, and unsettling incidents of cattle mutilations that defy logical explanation. Drawing on authentic Navajo perspectives, they unpack the legends of skinwalkers and their role in Navajo tradition, offering a nuanced exploration of the cultural beliefs intertwined with the Ranch's paranormal phenomena. Jack shares intimate accounts of his experiences in the Uinta Basin, where he first encountered the unexplained, coinciding with the onset of his MS. Together, they confront the mysteries of the Ranch's Triangle of Death, contemplating whether the Ranch is truly haunted by skinwalkers or if it serves as a front for deeper, more ominous secrets. -------------///////////////-------------   Welcome to “Jack Osbourne's  Most Haunted”. In this electrifying new segment of "Ghosts and Grit," Jack Osbourne, a seasoned paranormal investigator, teams up with Cindy Kaza, a renowned psychic medium, to explore the world's most terrifying paranormal cases. Together, they offer a unique perspective on infamous hauntings and unsolved mysteries, combining Jack's investigative prowess with Cindy's psychic insights. Join them as they delve into the darkest corners of the paranormal realm, uncovering the truth behind spine-chilling phenomena that defy explanation. -------------///////////////-------------   You can find Jack at Osbourne Media House: https://osbournemediahouse.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackosbourne/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ghostsandgrit Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JackOsbourneOfficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackOsbourne   Credits:  Peter Glowski, Executive Producer LB Horschler, Executive in Charge  Hannah Pittman, Producer & Editor  Scott Noda, Editor

Subconscious Realms Episode - 255 Nuclear Medicine Men - Donny P. Ladies & Gentlemen, on this Episode of Subconscious Realms we welcome the Host & Creator of Nuclear Medicine Men; Donny P, to discuss ideas along with up & coming content Nuclear Medicine Men has planned...

In today's episode, you hear from Jalen Gordon, one of the last Gullah bush medicine man in America. Jalen discusses in this interview: 1. The sacred indigenous and Gullah wild herb life everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium). 2. How his love for plants and nature started at 7 years old. 3. The struggles he faces as an African American foraging in the wild. 4. How his family, especially his Mom, and culture shaped and helped him become a medicine man. Please share this episode with a friend so we can increase the awareness of how African Americans, especially males, are discriminated against while foraging and hopefully, through this awareness we can decrease the frequency of discrimination in this country. Also, so we can spread the beauty and wisdom of the Gullah culture in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. I am blessed to be in their presence. Connect with Jalen: Jalen's Instagram Account P.S. Registration for my ALL time favorite course, Medical Botany 1, is opening January 29th, 2024. The course begins February 13th, 2024. I hope to see you in there. Go to Medical Botany 1 to check out the course and be the first to know when it opens. Stay Wild, April

Jack graduated from The Yale School of Drama. He won the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize for Excellence in Writing while at Yale. His play, “Cutting In” won The Elly Award from The Sacramento Regional Theatre Alliance for Best Original Script in 1992. In 1993 “Medicine Men” a two-act play was published by One Peaceful World Press. “Fireproof,” “Digging Up Tennessee” and “Braving the Glen” were published in 1996 by Dialogus Play Service and Publishing. Jack has three previous novels published, Acoustic Shadows – Mary Todd Lincoln's Last Dance, and with Judy they published the two-book series, Following on White Horses. Recently (16 September 2018) they published Hercules & the Earl through Outlaws publishing. It is available through Kindle and paperback. In the next 21 months 6 more westerns will be published by Outlaws Publishing.They live in the Bitterroot Valley west of the river. There is only one who can take all the credit and that's the Father.

This week Magnum and Izzo discuss Skinwalkers, the origins, the characteristics, how you can protect yourself, similar tales across cultures, and to finish it off some spooky stories! - What say you? ⟁ PATREON ⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/theswervepodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⟁ WEBSITE ⁠⁠⁠www.theswervepodcast.com⁠⁠⁠ ⟁ SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y6b85kse⁠⁠⁠ ⟁ APPLE: ⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/3kp9kj5w⁠⁠⁠ ⟁ ANCHOR: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/the-swerve-podcast⁠⁠⁠ ⟁ INSTAGRAM: ⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/2j49x9m4⁠⁠⁠ ⟁ TWITTER: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Swerve_Podcast⁠⁠⁠ ⟁ FACEBOOK: ⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y8wezu57

In Episode 491: Sasquatch, Skinwalkers, and Rogue Medicine Men, we are joined by Morgan, who previously joined  us for Episode 427: Talking Red-Eyed Bigfoot He returns with more stories from his reservation in British Columbia, talking with us about sasquatch encounters and rogue medicine men who turn into the embodied evil known as skinwalkers. This will also not be Morgan's last appearance on the show, as we eventually plan to have Morgan and Jamaal from Episodes 315, 339. and 412 on the show together to discuss the stories and legends from their respective reservations.  Become a member for AD FREE listening and EXTRA shows: theconfessionalspodcast.com/join SPONSORS GET ExpressVPN: expressvpn.com/confess GET SIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionals GET Hello Fresh: hellofresh.com/confessionals16 Promo Code: "confessionals16" for 16 FREE MEALS!!! Get Emergency Food Supplies: www.preparewiththeconfessionals.com Get Beard Oil: bit.ly/2FbOhN5 CONNECT WITH US Website: www.theconfessionalspodcast.com Email: theconfessionals@theconfessionalspodcast.com Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-newsletter SOCIAL MEDIA Subscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaI TikTok: @theconfessionals Discord: https://discord.gg/KDn4D2uw7h Show Instagram: theconfessionalspodcast Tony's Instagram: tonymerkelofficial Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcas Twitter: @TConfessionals Tony's Twitter: @tony_merkel Are you a military veteran struggling with thoughts of suicide? Contact Watchman Readiness Corps for REAL help. A veteran-run organization that is designed to help through hands-on survival training. Website: wrc.vet Email: watchmanreadiness@gmail.com Phone: (214) 912-8714 Instagram: wrc_survival Facebook: colbywrcvet

Iya Affo is a culturalist and historical trauma specialist. She has traveled to more than 25 countries and lived a life dedicated to cultivating love and inclusivity, facilitating decolonization, and healing indigenous people. Iya's work focuses on a cultural and neurobiological perspective of historical trauma, and she presents the question, “What happened in the past, and how does that manifest in people today?”  Exploring cultural expressions historically used to manage adversity, Iya highlights a White Mountain Apache dance performed as a debriefing by warriors returning home. “That's what they did to restore their neurological regulation before they rejoin the community because we know that if we are dysregulated, we have behaviors that are aggressive and abusive and hostile.” Iya points to the Cherry Blossom study, underscoring the beginning of one's biological life as an egg in the womb of our grandmothers. Through the knowledge of epigenetics, we understand that trauma can be imprinted on us even before the birth of our mothers. Still, we can also pass down positive experiences, benevolence, and love. “What you do today and how you change your life today has the potential to impact the next 14 generations.” About Iya Affo:  Iya Affo is a Culturalist and Historical Trauma Specialist. She is the founder of Heal Historical Trauma and the International Historical Trauma Association. Iya earned Western certification as a Trauma Specialist and is a descendant of a long line of traditional healers from the Republic of Benin, West Africa. She has visited more than 25 countries and resided in various Native American, Yoruba, Buddhist, Hindu, and Taoist communities. While on pilgrimage in Benin, she lived among Medicine Men and Women to learn the ways of the Shaman and understand the truth about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. In China, Iya lived in the Shaolin Temple; in India, she sojourned in a Hindu spiritual community. Serving Navajo Nation and the Gila River Indian Community, Iya found a home among the egalitarian, indigenous people of North America. Learn More: healhistoricaltrauma.com To read the full show notes and discover more resources visit https://www.narmtraining.com/podcast *** NARM Training Institute https://www.NARMtraining.com View upcoming trainings: https://narmtraining.com/schedule Join the Inner Circle: https://narmtraining.com/online-learning/inner-circle *** The NARM Training Institute provides tools for transforming complex trauma through: in-person and online trainings for mental health care professionals; in-person and online workshops on complex trauma and how it interplays with areas like addiction, parenting, and cultural trauma; an online self-paced learning program, the NARM Inner Circle; and other trauma-informed learning resources.   We want to connect with you! Facebook @NARMtraining YouTube Instagram @thenarmtraininginstitute

“Right here, right now!” is the motto that our guest lives by each and every day. Our guest on this episode is my dear friend Mark Worster, The Medicine Men. Mark's mission is to be the vessel that inspires people to step outside their human experience and embrace their true nature. He'll share with us the tools he's gathered over a lifetime of spiritual exploration and guide us into a new reality! 

You may have thought the use of Medicine Men was a thing of the past.  Not here.  In fact, this man has found the combination...

Join myself, & Lori A Andrus for this week's She Rose Revolutionaries Podcast interview called "The Power Of Small Steps To The Path Of Sacred Living".Lori A Andrus is an artist and wisdom teacher. With great joy and deep commitment, she artfully blends her background as an occupational therapist with nearly two decades of deep study in the areas of spirituality, earth-based healing, ceremony, and crystal wisdom. Known for asking spot-on questions, she invites her students and clients to explore the most intimate facets of their soul. Lori is the host of Crystal Shaman Life Podcast where she shares practical ways to bring crystal wisdom and sacred practice into your everyday life.Here is what we covered on this episode of She Rose Revolutionaries:Lori's personal journey of spiritual remembering and awakeningTrusting the divine to guide your path (Lori has so many personal examples on this through her personal journey).Discovering Reiki and the door to a new part of her sacred path.Her career as an occupational therapist, and her transition to shamanismWhat a trip to Peru opened for her as studied Shamanism with Medicine Men in the regionAkashic Records, Peruvian Spirit Mountain Medicine What Peruvian culture teaches us about inter-connectedness How Peruvian practices are woven into the Catholic setting in their culture showing us it doesn't always have to be "this" or "that".What Shamanism is, and how it can show us the beauty of divine connection through all of lifeHer love of crystal's, and how that turned into crystal healing jewelryLand energy and creating relationship with the land wherever you are (city or country)The healing power's of earth and how accessible it is for anyone.The power of small steps, when it can feel daunting to begin a new journey as we make our way along our sacred pathAnd SO much more...Check Out Lori's Free Gift: https://loriaandrus.com/sink-inAnd as always come join in on the She Rose Revolutionaries private community for weekly discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sheroserevolutionariesOr check out my website at www.tarapreston.com

A century divides the bubonic plague and Covid that hit Mumbai. This is the story of how the city's finest doctors saw the challenge then and now, and how the past is linked with what we are experiencing today.

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Welcome back or welcome here, it's time for episode 12 cult children! This week Ashlee wrecks us all emotionally with the story of scumbag supreme Howard B. Elkins and Devan gets her creep on and talks about skin walkers...spoiler alert, stay out of the spooky forest, guys. We hope you enjoy this episode and join us every Sunday while we chat about cults, conspiracies and crime! You can also follow us on all of our socials listed below or find us on Patreon: Facebook @cultstuffandchill Twitter @chill_cult Instagram @cult_stuff_and_Chill TikTok @cultstuffandchill --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tune in this week as I discuss some of the early treatment methods and individuals responsible for aiding those living in early America. From Barber Surgeons to Medicine Men, bloodletting to snake oil, getting sick in the nineteenth century was no laughing matter. Prepare yourself for this one - it's a bit gross. For show notes, please visit the website www.civicsandcoffee.comSupport the show (http://www.buymeacoffee.com/civicscoffeepod)

Part Two in the first season of Stories from the Hearth's bonus historical and interview series: The Wandering Bard. Each season of The Wandering Bard examines a different aspect of the history and nature of storytelling, as well as people behind it. In season one of The Wandering Bard, we ask the question “Why do we tell stories?”, and in today's episode, we examine how storytelling forms the backbone of culture, and how through our stories we help to create, preserve, and challenge our various cultural understandings.In the next instalment of The Wandering Bard, we will be looking at the kind of lessons we pass down through our stories - from the ethical and moral, to the practical.Stories from the Hearth is an experimental storytelling experience ft. truly original fiction and thoughtfully produced soundscapes. The aim of this podcast is to rekindle its listeners' love for the ancient art of storytelling (and story-listening), and to bring some small escapism to the frantic energies of the modern world. Stories from the Hearth is the brainchild of queer punk poet, environmentalist, and anarchist Cal Bannerman. Vive l'art!Support the podcast and get early access, exclusive content, bonus story-episodes, in-episode shout-outs, and the chance to become part of a wider community, by visiting my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/storiesfromthehearthpodcastInstagram: @storiesfromthehearthTwitter: @Hearth_PodcastYouTube: Stories from the HearthEmail: storiesfromthehearthpodcast@gmail.comOriginal Artwork by Anna FerraraAnna's Instagram: @giallosardinaAnna's Portfolio: https://annaferrara.carbonmade.com/Thank you for listening. Please consider following, subscribing to, and sharing this bonus episode, and please do tell your friends all about Stories from the Hearth.

Part One in the first season of Stories from the Hearth's bonus historical and interview series: The Wandering Bard. Each season of The Wandering Bard examines a different aspect of the history and nature of storytelling, as well as people behind it. In season one of The Wandering Bard, we ask the question “Why do we tell stories?”, and in today's episode, we examine how storytelling helps us to make sense of the world around us.In the next instalment of The Wandering Bard, we will be looking at how storytelling creates, preserves, and challenges our cultures.Stories from the Hearth is an experimental storytelling experience ft. truly original fiction and thoughtfully produced soundscapes. The aim of this podcast is to rekindle its listeners' love for the ancient art of storytelling (and story-listening), and to bring some small escapism to the frantic energies of the modern world. Stories from the Hearth is the brainchild of queer punk poet, environmentalist, and anarchist Cal Bannerman. Vive l'art!Support the podcast and get early access, exclusive content, bonus story-episodes, in-episode shout-outs, and the chance to become part of a wider community, by visiting my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/storiesfromthehearthpodcastInstagram: @storiesfromthehearthTwitter: @Hearth_PodcastYouTube: Stories from the HearthEmail: storiesfromthehearthpodcast@gmail.comOriginal Artwork by Anna FerraraAnna's Instagram: @giallosardinaAnna's Portfolio: https://annaferrara.carbonmade.com/Thank you for listening. Please consider following, subscribing to, and sharing this bonus episode, and please do tell your friends all about Stories from the Hearth.

The Girl Scout Murders were a horrible tragedy on their own, but there is a darker, hidden side to this event. One involving a spiritual battle between good and evil Medicine Men, skinwalkers, curses, and more. Join us as we conclude our conversation about the 1977 Girl Scout Murders of Oklahoma.

In the summer of 1977, three little girls were brutally attacked and murdered while attending camp in Oklahoma. This horrible and unresolved case would become known as "The Girl Scout Murders", and haunts the state still to this day. Rumors of Medicine Men and shape shifting skin-walkers make it even more mysterious and terrifying.   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 

Authors Mason Winfield and Michael Bastine talk about their work Iroquois Supernatural. How a group of 5 Nations join to form the Iroquois Confederacy that will have an influence on the founding of the United States. This book covers the many stories and traditions that are held by these nations (Medicine Men, Natural Healers, Witches, orbs, False Faces.Support the show (http://Patreon.com/3beardspodcast )

The Navajo people have relied on medicine men for spiritual, physcological, and physical wellness for centuries. But these ancient healers have been threatened by the pandemic and they’re fighting for survival. --- Host - Harry Croton Producer - Vaughan Jones Contributors - Anthony Wallace

The Navajo people have relied on Medicine Men for many types of wellness, but the pandemic is threatening them; youth sports are known as ‘superspreader’ events of COVID; and why some Arizona Republicans voted Democrat. Plus, the latest in business, education, fronteras, and local news.

Sponsored by Ribble Valley Jazz and Blues... Rotten Kid - Buddy Rich with his Big Band We Need Love - Return of the Medicine Men Mascaram Setaba - Mulatu Astatke, Black Jesus Experience Interview with Phil Lee (Stan Getz - Desefino) Summer Samba - Ramsey Lewis Absinthe - Dinosaur Interview with Dave Gelly (An Unholy Row) How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns (Paul Simon) Breathe - Henry Botham Twilight Zone Herbie Hancock Part 1: Empty Pockets (Taking Off 1962) Watermelon Man (Taking Off 1962) Succotash (Inventions & Dimensions, 1963) Blind Man, Blind Man (My Point of View, 1963) Cantaloupe Island (Empyrean Isles, 1964) Maiden Voyage (Maiden Voyage 1965) Dolphin Dance (Maiden Voyage 1965) Toys (Speak Like a Child, 1968)

Listen and explore:The healing technology of icarosDeveloping a relationship with plants through shamanic dietaThe important role lineage plays in Zach's training as a maestro ayahuascero The path of Pura Medicina and the slippery slope that leads to witchcraftThe differences between lsd and ayahuascaZach's training program: what it takes to work with ayahuascaThe potential importance of ayahuasca in the West at this moment in historyMentioned in this episode:Duncan TrusselKen WilberBlue Morpho RetreatsFAR OUT #87 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: 1500+ Ceremonies Later, Shaman Zach Poitra's Journey (Episode 5)FAR OUT #85 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: Shaman Jess Poitra on Kambo, the Warrior Frog Medicine (Episode 4)FAR OUT #78 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: A Month Later (Episode 3)FAR OUT #76 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: Working with the Medicine (Episode 2)FAR OUT #74 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: Drinking it for the First Time (Episode 1) Connect with Zach:https://www.healyourtribe.com/Email Zach about Kambo at info@healyourtribe.comLa Familia AyahuascaLa Familia Ayahuasca podcastConnect with us:Email us at host@thefaroutpodcast.comOn Instagram: @thefaroutcoupleJulie-Roxane on Instagram: @julieroxaneAlasdair @ www.alasdairplambeck.comSupport this podcast:Become a patron at: https://www.patreon.com/thefaroutcoupleLeave a review on iTunes!Share this episode with a friend! :DCredits:Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonaldOutro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

Bedroom talk, relationship advice and normal banter with an interview from Billy and the Medicine Men. Billy and the Medicine Men Billy Smith - Lead Singer and Rhythm Guitar Shane Pennington - Bass Bono Boyd - Drums David Rice - Guitar Find Billy and the Medicine Men on Facebook.  Be sure to message them for Merchandise!

(recorded over zoom) 19th-century “medicine shows” marketed cure-alls in a moveable feast of showmanship that compelled rural pain sufferers to exchange hard-earned cash for “miracle” elixirs, tonics, and liniments. Most of these treatments were dubious at best, dangerous at worst. But these shows were more than just a particularly vivid chapter in America’s long history of rewarding savvy hustlers peddling questionable products. The medicine show was also a vitally important social phenomenon, providing unique social and economic mobility for people who had talent, but were otherwise shut out from the opportunities of  post-Reconstruction America. Join Dr. Karen Bellinger as she speaks with writer and historian Deb Hunter about the role of Snake Oil Salesmen in the early days of the pharmaceutical industry.

Intro: why I changed my logo, Schumann Resonance news. Second part: In the description of my Podcast, I say that I am a Heyoka Lightning Shaman and tonight I finally unravel what that mouthful of words actually means. What is a Shaman? Is it always about Psychedelic Drugs or plants from the Jungle? Why I have never yet taken Ayuhuasca! XD What are different examples of a Shaman? Why were transgender and intersex individuals considered as highly respected and sought out as well respected Medicine Men in various Native American Tribes in generations past? What is a Heyoka kind of Shaman? Who do you know that may be this type of Shaman and not even know it? (Hint: It's The Class Clown!) I give two real world examples of famous Heyokas. And a couple funny stories: That time I heckled a United States Marine. I date a rookie cop while living in a house

Indian Mounds and Ways of Life in Lee County, How Fixer originated and received its name, Ashland Oil Company, Home Remedies and Medicine Men

Molly Larkin was born in Brooklyn, New York to a very Irish-American family and lived in and around New York City until moving to California in the 1970s. Since the mid-1980s she has studied with Native American and indigenous elders from around the world, and was an apprentice to Muskogee-Creek healer/teacher, Marcellus "Bear Heart" Williams. With Bear Heart, she co-authored "The Wind Is My Mother; the Life and Teachings of A Native America Shaman." Bear Heart, a full-blooded Muskogee Creek Indian and one of the last "trained" Medicine Men, shares this knowledge, combining it with his more formal, graduate degree in psychology to build a bridge between Native American and modern spirituality. 

This week we recap on Cummings heading to Nottingham Forrest, Rocky Marciano deal coming to a close, transfer rumours and who we what to see Hibs sign. This weeks music comes from Medicine Men, find the link to their album "Into The Light". https://t.co/7XGiOkMerc

Welcome to another fresh edition of PoPolitickin. In this episode, we are joined the legendary rapper, singer, and music producer Mo B. Dick. Mo B. Dick is a founding member of the production team The Medicine Men (formerly Beats by the Pound), which produced most of No Limit Records' releases from 1995 to 1999. During his stint at No Limit Records, He not only produced tracks, but was also a featured artist on over a dozen songs, As a member of Beats by the Pound, the production team collectively produced nearly all of the label's tracks. Mo B. Dick's own repertoire lists his production credits on over 170 recordings. In this exclusive interview, Mo B. Dick gives an oral history of his No Limit Records/Beats by the Pound experience, current projects, and more..

Susan Shining-Star is currently serving as the CEO at Senior Bees, a 501 (C)(3) Non-profit that provides educational activities and workshops to assist others to "Age in Place, Gracefully." She is a trained Gerontologist and Ordained Indigenous Minister and Spiritual Director. Susan has spent more than 4 decades studying and working with a variety of teachers; academic, as well as Medicine Men and Women and other Spiritual teachers. She has earned an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, a Master of Education degree in Adult Education/Holistic Health, a Master of Science degree in Human Services/Gerontology, and a Certificate of Thanatology. Learning how to return one's Spirit to a place of Spiritual Unity has been Susan's primary goal; as a result, the psycho-social and psycho-spiritual aspects of Personal Growth and Spiritual Development, in the field of aging, have been the main focus areas of her studies and teachings.Join us for this special edition of Aging GreatFULLy! It will promise fun and entertainment and the guest even get to ask me some questions! I hope you'll tune in!

O'Dell is one of the dopest producers to ever come out the South. Tune in and listen as we chop it up with him and he joins the legendary archive!

Charlotte View and the School of Esoteric Healing presents "Alchemy and Energy" with Jennifer Boose, Teacher of Consciousness Studies and Soul-Directed Energy Healing and the Director of a 3-year Energy Medicine Training Program. Episode: White Magic during the Holidays. The Power behind Gems and Crystals you use. Holiday Season can be a time of unity and wellbeing but often times is a time of stress and conflict that can very well be resolved by the use of specific gems and crystals designed to balance the environment and yourself.   A magical and symbiotic connection has always existed between human beings and gems. Evidence of gemstones used for healing has been found as far back as the 4th Millenium BC. Ancient civilizations such as the Chinese, Egyptians, Sumerians, Greeks, Romans, or Shamans and Medicine Men have used gemstones for healing in multiple ways - made into powders or elixirs, worn, carried or placed on the body and in ceremonies or rituals. Many of the stones with the highest vibrations are rare minerals, but by combining one of the rare minerals with other more common high energy stones, you can create an amazing result. On a cellular level, our bodies are naturally receptive to the vibrations of crystals as they transmit, reflect, store light and receive energy. When crystals are placed directly on your body, they have a powerful vibratory effect that surges from the crystal to you. According to the law of physics, thoughts direct energy and energy follows thought. Each of our crystal energy pieces serve as a tool to help the thoughts of our consciousness connect with our body. It is a personal choice whether to wear them as crystal jewelry or keep tumble stones on you in a pouch.  Contact Jennifer: info@school-of-esoteric-healing.com  /  www.school-of-esoteric-healing.com

When Emma Mildon (@emmamildon) set out on a worldwide soul search she had absolutely no idea where it would lead her. From working with Medicine Men, to exploring channeling, energy healing and connecting with spiritualists the globe over, Emma found herself immersed in a vast web of healers, teachers, authors and like-minded soul-searchers across the globe and now aims to provide fun spiritual wisdom to her generation. Soul Sister Circle (@soulsistercircle) chats to Emma about her world wise soul search and how she made the transition from aspiring writer to bestselling author. For links to any of the resources mentioned in this Podcast visit http://www.soulsistercircle.com.au/emmamildon

John and CC go separate ways this time to review Young Black Jack and the first two seasons of Noragami. But first they dive into their "Trash Stash" to tell you why Comet Lucifer might not be worth your time.

Shamanism — Medicine Men and Priests (986.1) 90:0.1 THE evolution of religious observances progressed from placation, avoidance, exorcism, coercion, conciliation, and propitiation to sacrifice, atonement, and redemption. The technique of religious ritual passed from the forms of the primitive cult through fetishes to magic and miracles; and as ritual became more complex in response to man’s increasingly complex concept of the supermaterial realms, it was inevitably dominated by medicine men, shamans, and priests. (986.2) 90:0.2 In the advancing concepts of primitive man the spirit world was eventually regarded as being unresponsive to the ordinary mortal. Only the exceptional among humans could catch the ear of the gods; only the extraordinary man or woman would be heard by the spirits. Religion thus enters upon a new phase, a stage wherein it gradually becomes secondhanded; always does a medicine man, a shaman, or a priest intervene between the religionist and the object of worship. And today most Urantia systems of organized religious belief are passing through this level of evolutionary development. (986.3) 90:0.3 Evolutionary religion is born of a simple and all-powerful fear, the fear which surges through the human mind when confronted with the unknown, the inexplicable, and the incomprehensible. Religion eventually achieves the profoundly simple realization of an all-powerful love, the love which sweeps irresistibly through the human soul when awakened to the conception of the limitless affection of the Universal Father for the sons of the universe. But in between the beginning and the consummation of religious evolution, there intervene the long ages of the shamans, who presume to stand between man and God as intermediaries, interpreters, and intercessors. 1. The First Shamans — The Medicine Men (986.4) 90:1.1 The shaman was the ranking medicine man, the ceremonial fetishman, and the focus personality for all the practices of evolutionary religion. In many groups the shaman outranked the war chief, marking the beginning of the church domination of the state. The shaman sometimes functioned as a priest and even as a priest-king. Some of the later tribes had both the earlier shaman-medicine men (seers) and the later appearing shaman-priests. And in many cases the office of shaman became hereditary. (986.5) 90:1.2 Since in olden times anything abnormal was ascribed to spirit possession, any striking mental or physical abnormality constituted qualification for being a medicine man. Many of these men were epileptic, many of the women hysteric, and these two types accounted for a good deal of ancient inspiration as well as spirit and devil possession. Quite a few of these earliest of priests were of a class which has since been denominated paranoiac. (987.1) 90:1.3 While they may have practiced deception in minor matters, the great majority of the shamans believed in the fact of their spirit possession. Women who were able to throw themselves into a trance or a cataleptic fit became powerful shamanesses; later, such women became prophets and spirit mediums. Their cataleptic trances usually involved alleged communications with the ghosts of the dead. Many female shamans were also professional dancers. (987.2) 90:1.4 But not all shamans were self-deceived; many were shrewd and able tricksters. As the profession developed, a novice was required to serve an apprenticeship of ten years of hardship and self-denial to qualify as a medicine man. The shamans developed a professional mode of dress and affected a mysterious conduct. They frequently employed drugs to induce certain physical states which would impress and mystify the tribesmen. Sleight-of-hand feats were regarded as supernatural by the common folk, and ventriloquism was first used by shrewd priests. Many of the olden shamans unwittingly stumbled onto hypnotism; others induced autohypnosis by prolonged staring at their navels. (987.3) 90:1.5 While many resorted to these tricks and deceptions, their reputation as a class, after all, stood on apparent achievement. When a shaman failed in his undertakings, if he could not advance a plausible alibi, he was either demoted or killed. Thus the honest shamans early perished; only the shrewd actors survived. (987.4) 90:1.6 It was shamanism that took the exclusive direction of tribal affairs out of the hands of the old and the strong and lodged it in the hands of the shrewd, the clever, and the farsighted. 2. Shamanistic Practices (987.5) 90:2.1 Spirit conjuring was a very precise and highly complicated procedure, comparable to present-day church rituals conducted in an ancient tongue. The human race very early sought for superhuman help, for revelation; and men believed that the shaman actually received such revelations. While the shamans utilized the great power of suggestion in their work, it was almost invariably negative suggestion; only in very recent times has the technique of positive suggestion been employed. In the early development of their profession the shamans began to specialize in such vocations as rain making, disease healing, and crime detecting. To heal diseases was not, however, the chief function of a shamanic medicine man; it was, rather, to know and to control the hazards of living. (987.6) 90:2.2 Ancient black art, both religious and secular, was called white art when practiced by either priests, seers, shamans, or medicine men. The practitioners of the black art were called sorcerers, magicians, wizards, witches, enchanters, necromancers, conjurers, and soothsayers. As time passed, all such purported contact with the supernatural was classified either as witchcraft or shamancraft. (987.7) 90:2.3 Witchcraft embraced the magic performed by earlier, irregular, and unrecognized spirits; shamancraft had to do with miracles performed by regular spirits and recognized gods of the tribe. In later times the witch became associated with the devil, and thus was the stage set for the many comparatively recent exhibitions of religious intolerance. Witchcraft was a religion with many primitive tribes. (987.8) 90:2.4 The shamans were great believers in the mission of chance as revelatory of the will of the spirits; they frequently cast lots to arrive at decisions. Modern survivals of this proclivity for casting lots are illustrated, not only in the many games of chance, but also in the well-known “counting-out” rhymes. Once, the person counted out must die; now, he is only it in some childish game. That which was serious business to primitive man has survived as a diversion of the modern child. (988.1) 90:2.5 The medicine men put great trust in signs and omens, such as, “When you hear the sound of a rustling in the tops of the mulberry trees, then shall you bestir yourself.” Very early in the history of the race the shamans turned their attention to the stars. Primitive astrology was a world-wide belief and practice; dream interpreting also became widespread. All this was soon followed by the appearance of those temperamental shamanesses who professed to be able to communicate with the spirits of the dead. (988.2) 90:2.6 Though of ancient origin, the rain makers, or weather shamans, have persisted right on down through the ages. A severe drought meant death to the early agriculturists; weather control was the object of much ancient magic. Civilized man still makes the weather the common topic of conversation. The olden peoples all believed in the power of the shaman as a rain maker, but it was customary to kill him when he failed, unless he could offer a plausible excuse to account for the failure. (988.3) 90:2.7 Again and again did the Caesars banish the astrologers, but they invariably returned because of the popular belief in their powers. They could not be driven out, and even in the sixteenth century after Christ the directors of Occidental church and state were the patrons of astrology. Thousands of supposedly intelligent people still believe that one may be born under the domination of a lucky or an unlucky star; that the juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies determines the outcome of various terrestrial adventures. Fortunetellers are still patronized by the credulous. (988.4) 90:2.8 The Greeks believed in the efficacy of oracular advice, the Chinese used magic as protection against demons, shamanism flourished in India, and it still openly persists in central Asia. It is an only recently abandoned practice throughout much of the world. (988.5) 90:2.9 Ever and anon, true prophets and teachers arose to denounce and expose shamanism. Even the vanishing red man had such a prophet within the past hundred years, the Shawnee Tenskwatawa, who predicted the eclipse of the sun in 1806 and denounced the vices of the white man. Many true teachers have appeared among the various tribes and races all through the long ages of evolutionary history. And they will ever continue to appear to challenge the shamans or priests of any age who oppose general education and attempt to thwart scientific progress.* (988.6) 90:2.10 In many ways and by devious methods the olden shamans established their reputations as voices of God and custodians of providence. They sprinkled the newborn with water and conferred names upon them; they circumcised the males. They presided over all burial ceremonies and made due announcement of the safe arrival of the dead in spiritland. (988.7) 90:2.11 The shamanic priests and medicine men often became very wealthy through the accretion of their various fees which were ostensibly offerings to the spirits. Not infrequently a shaman would accumulate practically all the material wealth of his tribe. Upon the death of a wealthy man it was customary to divide his property equally with the shaman and some public enterprise or charity. This practice still obtains in some parts of Tibet, where one half the male population belongs to this class of nonproducers. (989.1) 90:2.12 The shamans dressed well and usually had a number of wives; they were the original aristocracy, being exempt from all tribal restrictions. They were very often of low-grade mind and morals. They suppressed their rivals by denominating them witches or sorcerers and very frequently rose to such positions of influence and power that they were able to dominate the chiefs or kings. (989.2) 90:2.13 Primitive man regarded the shaman as a necessary evil; he feared him but did not love him. Early man respected knowledge; he honored and rewarded wisdom. The shaman was mostly fraud, but the veneration for shamanism well illustrates the premium put upon wisdom in the evolution of the race. 3. The Shamanic Theory of Disease and Death (989.3) 90:3.1 Since ancient man regarded himself and his material environment as being directly responsive to the whims of the ghosts and the fancies of the spirits, it is not strange that his religion should have been so exclusively concerned with material affairs. Modern man attacks his material problems directly; he recognizes that matter is responsive to the intelligent manipulation of mind. Primitive man likewise desired to modify and even to control the life and energies of the physical domains; and since his limited comprehension of the cosmos led him to the belief that ghosts, spirits, and gods were personally and immediately concerned with the detailed control of life and matter, he logically directed his efforts to winning the favor and support of these superhuman agencies. (989.4) 90:3.2 Viewed in this light, much of the inexplicable and irrational in the ancient cults is understandable. The ceremonies of the cult were primitive man’s attempt to control the material world in which he found himself. And many of his efforts were directed to the end of prolonging life and insuring health. Since all diseases and death itself were originally regarded as spirit phenomena, it was inevitable that the shamans, while functioning as medicine men and priests, should also have labored as doctors and surgeons. (989.5) 90:3.3 The primitive mind may be handicapped by lack of facts, but it is for all that logical. When thoughtful men observe disease and death, they set about to determine the causes of these visitations, and in accordance with their understanding, the shamans and the scientists have propounded the following theories of affliction: (989.6) 90:3.4 1. Ghosts — direct spirit influences. The earliest hypothesis advanced in explanation of disease and death was that spirits caused disease by enticing the soul out of the body; if it failed to return, death ensued. The ancients so feared the malevolent action of disease-producing ghosts that ailing individuals would often be deserted without even food or water. Regardless of the erroneous basis for these beliefs, they did effectively isolate afflicted individuals and prevent the spread of contagious disease. (989.7) 90:3.5 2. Violence — obvious causes. The causes for some accidents and deaths were so easy to identify that they were early removed from the category of ghost action. Fatalities and wounds attendant upon war, animal combat, and other readily identifiable agencies were considered as natural occurrences. But it was long believed that the spirits were still responsible for delayed healing or for the infection of wounds of even “natural” causation. If no observable natural agent could be discovered, the spirit ghosts were still held responsible for disease and death. (990.1) 90:3.6 Today, in Africa and elsewhere may be found primitive peoples who kill someone every time a nonviolent death occurs. Their medicine men indicate the guilty parties. If a mother dies in childbirth, the child is immediately strangled — a life for a life. (990.2) 90:3.7 3. Magic — the influence of enemies. Much sickness was thought to be caused by bewitchment, the action of the evil eye and the magic pointing bow. At one time it was really dangerous to point a finger at anyone; it is still regarded as ill-mannered to point. In cases of obscure disease and death the ancients would hold a formal inquest, dissect the body, and settle upon some finding as the cause of death; otherwise the death would be laid to witchcraft, thus necessitating the execution of the witch responsible therefor. These ancient coroner’s inquests saved many a supposed witch’s life. Among some it was believed that a tribesman could die as a result of his own witchcraft, in which event no one was accused. (990.3) 90:3.8 4. Sin — punishment for taboo violation. In comparatively recent times it has been believed that sickness is a punishment for sin, personal or racial. Among peoples traversing this level of evolution the prevailing theory is that one cannot be afflicted unless one has violated a taboo. To regard sickness and suffering as “arrows of the Almighty within them” is typical of such beliefs. The Chinese and Mesopotamians long regarded disease as the result of the action of evil demons, although the Chaldeans also looked upon the stars as the cause of suffering. This theory of disease as a consequence of divine wrath is still prevalent among many reputedly civilized groups of Urantians. (990.4) 90:3.9 5. Natural causation. Mankind has been very slow to learn the material secrets of the interrelationship of cause and effect in the physical domains of energy, matter, and life. The ancient Greeks, having preserved the traditions of Adamson’s teachings, were among the first to recognize that all disease is the result of natural causes. Slowly and certainly the unfolding of a scientific era is destroying man’s age-old theories of sickness and death. Fever was one of the first human ailments to be removed from the category of supernatural disorders, and progressively the era of science has broken the fetters of ignorance which so long imprisoned the human mind. An understanding of old age and contagion is gradually obliterating man’s fear of ghosts, spirits, and gods as the personal perpetrators of human misery and mortal suffering. (990.5) 90:3.10 Evolution unerringly achieves its end: It imbues man with that superstitious fear of the unknown and dread of the unseen which is the scaffolding for the God concept. And having witnessed the birth of an advanced comprehension of Deity, through the co-ordinate action of revelation, this same technique of evolution then unerringly sets in motion those forces of thought which will inexorably obliterate the scaffolding, which has served its purpose. 4. Medicine Under the Shamans (990.6) 90:4.1 The entire life of ancient men was prophylactic; their religion was in no small measure a technique for disease prevention. And regardless of the error in their theories, they were wholehearted in putting them into effect; they had unbounded faith in their methods of treatment, and that, in itself, is a powerful remedy. (991.1) 90:4.2 The faith required to get well under the foolish ministrations of one of these ancient shamans was, after all, not materially different from that which is required to experience healing at the hands of some of his later-day successors who engage in the nonscientific treatment of disease. (991.2) 90:4.3 The more primitive tribes greatly feared the sick, and for long ages they were carefully avoided, shamefully neglected. It was a great advance in humanitarianism when the evolution of shamancraft produced priests and medicine men who consented to treat disease. Then it became customary for the entire clan to crowd into the sickroom to assist the shaman in howling the disease ghosts away. It was not uncommon for a woman to be the diagnosing shaman, while a man would administer treatment. The usual method of diagnosing disease was to examine the entrails of an animal. (991.3) 90:4.4 Disease was treated by chanting, howling, laying on of hands, breathing on the patient, and many other techniques. In later times the resort to temple sleep, during which healing supposedly took place, became widespread. The medicine men eventually essayed actual surgery in connection with temple slumber; among the first operations was that of trephining the skull to allow a headache spirit to escape. The shamans learned to treat fractures and dislocations, to open boils and abscesses; the shamanesses became adept at midwifery. (991.4) 90:4.5 It was a common method of treatment to rub something magical on an infected or blemished spot on the body, throw the charm away, and supposedly experience a cure. If anyone should chance to pick up the discarded charm, it was believed he would immediately acquire the infection or blemish. It was a long time before herbs and other real medicines were introduced. Massage was developed in connection with incantation, rubbing the spirit out of the body, and was preceded by efforts to rub medicine in, even as moderns attempt to rub liniments in. Cupping and sucking the affected parts, together with bloodletting, were thought to be of value in getting rid of a disease-producing spirit. (991.5) 90:4.6 Since water was a potent fetish, it was utilized in the treatment of many ailments. For long it was believed that the spirit causing the sickness could be eliminated by sweating. Vapor baths were highly regarded; natural hot springs soon blossomed as primitive health resorts. Early man discovered that heat would relieve pain; he used sunlight, fresh animal organs, hot clay, and hot stones, and many of these methods are still employed. Rhythm was practiced in an effort to influence the spirits; the tom-toms were universal. (991.6) 90:4.7 Among some people disease was thought to be caused by a wicked conspiracy between spirits and animals. This gave rise to the belief that there existed a beneficent plant remedy for every animal-caused disease. The red men were especially devoted to the plant theory of universal remedies; they always put a drop of blood in the root hole left when the plant was pulled up. (991.7) 90:4.8 Fasting, dieting, and counterirritants were often used as remedial measures. Human secretions, being definitely magical, were highly regarded; blood and urine were thus among the earliest medicines and were soon augmented by roots and various salts. The shamans believed that disease spirits could be driven out of the body by foul-smelling and bad-tasting medicines. Purging very early became a routine treatment, and the values of raw cocoa and quinine were among the earliest pharmaceutical discoveries. (992.1) 90:4.9 The Greeks were the first to evolve truly rational methods of treating the sick. Both the Greeks and the Egyptians received their medical knowledge from the Euphrates valley. Oil and wine was a very early medicine for treating wounds; castor oil and opium were used by the Sumerians. Many of these ancient and effective secret remedies lost their power when they became known; secrecy has always been essential to the successful practice of fraud and superstition. Only facts and truth court the full light of comprehension and rejoice in the illumination and enlightenment of scientific research. 5. Priests and Rituals (992.2) 90:5.1 The essence of the ritual is the perfection of its performance; among savages it must be practiced with exact precision. It is only when the ritual has been correctly carried out that the ceremony possesses compelling power over the spirits. If the ritual is faulty, it only arouses the anger and resentment of the gods. Therefore, since man’s slowly evolving mind conceived that the technique of ritual was the decisive factor in its efficacy, it was inevitable that the early shamans should sooner or later evolve into a priesthood trained to direct the meticulous practice of the ritual. And so for tens of thousands of years endless rituals have hampered society and cursed civilization, have been an intolerable burden to every act of life, every racial undertaking. (992.3) 90:5.2 Ritual is the technique of sanctifying custom; ritual creates and perpetuates myths as well as contributing to the preservation of social and religious customs. Again, ritual itself has been fathered by myths. Rituals are often at first social, later becoming economic and finally acquiring the sanctity and dignity of religious ceremonial. Ritual may be personal or group in practice — or both — as illustrated by prayer, dancing, and drama. (992.4) 90:5.3 Words become a part of ritual, such as the use of terms like amen and selah. The habit of swearing, profanity, represents a prostitution of former ritualistic repetition of holy names. The making of pilgrimages to sacred shrines is a very ancient ritual. The ritual next grew into elaborate ceremonies of purification, cleansing, and sanctification. The initiation ceremonies of the primitive tribal secret societies were in reality a crude religious rite. The worship technique of the olden mystery cults was just one long performance of accumulated religious ritual. Ritual finally developed into the modern types of social ceremonials and religious worship, services embracing prayer, song, responsive reading, and other individual and group spiritual devotions. (992.5) 90:5.4 The priests evolved from shamans up through oracles, diviners, singers, dancers, weathermakers, guardians of religious relics, temple custodians, and foretellers of events, to the status of actual directors of religious worship. Eventually the office became hereditary; a continuous priestly caste arose. (992.6) 90:5.5 As religion evolved, priests began to specialize according to their innate talents or special predilections. Some became singers, others prayers, and still others sacrificers; later came the orators — preachers. And when religion became institutionalized, these priests claimed to “hold the keys of heaven.” (992.7) 90:5.6 The priests have always sought to impress and awe the common people by conducting the religious ritual in an ancient tongue and by sundry magical passes so to mystify the worshipers as to enhance their own piety and authority. The great danger in all this is that the ritual tends to become a substitute for religion. (993.1) 90:5.7 The priesthoods have done much to delay scientific development and to hinder spiritual progress, but they have contributed to the stabilization of civilization and to the enhancement of certain kinds of culture. But many modern priests have ceased to function as directors of the ritual of the worship of God, having turned their attention to theology — the attempt to define God. (993.2) 90:5.8 It is not denied that the priests have been a millstone about the neck of the races, but the true religious leaders have been invaluable in pointing the way to higher and better realities. (993.3) 90:5.9 [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]

Wallace Mad Bear Anderson from the Tuscarora tribe of the Iroquois Nation was one of the great Medicine Men of all time. He had a deep understanding of nature and Spirit.  Author Doug Boyd describes him as having a name that suited him, a name given to him by his grandmother due to his bad temper.  "Mad Bear did not at all match my image of him.  I had never seen anyone quite like him before, yet it seemed very reasonable to me that there should be such a person.  His name suited him, or perhaps it was the other way around." ~Doug Boyd Mad Bear was recognized as a highly sophisticated, articulate, and skilled Medicine Man who traveled widely and lived and studied with Druids, Vikings,Tibetans, Hindu yogis, and various aboriginal peoples.  He was the catalyst for much healing, both personal and global. "The purpose of good medicine is to make it simple. There's no need to create any opposing destructive force; that only makes more negative energy and more results and more problems.”  ~Mad Bear Anderson Join us tonight as Supernatural Girlz Patricia Baker and Becky Andreasson speak with Mad Bear’s apprentice and Sacred Son, Michael Bastine on Memories of Mad Bear.

Carolyn Jourdan, author of the national bestseller Heart in the Right Place, shares tips with Bob about how her new self-published Kindle book Medicine Men achieved stellar success right off the bat. (It helped that her funny and heartwarming book about ‘extreme Appalachian doctors’ is brilliant, too.) Aspiring pet book authors who want to break into print shouldn’t miss this show. Plus Carolyn tells some hilarious animal stories from her two books, including a tale about a groundhog that will leave you slack-jawed. Questions or Comments? Email Bob at: bob@petliferadio.com More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Kindle Secrets from Carolyn Jourdan - and a Groundhog Story with Bob Tarte

Robert Hayward is the author of "The Thirteenth Step", the powerful story of how he redeemed his life from the ravages of alcoholism & addiction using the timeless wisdom of Native American ceremony.  Robert has been studying and writing about Native American history and religion for over 30 years. Linked to the Native American community by blood, he has been mentored by traditional Medicine Men and Roadmen since his youth.  Visit Robert's web site at http://www.thethirteenthstep.com.

Robbyne is a sensitive, being able to see and communicate with the subtle worlds unseen by most people.Since early childhood she can articulate ways in which to open people up to the possibility that we are surrounded by a world of frequency and that each and everyone of us are an important player in the continuous unfolding of the tapestry of life.From the cycles of the seasons, the moons gravitational pull, to communications with animals, we are never separate from the web of life.Having broken away from mainstream society, she studied with Shaman, Indian Elders, Medicine Men, Grandmother Wisdom keepers, and holy men of all nations that has led her to discover the message and universal desire for ‘connection’ is the same on every continent. Time and time again she was greeted only to have the ancient wisdom and traditions passed on to her through rituals and ceremonies.  These experiences come about not only from the intention to travel and open herself to broader experience, but also from predestined encounters with guardians of sacred sites, often via dreams.She says when we keep an open mind and are centered within our heart, we can break free of the dreamspell that to all sense and purposes has locked us down to be consumers in a society that is consuming ourselves and of course nature.And the rewards of seeing through the veil is such a profound awakening, we realize that life now offers so much meaning as well as a spiritual unfoldment into how we can realise our destiny, working towards a peaceful global community.So the question to be asked is, what is our relationship with the natural world?And how can we focus this knowing to bring about positive change to our planet today?http://www.whitewolfjourneys.com