My guest is Susan Mokelke, Executive Director of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Editor of Shamanism Annual, the journal of the Foundation, and teacher of such advanced programs as the Three Year Intensive which involves extended training in progressively higher levels of very advanced shamanism, and initiations into rare and little known practices.
My guest on Shaman's Keep will be Steven Ash, author of "Sacred Drumming". He was born in Britain, but grew up on Native American reservations in Canada where his father was the reservation doctor. Steven learned healing and natural medicine with his father, and later lived and studied with Ted Williams, Chief and Medicine Man for the Raven Tribe. He was given the name, Buffalo Spirit Man, and given the honor of being a pipe carrier by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man. He now resides in the UK where he teaches alternative healing methods at the College of Sound Healing.
Angeles Arrien will be my guest this week. She is a cultural anthropologist, award winning author, and Founder and President of the Foundation for Cross-Cultural Educational Research. Her book, "The Four Fold Way", has been translated in over 10 languages around the world, and the Four Fold Way Program which she developed is currently used in medical, academic, and corporate environments.
This week, we will revisit that fascinating couple, Vincent & Claudia Pinto in the amazing Sky Island Region of SE Arizona. He is a Naturalist, Wildlife Biologist, and Survival Expert. Their school, Raven's Way Wild Journeys, teaches Stone Age Survival Skills, Ethnobotany, as well as Environmental Stewardship, Organic Gardening and Sustainability. Claudia is a passionate Activist and teaches Sustainable Living and Women's Education. Their mission is to help people reconnect with Nature, and to help bring earth back into balance and harmony. They have so much wisdom to share!
This week on Shaman's Keep, Caroline will be explaining how SHAMANISM CAN IMPROVE YOUR LIFE. If you are troubled by a recurring pattern in your relationships, if you have issues with addictions, if you have trouble sleeping or experience nightmares that make your nights miserable, if things never seem to work out for you no matter how hard you try, there is powerful help available to turn your life around. Shamanism has been healing peoples troubles for over 40,000 years, and it is just as viable today as it was in ancient times.
Raymon Grace will be our guest this week. He is a native of the mountains of Virginia and has spent 35 years doing healing work and teaching dowsing and psychic development. He is a frequent teacher at the Ozark Research Institute's Power of Thought School, and he lectures across the country at dowsing conferences and alternative healing seminars. His style is unique, and he tells stories in a down-to-earth mountain man way. Among those he has learned from are Rolling Thunder, Cherokee Medicine Man, and Chief Two Trees, Cherokee Chief and Healer.
This week, Brooke Medicine Eagle will be with us. She's an inspiring spiritual teacher of Native American wisdom, author, singer/song-writer, and healer. She has been on the forefront of New Age thinking blending the time honored Native American ways with the spiritual awakening that has be sweeping the world in the last 25 years. She sees a bigger picture than most, and has an inspiring vision of the future. Be sure and tune in for a higher vision of what the future holds for all of us.
This week Christine Stevens will be with us to awaken your Music MEdicine - for mind, body, heart, and soul. She holds a Masters Degree in both Social Work, and Music Therapy, and authored a book called "Music Medicine" linking healing of emotions and mental and physical illnesses with sound and rhythm. She is Founder of Up Beat Drum Circles and has some wonderful and exciting drumming CDs available. She has appeared on NBC, PBS, KTLA, and has worked with survivors of Katrina, Ground Zero, and recently trained the first drum circle in a war zone in northern Iraq.
Sandra Ingerman will be my guest this Friday. She has written many books on Shamanism, and is probably best known for "Soul Retrieval", and "Medicine For The Earth". She teaches workshops internationally on Shamanic Journeying, Healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine For The Earth Teachers and Healers. She is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Mental Health Counselor, as well as being certified in acute traumatic stress management.
Brant Secunda is a shaman, healer and ceremonial leader in the Huichol Indian tradition of Mexico. He completed a twelve-year apprenticeship with Don Josй Matsuwa, the renowned Huichol Shaman who lived to be 110 years old and who adopted Brant as his grandson. Alongside other dignitaries including President Jimmy Carter, Brant cofounded the Peace University in Berlin, and is a founding member of the American Herbalists Guild and has taught at the American Holistic Medical Association Annual Conference He is a world-renowned shaman and healer in the Huichol Indian tradition.