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World Of The Shaman
In the world of the Shaman, there is no real separation between the inner world, that we now call the mind, and the outer world, that includes nature. They understood all experience as part of one single world. If the life energy is doing it, it’s real. Everything is meaningful? Yes, but not necessarily of…
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Life Energy
Tonight, or today as the case may be, we are talking about Shamanism. Not any one cultures Shamanism, but the essence of Shamanism that has run through many cultures. It has influenced cultural thought as well, but it is a way of thinking, and acting, and being, more than a credo. That’s perhaps the first…
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We Can Grow
To take depression somewhere useful… A plant grows from its roots. We grow from that lowest of our emotional points, but we can grow. If the forces we choose for ourselves are too harsh, we grow twisted, like a blighted tree. But if we grow from our inner game, we will grow in the true…
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Live It
You will always fail. The game will always be over. You will always lose. Bushido teaches that the secret to developing genuine virtue, genuine values and ethics and meaning, is to see yourself as already dead. Then look at the world. When it’s all over anyway, what can upset you? When there is nothing to…
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Controlled Depression
How can we be depressed on purpose? How would one live with a controlled depression? Is there really much difference between clinical depression and just feeling sad, or is it just a matter of severity? It’s actually a matter of balance. Both can be equally severe, but they don’t necessarily involve the same things. For…
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Needs Of The Mind
Depression is potentially inevitable. It’s so much a part of our potential that whole types of music and art are defined by it. Whenever you struggle to the point your strength fails you, you will go into at least a temporary depression. Mostly, we get in trouble with depression, because of our beliefs surrounding the…
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What Is Depression?
First and perhaps most important, let’s define depression. What is it? I get horribly depressed. I get a heavy feeling in my head. An imbalance that makes you feel unmotivated to do much of anything? How much of this is connected to health and in particular MS? Depression is despair about life and has many…
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Could our understanding of consciousness and soul evolution suggest that plants and trees are repositories of ancient wisdom? How might…