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See Slideshow from the 2007 Retreat Here From the Balcony - New Article!
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Para Curar - We are all gathered in a large outdoor circular building called the "maloca". It's 9:00, time for the evening ceremony to start, and G., our leader, is snoring. But it's okay. Somehow the snores blend into the music of the jungle: the frogs, crickets, cicadas, night birds, and other sound that are beyond my ability to recognize. It's beautiful. (More) Sound Medicine - John LeKay: How and when did you first discover shamanism and also the didgeridoo? Richard Grossman: I think shamanism really discovered me. From an early age, in my mid-teens, I started being aware that there were realms other than what we consider to be reality, and it completely fascinated me. It fascinated me in a way that was familiar and that was very eloquent. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know what to call it. But I knew there was another reality, and that reality was calling me. For example, I would work with visualization and hypnotism with friends, even though I didn't know what it was formally called. I couldn't say it was shamanism per se, but it was this idea that there was a spiritual world and, for whatever reason, I kept on bumping into it, or it kept on bumping into me…in an experiential more than an intellectual way. (More) Songs of Healing - Audio Interview from a Podcast on C-Realm. A discussion of healing, songs, shamanism, and safe travel to indigenous cultures. (More) Healings Television Interview - Acupuncturist and Shamanic Sound Healer, Dr. Richard Grossman, speaks on various aspects of healing philosophy and the use of shamanic sound as a healing tool. (More) The Ayahuasca Effect (from guest writer Kirby Surprise Psy.D) - As many as 40 million Americans will suffer from some form of depression during their lifetimes. For some depression will be a mercifully short episode in their lives, for millions it becomes a chronic experience of emotional pain that devastates all areas of their lives. Depression is notoriously difficult to treat, especially in its chronic form. Talk therapy is often ineffective, and anti-depressive medications sometimes have unwanted side effects. Medications such as Webutrin, Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft often leave the client with sexual dysfunction, agitation, sleeplessness and alterations in their personalities. These medications can and do save lives, but for some the side effects make them less than satisfactory answers to long term clinical depression. (More) Explorer Wade Davis on our amazing "ethnosphere" - In this stunning talk, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, many of which are disappearing, as ancestral land is lost and languages die. (50 percent of the world's 6000 languages are no longer taught to children.) Against a backdrop of extraordinary photos and stories that ignite the imagination, Davis argues that we should be concerned not only for preserving the biosphere, but also the "ethnosphere," which he describes as "the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness." An anthropologist and botanist by training, Davis has traveled the world, living among indigenous cultures. He's written several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow and Light at the Edge of the World. (Recorded February 2003 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 22:44) (More)
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