The Connection Between Shamanic Healing and Creative Unfoldment (essay)

Epona, by Susan Seddon-Boulet

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The Wound is the Place Where the Light Enters You

Rumi

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In this essay I will present my ideas of the connection between shamanic healing and creative unfoldment. It is something I make aware of in my philosophical counseling practice, which I combine with forest therapy.

When We Remain with our Suffering Totally, then out of that Suffering Comes Passion

Art by Daniel Bogni

The Stoic concept of Apatheia refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions.

A Religious Mind Must Know the Extraordinary Sense of Beauty

You go to the secret valley to sit in peace and ask the philosophical question: What is a religious mind?

The Beauty of Truth and its Subtleties is not in Belief and Dogma

The beauty of truth and its subtleties is like the mist in the old garden. It is not in belief and dogma; it never is where man can find it for there is no path to its beauty; it is not a fixed point, a haven of shelter.

In the final step of meditation, all ideas fall away like leaves in the autumn

Painting by Aert van der Neer

In the final step of meditation, all ideas fall away like leaves in the autumn.