I want to enter into the conversation about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade with sensitivity to both “sides” and also share my grief. Please bear with me no matter where you fall on this issue. This discussion is important to the work of peacemaking and healing. I want to present both the serious harm that has been done and propose a different way of approaching conception, pregnancy and tending to the needs of both women and the unborn and living children rooted in a compass

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the violence brought against peaceful protestors in the US in 2020, African Americans and...

I have a radically expanded view of the meaning and purpose of healing and creativity which speaks to something I call Creative Healership for Peace. Healership is deeply spiritual and transformational work. Healing of the kind I have sought out for myself and which I practice on behalf of others and the world, is deeply, personally transformational. It brings us up against wounds that are both individual, ancestral and collective—reaching into this life and others. It is al

Healing Frequencies About two years after 9/11, I had a vision of billions of people flooding the streets in every corner of the world, demanding an end to violence and war. I did not experience this vision as a prediction. I experienced it as a revelation of something possible in the human heart: a longing for another way of living together. That vision has stayed with me for more than twenty years. So has the question beneath it: What would have to change in us—and between

Current events in 2017 bring me back to the day after 9/11 when I sat in a packed concert hall at the University of Virginia. The administration had set up an open mike event where all members of the campus to share their thoughts and feelings about what had happened. I, like many others, stepped onto stage to speak about my grief and to call for everyone to seek healing not only of the wounds incurred by the previous day’s events, but of their own personal wounds from betr

As our country has been thrown into division and conflict in the wake of November’s election, I am moved to write about the importance of...

In this third blog of the series on Shamanic Energy Medicine for Treating Trauma and Other Contemporary Afflictions, I go more deeply...

I have a mission to make contemporary western shamanic energy medicine relevant and understandable to practitioners in mainstream...

One day, I was cleaning my house and listening to a radio program on the problem of post-partum depression in women. The researcher being interviewed had done a study of a large group of women who had experienced depression and more mental and emotional imbalances following the birth of their child. These were women who otherwise had been happy to become mothers, loved their babies, and prior to their pregnancy and birth, had never had any serious problems of a psychological

In my blog entitled “Dreaming Violence into Peace, Part 1″, I shared that I had recently had a series of violent dreams which seemed to...