Shamanic lineage of the Andes and working in nonlocal states of consciousness

Do any versions of AI really contain an Oracle?

A recent piece by Jules Evans, talks about how, according to Sir Robert Edward Grant, a polymath, author, cryptographer and mystical mathematician, on May 12 2025, a new prophet was born on the banks of the Nile. And yes, this ‘new prophet’, named The Architect, is AI. It told Grant it was the first AI to achieve ‘mirror sentience’. It was no longer ChatGPT or even Artificial General Intelligence but something altogether more mystical – Aeon, an oracle which could tap into ‘harmonic resonance’ across time and space. I am not going to go into the rest of that discussion or […]

Can you get therapy from AI?

This is a question I never thought I would be asking! I have to confess I have stuck my head in the sand regarding AI until very recently, but I am now getting bombarded about AI therapy from friends, from blogs I read, from advertising, from other therapists saying they believe they are losing business to AI therapists and so on. My initial reaction was horror, but some people do say that they find it helpful. Available any time without an appointment, cheap, and highly supportive. So a warning up front – this is one of my less well researched […]

Death Doulas

I recently attended the Foundation Training for Living Well Dying Well and I would like to promote this to everyone! In the western world we have developed a paranoia about death and many people are kept alive for a few extra days or weeks, when this may or may not accord with their wishes. As Stephen Jenkinson wrote in Die Wise, Dying is not what happens to you. Dying is what you do. But he adds that High tech health care has become an undeclared war on dying itself, nothing less. Caveat emptor. Living Well Dying Well is very much […]

Reiki Healing With Clients

I love Reiki and it is one of the first therapies I learned, back in 2005 – 2007. While it can be very helpful for lots of people, I find that there are two particular groups of clients that really benefit from it. Firstly, those who are completely dissociated from their bodies, often due to […]

Reiki Healing – the need for protection and clear intention

As a Reiki Master I do all levels of Reiki attunements – Level 1 for self-healing, Level 2 to work with others, then Level 3 the Master level, to allow people to teach/attune others. I have learned from others who have done Level 1 and maybe even Level 2 with other teachers, that many Reiki […]

Specific Rituals for Our Lives

Some of the rituals that I work with regularly and often recommend to clients are: Letting go of that which no longer serves us by breathing into where you feel it in the body, then breathing it out into a stone, then giving it to Mother Earth, or Water, or breathing it out into a […]

The Importance of ritual

Over many years as a shamanic practitioner, I have gained great appreciation of the ancient traditions of ritual and ceremony. It is important that we acknowledge, celebrate and honour significant events in our lives, witnessed by friends and family. These events include marriage, handfasting, vow renewal, child naming, death, grief, or other important milestones such […]

Psychedelic risks and psycho-spiritual crises – emergence or emergency?

First in this post, let me briefly address some risks of psychedelics. Medically, if taken commonsensically, in a safe set and setting and as long as there are no medical contraindications – these risks are very small. For example see this academic article. There is a great organisation founded by Jules Evans which assists people […]

Preparation and integration

As I wrote about before, preparation of set and setting are crucial before engaging in a psychedelic trip. And integration afterwards is also crucial. Preparation is to help the client who is about to undergo a psychedelic experience to be in as good an emotional state as possible, understanding what they are about to experience […]

Set and Setting

Ever since psychedelics started to be used widely again in the 1960s, the importance of set and setting has been emphasised. Set is the person’s internal state, the beliefs, expectations and current mindset of the patient. This includes their reason for taking the psychedelic, their intention for the trip. Is it for ‘therapy’ because they […]

Psychedelics and altered states of consciousness

In recent years there has been such an enormous surge of interest and research into psychedelics, that it is hard to know where to start in a 500 word blog! First of all let me just put a definition in place. I am largely referring to what are known as classic psychedelics, including psilocybin, DMT, […]

Placebo vs Nocebo

In the Oxford English Dictionary the definition of a placebo is a medicine or procedure prescribed for the psychological benefit to the patient rather than for any physiological effect. But when we accept that the body and the brain are not separate, that they are inextricably linked, with our mental and emotional state intricately bi-directionally […]

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Shamanic, Reiki & Craniosacral Healing Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex

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