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

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 […]

Conscious Dying at end of life, and Death and Rebirth within life

In the Western world in particular there is huge fear of death, and in a surprisingly high percentage of people, even denial of its inevitability! Some of the stories collected by Stephen Jenkinson in Die Wise illustrate this. This is gradually changing however, since the work of Elisabeth Kubler Ross and her seminal book On […]

Constellations in The Knowing Field

The constellations framework and method stems from 1978 and the incredibly brave and insightful work of Bert Hellinger and his colleagues. Constellations is a systemic way of working, involving not only the client in isolation, but their whole system. It started with family constellations, looking at the client in the wider context of the lineage […]

Collective Trauma

There has always been collective trauma in the world – tribes have always claimed territory from others or gone to war over resources or believed that their religion or skin colour made them superior to others. But in recent years the issue of collective trauma has really come to the forefront of both public and […]

What is perception?

What exactly is perception? Until his death in 2015, for six decades Karl Pribram was a leading figure on defining perception and how it occurs within the brain, which is very different from the physical seeing that takes place with the eye. He wanted to understand how our eyes actually see objects, colours, the world […]

Soul Retrieval

Because of its power, because it can be so life changing, soul retrievals with clients are one of my favourite pieces of work. In the Soul Retrieval process we work with a limiting belief or repeating pattern that is keeping you, the client, stuck. I do a shamanic journey for you into the Underworld, the […]

Healing vs curing

One of the main differences between Western medicine and integrated healthcare is the focus in the former on curing or at least managing symptoms rather than healing the causes underlying the symptoms. An obvious and all too frequent example is depression. GPs frequently hand out anti-depressants to patients without also giving them appropriate therapy or […]

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

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