Chapter Twenty Six – A Shamanic Kundalini Upanishad

There is only one soul, this is the Spirit within all things The essence of this Spirit is Love You are that Spirit within all things. It is this One that looks out of every eye be it grasshopper or great whale It is this One that knows the heat of the sun as mineral […]

Chapter Twenty Five – Living in the Sacred Illusion.

I feel clear water splashing on me, and wake up. I realise its ice-cold Shakti pouring from my third eye onto my face. I see the Tiger and small birds fly up into the air. A voice says, ‘Only one who can define themselves, then let go, can fly with the shaman’. We live in […]

Chapter Twenty Four – The Wild People

Amongst my many spiritual encounters, those with the Wild People hold a special place in my heart. Bigfoot and the Yeti are perhaps the best known of these but there are many others. Some of those searching for them are looking for a great ape but this is a mistake, they are people. This is […]

Chapter Twenty Three – Black Bear Drum

‘No one can understand the sounds of a drum without understanding both drum and drummer.’ The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Magical drums do seem to want to enter the world through my hands and another drum, this time from the far north of Europe made itself known to me. In a dream I saw many Sami people […]

Chapter Twenty Two – The Phoenix and the Return to Isis

As the winter solstice approached I knew the time was coming to enter into communion with the only other entheogen that has directly called me, that has been spiritually insistent that we meet, the mushroom amanita muscaria. Of all the entheogens this is perhaps the most mysterious and the original shamanic path through the wood […]

Chapter Twenty One – The Big Bodhisattva

It is often said in spiritual circles that when you are ready the teacher will appear. Having had the experience with a false teacher I was reluctant to ever put myself in that position again. A yogi whose wisdom I respected had written a piece on the Internet where he said that the grace of […]

Chapter Twenty – Demonic Diversions

‘They (shamans) are pre-eminently the anti-demonic champions; they combat not only demons and disease, but also the black magicians.’ Eliade Newly kundalini-awakened people are actually very vulnerable to spiritual predation from human fake gurus and teachers. Some people have the perception of the kundalini-awakened person as an all knowing enlightened being but in fact more […]

Chapter Nineteen – Song of the Reindeer

Towards Samhain I finally felt it was time to birth a Siberian drum that had been calling to be born for many months. It first came in a dream where I saw horses riding across a vast northern plain with coloured ribbons streaming from them in the wind. As I was waking up from the […]

Chapter Eighteen – Crow Rattle

I walk into a room, a jaguar is in front of me pressing his third eye to the floor, he looks up as I approach. Standing by the jaguar, I find I am cradling a huge crow in my arms. The crow then sits up, places its forehead on mine, the beak pressed so hard […]

Chapter Seventeen – Shapeshifting

Shapeshifting is a peculiarly shamanic and little understood phenomena. In my experience it manifests in different ways. It is possible for your consciousness to shape-shift into an animal in dream and journey states with various degrees of intensity. Once I found myself in the jungle with a curandero. He sat on my chest and blew […]