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 […]

Chapter Sixteen – The God in the Grasshopper

‘Those who see all creatures in themselves And themselves in all creatures know no fear. Those who see all creatures in themselves And themselves in all creatures know no grief. How can the multiplicity of life, Delude the one who sees its unity.’ The Isha Upanishad Although the presence of such spectacular spirit animals as […]

Chapter Fifteen – The Anaconda and the Cobra

Over time it felt like the spirits were constantly working on me. Many times I would see them sitting in ceremonies in front of me. They would reach into my third eye or put or throw things into me. There was quite a stressful time when my mother-in-law was dying. She faded gradually over about […]

Chapter Fourteen – Celtic Kundalini on the Musical Tree

‘He was a harp; all life that he had known and that was his consciousness was the strings; and the flood of music was a wind that poured against those strings and set them vibrating with memories and dreams. He did not merely feel. Sensation invested itself in form and colour and radiance, and what […]

Chapter Thirteen – The Coming of the Tiger

One night a Mongolian man came in a dream. He said, I used to be a shaman, are you sure you want this? This was my udha, the unique shamanic spirit that each shaman has that is responsible for the calling of the shaman. The fact that I’m Irish and the udha Mongolian may seem […]