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 […]

Chapter Twelve – Entheogenic Dreams

Along with the shamans and animals, came the dreams of the plants. In waking life I have only ever taken two entheogens, ayahuasca and amanita muscaria, but in the dream state I encounter not only these but many other plant teachers. Often I will enter into communion with the plant, which leads to an altered […]

Chapter Eleven – 11:11, DNA and the Rainbow Bridge

‘The potent essence of creativity, the kundalini fire fused into streams of pulsating light that rippled up and down their bodies like flames in a raging burning forest, tidal waves of energy -snakes of living light. Cascading rainbows of photons swirled around and out of their heads in unimaginable radiance.’ Susan Ferguson The central thesis […]

Chapter Ten – Trail of Spirit

During my first ayahuasca retreat I made everyone laugh when I came out of mareado and declared, I have awoken with strange devotion to Shiva! I didn’t understand why ayahuasca was repeatedly taking me to Shiva, as I had no real affinity with, or knowledge of this deity. Now I see more clearly. Shiva wears […]