Judith Grahn,Another Mother Tongue, 1982: The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. David Greenberg,Continue reading “THE QUEER SHAMANIC CALLING part 1: Know Our History”
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Shaman Psalm
A poem by James Broughton (1913-1999), included in his collection Ecstasies, published 1983.
FROM SHAME TO SHAMANISM
The Spiritual Nature and Call of QUEER PEOPLE. “There must be radical healing of the gatekeepers if our globe is to truly be healed.” Malidoma Some Andrew Harvey, Gay Mystics (1997): “Delving into the truth of homosexual history, one begins to understand that homophobia is a purely human and relatively recent cultural construct, and itContinue reading “FROM SHAME TO SHAMANISM”
The Queer Spiritual Inheritance
When I write and speak about the commonalities between the spiritual roles often taken by same-sex loving and gender-fluid people in traditional cultures around the world and also in pre-Christian Europe I tend to feel like I am delivering ‘news’, releasing a perspective little known in the world. However it is no new discovery IContinue reading “The Queer Spiritual Inheritance”
The Potential of Shamanism in Gay Life
Modern western world has elevated the external – the objective, scientific, material – universe over the subjective, internal experience. The common goals in our culture are physical beauty, fame and fortune, not wisdom, compassion and spiritual awareness. Gay subculture buys into this big time, with the help of apps such as Grindr we are makingContinue reading “The Potential of Shamanism in Gay Life”
Awakening Shamans
Once up on a time, and for vast eons of it, there were just a few shamans born in each human tribe -they performed the tasks of serving people and spirit for the benefit of all. They lived slightly apart from the rest of the people, their principal relationship being with the spirit world. TheirContinue reading “Awakening Shamans”
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