Streaming abide on the Voice America Network (www.voiceamerica.com) on Wednesday, September 30 at 2 p.m. Pacific time/5 p.m. Eastern time, on her appearance "Why Shamanism Now?", shaman and architect of the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing Christina Pratt asks the question: What would it be like to abide in a ability with 8 genders or even 64 rather than the two male/female genders abounding humans accept are that exist?
According to Pratt, in shamanic cultures your biology, gender, and animal alternative are not necessarily linked. They can be, but its not a given. They are all variables that are accomplished as an announcement of Spirit affective through the individual. They are not alone assorted in shamanic cultures, but they may change in one being over the advance of a lifetime.
In this adventure of “Why Shamanism Now? A Practical Path to Authenticity” blue-blooded “Gender Transformation in Shamanism”, Pratt explores gender about-face and transformation in shamanism, as the adapted shaman is generally advised the a lot of powerful. In a array of shamanic cultures about the apple including Siberia, Africa, and North America, abounding macho shamans accept become women to chase their alarm from spirit. These changes are culturally accustomed and expected. Some macho shamans activate the transformation actual young, and advance into activity as both a shaman and a woman afterwards initiation. Pratt will aswell accomplish agenda of an even bigger mystery: why women don’t accept to become men to be shamans.
Christina Pratt is an authentic, non-traditional abreast shaman. In convenance back 1990, she specializes in acclimation the body and transforming the locations of activity that feel impossible. A abecedary of aberrant clarity, humor, and inspiration, Pratt brings the ability of shamanism into the applied butt of anyone accommodating to crop albatross for convalescent the above of their life. Her well-received book, An Encyclopedia of Shamanism (Rosen), is an 800 page, two-volume set with over 750 all-embracing entries that acutely altercate the basal concepts of shamanism, methods, and traditions of over 50 altered shamanic peoples. Pratt is the architect of the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing in Portland, OR, and New York, NY, architect of the aboriginal Foundations of Shamanism and Shamanic Healing advance at the University of Minnesota, and a common and accustomed apostle for the American Holistic Medical Association.
"Why Shamanism Now?", a abide internet allocution radio with host Christina Pratt, affectedness every Wednesday afternoon at 2-3 message Pacific time/5–6 message Eastern time on http://www.modavox.com/7thwavenetwork/. Prior episodes from "Why Shamanism Now" can be downloaded for chargeless from the iTunes library (www.iTunes.com). Some of Pratt’s article and interviews are aswell acquaint on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXEjkOzkkTo, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MxA4Pb3Gw, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKSfs3dj_QM.
For added advice on Christina Pratt, the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing, and workshops and classes with Pratt, or to adjustment An Encyclopedia of Shamanism at a appropriate discounted rate, appointment www.lastmaskcenter.org. For added advice or to align an account with Pratt, amuse acquaintance Linda Woznicki, 845-417-8811, lwoz@frontiernet.net.
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