[caption id="attachment_10659" align="aligncenter" width="640"] ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA - JUNE 22: Mongolian Shamans or Buu, take part in a fire ritual meant to invoke spirits to mark the period of the Summer Solstice in the grasslands on June 22, 2018[/caption] A SHAMANIC BANISHING RITUAL Shamanic banishing ritual or what...
Read MoreEntheogens (from the Ancient Greek ἔνθεος entheos ["god", "divine"] and γενέσθαι genesthai ["generate" - "generating the divine within"]) are a family of psychoactive substances, typically of plant origin, that are used in religious, ritual, or spiritual contexts. Jonathan Ott is credited with coining the term...
Read MoreShamanism represents humanity’s most ancient forms of healing, spirituality, and community ritual. shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago, there was no other form of religion on this planet; that was how people attained some...
Read MoreNeural oscillations, or brainwaves, are rhythmic or repetitive patterns of neural activity in the central nervous system. Neural tissue can generate oscillatory activity in many ways, driven either by mechanisms within individual neurons or by interactions between neurons. In individual neurons, oscillations can appear either...
Read MoreAdam Scott Miller An altered state of consciousness (ASC),[1] also called an altered state of mind, is any condition that is significantly different from a normal waking beta wave state. The expression was used as early as 1966 by Arnold M. Ludwig[2] and brought into common...
Read MoreArishadvargas Arishadvarga — the six passions of mind or enemies including desire, Kama (lust), Krodha (anger), Lobha (greed), Moha (delusion), Mada (pride) and Matsarya (jealousy), the negative characteristics which prevent man from realizing the atman (Reality that is his True Being). Kama kāma or kām, (Sanskrit: काम, "self-indulgence;...
Read MoreAntakarana The Antakarana are our inner psychic qualities or components. They include Mana, Buddhi, Chitta and Ahamkara. Manas Mana is the mind or the thinking substance. We are to purify it by being careful to have only positive thoughts. Endeavor to think positively and with love, no matter...
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