A SHAMANIC BANISHING RITUAL Shamanic banishing ritual or what is known as the “Ritual of drawing a shamanic circle” is a cleansing/banishing ritual that stands as a basis for all other shamanic practices. One of the main purpose of drawing a shamanic (magical) circle is to prepare a balanced container/space for further magickal practices […]
Continue reading "Shamanic banishing ritual"Entheogens (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 in 1979.[1] Entheogens have been used in a ritualized context […]
Continue reading "Entheogen"Shamanism 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 kind of access to the sacred. When stripped of local […]
Continue reading "Shamanism"Neural 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 as oscillations in membrane potential or as rhythmic patterns of […]
Continue reading "Neural oscillations (Brainwaves)"Adam 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 usage from 1969 by Charles Tart. It describes […]
Continue reading "Altered States of Consciousness"Electroencephalography (EEG) is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record electrical activity of the brain. It is typically noninvasive, with the electrodes placed along the scalp, although invasive electrodes are sometimes used, as in electrocorticography. EEG measures voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic current within the neurons of the brain.[1] Clinically, EEG refers to the recording of […]
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