Tag: indigenous cultures

30 Years of WOMAD – festival review feature

• August 26, 2012 • Comments (0)
30 Years of WOMAD – festival review feature

WOMAD, “World of Music and Dance”, celebrated a landmark 30 years last month, at Charlton Park in Wiltshire – 30 years as the chief pioneer of world music on this planet. And celebrated in style! Having attended the festival on and off for 17 years, I was delighted to relish the best music I had [...]

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Castaneda: What is Fake?

• June 10, 2012 • Comments (2)
Castaneda: What is Fake?

Castaneda, Don Juan, Tibetan Master Norbu, Parmenides, Liars, Infinity and Ayahuasca “Whatever is profound, loves masks [...] every profound spirit needs a mask.” Friedrich Nietzsche Tibetan Master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, world authority on Dzogchen Buddhism, about 3 decades ago, in the early 80′s, reportedly said – during a retreat in the very first community that [...]

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Consciousness and Human Career

• March 11, 2012 • Comments (1)
Consciousness and Human Career

An interview with internationally acclaimed author and researcher Graham Hancock by Sonia Doubell Consciousness is our individual responsibility and with it, comes the realization that it is in fact our united responsibility. It was a great pleasure to interview Graham Hancock.  He has spent 30 years researching, writing and documenting the “Human Career”. From ancient, [...]

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Time is Art

• January 29, 2012 • Comments (3)
Time is Art

A Film by Gennaro Ambrosino Music by Kristina Georgiou – Life is about the little things; the walk in the park, stroking the cat, singing out of key, making tea. When you give your heart and attention to the moment, there is art. Everyone can be an artist of his or her life with the [...]

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13 Moon Natural Time Calendar

• January 29, 2012 • Comments (0)
13 Moon Natural Time Calendar

Chapter One: Jardin de Paz Mundial, Patagonia, Argentina. “We don’t want to know your name, where you come from, what you did….if you want to stay, we want you to live in this present moment, with your energy, right here, right now,” said Mano, or ‘hand’ in Spanish. That was one of the first things [...]

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Amazonian shamanism, Ayahuasca, plant medicines

• October 1, 2011 • Comments (3)
Amazonian shamanism, Ayahuasca, plant medicines

Francesco Sammarco Q&A By Will Gethin Francesco Sammarco is the founder and director of El Mundo Magico (EMM), a UK company aiming to sustain and promote ancient shamanic traditions through journeys and retreats in the Peruvian Amazon, including those offering encounters with the legendary visionary brew Ayahuasca and other shamanic healing and transformative plant medicine [...]

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Leo Rutherford: Contemporary Shamanism

• October 1, 2011 • Comments (0)
Leo Rutherford: Contemporary Shamanism

Shamanism is a path to wisdom which is gained through experience of many facets of life, through rituals, ceremonies, prayer and meditation, trials and tests.  It is not a belief system, it is a way of knowledge – that which is known from inside – that which stands up to tests and to the test [...]

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Maya, Kuna, Mapuche and Aymara elders in London

• September 6, 2011 • Comments (0)
Maya, Kuna, Mapuche and Aymara elders in London

“When the condor of the south meets the eagle of the north, the children of the earth will be born. When the tears of these two birds merge, the children of the light will be born.” Filming took place at a Native Spirit Foundation event held at Soas, London in October 2010 featuring a group [...]

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Steve Taylor: explosion of ego, social justice and awakening experiences

• August 21, 2011 • Comments (2)
Steve Taylor: explosion of ego, social justice and awakening experiences

Steve Taylor is an author and lecturer whose main interests are psychology and spirituality. He is the author of ‘Waking from Sleep’, ‘The Fall’, ‘Making Time’ and his new book ‘Out of the Darkness’. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 30 academic journals, magazines and newspapers and his work has been featured [...]

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West Papua – The Road to Freedom

• August 7, 2011 • Comments (2)
Benny Wenda and family

West Papua, in the western half of New Guinea, the large tropical island north of Australia – has been illegally occupied by Indonesia for over 40 years.  As part of the ongoing campaign for freedom, the Free West Papua Campaign and International Lawyers for West Papua joined forces on Tuesday (2nd August) to stage the [...]

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