Shamanic Teachers

Shamanism

The Cave

Listed in order by last name.

Besides her spiritual work within the tradition, Cameron has studied the Old Irish manuscripts that preserve many ancient teachings and myths, graduating Master of Science Magna Cum Laude in Celtic Studies from Edinburgh University, where she is currently completing her doctorate. She also holds a B.F.A. and a Master of Science in film, and has used the media of film, television, art and music to convey the mythic truths of the tradition, including the story for the Star Trek: Voyager episode Sacred Ground.

Her book Over the Ninth Wave: An Illumination of Celtic Spiritual Tradition is published by the Ballantine Division of Random House.

Tom is the author of,
  Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit,
  Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life,
  The Pocket Guide to Shamanism,
  The Book of Seance,
  and The Way of the Saints: Prayers,Practices, and Meditations.

His lifelong interest in mystical traditions led him to develop ways to practice shamanism in the context of Celtic spirituality and other European-based spiritual disciplines.

Periodically, he leads tours to Ireland or Scotland to practice shamanism at sacred sites and work with the spirits of the land. Tom is also minister in the Circle of the Sacred Earth, a church of animism dedicated to shamanic principles and practices.

He is the founder of The Foundation For Shamanic Studies.

Frank MacEowen, M.A. is founder and director of SOLASDANA, an organization dedicated to exploring the healing power of nature, the creative and transformative potential of nonordinary states of consciousness, and the shamanic and ecopsychological insights of the primal Irish Earth-Spirit traditions.

He is the author of,
  The Mist-Filled Path: Celtic Wisdom for Exiles, Wanderers, & Seekers (New World Library, 2002),
  The Spiral of Memory & Belonging: A Celtic Path of Soul and Kinship (New World Library, April 2004).

He was raised in the traditional ways by his grandparents, and sent by his elders to share their teachings with all people. He is a master storyteller, oral historian, traditional healer and respected spiritual leader.

Johnny, whose traditional name is Whis.tem.men.knee (Walking Medicine Robe), carries Si.Si.Wiss (sacred breath) medicine teachings and healing ceremonies of his Northwest Coast people.

His fascination with the dreamworlds springs from his early childhood in Australia, where he survived a series of near-death experiences and first encountered the ways of a Dreaming people through his friendship with Aborigines.

Robert leads innovative programs all over the world and is actively engaged in research projects that include the applications of conscious dreaming techniques to healing and care for the dying; creative innovation and conflict resolutions; dream education in schools; and future science.

She is the foreign outreach representative of the Golomt Center for Shamanist Studies and the Mongolian Shamans' Association.

Martin now resides in New Mexico and works as a painter, musician, storyteller, teacher, and, always, healer. He is an internationally recognized author, healer, speaker and artist.

His first book, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village, published in August 1998 is now in multiple printings and translated into German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

His second book, Long Life, Honey in the Heart, Tales of Eloquence and Initiation from the Shores of a Mayan Lake, was published in 1999.

Dana has traveled extensively throughout the world and shares his "personal medicine" with everyone he meets.

The secret to Dana's teaching style is that he does not lecture, but shares experience as well as information and he facilitates through group dynamics. Therefore, no two workshop are presented exactly the same. Individual growth and group experience immersed in the subject matter of the particular workshop is Dana's mission. He knows that learning which promotes growth is an individual matter, and that group experience is an expression of what one has learned and is learning.

Sharing in the group setting enhances the growth process - it is a power that is known to heal, as well as teach. Empowering each individual through facilitating personal and group experience is Dana's sole teaching goal.

Instead, distracted by modern life, don Miguel chose to attend medical school and later teach and practice as a surgeon. A near death experience brought his wake-up call. "I saw that I existed separate from my body. So I asked myself, if I am not this body, what am I?".

Don Miguel's survival allowed him the opportunity to begin freeing himself from his limiting belief system. He devoted himself to the mastery of the ancestral wisdom by studying intensely with his mother and completing an apprenticeship with a powerful shaman in the Mexican desert. His grandfather, who had since passed on, continued to teach him in his dreams.

Don Miguel's work has evolved in preparation for the recent emergence of the Sixth Sun of the Mayan Calendar, prophesied by the ancients to be an extraordinary period of personal and planetary change. In the tradition of the Toltec, a nagual guides an individual to personal freedom. Combining new insights with old wisdom, don Miguel teaches that the path to personal freedom is the first step of a progression. The ultimate goal is to change the collective dream of the planet.

Since 1979 Brant Secunda has been the Director of the Dance of the Deer Foundation, Center for Shamanic Studies. Having worked with the World Health Organization and the American Holistic Medical Association, Brant is integrating shamanism into the world of modern medicine.

Malidoma stepped away from the seminary at age 20, and walked the 150 miles back to his home village, only to discover that he now had no real place in his tribal culture. He and the tribal elders soon realized that only through the process of initiation would he find his place in the tribe, and in the world. During the forty-day initiation, he confronted realities unknown to most people in the West, except perhaps through the reports of writers like Carlos Casteneda.

The stories Malidoma shares of his experiences in his autobiography, Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman, are awesome and inspiring.

Ms. Teish performs African, Caribbean, and African-American folklore and feminist myths. She designs and conducts workshops, rituals and tours in Europe, Egypt, South America and New Zealand.

He is the author of,
  Dance of the Four Winds: A Shaman's Odyssey into the Amazon,
  and Island of the Sun: Return to the Lost City of Gold.

He is the author of the best-selling Spiritwalker, Messages from the Future (Bantam, 1995),
the sequel Medicinemaker, Mystic Encounters on the Shaman's Path (Bantam, 1998),
and Visionseeker, Shared Wisdom from the Place of Refuge (Hay House, 2001).

He is currently investigating the mystical beliefs espoused by the standard bearers of the new transmodern worldview. Wesselman states, "My presentations and workshops draw on my knowledge as an anthropologist and are designed to educate and encourage individuals to rediscover the visionary within themselves. I utilize the ancient, time-tested ways of the mystic to facilitate each person's process and to reconnect them to their inner sources of wisdom, power and healing."

Jill Kuykendall, RPT, is a registered physical therapist and transpersonal medical practitioner, who has worked within the standard Western medical paradigm for over 20 years. In addition to her work in many different healthcare settings, she has functioned as co-facilitator for the Mercy Healing Circle, participated in the Mercy Healthcare Healing Environment Task Force as a community member consultant, and has served as a member of the Sutter Healthcare Wellness and Healing Network.