Dreaming the World into Being

by citisven

I recently interviewed author, visionary teacher and healer Sandra Ingerman about how to tackle the difficult yet enormously important challenge of integrating the spiritual issues of our time with the ecological crises we’re facing.

After reading her most recent works, How to Thrive in Changing Times and Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation, I wanted to find out more about Ms. Ingerman’s intriguing ideas for healing both our soul and our planet. A couple of weeks ago we got to chat about everything from how to overcome despair and defeatism in light of the tremendous problems humanity is faced with to the shamanic symbolism found in the Gulf oil disaster.

continued at Daily Kos....

Chalchiutlicue's Wrath

by davidseth

About 500 years ago, Cortez landed in Mexico. He told the people who were already living there that they had to become subjects of the King of Spain. But, they told him, they were already subjects of Montezuma, the Emperor who was in Tenochtitlan. Cortez told them that Montezuma had to become a subject of the King of Spain, too, and he took Montezuma prisoner. As if that weren’t enough, he told the People that they had to give up their Old Gods and accept his God. Cortez’s God, he told them, was far more powerful than their Gods, and if they didn’t accept his God and abandon their own Gods and abandon their practice of having idols and human sacrifices and ceremonies and dances to their Gods, they would be killed. Also, Cortez told them, they had to deliver to Cortez all of their gold and silver. So it was that the Spanish foothold came to what is now Mexico in 1517.

Please join me in Tenochtitlan.

continued at Daily Kos....