Temples of the Jaguar

By Phoenix the Elder – It’s funny where life leads you, even when you think you have no interest or connection to something, life reveals its depth, your purpose, and the clashing of the two. In the Quechua language of the Inca, Cuzco means ‘Navel of the Earth‘ and for the 14th century Incas, Cuzco […]
Influences of Chinese Tao Shamanism

By Phoenix the Elder – This is a story of some of the ways my personal shaman life is intertwined with the Chinese mysticism and its presence that seams to weave in and out at certain cycles through the decades. A lot of my work was healing my karmic Roman soldier who was stationed in Egypt […]
She Wolves of Midwinter, Slavic & Balkan Animism in the traditions of a Shaman (part 2/2)

By Phoenix the Elder – Continued from Part 1: Animism and my Shaman dreaming ritual: Zack is in High School and does drugs weekly, and because of that, he was weak in the dream and had lost power and if he continues this behavior in his waking life, by 30 he will have no more connection […]