Great Spirit Manitou

Compilation with additions by Phoenix the Elder – I never write about Native American lore or their teachings because I have my own Slavic Indigenous traditions, but I now live near the Piasa Dragon-Bird petroglyph that was kept updated over the decades and the word Manitou seems to have been served on my plate. Along […]
Clearing and Protecting your Energetic Spaces

By Phoenix the Elder – This is a clearing of spaces and land that I do as a shaman. I offer it to my students and apprentices so they can cleanse and then seal their home, their yard and home and their land, yard and home. I always do a thorough job when I clear […]
Remember Me, The Spirit of Fire
Speak of me as you have always done. Remember the good times, laughter, and fun. Share the happy memories we’ve made. Do not let them wither or fade. I’ll be with you in the summer’s sun And when the winter’s chill has come. I’ll be the voice that whispers in the breeze. I’m peaceful now, […]
Inner Child Healing helps prepare for real Soul Retrieval Work
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – The video below, shows a mother and daughter in an artistic portrayal of separation. Separation of mind and emotional body, or in relationships, can leads to rejection and abandonment issues, or phobias, co-dependency and addictions of any kind. Drama-diseases as any 40 year old will tell you, arise at […]
Ptaki Mądrości
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Ptaki Mądrości (Birds of Wisdom)… Now, I shall tell a tale to God and all the Gods, however wise he and his men may be or “think” they may be. The Eagle clutched with his talons onto a colorful Nightingale and bore her aloft into the clouds. When she […]
Animism 101

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – An·i·mism is the attribution of the metamorphosis of our many souls, which is not our human soul. There is explanations of animism souls in knowledge form, but as an animism is basically the function of the dormant side of one part of the human soul. It goes much deeper […]
How real Shamans Experience Life
Never confuse medicine person or shaman practitioner with real shamans, they are not the same, nor born of the same root, nor of the same lineages of the past and past lives. Shamans are both powerful and very weak from attacks from people and nature. That is what gives them their true strength from overcoming […]
Pacific Northwest Thunderbird – Voices of the Wind
Years ago an old man named Too-lux, who was the south wind, was traveling north, and met an old woman named Quootshooi, who was a giantess and he asked her for food, and she gave him a net, telling him she had nothing to eat and that he must try for fish. He succeeded in […]
Marriage of Body & Soul
As a Folk Healer and Dreamer, I prefer to cover my clients, rather than myself in scarves and shaman clothing, unless its a group seasonal “soul retrieval” because its night time when I do that. But on personal healing sessions, I prefer to do this because female shaman traditions before 1000 bce were very different than men shaman rituals that have evolved […]
Dragon & Thunderbird Drums
Crow Nation, Native American – Buffalo Shield with Flying Dragon Pawnee, Native American – Ceremonial Thunderbird & Lightening Drum