Month: August 2019

  • Death For Newbies: Part 1

    Death For Newbies: Part 1

    I am going to be resting my Newbies series for a while, although please do feel free to email me any suggestions for future articles, which you would like to read, as I want to publish a few articles about my experiences in Egypt and my subsequent research. This being the case, it seems appropriate…

  • Audible Review: Sum – Tales from the Afterlives

    Audible Review: Sum – Tales from the Afterlives

    This week, I’m going to be discussing Audible’s production of David Eagleman’s Sum: Tales from the Afterlives – 40 fictional possibilities of what might await us beyond the grave. Sum – Tales from the Afterlives I was first drawn to this small book in its solid incarnation by a quotation from Stephen Fry on the…

  • The Q’ero for Newbies

    The Q’ero for Newbies

    In this week’s blog, I’m going to be discussing the history of the Q’ero people and how they came to inspire the shamanic Medicine Wheel training. The Q’ero for Newbies Who are the Q’ero? The Q’ero people live in villages in the clouds between 11,000 and 14,500 feet in the mountains of Peru. They are…

  • Audible Review: The Wicked Boy

    Audible Review: The Wicked Boy

    This week, I’m going to be discussing Kate Summerscale’s The Wicked Boy – a shocking true story of a Victorian murder and the aftermath. The Wicked Boy The Author Kate Summserscale became famous for writing The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008. You might be familiar with…

  • Wirracocha for Newbies

    Wirracocha for Newbies

    In this week’s blog, I will be taking a closer look at the Wirracocha and how shamans use them in their ceremonies and healing work. What is a Wirracocha? A Wirracocha is the doughnut-shaped 8th chakra, which floats above your head. Arguably, it is another manifestation of the halo, depicted around Holy figures in Christian…