A Calling Forth to Embrace the Initiations of Life

We are forged by our trials into clear channels for the Divine - If we rise up to the task

The Shamans say that being a medicine man begins by falling into the power of the demons.

The one who pulls out of the dark place becomes the medicine man, and the one who stays in it is the sick person.

You can take every psychological illness as an initiation.

Even the worst things you fall into are an effort of initiation, for you are in something which belongs to you.

-Joan Halifax

I don’t know what the shamans say, but I know that this is true for me.

The clarity of my attunement to my own Soul-Self, as well as to Great Spirit, are directly proportionate to the level of darkness I’ve traversed and been able to pull myself through.

This is why some of the most traumatized people become the greatest healers, the clearest channels for the Divine..