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Chapter 2 “Beginning the ascent”

My first experience with shamanic healing was through my spiritual enabler/therapist, L. A trim, raven-haired, woman with an aquiline nose, she had studied and practiced under the supervision of several founders of the psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

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Chapter 3 “First nation”

There’s an irony in that it took more than fifty years for me to better understand what I had observed in that briefest of visions of what I later knew to be native American life. I grew up with a love of forests

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Alternate space

She speaks of alternate space
To come of age in this dry place
Mute and destitute, as thoughts will allow
Lithe, yet brawn

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Lao Tzu #1

The Tao is not a thing that can be named
Nor is it no-thing
Things have names
But not the eternal Tao