by maryshutan | Mar 13, 2020 | Animism, Cosmic Energies, Enlightenment, Raising Your Consciousness, Shamanism, Spiritual Initiation
Pan is the embodiment of nature. The wild man– equal parts associated with dancing, music making, and trickster energies. In many mythologies he is listed as the son of Mercury/Hermes, the ultimate trickster deity, the messenger of the gods, the opener of many of the...
by maryshutan | Jan 9, 2020 | Animism, Cosmic Energies, Energetic Cleansing, Enlightenment, Healing Trauma, Navigating the Spiritual Realms, Raising Your Consciousness, Reiki, Self Inquiry, Shamanism, Spiritual Awakening
Every time there is some sort of larger happening in the world I see a call to “send energy”: to send prayers, intentions, or even do some type of energetic or spiritual work to be of assistance. In this I see the best of intentions: a desire to be of service,...
by maryshutan | Sep 29, 2019 | Enlightenment, Raising Your Consciousness, Spiritual Advice column, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Initiation
Understanding the Mechanics of Awakening What happens during the spiritual awakening process is that latent traumas arise into conscious awareness to be processed. Before this time, we were living out these traumas without awareness (looping through them again and...
by maryshutan | May 30, 2019 | Enlightenment, Kundalini, Raising Your Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening
One of the things that I find it vital to understand is the difference between lived, embodied experience and conceptual ideologies. Put more simply, you can understand something from a book on an intellectual level, you can repeat it often to others, you can say it...
by maryshutan | Mar 24, 2019 | Kundalini, Meditation, Raising Your Consciousness, Seventh Eye, Spiritual Advice column
I did a Q & A last week on Facebook about kundalini and spiritual awakening to celebrate the release of my new book, Working with Kundalini (out Tuesday, or April in the UK). I am not accepting any new questions, but look forward to everyone receiving the book,...