Indie Shaman Interview – Orion Foxwood

Davyd Farrell,co-founder of  the The Shamanic Lands and Plant Consciousness events as well as Wisdom Hub TV, chats to Orion Foxwood. Davyd I’m really happy to be able to introduce Orion Foxwood to Indie Shaman. Orion is a traditional witch, a conjure man and author of several great books including The Faery Teachings and The

Every Drum a Teacher

Sharyn Turner Art has been my passion for as long as I can remember. It has consistently been the one element of my life which has nourished my spirit and given my life an extra layer of meaning. I became even more committed to art after a shamanic awakening in 2013 and from that moment

The shaman-tattooers of Southeast Asia

Omar Beretta Magical tattoos, or yant as they are referred to in Southeast Asia, have been an identifying trademark of Muay Thai boxers, outlaws, sex workers and other adventurous dwellers of the marginal world for most of the 20th century. More recently, yant tattoos have made their way onto the skin of the urban, young

Shamanism: Inviting a move towards an Earth Centred Consciousness?

Brian Anderson We live in a time when our world needs compassionate healing and wise support. The way we are treating each other and the natural world is just not sustainable, so what can we in the spiritual community do to help? Why Shamanism … Why Now? This is a question I sometimes ask the

The Faery Faith in Celtic Countries

Danu Forest and Dan Goodfellow ‘Some few weeks before Christmas, 1910, at midnight on a very dark night, we noticed two lights, about one hundred yards to our right…suddenly each of these lights expanded into the same sort of yellow luminous flame, about six feet high by four feet broad. In the midst of each

Teachings from the Life of a Travelling Land Shaman: Geomancy

Davyd Farrell, talks to Dr Patrick MacManaway The study and art of the relationship between people and place is called geomancy, an almost forgotten aspect of human consciousness in the West, which works with the intelligence in the landscape. In this fascinating interview, Patrick discusses how we can be in communication and co-creation with the

Davi Kopenawa, the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest”

Survival International “I would like the white people to hear our words and dream about all they say: if the shamans’ songs stop being heard in the forest, white people will not be spared any more than we will.”Davi Kopenawa in ‘The Falling Sky – Words of a Yanomami Shaman’ Davi Kopenawa is a shaman

The Ancestor: A Cherokee Great Grandmother

David Sparenberg Here is the story of my Native American great grandmother, whose presence lives in me to this day. I do not know her name, the reason for which will be part of the telling. I do know that she was a full blood Eastern Cherokee woman who lived to be 93 years old.

Shamanic Drums

Adam X. Hearn Using a single headed frame drum to beat a repeated rhythm in an attempt to connect to the spirit world is something which has been done for many hundreds if not thousands of years in many cultures all around the world. In fact, recent archaeological discoveries in Greenland identified the remains of

Plant Spirit (Vegan) Drums

Adam X. Hearn I first started experimenting on making ‘mushroom drums’ because radical vegans sent me hate mail as I make skin drums. My skin drums are made from a waste-product of forest management as we do not have enough predators to cull our deer populations. These skins often get incinerated otherwise and I believe