A spiritual awakening is a profound experience that transforms one's perception of life, self, and the universe. It's not just a tre...

The Thunder Beings are a related family of divine beings who bring about weather changes such as thunder, lightning, wind and rain. Through ...

There is a great deal of controversy in scholarly circles about the differences between the mystic path and the shamanic path. While there i...

Mongolian shamanism is concerned with personal power and bringing good fortune into one’s life. Personal psychic power is called hii (wind)...

Since moving to the spiritual mecca of Crestone, Colorado in March of 2020, my wife and I have made pilgrimages to many of the areas sacred ...

The concept of dharma, or the "eternal spiritual path," is a key Hindu and Buddhist concept, referring to a law or principle which...

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone Magazine , Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, spoke about how love and altruism can help get us th...

Zen is the Japanese term for a form of the Buddhist religion that concentrates on meditation to achieve enlightenment rather than on stud...

The Barcelona-based magazine La Senda del Corazón (The Path of the Heart) interviewed me in September 2019. You can read the entire inte...

The first thing you might ask is what is the veil of illusion? The veil of illusion is essentially the boundary between the physical and ...

To know harmony is to know the eternal. To know the eternal is to know enlightenment. --Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching and founder o...

In the seventh century, a major movement within Mahayana Buddhism arose. This form of Buddhism, called the Vajrayana, is most prominent i...

Truth comes to us as an inner knowing not yet defined. We tend to think of truth as something connected to our thoughts and intelligence,...

We are witnessing a renaissance of the idea of using psychedelics in connection with spiritual practice. The main theory put forward by p...

Hopi Snake Dance Snake medicine represents cosmic consciousness, lightning, creation, fertility, sexuality, reproduction, transmutation...

Eagle symbolizes power, courage, soul flight , wisdom, higher truth, and illuminated mind -- clarity of both conscious and intuitive awar...

The Kali Yuga We live in a time of accelerated change and transformation. It isn't hard to recognize that even though we live on a ...

A spiritual practice is the regular performance of actions and activities undertaken for the purpose of inducing spiritual experiences an...

Total Solar Eclipse In order to gain some insight into the dire situation of our planet, I consulted the I Ching. The I Ching is an anc...

An excerpt from the newly released book, The Great Shift: And How to Navigate It Copyright © 2018 by Michael Drake We are livi...