THE REASON FOR BEING

Life’s mission, the reason for our existence, why I’m here on earth: this is the most important and primordial question a person can answer. This existential quest lies at the heart of the definition of what it means to be human.

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A PRACTICE SHARED BY AMERICA’S INDIGENOUS NATIONS AND TIBETAN BUDDHISTS

There are great and impressive similarities between the Native American—Indigenous nations of the Americas and the Tibetan and Mongolian people. The pure-bloods look the same, same traits, same tone of skin, same form of face, even same disposition of mind. I have studied with Tibetan Tulku Lamas and worked with Mongolian shamans in Mongolia. The Tibetan and Native Americans both had prophecies that said one day they would come together again and that time would be the beginning of the new world.

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THE RETURN TO WISDOM AND THE RITES OF PASSAGE

SQUASH OCTOBRE 2024

Autumn rains down on the land, and squash, Jerusalem artichokes and other vegetables are harvested on my domain and stored for the long winter months. The beauty of the thousand flamboyant colors of autumn leaves in Quebec makes the landscape brilliant, and it’s impossible to ignore that winter is on its way.

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THOSE WHO PRECEDE US—ANCESTORS, GURUS, LAMAS AND CO. More. . .

This is the continuation of the article published last weekend.

In the initiatory shamanism of temple-building Nations, and also in the hard-core shamanism of nomadic nations, there is always what is known as the lineage of power, or the lineage of wisdom transmission. Those whom tradition, observation or events have designated as heirs to the community’s ancestral shamanism receive from their elders, after a period of training, the power to serve their community with those skills unique to shamanism. It’s the same in Buddhism and among the yogis of India and Tibet, the Taoists of China, the Shintoists of Japan, etc. The knowledge, power and wisdom handed down uninterruptedly for millennia by successive generations of great masters, pour into the aspirant and apprentice like an old vase of pure water pouring into a new one.

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