Posted in Essay on Jan 1st, 2011
In 2000, I created my neoshamanic practice, Soul Intent Arts. I’d worked with others for two years, and had crafted a personal animistic path with strong shamanic influences for ten years prior. Making the transition from spiritual seeker to committed shamanic practitioner was a huge step. Twenty-two years of experience seeing life through a shamanic [...]
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Posted in Q&A on Oct 7th, 2010
After years of being dishonest with myself, I am finally trying to walk a spiritual path. I would like to know if I will overcome the self-destructive tendencies I have honed to perfection, and finally find a partner and wonderful father for my children. I am having the same relationship issues I had 14 years [...]
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Posted in Q&A on Jun 7th, 2010
Kelley, After 10 months of sadness and grief, I am finally able to start cutting ties with an old love. I’m currently not working and I have been working on developing my spirituality and gifts. Please advise what you see for me. Thank you, Shelley. Thanks for writing, Shelley. Initially, I see you in a [...]
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Posted in Q&A on Feb 10th, 2010
Kelley, I am currently working through old issues and past hurts to clear the way for my spiritual development. I hope to become a healer of some sort. Currently, I feel that I am holding a great deal of negative energy in my stomach area, and I also find it very difficult to lose excess [...]
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Posted in Essay on Jan 26th, 2010
Given the relative number of times I’ve encountered the observation, “She never spoke to me in school, why does she think I want to be friends on Facebook?” the karmic threads of Facebook and its effect on the collective conscious are compelling. Apparently a culture-wide blast-from-the-past sentiment, that question has been crooned, so to speak, [...]
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Posted in Q&A on Jan 18th, 2010
Kelley, I am a Virgo and have dealt with Saturn since September 2007, when my life turned upside down. I have worked diligently and have made progress, but I don’t have a job that can sustain my son and myself, I have not received child support since the beginning of Saturn’s visit, and my Virgo [...]
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Posted in Memoir on Oct 28th, 2009
Every year for Samhain I publish accounts of my more charged, and in some cases creepy, spiritual pursuits. The Dead Time is a treasured journey to Solstice, and as it is a time of untime, the shadowed season presents a great opportunity to tell the stories that many who do shamanic work won’t tell–the occasions [...]
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Posted in Podcast, Q&A on Apr 28th, 2009
Namasté Kelley. I have had a series of traumas, including being molested and raped in the past, and an extremely violent first marriage when I was sixteen. I was later held hostage and lingered near death and was raped. I experienced a shamanic death then and have been clean and sober for almost a year. [...]
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Posted in Q&A on May 1st, 2008
Kelley– I’ve been told by a couple of mediums that I have a father different than the one I was brought up with. I have never believed he was my father, even as a toddler. DNA tests are inconclusive and my mother gives mixed responses. I’m worried that I’m carrying some past karmic debt of [...]
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Posted in Q&A on Oct 3rd, 2004
Dear Kelley, Four years ago I married my husband. We get along great and he is a good step father to my son, but the past year or so I have been having doubts about whether it was a good idea to marry. Everything is a competition. We don’t communicate on any level deeper than [...]
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