Snake Medicine: How Shamanism Heals
Animistic perspectives, which hold the cosmos as “a being to whom prayers and offerings are made, who is endowed with understanding, agency and sentience, and responds to the actions of humans,” are often dismissed as primitive, yet this account of a healing within the shamanic traditions of the Native American Church and the vegetalistas of the Peruvian Amazon reminds us of how profound healing can be when it arises from indigenous perception of a sentient, living cosmos.
Casting Precious into the Cracks of Doom: Androgyny, Alchemy, Evolution and the One Ring (Part II)
What do taboos against masturbation and the One Ring from Tolkien’s mythos have to do with each other and what it means to be human?