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 By Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network
In these troubled times, shamanism — the most ancient spiritual practice on Earth — can help us navigate the thickets of divisiveness by reconnecting us with the natural world, opening us to the power of ritual, connecting us with higher guidance and helping spirits, and so much more.
Shamanism offers a deeper earth-based, ancient wisdom that complements both Eastern and Western spiritual paths so we can create something that is truly whole and balanced.
Indeed, people all over the world are awakening to the realization that shamanism is one of the great spiritual systems for awakening, healing, and transformation.
If you’d like to discover ancient shamanic practices from diverse traditions to apply to your daily life and our world, our FREE online Shamanism Global Summit, which takes place July 10–12, will be a revelation.
Modern shamanism provides a pathway of sacred, practical action — allowing you to build inner resources and access guidance to become a positive and effective agent of change.
It can also help you cultivate spiritual alignment, abundance, and love in your life and a natural sense of deep interconnection with all the world — seen and unseen.
Summit host Michael Stone has put together an incredible lineup of two dozen leading teachers to educate, surprise, and inspire you with profound insights about shamanic practices that can help you transform your day-to-day life.
Speakers include Sandra Ingerman, Alberto Villoldo, Nonty Charity Sabic, Mandaza Kandemwa, Brooke Medicine Eagle, don Oscar Miro-Quesada, HeatherAsh Amara, Robert Moss, Grandmother Flordemayo, José & Lena Stevens, Jorge Luis Delgado, Mallku Aribalo, and many more. For a sneak peek at some of the topics that will be covered, click here.
To watch a 3-minute video invitation to the Summit from host Michael Stone, click here. To register for this free summit, click here.
 And it’s my pleasure to announce that Lana Holmes will be joining our team as our new (and first!) Chief Operating Officer. Lana is a seasoned executive with extensive expertise in startups and scaling sustainable organizations. Her lifelong commitment of walking a path with the Divine and being in service to Life beautifully augments her passion to create business relationships and infrastructure that serve the highest good. In Lana’s own words: “I have a passion for creating and maintaining relationships, community, and systems that invite and reflect wholeness and environments where life can thrive for all.”
As you know, our intention is to not only bring you the best transformational programs possible but to truly help shift our world toward more peace, prosperity, sustainability, and love. To that end, we will be activating much more in the years ahead, and Lana’s addition is a big step forward in this greater mission.
Finally, we’d love to hear your answer to the question, What is the greatest gift you’ve received from your experience with shamanism? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.
— Michael Harner
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A Video Invitation to the July 10–12 Shamanism Global Summit from Host Michael Stone
 Hi, this is Michael Stone. I am the host of the Shamanism Global Summit, presented by the Shift Network. And I'm really excited about this year, this is the fourth year we've done it and this year is definitely a blockbuster. We've got a lot of amazing people. The themes are around healing our connection with the earth, with each other. We've got so many great people coming. People who have been on before that are wonderful, Sandra Ingerman of course, she'll be talking about ceremony and how to make your entire life a ceremony and bring it in to your everyday life.
To watch the video and read the rest of the text, click here.
“Cultivating Shamanic Perception” Facebook Live Q&A
 Would you like to discover practices for living an awake, grounded, and harmonious life? Popular Shift faculty and shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on helping to heal and evolve our planet through shamanic practices on Tuesday, July 10, at 5:00pm Pacific.
Please join Sandra to hear her answer questions from the Shift community about how shamanism can give you a deep sense of belonging and a rich and sacred relationship with all living things — and ask anything you'd like! Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
Video Interview with Christina Donnell for Buddha at the Gas Pump
 In this interview and in her book, Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into Our Human Potential, Shamanism Global Summit speaker Christina Donnell conveys a simple yet profound message: Through deepening receptive awareness, the participatory nature of perception unfolds and the transfiguration of our consciousness occurs. Christina was initiated as a medicine woman by the Q’ero Indians of the High Andes and has worked closely with them for 25 years. Inspired by the cultural shifts and changing human values on a planetary scale, she is dedicated to cultivating and awakening the potency of the human spirit. To watch the interview, click here.
Humano
 In the film Humano — by Alan Stivelman, a filmmaker from Argentina — a young man travels to the Andean Mountains to contemplate the origin of man and the reason for his existence. You can watch the trailer — and watch the entire film for free — by clicking here.
Plus, click here to watch the trailer of Alan’s latest film, Witness of Another World.
 Your Voice
We want to know: What is the greatest gift you’ve received from your experience with shamanism? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
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We are seeking a unique and talented individual who marries seasoned business acumen with a depth of understanding in the transformational field for a senior-level positions at The Shift Network: Vice President of Marketing.
Or, are you someone who wants to be the “face and voice” of The Shift Network; someone who is professional, warm, engaging, and trustworthy; someone who is excited to perform as a Program Host for our live and pre-recorded audio and video online courses?
If you are inspired and passionate about joining our team, please click here for more information. The Shift Network is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer.
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The Shamanism Global Summit Comes of Age
By Michael Stone, Host of the Shamanism Global Summit
 This is the fourth year that I have had the privilege of hosting The Shift Network’s Shamanism Global Summit. Each year, the conversations with these mystic shamans, sangomas, and medicine people from around the world continues to deepen.
During the three days of the summit (July 10–12) you will hear a vast array of wisdom, inspiration, and practical processes intended to guide you to an experience of your most authentic, original, and sacred self — and teach you how to navigate these turbulent times of transformation and awakening to the Spirit that lives in all things. We can no longer wait for a savior, politician, or outside expert to save us. Shamanism is a practice of self-revelation, and this revolution is coming from within; consciousness itself is awakening in us. We hope you will join us for this journey into the spacious interiority as it merges with the external beauty that surrounds us. The human soul is hungry to come home to this beauty.
To read more, click here.
Shamanic Roots of the Maya
By Miguel Angel Vergara (a featured speaker in the Shamanism Global Summit)
This story takes us back to a past that has been lost deep in time and space…
 As more and more people are finding their spiritual path and making their own direct connection with the Creator, the face of shamanism is changing and it is more important than ever to understand where the true power of the Shaman originates. In the Maya world it is very clear — the spiritual power of the Maya has deep roots, taking us back to Atlantis and beyond. Today, the Maya Masters of Light are still very active and open to sharing their knowledge.
To read more, click here.
The Shamanic Astrology Paradigm™
By Daniel Giamario (a featured speaker in the Shamanism Global Summit)
 There are two underlying assumptions that inform the Shamanic Astrology Paradigm™
1) We do not incarnate into this life as a “blank slate,” as expressed in the idea that individuals are born without mental content and therefore all knowledge comes from one’s life experience or perception.
The Shamanic Astrology Paradigm holds that attitudes, habits, addictions, and expectations exist prior to encounters with our parents or the culture or historical time period we are growing up in. In other words, there is a (personal) nature before we experience nurture.
To read more, click here.
The Dreaming Bones
By Christina Donnell (a featured speaker in the Shamanism Global Summit)
 In 1991 a dream visited me in the night about a mummy adorned in gold. In the dream I find myself sitting with three men and a woman at a table in an English pub at Heathrow Airport in London. I’m waiting to connect with an international flight to the United States. One of the men asks me if I will deliver the package under the table to the U.S. Looking under the table, I am surprised to see a wooden box — five feet long, 18 inches wide, a foot in height. While pondering the size and what possibly it contains, I remark, “The box is quite large. I need to see what is inside.” I have no intention of honoring the request.
To read more, click here.
How to Stop Taking On Other People's Energy (Here's the Secret to Healthy Empathy)
 Do you ever imagine a bubble around you, creating a buffer between you and another person or an emotionally challenging situation? Or when that doesn’t work, maybe you put on an invisible suit of armor to increase the level of protection… If “shielding” yourself in this way works for you, read no further.
However, if you still come away sometimes feeling exhausted, ungrounded, or overwhelmed, it may be because you are overly empathic and have more to learn about how to manage the energetic boundaries between you and the world around you.
To read more, click here.
Click here for details about Wendy De Rosa’s new 7-week live video training, Energy Training for Empaths: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Ground in Your Intuitive Powers, which begins July 11. |
Are You Using the Power of Your Thoughts & Words for Good?
 Most of us were told as children to think before we speak, but did you also learn to become aware of what you think? Shamans believe we have the power to affect our bodies, minds, and souls –– and the plants, animals, and beings around us –– with our mere thoughts and words. We are all part of a great Web of Life.
And doing the inner work to become more aware of what we’re bringing to the world –– and how we may be affecting our lives and those of others –– is at the core of walking the shamanic path. In this 8-minute video, renowned shamanism teacher Sandra Ingerman provides you with simple practices that can help you heighten your awareness of the thought loops you find yourself in throughout your day.
To read more, click here.
Click here for details about Sandra Ingerman and Evelyn Rysdyk’s new 7-week live video training, Cultivating Shamanic Perception: Practices for Living an Awake, Grounded & Harmonious Life, which begins July 24. |
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Jump to the Sun
By Fu-Ding Cheng (a featured speaker in the Shamanism Global Summit)
 In 1994, fifteen people, including my wife, Linda, and I, gathered at a West Hollywood apartment to listen to a Toltec shaman from Mexico with long brown hair who spoke in a very gentle voice. Having studied briefly with Carlos Castaneda in the nineties — whom I loved as an author, but not as a teacher because his path was so fear-driven — I was ready for a second opinion about Mesoamerican shamans.
As I listened with the others, he spoke about waking up from “the dream of the planet,” the “art of stalking,” the “angel of death,” and much more.
To read more, click here.
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Excitement is mounting for the Shamanism Global Summit: Practical Wisdom to Access Guidance, Healing & Power for Sacred Living, a free online event held from July 10-12 and hosted by Michael Stone, founder of Mastery of Management International. You can click here to register so you can listen to visionary speakers such as Sandra Ingerman, Alberto Villoldo, Nonty Charity Sabic, Mandaza Kandemwa, Brooke Medicine Eagle, don Oscar Miro-Quesada, HeatherAsh Amara, Robert Moss, Grandmother Flordemayo, and José & Lena Stevens. You can join this one-of-a-kind online event — at no charge — to discover ancient shamanic practices from diverse traditions to apply to your daily life and our world. See our list of dynamic speakers and find out everything you need to know by clicking here.
Interdependence Day Sacramento
The State Capitol World Peace Rose Garden
July 4 from 10:00am–11:30am
 The 2nd Annual InterDependence Day on July 4 will join communities across the United States in celebrating our nation’s birthday with an emphasis on bringing diverse communities together. Young adults and youth from different faiths and cultures will take the lead in ceremonies that highlight all that is good and noble in Sacramento, California, and in our nation. The event will include colorful, multicultural entertainment, a visionary talk by Stephen Dinan, crossing a Bridge of Interdependence, honoring the 50 states of the USA, affirming interfaith harmony, positive intentions…and more! Click here for more information.
PRISM: A Racial Equity Learning Laboratory
 The next session of Prism, Neighborhood Connections’ racial equity learning lab, begins in July. Prism is led by two of Cleveland’s most experienced and dynamic racial equity trainers: Erica Merritt and Adele DiMarco Kious. Prism participants explore the historic conflict that continues to shape the United States and determine the fate of all its people.
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Erica Merritt, Facilitator
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Racism is examined on four levels: internalized, interpersonal, institutional, and structural. Tools to assess the state of one’s organization and community are introduced. Participants also have the opportunity to participate in caucus groups and bridge the chasm between community and institution throughout their Prism journey. Leaders leave the program with greater self awareness, an individualized plan for beginning to dismantle racism in their neighborhood or organization and greater capacity to do so. They also gain a group of fellow travelers to support them well beyond the structured program experience. Click here for more information.
Alive & Inspired 5-day Renewal
October 18–23 at Mar de Jade Resort
 Immerse yourself in a 5-day renewal that will deeply nourish your body and soul, reignite your spark, inspire your creativity, and awaken what's possible. Alive & Inspired is for women who are ready to join with others at the intersection to pause, celebrate, and take inspired action to create the life they most desire. Each day will be infused with experiential exercises, self-inquiry, movement practices, and opportunities to deeply listen to what's calling you forth. You'll emerge refreshed and renewed, with valuable tools and a community to support your Alive & Inspired life. Space is limited! Enjoy $150 off this month when you mention “Shift.” Click here for details.
For several years, The Shift Network has hosted Indigenous leaders from around the world and invited them to share their sacred knowledge, rituals, and practices to guide us in a way of living that is sustainable, healthy, and just. We’re thus delighted that the Global Indigenous Wisdom Library makes this “virtual council” of leaders and their wisdom available for everyone, everywhere for free. The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a collection of audio and video interviews featuring Indigenous leaders from around the world sharing prayers, sacred songs, prophecies, spiritual teachings, and pathways to healing, as well as concrete examples for birthing a new era — one in which all members of the human family are treated with respect, understanding, compassion, and justice. This sacred wisdom is important medicine for us all.
The production of The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a gift from The Shift Network, designed to inspire, inform, and involve you by highlighting the voices and important messages of Indigenous leaders from around the world. We want to give a heartfelt thanks to Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. (“Brother Phil”) for his partnership in helping create this Indigenous Wisdom collection. And we thank all the speakers who have contributed to this body of knowledge. To discover more, click here.
 World Peace Library. Designed for the layperson and professional peacebuilder alike, the World Peace Library has over 425 audio and video interviews with some of the most remarkable, inspiring peacebuilders in the world available to you at NO COST. You’ll find hundreds of hours of inspirational, peacebuilding, compassion-spreading talks and trainings at your fingertips with this FREE global resource. There’s no way you can’t come away from the World Peace Library deeply inspired, transformed — and part of the solution. Click here to find out how to take peace to the next level — and help co-create a global culture of peace that leaves a legacy of good for our children, our children’s children and all of humanity and life on earth.
BOOK BY STEPHEN DINAN: Sacred America, Sacred World. Infused with visionary power, Sacred America, Sacred World is a manifesto for our country’s evolution that is both political and deeply spiritual. It offers profound hope that America can grow beyond our current challenges and manifest our noblest destiny, which the book shows is rooted in sacred principles that transcend left or right political views. To order your copy, click here.
If you would like to submit something to The Catalyst, please see the submission guidelines: click here.
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Invite your family and friends to participate in the Shamanism Global Summit, which takes place July 10–12. Life-changing insights await! To discover more, click here.
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 The Sacred Practice of Joy: 3 Keys to Deepening Your Relationship With the Beloved — A Free Virtual Event With Renowned Mystic Teacher Andrew Harvey. Discover how to open to your greatest source of inner strength and bring joy into the center of your spiritual life. Saturday, July 7, 2018 at 10:00am Pacific
 3 Keys to Guiding Past Life Regressions: Discover the Tools for Resolving Issues From Other Lifetimes — A Free Video Event With Renowned Author, Psychologist & Regression Therapist Dr. Linda Backman. Learn about past life regression and explore how this potent, hypnosis-based modality can be a valuable tool in your healing practice or personal spiritual evolution. Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 5:30pm Pacific
 Discover the Next Level of Energy Medicine: Clear Hidden Blocks in Your Energy Circuitry to Liberate Your Inner Healer, Intuitive Guidance & Power to Manifest — A Free Video Event With Bioenergetic Medicine Pioneer Dr. Sue Morter. Discover your ability to remove the blocks to physical health, financial abundance, and intuitive guidance… and liberate the true healer and creator within you. Saturday, July 14, 2018 at 10:00am
 Growing Your Own Herbal Medicine: Botanical Remedies, Forest Therapy & Accessing the Healing Power of Nature — With Medical Herbalist Chanchal Cabrera. Discover how to use horticulture therapy — gardening and growing plants — to harvest herbs and process them into herbal medicines and receive tools and methods for practically applying natural healing principles for self-care.
New 7-week Video Training With LIVE Q&A Starts Tuesday, July 3, 2018
 Energy Training for Empaths: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Ground in Your Intuitive Powers — With Intuitive Healer and Trainer Wendy De Rosa. Discover how to stop taking on other people’s energy, create and maintain your energetic boundaries, and reset your emotional center.
New 7-week Live Video Training Starts Wednesday, July 11, 2018
 Soul Shifts: A Transformative Journey for Creating a Life of Authentic Purpose, Unshakeable Peace & Lasting Fulfillment — With #1 New York Times Bestselling Author & Transformational Teacher Barbara De Angelis, PhD. Take a sacred inner journey back to wholeness to create a peaceful, purposeful, and joyful life.
New 7-week Audio Training Starts Thursday, July 12, 2018
More Upcoming Events: (all subject to change)
July
• Sandra Ingerman & Evelyn Rysdyk 7-week course
• The #MeToo Dialogues
• Andrew Harvey 12-week course
• Linda Backman 21-week course
• Dr. Sue Morter 7-week course
• Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo 7-week course
August
• Summer of Peace: Finding Common Ground
• Jessica Dibb & Russ Hudson 12-week course
• Robert Moss 6-month course
• Raja Choudhury 9-week course
• Thriving in Your Third Act Summit
• Sarah Marshank 7-week course
• Paul Bergner 7-week course
• Mirabai Starr 4-month course
September
• Lorin Roche & Camille Maurine 7-week course
• Mary Bove 7-week course
• don Oscar Miro-Quesada 12-week course
• Tonya Pinkins 7-week course
• Desda Zuckerman 7-week course
• Qigong Global Summit
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A portion of the proceeds from the Shamanic Wisdom Collection — the upgrade package of the Shamanism Global Summit — will go to the Pachamama Alliance. Please join us in supporting their vital work.
Pachamama Alliance
With roots deep in the Amazon rainforest, Pachamama Alliance’s programs integrate indigenous wisdom with modern knowledge to support personal and collective transformation that is the catalyst to bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.
Click here to watch a 10-minute video on the origin and mission of Pachamama Alliance (and discover the pivotal role played by popular Shift faculty John Perkins).
Pachamama Alliance is working to generate the critical mass of conscious commitment that can preserve the Amazon rainforest and create a positive future. Click here to donate to this urgent and worthwhile cause.
Camino Verde
We know there are ways to bring back the rainforest while improving the livelihoods of people. These green ways are more than sustainable, they're regenerative. We know that successful regenerative planting systems exist because we have been creating them for over a decade. Now we're sharing our most successful strategies with farmers and native communities in the Amazon of Peru, bringing back forests to areas degraded by agriculture, gold mining, and ranching. For more information, click here. To make a donation, click here.
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The Andean Research Institute
The Andean Research Institute [ARI] exists to support the Andean and Amazon cultures and the wisdom keepers who have been gifting us their extraordinary knowledge for decades. Theirs is the wisdom of abundant life and wellbeing. It is the wisdom that
generates collective action fueled by collective vision and love; this kind of action always produces nourishment and fulfillment for existing generations and for all those to come. For more information, click here. To make a donation, click here.
Blue Deer Center
The Blue Deer Center is an important home for the teachings and practices of Heart -- those ancestral traditions of healing, ritual and retreat which restore connection to self, community and the Natural World. The Center is supported by the living spirit of our land, nourished by the tradition of the Huichol people, and guided by the timeless wisdom of Sacred Fire. For more information, click here. To make a donation, click here.
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Gentle Thunder
A message from Gentle Thunder, a Grammy nominee for Best New Age Album:
I am grateful to live and find my inspiration in Mount Shasta, California. I have been sharing my heart, and touching the hearts of others through music for over 30 years.
My journey began as a rock-n-roll drummer and my musical expression has grown to encompass hammer dulcimer, piano, Native American flute, taiko, and ceremonial drumming. I have traveled to many places around the world and honor the circle of life wherever I share my music.
It is my intention to be the instrument through which Great Spirit speaks, holding the space for the remembrance of our wholeness and to awaken a deep sense of authentic inner peace.
Click here to watch a 5-minute video of Gentle Thunder playing live on hammer dulcimer and Native American flutes.
Click here to review all of Gentle Thunder’s albums.
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