Living on the Edge

 What a world we live in.  I know we - us spiritual folk drawn to nature - are being asked to stand ever more in the beauty of this place.  As the world around us seems to fill with so much opinion and countering beliefs, I wonder what does the shaman see?

Today I discuss my observation that shamans and practitioners have always lived on the edges... the boundaries of what is accepted norm and what is the wilderness of the unknown.

I also look at how a student or client (including us practitioners) can miss the healing when they try to fit the medicine from the unknown spaces into the logical and binding contracts of cultural beliefs.

Finally, I share in the compassionate appreciation that its not always easy to live on the edge... but it simply is the way that it works when you venture out.  Untold beauty is also there... of course, this is the wonder of this bountiful place.

I will never forget when a beautiful and skilled student and practitioner asked me, "Can I do it?" and I even surprised myself when I said, "No!"  You cannot do it... everything gets dropped into the the hollow bone through which it happens.  Even the 'you that does it', has to fall away.