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Shaman's Breath, Music for Workshops and Meditations
I composed and created this collection of tracks for workshops, journeying and meditation as I find it challenging to find good quality long pieces of music to use as a backdrop to the deep work that we offer especially during our trainings and workshops.
These tracks sit beautifully in the healing space and enhance whatever process or exercise you are offering. They also make great listening and can be used for personal work or for relaxation.
The tracks are instrumental and composed and arranged specifically as a backdrop to the workshop, journeying and meditation environment. Featuring shamanic drums, percussion instruments, coupled with ambient and etheric sounds.
You can preview the music below and if you like what you hear they can be purchased (at £5 per track) using the buy button.
There is also now an option to purchase the all 5 tracks as an album, 107 minutes of music for £10. See the bottom listing.
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Click on any of the pictures below to either watch a video or visit a website. All this content comes highly recommended.
Incredible TED featuring Jill Bolte Taylor. Jill, a brain researcher describes her experience of having a stroke in the left side of her brain. As the left side of her brain closes down the right side takes over.
The brilliant Bernardo Kastrup investigates the nature of reality, the big problem in consciousness research and so much more and his thesis on the nature of consciousness. Here is his website.
A great Kastrup interview on Mind The Shift podcast from 2023.
Writer, lecturer, philosopher: Gary Lachman.
Obviously non-fiction. I would highly recommend, The Secret Teachers of the Western World, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination and The Caretakers of the Cosmos as seminal works. His work is big picture, optimistic and gives a profound perspective to the times we are living in.
Catch up with Gary Lachman on his website below.
Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. His work in recent years has centred on the formulation and development of the “Akasha Paradigm,” the new conception of cosmos, life and consciousness emerging at the forefront of the contemporary sciences. He is the founder and President of the Club of Budapest, Chairman of the Ervin Laszlo Centre for Advanced Study, Chancellor of the Giordano Bruno New-Paradigm University, and Editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. He has published more than 75 book to date.
Buddha at the Gas Pump. Ordinary people everywhere are undergoing a shift to a more awakened state of consciousness, thus transforming their understanding of themselves and the world. For some, shift has been abrupt and dramatic. For others, it has been a very gradual process of awakening. Buddha at the Gas Pump is interviews with the people who are undergoing this beautiful and sometimes difficult process.
Rather than giving our autonomy to health professions or maintaining a negative outlook on a health issue we are experiencing we can strike up a positive relationship with any aspect of our body that is giving us issue. This is a great article from energy Life Sciences Institute on this subject, speaking to our body parts.
The Dark Side of Being Light. Interesting article on the New Age illusion that standing in the light and denying the shadow will make everything ok.
Feeding our demons, rather than fighting them, contradicts the conventional approach of fighting against whatever assails us. But it turns out that it is a remarkably effective path to inner integration.
Demons (maras in Sanskrit) are not blood-thirsty ghouls waiting for us in dark corners. Demons are within us. They are energies that we experience every day, such as fear, illness, depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, and addiction.
Osho Dynamic moving meditation. This technique is so effective for releasing whatever ails you, anger, sadness, fear, shame etc
Recommended Reading List
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Norman Doidge - The Brains Way of Healing
This book explores the astonishing advances in the discovery of neuroplasticity, showing that the brain has its own unique way of healing, only recently uncovered. Norman Doidge discusses a series of remarkable recoveries: patients told they would never improve have years of chronic pain alleviated or damage from debilitating strokes undone, and symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, brain injury, autism or learning disorders are reversed. He also shows how the risk of dementia can be lowered by 60%. Using stories to present cutting-edge science, Doidge illustrates principles that everyone can apply to improve their brain's performance.
Johann Hari - Lost Connections
Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, differing scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions - ones that offer real hope.
Bessel Van Der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score.
This book is touching and beautifully written. The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here Bessel Van Der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
Peter Levine: In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness.
In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche. In an Unspoken Voice is based on the idea that trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions. Enriched with a coherent theoretical framework and compelling case examples, the book elegantly blends the latest findings in biology, neuroscience and body-oriented psychotherapy to show that when we bring together animal instinct and reason, we can become more whole human beings.
Iain McGilchrist: The Master and His Emissary
Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world. The left hemisphere is detail oriented, prefers mechanisms to living things, and is inclined to self-interest, where the right hemisphere has greater breadth, flexibility, and generosity. This division helps explain the origins of music and language, and casts new light on the history of philosophy, as well as on some mental illnesses.
Pim Van Lommel: Consciousness Beyond Life.
As a cardiologist for more than twenty years Pim van Lommel systematically studied such near-death experiences in a wide variety of hospital patients who survived a cardiac arrest. In 2001, he and his fellow researchers published his study on near-death experiences in the renowned medical journal The Lancet. The article caused an international sensation as it was the first scientifically rigorous study of this phenomenon.
Van Lommel provides scientific evidence that the near-death phenomenon is an authentic experience that cannot be attributed to imagination, psychosis, or oxygen deprivation. He further reveals that after such a profound experience, most patients' personalities undergo a permanent change. In van Lommel's opinion, the current views on the relationship between the brain and consciousness held by most physicians, philosophers, and psychologists are too narrow for a proper understanding of the phenomenon.
Stephan Hausner: Even if it Costs me my Life.
Family constellations work has broadened and developed in many different fields as a method of counseling and therapy. In addition to constellations in organizations and schools, applying this approach to working with illness and disease has expanded the potential for healing effects in the field of medicine as well. A view of transgenerational entanglements and family dynamics casts a new light on health and disease, and the insights gained from constellations with illness and health problems have led to a more holistic view of those who are ill. Extensive use of case studies demonstrates this technique in action, revealing how existing illnesses and pathologies are rooted within the family dynamic, and setting up healing postures to facilitate growth, development, and direction.
Bruce Lipton: The Biology of Belief.
The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and that of other leading-edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. The implications of this research radically change our understanding of life. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr. Lipton's profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed as a major breakthrough showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.
Alberto Villoldo: Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval.
This fascinating book by psychologist and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. explains the practices for healing outside of ordinary time and space. It shows how to enter the timeless now, to heal events that occurred in the past, and to correct the course of destiny. Dr. Villoldo discusses ways in which you can heal yourself and your loved ones by employing intention through practices used by shamans of the Americas-which, until now, have been inaccessible to most of the world. The shamans of old called this journeying.
Daniel Siegel: The Mindful Therapist .
An integrated state of mindful awareness is crucial to achieving mental health. Daniel J. Siegel, an internationally recognized expert on mindfulness and therapy, reveals practical techniques that enable readers to harness their energies to promote healthy minds within themselves and their clients. He charts the nine integrative functions that emerge from the profoundly interconnecting circuits of the brain, including bodily regulation, attunement, emotional balance, response flexibility, fear extinction, insight, empathy, morality, and intuition.
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., and Cameron Stauth: Meditation as Medicine.
Proven effective by scientific research and presented here by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth, the practice of Medical Meditation revolutionizes the healing process. By balancing and regenerating the body's ethereal and physical energies through simple meditations, Medical Meditation unites the mind, body, and spirit into a powerful triad.
Ervin Laszlo: The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field.
Knowing or felling that we are all connected to each other and to the cosmos by more than our eyes and ears is not a new notion but one as old as humanity. Traditional indigenous societies were fully aware of nonmaterial connections and incorporated them into daily life. The modern world, however, continues to dismiss and even deny these intangible links - taking as real only that which is physically manifest or proved 'scientifically'. Consequently our mainstream culture is spiritually impoverished and the world we live in has become disenchanted. In THE AKASHIC EXPERIENCE, 20 leading authorities in fields such as psychiatry, physics, philosophy, anthropology, natural healing, near-death experience and spirituality offer firsthand accounts of interactions with a cosmic memory field that can transmit information to people without having to go through the senses. Their experiences with the Akashic field are now validated and supported by evidence from cutting-edge sciences that shows that there is a cosmic memory that contains all information - past, present and future. The increasing frequency and intensity of these Akakashic experiences are an integral part of a large-scale spiritual resurgence and evolution of human consciousness that is under way today. - includes contributions from Alex Grey, Stanislav Grof, Stanley Krippner, Edgar Mitchell and others. - Provides important evidence for the authenticity of nonmaterial contact that human beings have with each other and the cosmos.
Erwin Lazlo: Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything.
Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic record. Recent discoveries in vacuum physics show that this Akashic Field is real and has its equivalent in science's zero-point field that underlies space itself. This field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even consciousness. This zero-point Akashic Field is the constant and enduring memory of the universe. It holds the record of all that has happened on Earth and in the cosmos and relates it to all that is yet to happen.
Graham Hancock: The Divine Spark.
Psychedelics: Medicinal? Vital in interspecies communication or communion with the sacred? Are you reaching enlightenment or damaging your brain?
In this anthology, edited by bestselling author Graham Hancock, 22 writers discuss psychedelics and their myriad connections to consciousness. Travel to South America, the American Southwest, outer space, inner space, and back in time to revisit Pahnke's The Good Friday experiment, and explore the effects of ayahuasca and LSD.
Rick Strassman: DMT: The Spirit Molecule .
From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. Government-approved and funded clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected sixty volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. His detailed account of those sessions is an extraordinarily riveting inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. DMT, a plant-derived chemical found in the psychedelic Amazon brew, ayahuasca, is also manufactured by the human brain. In Strassman's volunteers, it consistently produced near-death and mystical experiences. Many reported convincing encounters with intelligent nonhuman presences, aliens, angels, and spirits. Nearly all felt that the sessions were among the most profound experiences of their lives.
Paul Levy: Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil.
There is a contagious psychospiritual disease of the soul, a parasite of the mind, that is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via a collective psychosis of titanic proportions. This mind-virus—which Native Americans have called "wetiko"—covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests.
Drawing on insights from Jungian psychology, shamanism, alchemy, spiritual wisdom traditions, and personal experience, author Paul Levy shows us that hidden within the venom of wetiko is its own antidote, which once recognized can help us wake up and bring sanity back to our society.
