Featured Books & Audio

The Spiritwalker Teachings: Journeys for the Modern Mystic

This home study 6-CD box set includes 64 tracks of teachings with eight experiential journeys and a new recording of Hank's shamanic drumming and rattling.

Awakening to the Spirit World Cover
Awakening to the Spirit World

Two respected shamanic teachers present a comprehensive guidebook on applying indigenous wisdom to modern life for healing, problem-solving and spiritual growth.

Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future
Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future

The first volume of Hank Wesselman's spiritual autobiography--the true story of an ongoing continuum of spontaneous altered states that would forever change his life.

Spirit Medicine: Healing in the Sacred Realms
Spirit Medicine: Healing in the Sacred Realms

A guide book to shamanic healing from the Hawaiian kahuna perspective that sheds vital light on our own healing systems.

Upcoming Events

The New Mysteries
Rancho Cordova Library - Sacramento, California
Fri, 09/24/2010 - 7:00pm

Exploring the New Mysteries and our search for reconnection with the archetypes that the mystics of the past have always sought out.

Visionseeker Level 2: Spirit Medicine
Esalen Institute - Big Sur, California
Sun, 09/26/2010 - 8:30pm

At the core of this week's work lies an in depth cross-cultural consideration of the nature of illness, healing, and healthcare, in which participants will gain valuable experience in spirit medicine.

VisionSeeker Level 3: Shamanic Cosmology
Breitenbush Hotsprings Conference Center - Detroit, Oregon
Sun, 10/03/2010 - 5:00pm

This 5 day retreat will be focused primarily upon investigative shamanic fieldwork into the sacred dimensions where all mysteries, great and small, may become known.

Visionseeker Level I: The Spiritwalker Teachings
Breitenbush Hotsprings Conference Center - Detroit, Oregon
Sun, 03/27/2011 - 5:00pm

We will utilize the classic shamanic journey method to establish connections with our spirit helpers and teachers, ancestral spirits, and possibly descendants.

VisionSeeker Level 3: Shamanic Cosmology
Esalen Institute - Big Sur, California
Sun, 04/03/2011 - 8:30pm

This 5 day retreat will be focused primarily upon investigative shamanic fieldwork into the sacred dimensions where all mysteries, great and small, may become known.

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New Articles & Posts

The New Mysteries: An Indigenous Prophesy

Many of my readers are aware of the prophesy made by the Oglala medicine man and shaman Black Elk before his passing more than 60 years ago.

As part of his retelling of the story of the gifting of the first sacred prayer pipe to the people by White Buffalo Calf Woman, Black Elk observed that with the ending of this cycle of ages—the one that is winding down right now and appears to be coming to closure in 2012—that the primordial spirituality would re-emerge and re-establish itself... and it would be on this foundation that the next cycle would begin again.

The New Mysteries

In thinking about the shape of ‘what has been' from my perspective as an anthropologist, as well as the various possibilities of ‘what's to come' from my perspective as a modern shamanic practitioner and teacher, several givens come up for consideration.

The Givens

For example: Given the prominence of some form of religion in peoples' lives virtually everywhere, it is obvious that there exists a great psychological need among humans to believe in something greater than ourselves.

Science, Religion, Spirituality And The Supernatural

Those who have read my books and essays about my encounters with ‘the supernatural’ on the shaman’s path may at times find it difficult to reconcile these accounts with what we have been taught about the world by our parents and friends, teachers and religious authorities. 

Science and Spirituality

In thinking about this, I might add that it is currently impossible for Western science to seriously consider the experiences I have shared with you the reader as real, let alone investigate or even validate them. 

Rain-Making And The 'New Mysteries' Reemerging In Our Times

Last weekend, at a two hour mini-workshop with a small group in Kona focused on ancestors, we happened to mention the previous event where the group had been successful in encouraging the rain. The islands are still in an exceptional drought, and as we discussed the problem, we brought up that success story and lo and behold, it began to sprinkle. The sprinkles turned into a soaker that evening so I think we’re on to something.

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