Practical Shamanism

I listen to Katie’s podcast and sometimes sign up for a shamanic offering. I read her book for the first time when I was learning about shamanism 15 years ago. What amazes me is that it will seem that she knew what was in my mind and delivered these essentially group offerings just for me. The number of times when I’ve been struggling with something and saw an email that exactly addressed it is remarkable. Today is one of those days. I am anxious about my personal future. I’ve been through my parents dying, and now my sisters and I are facing the difficulties that age brings. Things have gotten worse financially and emotionally instead of better, and each year it seems I’m less capable, less hopeful. But worrying about the future is counterproductive. Trusting future me to handle it (and the future to arrive in better form than I fear) is great advice.

So I binged from the beginning up to 2024. She tells the same stories and is very new agey. She is a follower of Core Shamanism which is not a traditional shamanic lineage (lest someone think I hate Harner, I was planning on doing it myself). She will discuss shamanism, reiki, and feng shui in the same breath when those things are not related. Her constant promotion of the practice (which requires a very expensive $300 soul retrieval) gets very old since shamans are not supposed to take money (donations are fine). All in all, I would like her as a friend rather than a shaman.

Katie is wise and generous with her knowledge and insight, and this podcast is full of great tidbits that have helped shift my perspective on many things

I enjoy these podcasts because they are always easy to understand and don’t come off pretentious in any way. Lots of different topics make it even better.