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Dream Gates
When soul recovery is mainstream medicine
By
Robert Moss
Ruby Modesto’s first personal experience of soul recovery came when she was ten years old. She went so far and so deep in a dream odyssey that she could not find her way back to her body. As she tells it, she went through no less than 13 levels of dreaming (compare that with the…
How to talk to the Creator
By
Robert Moss
Yesterday I wrote about Ruby Modesto, a shaman of the Desert Cahuilla in southern California whose calling and guidance came to her through dreams. Listening to her voice, as mediated by anthropologist Guy Modesto, is to be in the presence of a wise woman of great common and uncommon sense. She tells us, as her…
13 levels of shamanic dreaming
By
Robert Moss
Ruby Modesto grew up on the Martinez reservation in southern California. Her dreams called her to become a pul, or shaman, introducing her to the eagle that became her ally, giving her wings for flight. She did not need the medicine plants used by some shamans among her people, the Cahuilla, because she had her…
A singing shaman called by Owl, and dreams
By
Robert Moss
One of the classic accounts of how shamans are called to their practice by dreams comes from Isaac Tens, a Gitskan halaait (shaman) in the Pacific Northwest. The French Canadian scholar Marius Barbeau recorded his narrative and his songs at Hazelton, British Columbia, in 1920. This is a fierce story, in which dreams spill over…
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