What’s Neuroscience Have To Do With Enlightenment?

Alberto Villoldo PhD

by Alberto Villoldo Ph.D.:  I have been asked to return to the New York Open Center in November to deliver an evening lecture on neuroscience and enlightenment (two subjects that are not commonly found in the same lecture).

Castaways Vs Caretakers

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by Dr. Alberto Villoldo: Native American shamans have practiced energy medicine for more than five thousand years…

Jaguar Medicine

Jaguar Medicine

by Alberto Villoldo Ph.D.: It was late in the spring of 1979, and I was an eager young man with a fresh PhD looking for an unexplored niche in anthropology; I had already spent nearly six years traveling to the Peruvian Andes and Amazon.

Can You Forgive? Learning to ‘bury the sword.’

Can You Forgive? Learning to ‘bury the sword.’

by Alberto Villoldo Ph.D.: EVERY RELIGION TEACHES the importance of forgiveness, whether in the form of turning the other cheek in Christianity or the Buddhist practice of sending loving-kindness to all beings.

Fire, Spirit And Ceremony

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by Dr. Alberto Villoldo: A fire ceremony to honor the solstice is a perfect time to contemplate our relationship to Spirit. What is Spirit and what is a ceremony? Why do we use fire and ceremony?

Building An Ancestral Altar

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by Dr. Alberto Villoldo: In an earlier blog, I discussed how to turn your wounds into sources of power by shedding the stories of your past…

Of Earth Keepers And Shamans

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by Dr. Alberto Villoldo: Throughout the ages, secret societies of Native American medicine men and women carefully guarded their ancient wisdom teachings and acted as stewards of nature…