Shamanic Insights & Musings with Dory Cote: Recent Episodes
Dory Cote
Dory Cote is a shamanic practitioner and healer who has been practicing shamanic healing for over twenty years. In addition to a broad range of healing services, Dory provides online courses in shamanism for the newly-interested seeker of shamanic studies as well as monthly transfiguration ceremonies to foster community and healing.
In this monthly podcast about shamanic issues, shamanic practitioner Dory Cote tells stories of how our ancestors celebrated the Winter Solstice.
In this monthly podcast about shamanic issues, shamanic practitioner Dory Cote talks about extreme weather, including hurricanes, earthquakes and fires, and how the weather is actually reflecting what is happening inside of our Collective Consciousness. Questions answered in this podcast include: [0:32] Describing the weather as a reflection of us, and the masses, from the inside out. [7:00] Where do we start, to begin to take responsibility for these impacts? What can we do about this? [9:00] How can one help to shift the collective? [12:30] The eye of a hurricane is deeply peaceful… a place of order versus chaos. That too exists in the storm. [13:55] The message I want to get across is, stop demonizing the weather. [17:00] Anything else you would like to say on this subject?
In this monthly podcast about shamanic issues, shamanic practitioner Dory Cote talks about the practice of honoring one's ancestors and working with ancestral guides. Questions answered in this podcast include: • What is the difference between ancestors, and ancestor helping spirits? [0:37] • When you call upon these ancestors that you have just described, is it similar to calling a friend to help you with a problem? Or do you call them to visit, or do you choose them because of their skills? [5:55] • Are ancestors similar to power animals, in that one journies to find an ancestral helping spirit? [8:27] • So a piece of what you are discussing is, what’s in it for them? A teacher likes nothing more than a good student. When we approach with respect, learning from their wisdom helps them too? [11:47] • Dory, you have done a lot of work with children. Do you see a lot of children who have bloodline ancestral spirits around them? [13:28] • Do nations have ancestral helping spirits? We have a lot of talk right now about our founding fathers and mothers, in this country. Do groups have ancestral spirits that work with them as well? [14:51] • Is there anything else you would like to add about ancestral helping spirits? [17:23]
In this monthly podcast about shamanic issues, shamanic practitioner Dory Cote conveys a ceremony for the Solar Eclipse to be performed on 8/21 at 9:05 am PST (the time the solar eclipse will begin to show on the Pacific Coast). For the Solar Eclipse ceremony, you will need: • A rattle • Some water • Six or more small stones (the size of an American quarter) Here are the words to the song to sing for the ceremony: Morning Sun, Morning Sun Come our way, come our way. (Repeat a total of 4 times) Come our way, come our way, Take our pain, take our pain. (4 times) Take our pain, take our pain Down below, down below. (4 times) Down below, down below, Cool waters down below. (4 times) If you want to check the time of the eclipse in your area, here is a website where you can put your zip code in, and it will tell you know much of the eclipse will be visible for you (weather willing), its duration, and the peak eclipse time. https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeanddate.com%2Feclipse%2Fmap%2F2017-august-21&token=254e58-1-1653664097586 (www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2017-august-21)
In this monthly podcast about shamanic issues, shamanic practitioner Dory Cote talks about the practice of discernment between intuition and ego. Questions answered in this podcast include: 1. Difference between knowledge and truth? [0:42] 2. In a journey, how can you tell tricksters from truth [7:07] 3. Is it true that, in a journey, you need to see a power animal three times, or are there other ways to know that a power animal is adopting you to work with you? [15:00] 4. Vetting animal spirits [12:00]
In this monthly podcast about shamanic issues, shamanic practitioner Dory Cote talks about the practice of planting the seeds of intention in our lives. Questions answered in this podcast include: • What is the shamanic perspective on planting seeds for things we want to create and attract into our lives? [0:35] • Is there a specific ceremony or ritual for planting seeds? Or a moon time (new moon)? [9:11] • After seeds are planted, how to spiritually “water” them (so we do not dig them up to see if they are growing)? How to balance faith, unattachment/release, and energizing a creation? [15:40] • What is the difference between praying for an outcome and planting seeds? [19:59] • Is there anything else you would like to add? [22:56]
In this monthly podcast about shamanic issues, shamanic practitioner Dory Cote talks about health challenges and spiritual practice. To define this a little bit, we’re not meaning the flu, but rather we are focusing on health challenges that involve working with western medical intervention, in the form of surgery or procedures targeted to the health challenge. We are specifically not using the term "health crisis", because it escalates the knife edge of energy ,where "challenge" levels the playing field. Questions answered in this podcast: [01:21]: When health challenges come up, it is easy to lose one’s spiritual practice. It is also easy to feel that Spirit has deserted us. What is the Shamanistic perspective on health challenges, and how can we stay connected? [07:30]: Being of service through asking for and receiving help. [10:30]: During health challenges, what is the role of ceremony and prayer? [13:57]: The health of the support system for the identified patient really matters. What wisdom or suggestions can you offer for the caretakers, and for the close circle of friends, during health challenges? [16:40]: I have heard that Shamanic practitioners offer a ceremony which is done close to or during a surgery. Can you tell us more about this? [22:25]: Identifying the spiritual gift or lesson from completing health challenges. [24:37}: Anything else?
The following podcast is part of Dory Cote's series on shamanism and spirituality. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: • Tell us what you mean by Radical Hope. [0:34] • It sounds like regular hope is very close to gratitude; it is almost extending gratitude into the future. Whereas Radical Hope is holding a vision, and living into that vision, intentionally and energetically. Is that correct? [3:42] • If one practices Radical Hope on a regular basis, does it get easier? [5:18] • Radical Hope is different from prayer? [6:32] • Why is having Radical Hope important particularly right now? [7:19] • How do you conjure up Radical Hope within yourself? [11:27] • This is similar to training athletes by visualizing performance and hoped for outcomes. This is what you are inviting us to do… a kind of spiritual training. [12:49] • Story from You Are the Placebo indicates that practice can help you invoke Radical Hope faster. [15:18] • What about other authors or prisoners of war or survivors—can you give us other examples of people who have practiced radical hope?[16:34] • Clarifying Radical Hope versus hope born layered over denial. [19:40] • Radical Hope starts with the individual. How do you envision it working within a community? Or the community helping the individual to maintain it? [22:10] • Do you have any other comments or words of wisdom on this topic that might help someone with this practice? [23:57]
The following podcast is the first in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "Spirits of the Weather" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: 1. Can you share with the listeners your own personal journey of coming to work with weather in a shamanic way? [0:39] 2. Tell us about weather circles, and how you see how this might have changed your relationship with weather. [6:22] 3. Has this new relationship changed your life in any ways that you are willing to share? [12:44] 4. Do you have anything to add? [14:53]
The following podcast is the second in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "Spirits of the Weather" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: 1. Dory, can you tell us what you mean by Weather Spirits? [0:30] 2. So, you are saying that all aspects of weather throughout the world have a spirit. How can a listener who is not a shamanic practitioner connect with the Spirit of a Weather event? [7:23] 3. What are the benefits to us humans if we make this connection with weather? [12:37] 4. Do you have anything to add? [18:14]
The following podcast is the third in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "Spirits of the Weather" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: 1. A listener has asked how can we possibly be in a positive relationship with the big storms like hurricanes and tornadoes…they cause so much destruction and kill humans and animals and plant life…how can you befriend these apparently malevolent beings? [0:30] 2. Are you saying that there is a compassionate energy to even the most harmful of storms? [6:45] 3. What would you say to someone whose family and property was wiped out by a big storm such as this? [10:48] 4. Do you have anything to add? [12:46]
The following podcast is the fourth in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "Spirits of the Weather" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: 1. What are the ethics of working together as shamanic practitioners to change the nature of a storm or to send it someplace else? Did our native ancestors work to change the weather? [0:33] 2. What do the weather spirits want from us? [9:15] 3. How can someone BEGIN to create a relationship with weather spirits? [12:30] 4. Are there resources someone might access to help them understand this shamanic work more thoroughly? [13:54] 5. Do you have anything to add? [15:11]
The following podcast is the final in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "The Earth is Our Mother" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: • What ceremonies might a listener do on behalf of Mother Earth? Why is it important for us to take the time to do ceremony, given how busy and overwhelmed we can become by our lives? [0:28] • How can listeners create ceremony if they don’t know where to start? Can you give us some insight about this? And where we might find ideas or inspiration? [7:27] • Can people actually experience visible or tangible results from the efforts of creating ceremony? [13:04] • What is your advice about what to do going forward? [17:25] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [19:43]
The following podcast is the third in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "The Earth is Our Mother" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: • What do you mean by this topic? In what way is Mother Earth actually pregnant? To what or whom is she giving birth? [ 0:28] • You are talking about dreaming life into being when lots of people do not believe that is possible. We see that the Earth is being destroyed by some of us. Shamanism teaches that we can dream new life into being. Can you say more about this seeming contradiction? Give us some practical ways that we dream new life into being. [7:12 ] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [14.55]
The following podcast is the second in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "The Earth is Our Mother" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: • We live our lives on Earth with a focus on our primary senses of sight, hearing, and touch. How can we appreciate the aspects of Mother Earth that cannot be seen, heard or touched? [ 0:35] • How can listeners learn how to have the experiences you are talking about? [6:02] • Why would learning these ways of being make a difference in a person’s life? [7:52] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [11:36]
The following podcast is the first in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "The Earth is Our Mother" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: • Many people around the world talk about how the Earth is our Mother, and songs have been written about this. Is the source of this saying ancestral or is it a more recent belief and saying that springs from the ecology movement? [0:22] • How can the “matter” which makes up the Earth…our Planet…actually be our “Mother”…? [5:13] • How do you explain this concept to people who do not believe in protecting and loving the Earth? [8:12] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [14:01]
The following podcast is the final in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "Who is Your God" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The following questions are answered in this podcast: • Some people have sayings like “the forest is my church” or “fishing is my spiritual practice”. How do those beliefs fit into your topic for this week? [0:32] • A common expression people use when it comes to the mind and creativity is “think outside of the box.” Would you advocate that people “dream about God…outside of the box?” [6:00] • What do you think people mean when they say they have “faith in God” –particularly when many of us do not have a personal God in which we believe? [10:30] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [13:06]
The following podcast is the third in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "Who is Your God" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The following questions are answered in this podcast: • What are your perceptions and beliefs on this topic of “God and War”? [0:34] • Why do so many people believe in Jesus when there have been so many wars waged in the name of protecting Christian beliefs? [4:31] • Currently there other terrorist factions whose beliefs and actions to protect their beliefs fracture worldwide comfort and security. What sense do you make of the current state of War against “ISIL”? [8:15] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [13:40]
The following podcast is the second in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "Who is Your God" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: • This topic title suggests that you might be talking about God through the ages. What are your ideas regarding “Old Age/New Age”? [0:35] • What about someone who does not believe in “God”…what would you say to them about God and language and Old Age/New Age? [9:25] • What are some of the New Age gods of which you speak? [12:50] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [18:42]
In the final episode of a 4-part series on "Finding and Creating Your Tribe", Shamanic Practitioner Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. Dory as you teach Shamanic practices, do you see your students wanting to create a tribal community like those of our indigenous ancestors? [0:29] 2. Shamanism is an ancient practice and yet modern-day peoples are increasingly being drawn to the practice of Shamanism. Why do you believe so many people are attracted to this earth-based way of being and living at this time in human history? [6:35] 3. What advice do you have about engaging tribe for help? Particularly for anyone who is feeling alone, depressed, or even suicidal? [12:40] 4. Is there anything else you would like to add?
This is the first in the 4-part series, Feeding your Hungry Soul, by Dory Cote, Shamanic Practitioner. The following questions will be answered in this podcast: • Our listeners can hear in your voice that you have a question mark at the end of this topic: “A walk in the woods?” – why is that? [0:28] • Please say more about how and why our modern culture stresses particular ways of achieving happiness but does not talk more about “bliss.” [3:40] • What if a person has never felt “blissful” and therefore cannot possibly imagine what it will feel like …how can they know they have achieved a “blissful” state? [7:36] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [10:50]
This is last in the 4-part series, Feeding your Hungry Soul, by Dory Cote, Shamanic Practitioner. The following questions will be answered in this podcast: • This week’s topic is “of dogs and cats.” What do you mean by this and how does it connect with being “blissful”? [0:35] • Can an extrovert achieve a state of bliss while alone? And can an introvert achieve a state of bliss while being with lots of people? [5:25] • How do human emotions impact finding that state of bliss? [9:45] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [11:35]
The following podcast is the first in the monthly series on shamanism and spirituality called "Who is Your God" by shamanic practitioner Dory Cote. The questions answered in this podcast are as follows: • Dory, please share with us what you mean by this topic, “God and Language.” [0:32] • So, you are saying that this force, this entity, which is outside of ourselves, cannot be defined. Then what draws people for centuries to try to define it? [4:42] • What would you say to someone who does not believe in “God”? [14:05] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [19:14]
This is the second in the 4-part series, Feeding your Hungry Soul, by Dory Cote, Shamanic Practitioner. The following questions will be answered in this podcast: • Speaking as a shamanic practitioner, how do you describe “bliss” or being “blissful”? [0:28] • How can we develop the capacity to align our body/mind/spirit to achieve this state of “bliss”? [3:34] • What practices do you recommend for a person to explore the concept of “bliss” in their own being? [8:30] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [14:47]
This is the first in the 4-part series, Feeding your Hungry Soul, by Dory Cote, Shamanic Practitioner. The following questions will be answered in this podcast: • Dory, why did you choose this topic? Please tell us what you mean by Feeding the Hungry Soul. [0:34] • So, each person’s soul has its own hunger? [4:08] • How can a person identify what their personal soul hungers for? [6:07] • You touched on hunger pains. How can we identify soul-level hunger pains before we get to the bingeing stage? [10:40] • Do you have anything else you would like to add to this topic at this time? [13:59]
In third installment of a 4-part series on "Finding and Creating Your Tribe", Shamanic Practitioner Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. Dory, please review some of the elements of tribe formation which we have already touched on. [0:35] 2. Some wars are created to protect our Tribe. How might this be a deterrent to World Peace? [9:00] 3. What are some of the evolutionary moments in human history that have created disconnection from our Tribe? [12:52] 4. Is there anything else you would like to add?
In the second installment of a 4-part series on "Finding and Creating Your Tribe", Shamanic Practitioner Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. How can people in our modern times create a Tribe as opposed to what we generally call community? [0:35] 2. From a shamanic perspective how can tragedy and disaster lead to tribal living? [11:30] 3. You mentioned that you have read Sebastian Junger’s book titled Tribe. Do you, as a Shamanic Practitioner, agree with his premise in his book? [16:45] 4. Is there anything else you would like to add? [21:45]
In the first episode of a 4-part series on "Finding and Creating Your Tribe", Shamanic Practitioner Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. Dory, what does “Tribe” mean to you? [0:40] 2. It has been said that when soldiers go to war they create a tribal community. Does that ring true from your shamanic perspective and your definition of tribe? [3:50] 3. Many Native Americans still live in a tribal culture. And many non-native people dream of living in a tribal culture and lifestyle. Why do you think that is? [10:20] 4. Is there anything else you would like to add? [18.11] https://soundcloud.com/tags/tribe (tribe) https://soundcloud.com/tags/finding%20your%20people (finding your people) https://soundcloud.com/tags/creating%20tribe (creating tribe) https://soundcloud.com/tags/finding%20tribe (finding tribe) https://soundcloud.com/tags/shaman (shaman) https://soundcloud.com/tags/shamanism (shamanism)
In the first episode of a 4-part series on "Finding and Creating Your Tribe", Shamanic Practitioner Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. Dory, what does “Tribe” mean to you? [0:40] 2. It has been said that when soldiers go to war they create a tribal community. Does that ring true from your shamanic perspective and your definition of tribe? [3:50] 3. Many Native Americans still live in a tribal culture. And many non-native people dream of living in a tribal culture and lifestyle. Why do you think that is? [10:20] 4. Is there anything else you would like to add? [18.11]
This is the final episode of a 4 part series on SHAMANISM & SOCIAL ACTION. In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. I have heard that some people imagine that shamanic practitioners, being very earth-based, do not watch TV or use the internet or other means of communication that are electronic and very fast as well as accessible worldwide. What is the truth of this? [0:30] 2. A listener asked, How can a person who is truly devoted to living in harmony with all Beings use social media and still be in harmony with Nature? Afterall, electronics require electricity, handheld devices or computers, and time on the part of the user (away from nature). [6:32] 3. What Social Media sites are particularly helpful or informative for those who are seeking justice? Do any spread information about social action that is of interest to those who are on a shamanic path? [8:48] 4. How do you personally use Social Media? And why? [14:11] 5. Is there anything else you would like to add? [19:08]
This is the third episode of a 4-part series on SHAMANISM & SOCIAL ACTION. In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. In prior podcasts we have touched on Shamanism and Social Action. Please share your personal beliefs around social activism. Do you discourage your students and others to stay out of the fray, so to speak, or to dive in? [0:27] 2. Do you personally believe someone can be a social activist and also be a peaceful, non-aggressive, non-violent person? How do you see that exhibiting itself in your shamanic community of peers? [4:35] 3. From your perspective, how does the effectiveness of prayer or meditation compare with marching and being vocal about a position or belief? [9:00] 4. Do you believe it is possible to be like Ghandi in our approach to social change? [10:58] 5. Is there anything else you would like to add? [13:06]
This is the second episode of a 4-part series on SHAMANISM & SOCIAL ACTION. In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. Dory I know you charge money for most of your teaching programs and for those who seek your healing gifts. How do you and other shamanic practitioners help those who do not have the financial resources to see you? [0:28] 2. How do you, as a shamanic practitioner, make peace with rampant poverty, degradation of humans and animals, and inequality around access to food? [4:50] 3. We have previously talked about reciprocity and how nature seeks to find balance in all things. Given the huge imbalance in our world around access to healthy food, how can we be in a state of reciprocity with our food? [8:34] 4. The media has written a lot recently about non-GMO foods. What is a Shamanic perspective on the energetics of foods that are genetically modified? Do you believe that GMO foods alter the energy or vibration of a human who is consuming GMO’s regularly? [12:10] 5. Is there anything else you would like to add? [17:08]
This is the first episode of a 4 part series on SHAMANISM & SOCIAL ACTION. In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: 1. Dory, currently there is a great deal of unrest in the United States around the upcoming Presidential election. How do you deal with this from a shamanic perspective and do you discuss politics in your shamanic circles? [0:31] 2. How does one reconcile what their soul knows, trusts and believes with the current climate of anger, distrust and disgrace in the election rhetoric, bickering, and debates? [3:30] 3. A listener asks… If someone finds themselves getting very wound up in the external situation, how would you advise them? Some people are very passionate and loud about their beliefs and have a tendency to be “in your face” about it—suggestions on handling this? And do you personally debate politics? What is your strategy for not getting wound up? [7:11] 4. What is the shamanic perspective to take, if the President elected is someone whom you truly do not support and cannot get behind that person’s beliefs, policies and approach to life? What steps can people take to ensure that all Beings are represented and protected by those in governmental leadership? [12:07] 5. Is there anything else you would like to add? [15:18]
This is the final episode in a 4 part series on "Maintaining Serenity in Toxic Times." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: • In our current times, sometimes anger, fear, and judgment of the masses is overwhelming to many of us who approach life from a gentler, more forgiving perspective. How can we work together to make a difference? [0:36] • How can people scattered all over the Globe connect to do ceremony together? [5:38] • Please say more about attitude, action and surrender. [8:52] • Do you have a virtual location where listeners might meet to do ceremony and healing work? [13:58] • Is there anything else you would like to add? [17:31]
This is the third episode in a 4-part series on "Maintaining Serenity in Toxic Times." In this episode, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: • How do anger, fear and judgement result in creating toxicity for others who are in or under the influence of these emotions? [0:29] • Do you believe that these emotions, Anger, Fear, and Judgment, might create conditions to develop PTSD in those who are consistently constantly around these emotions? [5:16] • How can someone who is experiencing their own anger, fear and judgment –or living in an atmosphere of these emotions constantly coming at them--transmute those feelings into feelings that would be more in balance? [9:29] • What do you do if your anger or fear spews out—just escapes you-- and you wish you could take it back? [14:00] • Is there anything else you would like to add? [17:28]
This is the second episode in a 4-part series on "Maintaining Serenity in Toxic Times." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: • Dory, are we in what you would call a period of “toxic times” right now—especially here, in the United States? [0:32] • Why are these times more toxic than other times in recent history? [2:56] • In your shamanic opinion, what makes the energy of a place or a person toxic? [5:28] • You alluded to the current political environment in the United States. What about a “movement” or a political or armed uprising…what characterizes those as “toxic” rather than beneficial? And who gets to characterize that truth? [9:30] • Is there anything else you would like to add? [14:18]
This is the final episode in a 4 part series on "The Power of Prayer." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: • Please explain praying from a perspective of seeing a person or other being as “whole” rather than “broken”? [1:42] • I am wondering about the difference between an affirmation and a decree. It sounds like a decree only needs to be said once—the transformation is done. And if you repeat a decree it almost becomes an affirmation. How do you see affirmations and decrees as being connected? [8:15] • A listener said she has heard you talk about how each person’s spirit is absolutely divine and she wants to know how to visualize this when she prays for someone who is ill. [10:51] • Can you speak to some of the sources of this concept of seeing “perfection”? Is this a modern day concept or does it have its roots from practices other than shamanism? [15:50] • Do you have anything else that you would like to add at this time? [19:41]
This is the third episode in a 4 part series on "The Power of Prayer." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers the following questions: • Please give us your definitions of petition and decree and explain how they are different from each other. [0:20] • The energy of the two seems different. A petition feels like requesting energy come to you, or Spirit come to you. The decree feels like power with you, that you are proclaiming that you already have Spirit with you and you are co-creating the perfection that is… [5:30] • Do you believe that there is a difference in the results between these two ways of praying (“decrees” vs. “petitions”)? [7:00] • What I am noticing about that example is that kind of decree and wholeness is also potentially healing the people that are doing the prayers for her… [11:57] • Dory you have spoken a lot about the power of community in prayer. What about listeners who feel very alone? Are there places where they can reach out to have this kind of prayer done for them and with them? [12:25] • The traditional place people pray is within religions, and they have been praying by petitioning for centuries. Why might religious or faith based places want to change their approach to prayer at this time? [15:34] • Do you have anything else that you would like to add? [18:10]
This is the second episode in a 4 part series on "The Power of Prayer." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions abput "Prayer and Shamanic Healing." The episode includes the following questions: • In our last episode we talked about how a shamanism practitioner has to have someone’s permission in order to do healing. Do they also have to have permission to pray for another person? Can you say more about that distinction, between healing and prayer?[0:30] m • There have been reports from people who have had near death experiences or have been in an accident, when they come back they speak about prayers that they heard …[6:56] • Can we explore more of the nuances between the differences of effect between shamanic healing and shamanic prayer? [7:51] • If one wants to pray for the healing of an animal or a place, is it alright to do that or do you need to seek permission? And can you share your position on Shamanic prayer and maybe circle back to Larry Dossey’s research? [11:12] • Do we get off the hook by ending a prayer with “Thy will not mine be done,” or end the prayer with “For the greater good”? [17:50] • There is a saying that “worry is praying for something you do not want to have happen.” So is an intentional supplication of negative thought a form of prayer? [18:35] • Do you have anything else that you would like to add at this time? [21:25]
This is the first episode in a 4 part series on "The Power of Prayer." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions "what is prayer?" The episode includes the following questions: • From a shamanic perspective, what is prayer? [0:30] • This reminds me of Reiki where you have to ask permission to send them energy. You are requesting almost that “spiritual honey” that we talked about in the last series. You are requesting community—but on the spiritual level. You are sending resources that the person can use, and are respecting the integrity of the person to whom you are sending them. Is that correct? [7:38] • In Washington DC there is the Pope John Paul II National Shrine. And in that shrine there is a museum where there is a representation of prayer. You go up to a keyboard where you can write your prayer in, and words from a prayer go up a wall in color and in different forms, and they mix with all the other prayers that have been entered that day. You see the supplications going to Spirit. It is a very moving thing. But they are words—very specific words. And I’m hearing that Shamanic prayer in some ways is supplication outside of words. Is that true? [9:37] • Do you have an example of a prayer that you have done that you can share that you could see the response to the prayer? [12:03] • When I was in Marrakesh they had the call to prayer several times a day, and I was surprised to find people just going about their business and not stopping to pray. When I asked someone why that was, he told me even if they wanted to pray, if they had not had time to prepare and cleanse ahead of time, they were not allowed to pray. That there was preparation for prayer required. Is there Shamanic preparation for prayer that you would advise or that you teach? [16:30] • Can you speak about the work of Larry Dossey (The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine) and his studies about the effectiveness of prayer in healing? [18:30] • Do you have anything else that you would like to add at this time? [22:15]
This is the final episode in a 4 part series on "Shamanic Initiations." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about Shamanic Initiation. The episode includes the following questions: • A listener wrote and asked if it is safe for her to deliberately experience initiations without some oversight? [0:34] • Is an Ayahuasca Ceremony an initiation? Do you have to go to South America to do this? [2:53] • This reminds me of Henry Miller, the author, when he was interviewed about drugs and what he thought about hallucinogenic drugs. He said they are great in that they can show you where you want to get to spiritually, but to use them as the way to get there continuously is being irresponsible. So sometimes folks seek out Ayahuasca because they are really seeking the spiritual experience, and their body, mind, and spirit is not sufficiently prepared for the power that comes through them. And I am hearing you say they may not be held in that the containment has to be important. Is there a way to get that glimpse of where you are going to, that flash of enlightenment, that is safe, here in North America? [12:45] • Also as you were speaking I was thinking about the honey bees, and how it is important to take honey that is local because it strengthens your immunity to your own environment—for your physical body. So is there a kind of spiritual honey for working with initiations? [14:38] • Can you give the listeners some encouraging words about initiations and advise about who they can talk with if they are experiencing initiations? [15:48] • Do you have anything else that you would like to add at this time? [18:38]
This is the third episode in a 4 part series on "Shamanic Initiations." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about Shamanic Initiation. The episode includes the following questions: • In your teaching of shamanism, do you deliberately guide students through initiation experiences? [0:29] • For the initiations that you just discussed, it sounds like there was a limiting of the physical senses in order to enrich or tune into a different kind of sensing and receiving and acting. Is that accurate? [7:00] • Is it safe to use the analogy that in some ways initiations are like intense workouts that strengthen spiritual muscles to be able to act and interact with Spirit? [8:25] • You have worked with many students in different kinds of initiations. Do you find that there is a common set of skills, or is the way of working with Spirit unique to each soul? [9:28] • Do students emerge from a deliberate initiation experience being altered in some way? [11:46] • Do students continue to feel “different” after an initiation experience? [13:40] • This completes our questions. Do you have any thing else that you would like to add at this time? [18:50]
This is the second episode in a 4 part series on "Shamanic Initiations." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about Shamanic Initiation. The episode includes the following questions: • A listener wrote and said she had been experiencing a “dark night of the soul” for a few weeks and wondered if this is a shamanic initiation. Can you speak to that? [0:30] • Lots of bad, scary and challenging things happen regularly to people; are they all initiations from a shamanic perspective? And how can a person tell the difference between dark night of the soul and depression? And knowing when finding a teacher would be helpful? [4:57] • For some Shamanic initiations, I’m hearing that some of it is non-ordinary reality breaking through ordinary reality. Is that true? [9:11] • If a person does not consider themselves to be on a spiritual path, can they still experience non-ordinary reality breaking through ordinary reality—that kind of initiation? [11:00] • So Spirit is trying to blow through your bones, and make you a conduit for them? [15:00] • This completes our questions. Do you have any thing else that you would like to add at this time? [13:35]
This is the first episode in a 4 part series on "Shamanic Initiations." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about Shamanic Initiation. The episode includes the following questions: • Dory, can you tell us about shamanic initiations and a bit more about what that means. [0:33] • How do you, as a current, modern-day, shamanic teacher help students through initiations? [3:04] • How can you tell the difference between just the chaos of life, and an initiation? [10:08] • So there is a way at which spirit nips at your heals to keep you on the path, but initiation takes you over the doorway. Is that right? [14:22] • What does someone do if they are experiencing what they believe are shamanic initiations but they do not have a mentor, an elder, or a teacher to help guide them? [16:13] • This completes our questions. Do you have any thing else that you would like to add at this time? [18:18]
This is the final episode in a 4-part series on "SHAMANISM AND CHILDREN" In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote interviews her former student Eva Goulette, who has created Spirit Camps for Children. Eva Goulette's website is https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancingjaguarinspirations.com&token=8fff0-1-1653668349640 (www.dancingjaguarinspirations.com) She is creating a book about children and power animals, and welcomes inquiries from other Shamanic practitioners who have stories to contribute. You can reach Eva at Eva@dancingjaguarinspirations.com Eva will be offering spirit camps for children at Kripalu (https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Kripalu.org&token=199156-1-1653668349640 (www.Kripalu.org)) August 5, 6, and 7 in 2016. Their interview includes the following questions: 1) Can you share with the listening audience what inspired you to offer Spirit Camps for children? [0:56] 2) Can you tell us in a bit more detail what you offer in a week-long camp experience for children and what ages are appropriate for children to attend a Spirit Camp? [3:37] 3) Do you offer shorter versions of a Spirit Camp experience during school breaks or on weekends? [7:16] 4) I heard that you were recently accepted to teach Spirit Camp for a weekend this summer at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in MA. That is a great honor; can you tell us more about what you will offer on that weekend and what date in the summer this will be offered? What age group of youngsters can register for this offering? [11:10] 5) I have heard about this book you are doing. Can you tell the listeners about it and how they might participate? [13:36] 6) Is there anything else you would like to share with us?[16:30]
This is the third episode in a 4-part series on "SHAMANISM AND CHILDREN". Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses the following questions: • A parent has asked how you would work with a child who is considered to be “ in the autism spectrum” and do you have experience working with children with special needs? [0:32] • Can you help parents better understand how to work with their special needs child from a spiritual dimension? Does it make a difference? [4:32] • How would you work with a child who has ADHD and cannot sit still while you meet with them? [7:45] • Have you ever worked with a child who is non-verbal? How would you know how to work with a child who cannot express what is happening in his or her world? [12:15] • This completes our prepared questions on children with special needs. Do you have anything else you want to add at this time? [15:08]
This is the second episode in a 4-part series on "SHAMANISM AND CHILDREN". Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses the following questions: • I have heard that Power Animals are often very special to children and that they often have experiences that are amazingly unique and transformational. Can you share more about why this is true? [0:30] • A parent has written to you expressing concern that their child will be shamed or ridiculed by their peers or by the teacher or other adults about their deep connection with this “invisible” spirit animal. What can you say to that parent & other caring adults about how to help a child navigate these possibilities? And how can a parent be helpful in coaching their child about staying safe from bullying or ridicule about this? [5:20] • Have you ever had a situation where a child also needed other intervention by say a psychologist or other professional to help overcome fear or anxiety? And how would you handle that if it were to occur? [8:57] • This completes our prepared questions on children and power animals. Do you have anything else you want to add at this time? [12:17]
This is the first episode in a 4-part series on "SHAMANISM AND CHILDREN". Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses the following questions: • A recent listener asked about whether you have ever done shamanic healing with children and if so, then how young can a child be to have effective results from shamanic healing? [0:34] • Can you share with listeners some of the “techniques” you have used in your work with children. [2:44] • Does a parent have to be present when you work with children? [7:36] • Who gives permission for this work, the child or the adult/parent/guardian? [9:41] • This completes our prepared questions on this first episode. Do you have anything else you want to add at this time? [13:08]
This is the final episode in the series on "Love, Compassion & Co-Dependence." Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions, including: • Given the title of this episode, “when Love & Compassion become co-Dependence,” how would someone know if they have moved into co-dependence when they think they are being loving? [0:28] • In Sufism, they call this concept Sovereignty. You must first do no harm to your self. And they use the analogy of being a hotel keeper, being of service to people who pass through your life. You want to serve them, make them comfortable, give them what they need. But if it is against the house rules, and it hurts the house, then that is not appropriate. [4:30] • So, what tools can listeners use to spot co-dependent behavior—in ourselves and in others? [5:41] • So when the co-dependency issues come up and we have had to put around another person, how can we love and show compassion to this person in a safe way? Whether the boundaries came up because it was our co-dependency, or theirs—how do we deal with this? [8:27] • This completes our prepared questions. Do you have anything to add at this time? [14:51]
This is the first episode in a 4-part series on "Love, Compassion & Co-Dependence." Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses these questions: • Dory, a listener has asked if you could help her understand how she can possibly love someone if she doesn’t like her? She has a cousin who bugs her and does not share her values so she really does not like her cousin and does not want to spend time with her cousin. But her family and she feel that she is supposed to LOVE her cousin. How does she do that and not compromise her own values and feelings? [0:40] • Your answer discusses different kinds of love. From a shamanic perspective, how can love have different qualities or “ways of being”. [6:35] • Some listeners have expressed difficulty in accepting what you have said previously about the need to love everyone regardless of their acts of hatred, terrorism, abuse and their attitudes that reflect destruction of widely accepted morality. What can you say to them that might be helpful? [13:10]
This is the third in the 4-part series on "Love, Compassion & Co-Dependence." Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions, including: • A listener wrote to ask how he might switch from anger or rage to a place of compassion when he is in an automatic response to a fearful situation while driving…For example, like someone cutting him off when he is driving home on the highway and nearly causing a misfortunate incident? Or someone flipping him the finger because another driver did not move out of their travelling lane fast enough? [0:31] • Building on your answer to the first question, how would you address how a person gets “into their heart “when they are not feeling happy or generous or loving? [5:08] • You talked about a commitment to a spiritual practice, and making compassion a spiritual practice. Do you have suggestions to make it a habit, to kind of practice a practice—before you are in crisis with it? Kind of like making it brushing your teeth everyday? [7:52] • Do you think that the expression of compassion on a global basis could stop wars and heal the environment? [11:42] • This completes our prepared questions. Do you have anything to add at this time? [14:38]
This is the second in the 4-part series on "Love, Compassion & Co-Dependence." Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions, including: • Can you begin, Dory, by speaking about “what is compassion”? In particular, how can compassion be possible in the face of dealing with an abusive person, a difficult family member, or challenges with people at work who push all your buttons? How can people best find compassion in these situations? [0:40] • So the psychologist Alfred Adler talks about empathy as strengthening, and sympathy as weakening. What you are talking about here, to a degree in this compassion, sounds like empathy, stepping into their shoes in a way. Is that true? [8:04] • If a person cannot find compassion in their heart for a specific person or group of persons, what can they do to find it or foster it? [0:00] • How can a peace-loving person find compassion for the terrorists in our present and turbulent times? [9:47] • This completes our prepared questions. Do you have anything to add at this time? [14:12] Previous episodes in this series: DCoS https://soundcloud.com/tags/37 (#37): Defining Love Upcoming episodes in this series DCoS https://soundcloud.com/tags/39 (#39): How to Express Compassion in Troubling Times: Part 2 DCoS https://soundcloud.com/tags/40 (#40): When Love & Compassion become Co-Dependence
This is the first in a 4-part series about power animals. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about the power animals in your life. This podcast answers the following questions: 1. What is a Power Animal? [0:31| 2. Do I need a power animal or do I already have one? [1:53] 3. What is the difference between a Power Animal and what some people call "totems or totem animals?” [2:33] 4. How can people know who their Power Animal is? [5:03] 5. Here is a question from a listener: “I've heard people talk about Power Animal Retrievals. What is that? How do I get one?” [5:57] 6. A follow up question from this listener: “How do I find out what kind of power my power animal has?” [8:59] 7. This question came through email: “Dory, can I have more than one Power Animal?” [11:27] 8. Is it possible to have more than one power animal in the same genus—for example, more than one bird power animal? [12:51] 9. How can people relate to a presence in their life that they cannot see and are not really sure is even there? [13:33] 10. This completes the questions. Do you have anything to add? [17:34]
In this 4-series on GRATITUDE, APPRECIATION & ABUNDANCE, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about how to conjure these healing practices in your life. This series includes: --How to Conjure Gratitude --Appreciation for Life --What is “Abundance”? --Shamanism and Abundance https://soundcloud.com/tags/abundance (abundance) https://soundcloud.com/tags/gratitude (gratitude) https://soundcloud.com/tags/appreciation (appreciation) https://soundcloud.com/tags/shamanism (shamanism) https://soundcloud.com/tags/shaman (shaman)
In this 4-series on GRATITUDE, APPRECIATION & ABUNDANCE, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about how to conjure these healing practices in your life. This series includes: --How to Conjure Gratitude --Appreciation for Life --What is “Abundance”? --Shamanism and Abundance https://soundcloud.com/tags/abundance (abundance) https://soundcloud.com/tags/gratitude (gratitude) https://soundcloud.com/tags/appreciation (appreciation) https://soundcloud.com/tags/shamanism (shamanism) https://soundcloud.com/tags/shaman (shaman)
In this 4-series on GRATITUDE, APPRECIATION & ABUNDANCE, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about how to conjure these healing practices in your life. This series includes: --How to Conjure Gratitude --Appreciation for Life --What is “Abundance”? --Shamanism and Abundance
In this 4-series on GRATITUDE, APPRECIATION & ABUNDANCE, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about how to conjure these healing practices in your life. This series includes: --How to Conjure Gratitude --Appreciation for Life --What is “Abundance”? --Shamanism and Abundance
This is the third episode in a 4-part series on "How to Acknowledge and Embrace Your Shadow." Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about how to continue shadow work throughout your life. 00:00Use Left/Right Arrow keys to advance one second, Up/Down arrows to advance ten seconds.09:24Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. This podcast answers the following questions: • Do people need to work with their shadow issues forever? Or is this a one-time fix? [0:31] • How do clients know when they need to revisit shadow work? [2:39] • Do you recommend a regular long-term practice for shadow work? [3:45] • How is a shadow different from soul loss? [5:48] • This completes our questions. Do you have anything you would like to add? [7:01]
This is the third episode in a 4-part series on "How to Acknowledge and Embrace Your Shadow." Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about how to use tools to work with your shadow. This podcast answers the following questions: • You have talked about the tools someone might use to identify their various shadow aspects. Now that the listeners know a bit more about what those are, how might they proceed to work with their shadow aspects? [0:31] • You talk about embracing shadow aspects. It might seem logical to listeners that this is the opposite of what they should be doing. Is there an instinct to shut down shadow aspects and shoo them away? [8:15] • This completes our questions. Do you have anything you would like to add? [11:14]
In this 4-part series on "How to Acknowledge and Embrace Your Shadow", Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about our shadows. This series includes: --What is the Shadow? --Tools to Identify the Shadow --How to Use Tools to Work with Your Shadow --How to Continue Shadow Work throughout Your Life
This is the first episode in a 4-part series on "How to Acknowledge and Embrace Your Shadow." Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about What is your shadow. This podcast answers the following questions: 1) What do you mean when you talk about the shadow? [0:34] 2) Is one’s shadow something a client should be looking to tame or eliminate? [5:40] 3) How does someone know when shadow work might be useful? Does a Shamanic practitioner usually suggest it, or is there a way someone knows they are ready for this work? [7:16] 4) The shadow sounds similar to transference and projection in psychology. Is it the same, or what is the difference? [9:53] 5) This completes our questions. Do you have anything you would like to add? [11:05]
This is the final episode in a series on "Shamanic Healing." Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about Psychopomp. This podcast answers the following questions: 1. It has been said that Shamans can help dead souls go to the light. What does that mean? [0:34] 2. How would a Shaman know if someone was stuck here on earth after dying? [4:02] 3. Does it help living relatives and friends, when their loved one gets Psychopomped? [6:27] 4. Can a person still connect with the soul of a deceased person after they have moved on? [9:33]
This is the third episode in a series on "Shamanic Healing." Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about Soul Retrieval. This podcast will answer the following questions: 1. Please explain what soul retrieval is. [0:32] 2. What if the pieces of a person’s soul do not want to come back? Do you bring them back anyway? [ 6:58] 3. Is there a responsibility, when you receive a returning piece during a soul retrieval, to make it feel welcomed, or to hon or it? Is there homework or is there a recuperation plan for reintegration? [8:33] 4. How often can a person get a soul retrieval, and if they have had several soul retrievals, does there come a time when there are no more pieces to retrieve? [10 :22] 5. This completes the prepared questions. Is there anything you would like to add? [15 24:]
In this second episode of a four part series on "Shamanic Healing", Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote gives an overview of Shamanic extraction work. This podcast will answer the following questions: 1. Tell us about Shamanic Extraction. When would a Shaman do this kind of ceremony and when when might we want to ask them to do it? [0:34] 2. How is the energy of an intrusion different from the energy of another person being stuck on you? [5:49] 3. You have started to answer this, and there might be more to the answer. What are the symptoms of spiritual intrusions? [8:01] 4. How would someone know if they would feel better if they had a Shamanic Extraction done? [10:01] 5. When you do Shamanic Extraction work, do you usually know where the intrusion came from, and does the extraction work help to keep your client from picking up the intrusion again? [11:49]] 6. This completes the prepared questions. Do you have anything you would like to add? [14:35]
In this first episode of a four-part series on "Shamanic Healing", Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote gives an overview of Shamanic healing practices. This podcast answers the following questions: 1. What is Shamanic healing? Please explain it in simple terms. [0:43] 2. Are there common healing techniques used by most Shamanic practitioners or Shamans? [7.24] 3. Why would someone want to see a Shamanic practitioner, rather than a therapist, a priest, a rabbi, an acupuncturist, or a doctor? [12:34] 4. This completes the prepared questions. Do you have anything you would like to add? [15:29]
In this final episode of a four-part series on "Shaman, Medium, or Psychic", Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about Psychics, Intuitives, and Channels. This podcast answers the following questions: 1. Dory, can you talk in more detail about being a Psychic? [0:36] 2. I have heard it said that anyone can be a psychic. Is that true? [6:31] 3. A listener wrote, "My Aunt goes to see a Psychic every month to get advice about everything in her life. It worries me a bit. Do you think she is doing this too much?" [7:44] 4. If a Psychic charges more than other psychics' do does that mean she is better than others? [9:46] 5. Are psychics dangerous? Can they mess with your energy fields? [11:08] 6. This completes our prepared questions. Do you have anything to add? [13.59]
In this series on "Shaman, Medium, or Psychic", Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about the differences between these types of healers. This series consists of the following podcasts: --Overview: Shaman, Medium, or Psychic? --Shamans --Mediums --Psychics, Intuitives, and Channels
In this series on "Shaman, Medium, or Psychic", Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about the differences between these types of healers. This series consists of the following podcasts: --Overview: Shaman, Medium, or Psychic? --Shamans --Mediums --Psychics, Intuitives, and Channels
In this series on "Shaman, Medium, or Psychic", Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about the differences between these types of healers. This series consists of the following podcasts: --Overview: Shaman, Medium, or Psychic? --Shamans --Mediums --Psychics, Intuitives, and Channels
In this second episode of a four-part series on Visions, Nightmares, Dreams, and Hallucinations, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about Nightmares. This podcast answers the following questions: 1. What is the difference between a nightmare and a dream and why do we have nightmares? [0:36] 2. A reader asks, “Someone told me that if I have the same nightmare over and over again it means something is wrong with me…is that true?” [6:17] 3. Is there a way someone can stop nightmares from happening? Can they ask their spirit guides to make them stop? [7:45] 4. A listener recently asked “ My 5 year old daughter is having nightmares every night and waking up screaming. She is seeing monsters and dead animals. How can I help her?” [9:50] 5. Dory, sometimes there is something that feels like a nightmare which might be a past lifetime chard, or something that has not been emotionally digested fully in this lifetime—that comes up when we have the capacity to deal with it. Or when something is happening in our environment that triggers or resonates with past trauma. Is that the same as a nightmare, or different? And how can we discern that? [13:40] 6. This completes our prepared questions. Is there anything else you would like to add about this topic? [17:21]
In this third episode of a four-part series on Visions, Nightmares, Dreams, and Hallucinations, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about dreams. This podcast answers the following questions: 1. Why do we dream when we are sleeping? [0:35] 2. A listener emailed asking, “I never have dreams. Why do some people have lots of dreams and some people do not have any?” [4:58] 3. Why is it important to remember our dreams? [9:53] 4. So some dreams have different intensities, and there is a type of dream called a lucid dream. Is a lucid dream when we are dreaming with multiple senses, or is that when dreams have more importance? What is a lucid dream? [11:20] 5. This completes our prepared questions. Is there anything else you would like to add about this topic? [14:15]
In this first episode of a four-part series on Visions, Dreams, Hallucinations and Nightmares, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about how the human spirit is communicating with us in times when we are not engaged in thinking. This podcast answers the following questions: 1. A listener recently asked “I have a lot of dreams that seem so real that they don’t feel like a dream but more like something that is actually happening. Do you have any ideas to share about that?” [0:36] 2. You began to answer this next question already—which is, “Please explain what happens to our spirit when we are sleeping.” Do you have anything more to say about that? [3:55] 3. If what you say is true and our spirit is sometimes wandering around while we are sleeping, how can we be sure it will return to us? [5:52] 4. Before we go to sleep can we ask our spirit guides to let us experience a vision? [10:00] 5. What if we do not want to have these visions? What can we do about it? [11:15] 6. When I have been under extreme stress and doing intense meditation or prayer, I have experienced an open-eyed vision when I wasn’t sleeping—almost an answer to the prayer. Is that coming from the same source as the walkabout visions that you are speaking about? [13:53] 7. When someone is either experiencing either dementia or is in the death and dying process, they often see people on the other side. When my father was dying he was seeing visions of being a judge at a court near a river and it was very clear he was seeing and experiencing people in his courtroom pleading life issues that was not in the middle earth environment where his body was. Would you call that a vision, and is this part of spirit working to free from the body? [16:11] 8. This completes our prepared questions. Is there anything else you would like to add about this topic? [18:16]
In this four-part series on Nature Spirits, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about Nature Spirits. Episodes include: --Meet the Nature Spirits --Magic and Miracles --Clouds, Rainbows, and Sunsets --Nature Spirits and the Environment
In this four-part series on Nature Spirits, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about Nature Spirits. Episodes include: --Meet the Nature Spirits --Magic and Miracles --Clouds, Rainbows, and Sunsets --Nature Spirits and the Environment
In this four-part series on Nature Spirits, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about Nature Spirits. Episodes include: --Meet the Nature Spirits --Magic and Miracles --Clouds, Rainbows, and Sunsets --Nature Spirits and the Environment
In this four-part series on Nature Spirits, Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about Nature Spirits. Episodes include: --Meet the Nature Spirits --Magic and Miracles --Clouds, Rainbows, and Sunsets --Nature Spirits and the Environment
This is the final episode in the series about Power Animals. In this episode, shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers these questions: 1. A listener asked, “Does my dog have a Power Animal? How about my cat? And my friends horses?” [0:35] 2. How does a Power Animal help a domesticated animal in their every day life? [2:11] 3. How do you do a Power Animal Retrieval for a pet? [4:24] 4. In an earlier podcast about power animals for children, you talked about supporting children in connecting with their power animals by having objects and representations around. How would you suggest supporting pets in connecting with their power animals? [6:17] 5. This question comes from email: “What if my dog is sick or dying...does a Power Animal Retrieval help in the same way it does for a human?” [7:32] 6. Another question sent in: “My dog or cat would definitely not sit still while someone does a Power Animal Retrieval, so how can it be done for them?” [9:53] 7. Do you have anything else to add? [11:53]
This is the second in a three-part series about power animals. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about working with power animals and children.
This is the first in a three-part series about power animals. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about the power animals in your life. Dory answers the following questions: 1. What is a Power Animal? [0:31| 2. Do I need a power animal or do I already have one? [1:53] 3. What is the difference between a Power Animal and what some people call "totems or totem animals?” [2:33] 4. How can people know who their Power Animal is? [5:03] 5. Here is a question from a listener: “I've heard people talk about Power Animal Retrievals. What is that? How do I get one?” [5:57] 6. A follow up question from this listener: “How do I find out what kind of power my power animal has?” [8:59] 7. This question came through email: “Dory, can I have more than one Power Animal?” [11:27] 8. Is it possible to have more than one power animal in the same genus—for example, more than one bird power animal? [12:51] 9. How can people relate to a presence in their life that they cannot see and are not really sure is even there? [13:33] 10. This completes the questions. Do you have anything to add? [17:34]
This is the final episode in a 4-part series about healing grief. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner Dory Cote answers questions about creating the shift in yourself, while healing grief. Questions answered in this podcast: 1. I want to live a positive life and believe in magic, but look around us...how do we make sense out of everything negative that is happening in the world? How can we stay positive in the face of all the turmoil? 2. Another listener question for you. “I had a close and very precious friendship that felt karmic and important. My friend pulled away suddenly, and while we are still in touch now and then, the friendship is forever changed. I grieve what might have been, but she does not see or choose the path I can see for us. How can I heal from this? 3. If each of us is "the light," as you say, and everyone has a divine core, then why and how can so much hatred, murder, rape, war, and destruction exist? How can people with divine light at their core create these experiences? 4. It seems like grief can creep up and surprise us. We might be doing fine, and out of nowhere, a smell, a sound, a piece of music can bring back a loss and with it tears and grief. Why do these unexpected triggers come up? 5. Does healing grief ever end? Are we ever complete? 6. How can I know I have created the shift in myself?
This is the third episode in a 4-part series about healing grief. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner Dory Cote answers questions about healing from the loss of a loved one. Questions answered in this podcast: 1. A listener asked, “I have been grieving the loss of a beloved parent, and I can't seem to get over it. Why can't I get over it even after years?” [0:35] 2. A parent wrote and asked, “I don't believe in Heaven, but I want to trust that my child is in a good place. How do I do that and not believe in heaven?” [4:05] 3. Another question from a listener: “What can I do to carry on after the loss of my dog who I loved deeply? I feel lost and lonely and I don't know what to do.” [7:37] 4. Sometimes we can feel or sense those who have passed over, sometimes right away after they pass, and sometimes not for months. Why is there a difference like this? Are some souls so weary from battling their exit from the physical plane that they need a time of rest? [10:58] 5. Can those who have passed over hear our prayers? Can we help them from this side? And is our grief supportive to them, or a burden? [14:44] 6. I heard of a Buddhist practice, to honor souls whose bodies die. The practice is to take a photograph and put it in a place of honor for one moon cycle, following the death of the body, and to light a candle and remember what this soul taught those whose lives it touched. Do those prayers and thoughts reach the souls that pass over? [17:08] 7. Do you have anything you would like to add on Healing from the Loss of a Loved One? [19:27]
This is the second in a 4-part series about healing grief. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner Dory Cote answers questions about staying proactive, not negative, while healing grief. Questions answered in this podcast: 1. I am an activist. I want to stand up for what I believe is right, like not killing whales or destroying the Rain Forest. How do I stand up for my beliefs at the same time I am trying to send love to everyone? [0:36] 2. It can feel like there is a lot of evil in the world. How can I stay positive about my life when people are being senselessly killed every day? [3:37] 3. Groups can accomplish more proactive change, sometimes, than individuals. However, group energy can shift and change. How can I know and sense the difference, and how best to pull out from a group whose intent changes, without making enemies of former colleagues? [6:13] 4. Passionate reactions can cloud emotions. What is the best way to monitor my own negativity? [8:55] 5. Non-violent communications practices believe that in order to heal a turbulent situation, all the voices must be heard, even those committing violence. It can be challenging to hold the position that every soul deserves listening to… How does this fit with Shamanic teachings? [11:14] 6. Is there a prayer or a mantra or a ritual that can help steady us in this path? [16:07]
This is the first in a series about healing grief. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner Dory Cote answers questions about healing and shifting global greif. This series was recorded the week before the earthquake in Nepal, and particularly this first episode in the series is relevant to our helping to send healing to that area of the world. The podcast answers the following questions: 1. What do you mean by global grief? [0:52] 2. How would you approach healing my deep sense of grief over what is happening in the world...war, starvation, terrorism? [2:55] 3. I feel really sad about what is happening to our global environment. How do I manage this sense of grief and loss I feel every day? [6:00] 4. Is grief contagious? Can I pick up grief from others? [9:15] 5. Do some spots in the world hold different amounts of grief? [11:47] 6. You mention shifting global grief. What would that shift look like? What is that vision, and how can we support that shift? [13:50]
This is the last in a 4 part series on Omens. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner Dory Cote answers questions about omens while you are traveling. Some of the questions answered include: 1. How can we identify omens when traveling? Especially when going to a different culture, where everything is new and different, how can we differentiate what is omen and what is just new? 2. Can we ask for omens as we travel? And how might this be of service? 3. What are some ways to work with omens?
This is the third in a 4-part series on Omens. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner Dory Cote answers questions about omens at home. Some of the questions answered include: 1. How are omens at home different from omens in nature or dreams? 2. Are insect visitations omens in the home, or just changing of the seasons? 3. How are omens different than messages from the spirit of a house?
This is the second in a 4 part series on Omens. In this podcast, Shamanic practitioner Dory Cote answers questions about omens in dreams. Some of the questions answered include: 1. How can you tell if something in a dream is an omen? 2. Do omens come in dreams to foretell of births or deaths? 3. Do people in the same culture receive omens in dreams of forthcoming social issues? 4. Can we change an omen, if it is ominous, and comes in a dream?
The first part of a four-part series on Omens. In this episode, Shamanic Practitioner Dory Cote discusses omens as they are honored and taught in her core Shamanic tradition. She gives several examples of omens in nature and how to work with and honor them. The podcast will answer the following questions: 1. What is an omen? 2. How can I tell if something is an omen? When I meet my power animal in a journey for the first time, it appears at least three times. Are there any guidelines like that for omens? 3. Omen sound ominous. Are they always warnings? 4. Who sends omens? How do they originate, and how can I / should I communicate with the source of an omen? 5. In nature…. One of my power animals is a turtle. If it appears in real time, middle world reality, how do I differentiate between a message from my power animal and an omen?
In this first episode of a 4-part series on access serenity, Shamanic Practitioner Dory Cote answers the following questions: • From your perspective, Dory, what is “Serenity”? [0:27] • We all know people who say the “Serenity Prayer” as a way of maintaining balance and separation in their lives. Is that practice something you recommend? [2:06] • How can a Meditation practice enhance a person’s sense of serenity? [5:20] • It sounds like the Serenity Prayer leads with mental mylineation of getting to serenity while meditation adds the kinesthetic and physical memories of where serenity resides within us. [8:04] • As a Shamanic Practitioner, how does shamanic journeying help you and other practitioners maintain serenity? [9:23] • Is there anything else you would like to add? [13:16]