EPISODE 244
Nicholas Brink: Your Inner Shaman
Retired psychologist Nicholas Brink describes the use of ecstatic trance as a Shamanic practice for journeying and working with your spirit guides and power animals and how listening beyond your ears gets you there in this Living 4D conversation.
Learn more about Nicholas and his Ecstatic Trance groups on Facebook at this link, his books at this Facebook link and his book reviews at this link. If you want to take part in one of Nicholasâ ecstatic trance groups, email him at [email protected].
SHOW NOTES
- The importance of listening beyond your ears. (3:56)
- Weâre moving into a new era: The integral stage. (14:37)
- Comparing the imaginal faculty to imagination. (25:45)
- Ways people can engage their imaginal faculties for healing and personal growth. (30:19)
- What is a power animal/spirit guide? (42:07)
- Going into a trance state by using seven different body postures. (54:08)
- The upper, middle and lower worlds of Shamanism. (1:10:47)
- The healing power of ecstatic trance. (1:19:02)
- Nicholas connects with his Scandinavian ancestors. (1:26:41)
- Nicholasâ spirit guides/power animals. (1:31:50)
- Living in the rational world, our society has become mired in patriarchy. (1:48:14)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- Baldrâs Magic: The Power of Norse Shamanism and Ecstatic Trance by Nicholas Brink
- The Power of Ecstatic Trance: Practices For Healing, Spiritual Growth and Accessing the Universal Mind by Nicholas Brink
- Ecstatic Soul Retrieval: Shamanism and Psychotherapy by Nicholas Brink
- Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy: Resolving the Unconscious Past by Nicholas Brink
- Trance Journeys of the Hunter-Gatherers: Ecstatic Practices to Reconnect With the Great Mother and Heal the Earth by Nicholas Brink
- Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Traumas of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery and Hypnosis (Imagery and Human Development Series) by Nicholas Brink
- Listening to the Spirits: Surviving the Coming Apocalypse with Ecstatic Trance by Nicholas Brink
- Lokiâs Children: A Healing Story of Antiquity, Shamanism and Psychotherapy by Nicholas Brink
- Beowulfâs Ecstatic Trance Magic: Assessing the Archaic Powers of the Universal Mind by Nicholas Brink
- The work of Felicitas Goodman, David Feinstein, Paul MacLean, Michael Harner and Belinda Gore
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
- Where Spirits Ride The Wind by Felicitas Goodman
- Paulâs Living 4D conversation with Rachel Epstein
- The Ever-Present Origin Part 1 by Jean Gebser
- Paulâs Power Animals/Spirit Guides video on YouTube
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