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“I had a full-body orgasm last night,” reports a woman who divorced several years ago and has not dated since. “I thought I had given up sex, but in my dreams I’m with a series of fantastic lovers, doing it in all kinds of wonderful places, from a castle on a mountain to a tropical…

I’m at the departure gate for the first leg of my journey to Charlotte, en route to a conference up in the Blue Ridge Mountains where, inter alia, I’ll lead a workshop on “Dreaming with the Departed.” The cover of the book the man sitting next to me is reading catches my eye. Above the…

I went to an improv workshop yesterday, a pleasant break from regular sessions at a conference where I’m presenting up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. We were coached to loosen up by saying our names in silly ways, doing the hokey-pokey, shaking ourselves out, performing hand dances, and walking about outside in…

What is a shaman? The word was borrowed by anthropologists from the Tungus Siberian people. Correctly pronounced, the long As (“ah”) are given equal weight (“shah-mahn”); the magic of the word is in its resonance. The word came into widespread use after the publication of Mircea Eliade’s classic work Shamanism, An Archaic Technique of Ecstasy.…
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