Modern American Shamanism

“At every doorway, you should peer around. Take a good look inside, for you never truly know, just who is a friend, and who is a foe.”  ...

This project will be multileveled and designed to help the person reading the Havamal delve into the simple as well as the deeper...

To start, Brunnhild is the daughter of the Norse Power Odin. She refused an order from her father, Odin so he put her into a spell the...

Frau Holle (Holda, Hulda) (Ruler of the Underworld, provides health to the flocks and fertility to women.)   She is seen as a...

Spending time in nature is one of the main requirements for learning Fire and Ice Shamanism. You cannot get around the need to spend time...

Lik  is the physical body and should be kept healthy and strong. The physical body is how the Elder Kin found Ask and Embla on the beach....

Nine Realms/Nine Worlds of Yggdrasil and Lewesbaam   Yggdrasil Nine Realms: Asgard – home of the Aesir Alfheim – home of the Light Elves...

Odin and Fenrir: Odin means Spirit and Fenrir means Greed. Odin must engage in his final battle against the most dangerous quality of the...

What is a fylgja? Is it like a Native American totem animal or is it something distinctly Northern European? In short conversations I...

Freya (Her name means "The Lady”) is the Norse Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war, wealth, divination and magic. She belongs to a...

Bragi sitting playing the harp, Iðunn standing behind him (1846) by Nils Blommér   Idunn, her name means "ever young", "rejuvenator", or...

(I would like to start out with that this blog is for information purposes only. I would also like to point out that we are not doctors...

Ground Ivy (Glechoma Hederacea)   (I would like to start out with that this blog is for information purposes only. I would also like to...

Copy of The Warrior of Hirschlanden (German: Krieger von Hirschlanden) Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and ethnographer who...

German Folk Magic Healing Charms Atrophy Healing Spell: Gain in the limbs, Gain in the flesh! Gain in the veins and the blood, As certain...

Odin’s animal companions Geri, Freki, Huginn and Muninn and Sleipnir. If we look at what their names mean, we can get a better...

Some of Odin’s names: There are over 170 different names for him so I will only offer a few here. The first two are simply different ways...

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer! Here in my Northland, My fastness and fortress,...

This level starts where the first level leaves off. The big change in level two is the lack of sound or visual stimuli. The goal is to...

Part One of the Meditation Cross Training Series. Modern American Shamanism’s meditation practices are simple, straight forward, and...