I just finished reading Encounters with Power and I just wanted to say thank you to Jose for writing such a wonderfully kind, insightful and inspirational book. It was a great help for me as I work to integrate the experiences I had on a recent retreat with a shipibo shaman that brought to fore a lot of difficult repressed childhood trauma. Please pass along my sincere gratitude for the help he has given me through the stories of his experiences.

Articles by José Luis Stevens
José Luis Stevens, PhD is the President and Co-Founder (with wife Lena) of Power Path Seminars, an international school and consulting firm dedicated to the study and application of shamanism and indigenous wisdom to business and everyday life. José completed a ten-year apprenticeship with a Huichol (Wixarika) Maracame (Huichol shaman) in the Sierras of Central Mexico. In addition, he is studying with Shipibo shamans in the Peruvian Amazon and with Paqos (shamans) in the Andes in Peru. In 1983 he completed his doctoral dissertation at the California Institute of Integral Studies focusing on the interface between shamanism and western psychological counseling. Since then, he has studied cross-cultural shamanism around the world to distill the core elements of shamanic healing and practice. He is the author of twenty books and numerous articles including The Shaman’s Book of Extraordinary Practices, How To Pray The Shaman’s Way, Encounters With Power; Awaken The Inner Shaman; The Power Path; Secrets of Shamanism; Transforming Your Dragons; and Praying With Power.
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What of Grace?
Read More: What of Grace?If there were ever a time that human beings needed grace it is now. Grace, that little or big extra help – unearned, unexpected, in infinite supply. First, let’s try to understand just what this word means and how it is used or understood by most people.
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The Importance of Getting Words Right
Read More: The Importance of Getting Words RightIn these times of growing illiteracy I find it more important than ever that people get their words right because words are what we use to communicate ideas to one another. Words are both positive and negative in that they are able to capture and reveal the great beauty in our lives and at the…
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Being in Alignment
Read More: Being in AlignmentThese turbulent times call for getting our ducks in a row. But how? Are we just too divided, too nuts, too confused? For most of us this is quite difficult to discern because emotions, personal prejudices and judgments get in the way.
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Heaven or Perdition? A Conversation With AI, Theologians, And Me
Read More: Heaven or Perdition? A Conversation With AI, Theologians, And MeMe: summing things up: Like all things in this physical universe, salvation and perdition are a dualistic polarity creating a choice of paths that can be taken leading to eternal joy and happiness or to eternal horrific suffering. According to traditional Christian dogma there are only these two paths and their destinations are final unless…
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Allowing the Tyrants to Fall. Humpty-Dumpty anyone?
Read More: Allowing the Tyrants to Fall. Humpty-Dumpty anyone?Now is the perfect time to eject a big part of our personas and open ourselves up to what we could be, not necessarily what we have become in the eyes of the world. What is a persona? It is a mask, a sort of pretend self that we adopt for the purpose of navigating…
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Erasing War and Fear
Read More: Erasing War and FearThere is always a war somewhere on this planet and often there are many wars, sometimes between two counties in opposition and sometimes involving packs of nations working together.
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Are You Getting Ahead of the Medicine?
Read More: Are You Getting Ahead of the Medicine?In Native American understanding there is a concept called ‘getting ahead of the medicine’. This is an extremely useful idea. To understand the meaning of this term it helps to understand what a native person means by Medicine. Medicine is a term used by indigenous peoples around the world to refer to a person’s unique…
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Can We Fix This World?
Read More: Can We Fix This World?There is a sense of overwhelm and helplessness about these enormous events that are everywhere these days.
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Expectation as a Tool for Transformation
Read More: Expectation as a Tool for TransformationOne of humanity’s greatest advantages and challenges is our capacity to expect. Our ability to expect allows us to gather data and plan for events so that we can survive. For example, we use our powers of observation to gather data about weather changes. When we sense a sudden, dramatic drop in temperature, winds coming…
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Creating Our Future Right Now
Read More: Creating Our Future Right NowThis article is not about planning for the future, neither our personal desired future nor our desires for the future of the world. Why? Because we have been trying to prepare for the future for thousands of years and in so many ways it has not worked at all. We think we know what kind…










