Articles by José 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.

  • Understanding the Los Angeles Area Fires

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Understanding the Los Angeles Area Fires

    This is a huge event and truly impactful in ways that people cannot deny, ignore, or minimize and pretend that nothing is happening out of the ordinary. This is a massive purification for the area. Fire is always purification and wind is change. Courage is the big lesson for the month.

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  • The Goddess Is Here

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    The Goddess Is Here

    The Goddess is here and always has been but for a very long time she has been hidden away behind veils of denial from world culture that has supported patriarchy, supported science divorced from spirituality, and become hopelessly addicted to the god of money to the detriment and destruction of mother earth. But that old…

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  • Change Has Come

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Change Has Come

    I was in the Peruvian Amazon jungle for the elections and just returned. This was the second time I was in the Amazon when this president was elected…..

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  • Adaptability and Flexibility

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Adaptability and Flexibility

    Recently, some of you participated in our online remote healing session where I talked about some very intense events regarding the Sun and the Moon that had just occurred. I mentioned at the time that I would put some of the main points in writing so that you did not have to take notes and…

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  • Directives and Expectations

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Directives and Expectations

    Let’s begin with expectations. We are born into families, cultures, religions, subcultures, and social strata that all teach what life is supposed to look like according to their belief systems. These various influences provide a great many details that hypnotize us into believing that the world operates exactly this way.

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  • Raising The Bar

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Raising The Bar

    Often, we do not exactly know what raising the bar is for us. Maybe I think raising the bar is a promotion at work, competing for higher pay, having children, getting married, going back to school, or what have you. That is probably what the small self thinks it looks like. Often it turns out…

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  • The True Meaning of Support

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    The True Meaning of Support

    The main theme for these times is support: allowing support, receiving support, and giving support. Let’s begin with these three main aspects of support. It does not occur to most of us that allowing support is important but the truth is that it is the foundation of all support. If you cannot allow it, then…

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  • Authoritarian Rule

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Authoritarian Rule

    The United States and other democratic nations of the world are convulsing as strong powers seek to dismantle democracies in favor of totalitarian and authoritarian rule. First let’s understand what these terms mean. There are concerted efforts to turn nations toward authoritarian rule and perhaps worse, totalitarian rule. The difference is that in authoritarian rule…

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  • Profiting From Moving Up to Higher Octaves

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Profiting From Moving Up to Higher Octaves

    In a past article on resonance I briefly mentioned the notion that fields have higher and lower ranges that we can choose to resonate with. In life we are always presented with options, possibilities, and choices about what we want to be in harmony or accord with. You could say that each field of experience…

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  • Exploring Beyond the Maps

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Exploring Beyond the Maps

    Maps are essential for locating yourself and finding where you have been and where you are headed. This is true for google or Apple maps and it is equally true for maps of consciousness. However, your smartphone map will not tell you that there is a spectacular sunset going on at mile marker 35 because…

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Praise for Jose Stevens’ Articles

“Good morning,

I appreciated the recent blog post by José Stevens very much. It answered some questions that had been swirling in my mind without a clear idea of who to ask or even how to phrase them. For example, it was so reassuring to hear the percentages of people in each soul age as well as the shifts over time between them. A second example is around the “cleanup” we still have to do from earlier lifetimes – I had been wondering why, if we are in fact making progress in the world overall, is there still so much of what he calls a “depressing stew.” I also very much appreciated the overall tone of the post, which was not doom and gloom but encouraged a viewpoint of curiosity and openness. This is sometimes very hard to achieve, both in terms of my everyday life and when looking at the broader world. 

Since I’m taking the time to write, I also wanted to let you know that I’ve been reading your monthly forecasts for about three years, and I am so grateful for them. They really help me keep a “don’t know mind” and stay out of narrow focus on my own worries and woes. I’m definitely in a place of deep growth and shifting patterns, and the tools for reflection that you provide have been enormously beneficial. (I’m not in a position financially to take advantage of all the tools and supports – so extra thanks for the free offerings!) I look forward to continuing to read your posts and learn from you!”

Amy De La Hunt – St. Louis, Missouri

First of all, thank you so very much for all of your teachings, healings, support, writing, all of which I have come to rely upon over the years. I feel as if I know you on a very deep level.  Although I had one private session with Jose, a few years ago via phone regarding the personessence program, I look forward to meeting you both in person one day.

In the meantime, the recent article by you Jose, on being “Spiritual beings walking a human path“, resonated so very deeply. I have been listening to recent teachings by the institute of noetic science, and one of their teachers shared his power points with our community, saying we are free to share with others.

This understanding aligns so beautifully with the article you just wrote, at least from my non-physics-based perspective. I was curious if you felt similarly.

Again, thank you so very much for being on the leading edge and holding the space for us with your monthly and annual forecasts and monthly support as well as your regular healings and teachings. You are a major part of my world, and a very important sustaining support system ,especially as we navigate these most interesting of times.

With deepest thanks and appreciation to you and for all that is,

Maribeth G., Bozeman Montana

Good morning,

I appreciated the recent blog post by José Stevens very much. It answered some questions that had been swirling in my mind without a clear idea of who to ask or even how to phrase them. For example, it was so reassuring to hear the percentages of people in each soul age as well as the shifts over time between them. A second example is around the “cleanup” we still have to do from earlier lifetimes – I had been wondering why, if we are in fact making progress in the world overall, is there still so much of what he calls a “depressing stew.” I also very much appreciated the overall tone of the post, which was not doom and gloom but encouraged a viewpoint of curiosity and openness. This is sometimes very hard to achieve, both in terms of my everyday life and when looking at the broader world. 

Since I’m taking the time to write, I also wanted to let you know that I’ve been reading your monthly forecasts for about three years, and I am so grateful for them. They really help me keep a “don’t know mind” and stay out of narrow focus on my own worries and woes. I’m definitely in a place of deep growth and shifting patterns, and the tools for reflection that you provide have been enormously beneficial. (I’m not in a position financially to take advantage of all the tools and supports – so extra thanks for the free offerings!) I look forward to continuing to read your posts and learn from you!

Yours,

Amy De La Hunt

Amy D, St. Louis, MO

Dear Jose and Lena,

First of all, thank you so very much for all of your teachings, healings, support, writing, all of which I have come to rely upon over the years. I feel as if I know you on a very deep level.  Although I had one private session with Jose, a few years ago via phone regarding the personessence program, I look forward to meeting you both in person one day.

In the meantime, the recent article by you Jose, on being “Spiritual beings walking a human path“, resonated so very deeply. I have been listening to recent teachings by the institute of noetic science, and one of their teachers shared his power points with our community, saying we are free to share with others.

This understanding aligns so beautifully with the article you just wrote, at least from my non-physics-based perspective. I was curious if you felt similarly.

Again, thank you so very much for being on the leading edge and holding the space for us with your monthly and annual forecasts and monthly support as well as your regular healings and teachings. You are a major part of my world, and a very important sustaining support system ,especially as we navigate these most interesting of times.

With deepest thanks and appreciation to you and for all that is,

Maribeth Goodman

Maribeth G, Bozeman, MT

“Dear Jose and Lena,

First of all, thank you so very much for all of your teachings, healings, support, writing, all of which I have come to rely upon over the years. I feel as if I know you on a very deep level.  Although I had one private session with Jose, a few years ago via phone regarding the personessence program, I look forward to meeting you both in person one day.

In the meantime, the recent article by you Jose, on being “Spiritual beings walking a human path“, resonated so very deeply. I have been listening to recent teachings by the institute of noetic science, and one of their teachers shared his power points with our community, saying we are free to share with others.

This understanding aligns so beautifully with the article you just wrote, at least from my non-physics-based perspective. I was curious if you felt similarly.

Again, thank you so very much for being on the leading edge and holding the space for us with your monthly and annual forecasts and monthly support as well as your regular healings and teachings. You are a major part of my world, and a very important sustaining support system, especially as we navigate these most interesting of times. “

Maribeth Goodman – Bozeman, MT

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.

David M., Wells, ME

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