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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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The Challenge of Changing Octaves

By now you are probably well aware that we are in a massive paradigm shift on this planet and that this transformational shift has been waiting in the wings for us for a long, long time. Various prophecies including the Mayans, the Toltecs, the Hopis, and the Tibetans have pinpointed the current unique set of…
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The Weirdness of Talking: Can We Actually Ever Tell the Truth?

(Warning: This is a weird article, enjoy) As I study the writings of great spiritual teachers of various traditions and cultural backgrounds, including my own essence communication with Spirit, I have come to appreciate the nuances of words and language used to convey accurately the highest truths. The Hindus, Tibetan Buddhists, Zen Buddhists, Taoists, Sufis,…
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Cultivating Abilities That Come With Access To The Higher Octave

Recently, I have written about identifying and using the upper room as a tool to rise to the upper octave of awareness. Here in this article, we are going to go a step further by understanding that our senses themselves have an upper octave component. Now if this sounds confusing, don’t worry, I will explain…
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Dealing with Procrastination

Almost everyone struggles with procrastination in some aspect of their life. For some it amounts to a mild inconvenience and for others it can have disastrous consequences touching upon almost every part of life. Given that is the case it would help if we knew something more about the dynamics of it and how to…
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