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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A New Jose Stevens Article
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…
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Knowing The Nature of Containers
Read More: Knowing The Nature of ContainersIn this physical universe everything is divided into categories and held within containers. A container is something that holds other things. A box, a bowl, a bottle, a car, a building, a parking garage are all examples of containers. These are more obvious containers but most people do not readily identify their body, a relationship,…
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A New Jose Stevens Article
Understanding Men in these Challenging Times
Read More: Understanding Men in these Challenging TimesWe are in 2025 with thousands of years of experience behind us, billions of men have lived out their lives all over the world, and yet everyone seems confused about what men are supposed to be like. And to add further mayhem and insult some of the most ill equipped, ignorant, and backward men on…
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A New Jose Stevens Article
Yes I Can
Read More: Yes I CanInterestingly this “I can” slogan turns out to be way more than an inspirational UFW and Democratic National Party campaign slogan. It has its origins long ago at least as far back as two thousand years and is perhaps much older. What we do know is that Jesus referred to it often in his teachings…
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A New Jose Stevens Article
The Importance of Experiencing Your Experiences
Read More: The Importance of Experiencing Your ExperiencesAll of us human beings are on the grand adventure of creating and having a vast array of experiences for the purpose of expressing ourselves, discovering how to manage these experiences, learning from them, and enjoying them. If this is so, then why do we spend so much time resisting our experiences?
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A New Jose Stevens Article
Resurrection: What does it mean? Redo, redecide, reveal, repeat, restore, remember…
Read More: Resurrection: What does it mean? Redo, redecide, reveal, repeat, restore, remember…Resurrection is one of the many words starting with RE, meaning a return to something by doing it again. Re-do, re-member, re-vise, re-veal, re-decide, re-store, re-turn, re-invent, re-peat, re-pay, re-fresh, re-calibrate, re-spond, re-form and many more words are all advising us to go back and do again in various guises. So, ‘Resurrect’, to use the…
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A New Jose Stevens Article
What To Do With What is Happening
Read More: What To Do With What is HappeningOne of the greatest dilemmas we are faced with during these dramatically changing times is the paradox of what to trust and what to fight off in terms of social change.
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A New Jose Stevens Article
Baby Steps to Handle Big Ego Problems
Read More: Baby Steps to Handle Big Ego ProblemsIn Buddhist and many other esoteric teachings such as the Michael Teachings, you will often hear about the problems created by the ego or false personality, the parts of ourselves that influence us to think of ourselves as separate selves, the fear-based notion that produces all suffering. While this is totally accurate it is only…










