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.

  • Key Aspects of Transformation

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Key Aspects of Transformation

    In this brief article we are going to examine some of the most fundamental aspects of beingness and how almost nobody understands how these aspects are the keys to happiness. This brief article could be a book or it could be a short article like this one. To begin I am going to make some…

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  • How To Stabilize Yourself

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    How To Stabilize Yourself

    One of the greatest repercussions of the grand transition the human race is undergoing right now is destabilization. To review a little context here, the human race is now going through the greatest transition it has ever experienced at any other historical period. There are several reasons for this. The human race has always been…

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  • Mass Shootings in Schools

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Mass Shootings in Schools

    Once again, the USA is reeling from another mass shooting of children and teachers in a school setting. People are enraged that nothing has been done by lawmakers to meaningfully reduce the slaughter and many feel hopeless that anything will be done given the power of the weapons industry in the United States and the…

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  • Erasing Fear – the Denial of Spirit

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Erasing Fear – the Denial of Spirit

    In early May of 2022 I flew to the Amazon in Peru to lead a dieta, a plant diet supervised by the Shipibo people of the upper Amazon who are famous for their knowledge of plants, the songs of the plants, and their powers to transform us. This was perhaps my thirty-third diet over the…

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  • All About Assumptions: The enormity of their impact

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    All About Assumptions: The enormity of their impact

    Miguel Ruiz, Toltec shaman and author of “The Four Agreements” includes “never making assumptions” as one of the four agreements to make with oneself for greater mastery in life. Unfortunately, most people have no idea what he is talking about.

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  • The True Nature of Infection and Viral Contagion

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    The True Nature of Infection and Viral Contagion

    Over the last several years I have written a number of articles that referenced infection and viral activity in relation to the pandemic that has been so impactful on our lives. In this article we will look past the pandemic in order to understand the immense choices that are available to us through viral activity.

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  • Eradicating The Bully  

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Eradicating The Bully  

    Bullying has been around for tens of thousands of years. In other words, there is nothing new about bullying. What is it? Bullying is mistreating another by belittling, harming, hurting, and inflicting pain psychologically, emotionally, mentally, physically, and all the ways pain can be inflicted.

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  • Four Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Four Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water

    Earth, Air, Fire, and Water are the four building blocks of our physical planet and everything on it and together these four elements offer some stability to our experience. This is what this article focuses on. While these elements are powerhouses easily witnessed in the oceans and rivers, volcanoes and forest fires, tornados and hurricanes,…

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  • Stamina

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Stamina

    This next year is an important development in a short or long process of transformation, depending on how you see it. Everyone is reaching a state of saturation and exhaustion regarding the oncoming variants of the pandemic, the insane fascist politics, climate change, the spiraling levels of gun violence, drug addiction, self-destruction, and bad behavior.…

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Praise for Jose Stevens’ Articles

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. “

Maribeth Goodman – 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.

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

Maribeth Goodman

Maribeth G, Bozeman, MT

“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

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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