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.

  • The Manhattan Power Spot: A Shamanic Understanding

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    The Manhattan Power Spot: A Shamanic Understanding

    A trip to visit our son Carlos brought my wife Lena and I to New York City in late November, 2011. He recently moved to Manhattan to work as the Creative Director of a computer design and animation company and we wanted to see where he worked and visit his apartment where we stayed for…

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  • Psychopomp Intervention

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Psychopomp Intervention

    In early March 2012 I traveled to Real de Catorce, a tourist mining town in Central Mexico, arriving with a group of my shamanic students to do some ceremonial work in this high desert region. I have been going to Real for the last twenty five years and this was our annual pilgrimage lasting for…

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  • Fires, Flooding and Responsibility

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Fires, Flooding and Responsibility

    The smoke from several huge fires hung menacingly over the New Mexico horizon like a toxic shroud. The forests, still burning out of control, for a time threatened the Los Alamos nuclear labs with incineration. Other fires raged in Arizona consuming over half a million acres there while Texas burnt as well. In many parts…

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  • The Guatemala Test

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    The Guatemala Test

    Sometimes, even after doing everything right, Essence throws curves at us just to see how we will manage them. This is the tale of such a test and perhaps an example of one way of managing it along with lessons learned. After an extraordinary trip to Huallay, the stone forest in the Andes of Central…

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  • Earthquake, Tsunami, and Revolution

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Earthquake, Tsunami, and Revolution

    Welcome to 2011. Dictators topple in Egypt and Tunisia, civil war breaks out in Libya, social unrest boils to the surface all over the Mideast, floodwaters drown towns and countryside from the United states to Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Australia, volcanoes erupt, and now a record breaking and devastating earthquake and tsunami strikes Japan. It…

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  • Understanding the Revolution in Egypt

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Understanding the Revolution in Egypt

    Many of you have written requesting an explanation of the recent and ongoing events in Egypt. As of this writing Mubarek, the long term dictator of Egypt has been deposed and Egypt is under the temporary control of the military. Egyptians are ecstatic at their success in ousting the oppressive Mubarek regime that many have…

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  • Reflections on Healing in Vietnam

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Reflections on Healing in Vietnam

    My recent rather short eleven day trip to Vietnam was a much larger event than I could have imagined even though I knew that at some point in my life I was going to have to travel there for some completion. The trip was conceived of as both a family vacation and as a kind…

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  • Surviving Miracles in Bolivia

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    Surviving Miracles in Bolivia

    Recently I returned from The lake Titicaca region in Bolivia and Peru, more alive than ever. This is the story of a miracle, but then, miracles have become the norm in my life. This is not to say I take these events for granted or that I am not amazed each time something like this…

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  • A New Jose Stevens Article

    What Happened in Haiti

    Last month someone asked about Tiger Woods and I wrote about how some individuals volunteer to become an icon or symbol for humanity. They live bigger than life and dramatically represent some of the big lessons humanity faces. In the same way certain regions do this for the world. If the whole world represents the…

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  • What the Vampire Craze has to Teach Us About Ourselves and Current Times

    A New Jose Stevens Article

    What the Vampire Craze has to Teach Us About Ourselves and Current Times

    The current vampire craze is a most interesting phenomenon that is becoming a bigger and bigger theme, especially among young people. Let us look at a brief history of where vampires originated, some of the particulars of vampirism, and recent developments to understand how this craze mirrors deeper processes in the human psyche. A brief…

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Praise for Jose Stevens’ Articles

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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