Ross Heaven
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Healing and Plant Spirit Shamanism Expert
Ross Heaven Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Shamanism, soul retrieval, healing, plant spirit shamanism, ayahuasca, San Pedro
- Best Sellers
- Plant Spirit Shamanism, Darkness Visible, The Sin Eater's Last Confesions, Love's Simple Truths
- Career Focus
- Author, speaker, healer, therapist, workshop leader, organiser of shamanic trips to the Amazon and Andes
- Affiliation
- The Four Gates Foundation: www.thefourgates.com
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Plant Spirit Shamanism: How nature heals
Since the beginning of human experience, plants have played a role in the evolution of our species, not only in the provision of food and medicine but in our deepest spiritual experience and the development of consciousness. Their form, beauty, enchanting scents, their healing and emotional ...
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An Introduction To Plant Spirit Wisdom And Plant Spirit
Based on a presentation by Ross Heaven to the Freedomseekers Shamanic Conference, Glastonbury, England, 2008 Archaeology shows that human beings have worked with plants for thousands of years, as medicines – foods, of course - and as consciousness-changing agents. Even today 75% of our ...
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Darkness Visible: Life scripts - part 1
Tibetan Bon shamans believe that we are already one year old when we are born. Our first year of life is spent in our conception and gestation in the womb, a time when we are conscious, aware, and learning about the world through the experiences of our parents (especially the mother, in whose ...
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Love's Simple Truths - part 2
Intimate relationships are our universities of the heart. In them we will find challenges and blessings, ecstasy and sorrows, and come to realise that our lovers are our mirrors and we are reflected in their eyes. If there is conflict in our relationships it is because we ourselves are in ...
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Plant Spirit Shamanism And Shamanic Healing In The Amazon
Since the beginning of human experience, plants have played a role in the evolution of our species, not only in the provision of food and medicine but in our deepest spiritual experiences and the development of consciousness. According to the shamans of the Amazon – one of Earth’s ...
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The Hummingbird Retreat Centre, Spain
When Spanish explorers first encountered hummingbirds, they called them joyas voladoras: "flying jewels." The hummingbird was revered as a sacred healer, a guardian of plants, the spirit, and those who needed healing or were training as healers themselves. That is why the hummingbird is the ...
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Plant spirit healing from a Sufi perspective
Sufi, Sufism, Islam, healing, Rumi, plant spirit shamanism, herbs, herbalism, Prophet, Prophecy, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, shamanism According to Sufi legend, the Prophet Sulaymãn was the first to learn the healing properties of flowers and herbs while he was at prayer one day, and a ...
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Soul Retrieval
Soul retrieval – a contemporary therapeutic practice rooted in the 50,000 year old tradition of shamanism - is attracting significant attention in the modern Western world as the holistic healthcare movement continues to gather force. Shamans believe that we are all born with an amount of ...
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Floral Baths - An Interview With A Shipibo Shaman
In Peru, floral baths known as banos florales (‘flower baths’) are a staple of shamanic healing from the high Andes to the Amazon basin, where they are used to wash away unhelpful spirits so that blockages are removed and the energy of the universe can flood in to correct the ...
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THE MAGICAL EARTH: An Ayahuasca and Plant Medicine Journey To the Amazon Rainforest
We are delighted to announce a new, dedicated programme enabling you to experience authentic Plant Spirit Shamanism and Ayahuasca Ceremonies in the hauntingly beautiful Peruvian Rainforest. This event is focussed on healing and self-exploration, and offers a transformative encounter with the ...
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Love's Simple Truths - part 1
Love is the order of the universe and we are its atoms. It is the ocean and we are its drops… Through love the heavens are brilliant; Without love even suns and moons are eclipsed Wherever and whenever people meet, it is never long before love and relationships – their problems and confusions, ...
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Ecstatic Trance Postures
Although I had practiced yoga for a number of years, I did not make much of a connection between the physical asanas as methods for exploring the world of spirit until I began working with indigenous shamans and discovered an ancient and little-known practice where body postures are used to ...
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The Four Gates Foundation
The website of best-selling author and psychologist Ross Heaven, specialising in shamanism, healing, and jou eys of self-discovery to the ayahuasca and san pedro shamans of the Peruvian Amazon and Andes.
September 2, 2008
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Ross Heaven: The Four Gates Foundation
Shamanism, healing, soul retrieval, plant spirit shamanism, ayahuasca and San Pedro healing, workshops, and information
March 26, 2008
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The Four Gates
Shamanism, healing, soul retrieval, Plant Spirit Shamanism, sacred jou eys to the Amazon, Darkness Visible, Love and relationships, Rumi, shamanic jou eying. Workshops with Ross Heaven.
September 23, 2007
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Email ross@thefourgates.com for FREE Information Packs on the following:
Soul therapy, soul retrieval, and shamanic healing
The Magical Earth journey to the Amazon to work with ayahuasca shamans and plant doctors
The Cactus of Vision journey to the Andes to work with San Pedro shamans, healers, and diviners
A range of shamanic workshops, training courses, and healing programmes are also available at the website http://www.thefourgates.com - and sign up for our free monthly newsletter for frequent give-aways of books, products, healings, etc. Email ross@thefourgates.com to be sent your copy.
Contacting Ross Heaven
Email ross@thefourgates.com for FREE Information Packs on soul therapy, soul retrieval, and shamanic healing, and on spiritual trips to the Amazon to work with ayahuasca and San Pedro shamans, plant doctors and healers.
Or visit the website - http://www.thefourgates.com - for details of products, services, workshops and spiritual jou eys.
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Ross is the author of:
The Sin Eater's Last Confessions
Plant Spirit Wisdom
Plant Spirit Shamanism
The Spiritual Practices of the Ninja
Love's Simple Truths
The Way of The Lover
Darkness Visible
Vodou Shaman
Spirit in the City
The Journey to You
He appears regularly on TV and radio to talk about healing and spiritual practices and in newspapers and magazines.
Or you can visit the website - http://www.thefourgates.com - or email ross@thefourgates.com for more information on products and services or to request free Information Packs on healing and spiritual jou eys to Peru.