The Guardian helps prepare you for your journeys.
Aro Braithwaite is an extremely skilled potter and jeweller. She cannot help but infuse her products with immense power and healing vibrations that complement their unique properties. Her gemstone jewellery is among the most potent protector I know, and her goblets, bowls and mugs lend a mystical aura to any ritual.
Reality Sandwich is a web magazine for this time of intense transformation. Their subjects range from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies. Their goal is to inspire psychic evolution and a kind of earth alchemy.
Erowid provides an extremely useful site on psychoactive substances at all levels. The novice and initiate will both benefit and return from the vaults a little wiser.
Future Hi dabbles in alternative and lateral thinking. Perfect if you're looking for some entertaining mind-bending reading, listening or art.
Then the feeling approaches. First it affects my head; it has become heavy, thick and full. It is so heavy that I imagine it must be enormous. I clench my teeth in miniature bites and am amazed at how easily my jaw moves. It should be so heavy, but instead feels spongy. Then the sensation spreads to my hands; as if I have enormous fists of rock that will crush anything they touch. I fear the monstrous power swallowing me. I am not this strong giant, it is me - it is absorbing me; turning me into a giant rock sponge, and my mind is powerless - maybe. I am afraid to move - I am too heavy, too clumsy - I might damage something. I don’t think I can lift myself up so I open my eyes to see if I can regain some perspective; to bring me back to my normal size again, and I realize that I am my normal size, but the feeling doesn’t go away. Now I can’t even believe my eyes.
Want to learn more about classical shamanism? Shamanista provides a traditional perspective and welcomes input from visitors. Beware: it's quite opinionated, so you'll have to ensure your eyes are open while reading.
Watch these excellent metaphysical animations created to accompany selected speeches by Alan Watts.
Azogue is a Spanish site (Limited English version, and Google translation available), but worth visiting for the hundreds of rare and unusual scanned alchemical books available. No serious student should miss this site.
Internet Sacred Texts provides all the information you could dream of for virtually any religion and philosophy, including shamanism.
The Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies provides some authentic and well-researched information on Nordic shamanism, as well as popular articles on the subject. Available in Danish and English.