Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Daniel Moler, author of Shamanic Qabalah and the new Shamanic Soul. I have been asked quite a few times about the title of my book, Shamanic Qabalah and the new The Shamanic Soul, and why the term "soul" was used instead of "spirit." To answer this, I must examine the origins and use of these terms, especially within the context of shamanic practice. The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, which means "breath" and is often synonymous with the life essence of a person. Anima is the Latin word for "soul," identified with "breathing," denoting the action of being alive, mental processes, etc. The Classical Greek nomenclature is similar

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Daniel Moler, author of the new Shamanic Qabalah. Since I was young, I have always wanted to be an explorer, to travel the outer reaches of space into uncharted territory. Over time, the mysteries of the cosmos grew deeper the more I learned about the way the material universe works. There seemed to be unseen forces at work that I wanted to understand. I was soon to learn that the ancients were not naïve about these invisible forces, but highly understood and even knew how to harness them. Shamanism is one of the oldest spiritual modalities on the planet for understanding the invisible forces of the universe that surround us. Most all