Rattling the Bones

I haven’t written a blog entry in years. Let’s summarize my absence as a walkabout and I’ll promise to  be back to share more of my experience.  Today, it’s clear to me that I needed to explore the notion of owning my story.   In Shamanism we explore life through cosmological and natural influences.   For example if we were to explore this idea through our daily living we could say that there is no thought, emotion, choice or action; which is brought forth without some kind of domino effect of influence.   I can hear my parents, my teachers, my loved ones through so many of my attitudes and beliefs.   As an individual born in the 60’s I can also hear generational programs behind my life perceptions.   If people can easily identify me as Canadian it’s because I carry a kind of Canadian code so to speak.   Whether we speak of DNA, religious doctrines or social indoctrination we speak of “influence”.   Cosmology and nature are the influences which lead every creature on Planet Earth, huma