He may look the part of a guru with his richly patterned robes and chunky crystal jewelry and celebrity clientele. But Durek Verrett — the sixth-generation Afro-Haitian shaman better known as Shaman ...

Sitting on the floor of his offices in Annapolis Sunday afternoon, shamanic practitioner Paul Sivert beat steadily on his drum, the two dozen people around him listening intently with their eyes ...

Bruce Cunningham has been a serious student of shamanic practice for over 15 years. A shaman is one who has been called by spirit, engaged the training and developed the skill to step between the ...

Growing up I always felt different. I have what I believe are spiritual and psychic gifts and so I was considered the "weird" child at school and I felt like an outsider in groups. From an early age I ...

Stephen Kavalkovich serves on the planning board of his Burlington County hometown, where he also became an emergency medical technician, began his recovery from opioid addiction and founded a ...

Taking a one-hour journey with Laura Beann of Napa could mean finding ancestors, talking with animals and discovering a part of yourself you had long forgotten – or perhaps had never even known about.

An Alaska Native leader has asked a non-indigenous shaman to cancel a pricey retreat to Juneau which she says amounts to cultural theft and the commercialization of Alaska Native cultures. In a letter ...

One of the world’s oldest surviving spiritual traditions — Manchu Shamanism— stands on the brink of extinction. Advocates, including cultural ambassador Jiaming Li, are calling for urgent action to ...