KATHRYN EVANS, THREE EAGLES, MA
Practicing Medicine-Wheel- Vision-Quest™ with students is a humanistic yet transpersonal mode of psychotherapy. The humanistic grounds us in our physical bodies and to our physical Earth, while the transpersonal enlightens us in our spiritual souls and to our transcendent Cosmos. Physical ritual items map out the soul’s journey on the medicine wheel of Earth, as we receive shamanic adornments from the Cosmos in the Dreamtime. As shamanic practitioners we embody the center shaman stone of the medicine wheel, binding Earth to Sky in a transpersonal Unity. With shaman or psychotherapist as Ancestral Spirit Guide, students receive Image in forms essential to their self-transformation. Regardless of pandemic assaults to body, mind, and soul, our Spirit draws the healing Images to us...the medicine wheels come for us.
Lockdown Self-Reflection
(Photograph)
Animal Spirit Guide Luna the cat—sensing, embodying, and enacting my Psyche—hears the latch on my armoire click open. A blur of fur in motion as She leaps past me into the armoire, I realize in an instant that She is claiming Her right to cloister, as a means to safe self-reflection on the day’s journey. Respectfully, I click the armoire shut. She guides, I learn; I guide, She learns: the shamanic power of symbiosis in relationships. We engage together in a self-reflective gaze, transforming the many reflections of our lives into One.