Sacred Hoop Magazine Issue 81 Back Issue

GIVING VOICE TO MOTHER EARTH
After a life in the corporate world Clint Ober began
to realise his upbringing close to the earth alongside
the Crow Nation in Montana had much to teach him.
An interview by Geral Blanchard.

SEEKING THE RADIANT BROW
The ancient Druids of Iron Age Northern Europe
were well known to have many methods of divination.
Danu Forest looks at some of these and gives insights
into how they can be practiced today.

GUM TREE DREAMING
The Eucalyptus gum tree is synonymous with Australia;
and there are many sacred connections with the spirits
of the trees in Aboriginal lore. Hilary Bond of Australia’s
Darug-Dawhal people recounts some of her own encounters
with the spirits of the land and the trees.

DREAMTIME VISIONS
Traditional Australian Aboriginal painting has become
very influential as fine art in recent years. Here we introduce
the beautiful paintings of Alyawarre artist Dalene Devery.

WALKING IN THE DREAMTIME
The landscape of Australia is filled with places of the
ancestors; where these sacred beings dreamed the land
into form and shaped it by thier direct intervention.

THINGS THE BODY KNOWS
In the New Mexico desert; the Cuyamungue Institute
is dedicated to shamanic ‘Ecstatic Trance Postures.’
Laura Lee shares a little about the work they do there.

THE EDGE BETWEEN WORLDS
An account of time spent at the Cuyamungue Institute in
New Mexico by Duane Marcus as he interacts both with
the desert lands and the spirits of the Trance Postures.

A NORTH WOODS HEALING
While on a writing retreat in the deep dark woods of
Minnesota Cedar Raphaela Collins had an encounter
with a bear and the spirit of a bear which was to have a
profound effect on her own personal healing.

BEFORE THE END OF TIME
With the increasing ecological crisis we find ourselves
facing; Steve Niner asks if it is time we; as shamanic practitioners; answered the call of the age.