Shaman fools practice making the most out of nothing.  Wow...Nothing's happening!  The number Zero symbolizes nothing yet Zero's shape shows the itty-bittiest center-point of anything anywhere all the way&nb

Warm-ups:  Combine the AI 'rules-of-thumb' here with these instructions from the Dalai Lama and split the difference any way you want - and you will have a starting outline for a new improving effective default mode of living that will help keep

Foolish street shamanism:  "Oh thanks...now I know who my enemies are!"  she sneered, scowling then quickly walkng away from me, downcast.  She is a perptually troubled neighbor of many years' aquaintance, living&nbs

Quoting from this site: Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power (Wiley Popular Science) (Paperback) by E. C. Krupp (Author) "I have been to the center of the world dozens of times, and each time it was a

Anything can help heal somebody. In this New Age some contemporary alternative and complementary healers use newly invented paranormal sorts of technologically sohphisticated-looking shaman-science devices to diagn

Real tricksters don't blog? What new excuse for the blogging hiatus here will pop up next?

We are encouraging unceasing prayer among ourselves by making odd, fun chaplets. We are using string made out of hemp or silk or other natural fibers...and someone is even using shoe laces. The shoe laces were a reminder for one of our companions t

Here is one answer to a challenge: How can we laugh on purpose in the faces of the many suffering beings we encounter and receive news of?

This is a Tonglen-like shaman-antic spiritual exercise.

There are many ways to offer your sleeping and dreams for spiritual healing.

The shaman-antic spiritual exercise of blessing and wondering no matter what...then catching a new dream.

Shamanic Jesting Exercise: At your everyday, ordinary reality job, no matter what it is...

In URBAN SHAMAN, by Serge King a way is told of playing with little colored stones (or pieces of glass) and doing shamanic divination through the child-like, animal-like, even plant- and mineral-like parts of ourselves. This is a very fun technique,

Some outward, visible signs of our shaman-antic companionship covenant:Our HOME website and encircling weblogs and message centers; the Shamanic Shift Center and other outreach projects in Milwaukee; the Linking Project, and the independent, self-edu

How serious can anyone get about being funny? There is a solemn side to fun, yet how easy it seems to forget the FUN hidden in every here and NOW. The light-bearing Trickster teaches Freedom and Unity every Now...and that there is No Other Way.

Meet the Cacophony Society, http://www.cacophony.com/ .  What a lot of fun we could have if we started a Lodge in Milwaukee.  It would certainly help balance out the solemn, anchoritic approach we are already playing around with.Anyone who visits t

The shaman-fool radically engages life every day in whatever situation blows into being, and a shaman-fools magic cleverness comes from staying concious - sticking attention to intention - in the thick of each moment, whatever Spirit stirs, wher

Here is another way to submit links to the Shamanic Ways Links Project, a grass-roots and windblown seed effort started by Shamanic Shift Center, Shamanic Humorists and Optimists, the Universal Peregrine Companions, and others - you do not have to r

There are a few of us living on earth as a scattered-site shamanic circle, order, and school: We are studying how to live the anchoritic yet engaged Way of the Shaman (Wise) Fool alone together. Each lives h/er own rule and habit (or Routin

SHAMAN-ANTIC MONASTICS IN THE WORLDFORMATION:  JOINING THE CIRCLE COVENANT OF THE UNIVERSAL PEREGRINE COMPANIONSThe covenanting Universal Peregrine Companion shaman-antics, recieve, quest, and question a calling from the spirits, an inner calli

There are many ways to keep up solitary and circle celebrations around earth and universal seasons, resonating in alignment with shamanic humorists and optimists in this world,  and the covenanting universal peregrine companions of the unceasin

I was looking down into a can of ingredients I had emptied into the mix of what I was making, and soon I was rinsing those little remaining food stuff bits down the drain - I had scraped the can as clean as I could, so there wasn't much.  And

Shaman-antics abound at the yearly Burning Man festival/phenomenon, where individual outsider artists seek to radically self-express, meet survival challenges, self-rely next to others, and self-transcend through transformation.  The Burning Man

I went on a searching expedition and ran a secret contest in my mind - who and where is the best Yuletide Christmas clown (or jester) out and about in my everyday life neighborhoods?  Anyone from strore Santas to homeless wanderers have been el

There is a cultural evolution theory being talked about by some friends of our circle,  that humankind maybe about to evolve into something very different from what we are and take ourselves to be now.  On the physical level the theorist speaks