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Michael Drake is an internationally regarded writer and recording artist. He is the author of The Shamanic Drum: A Guide to Sacred Drumming, Shamanic Drumming: Calling the Spirits, I Ching: The Tao of Drumming, Shamanic Drumming Circles Guide, Riding Spirit Horse: A Journey into Shamanism and Shamanic Journeys: An Anthology. His musical albums include Shamanic Journey Drumming and Power Animal Drumming. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Awareness, Sacred Hoop, and Mother Earth News.

Raised in a conservative Baptist Church, Michael had his first ecstatic experience as a youth at a church revival, an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion. This state of rapture and trancelike elation inspir ...more

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	The Shamanic Drum: A Guide To Sacred Drumming 4.13 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shamanic Drumming: Calling the Spirits 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Ching: The Tao of Drumming really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shamanic Drumming Circles Guide by Michael Drake (Goodreads Author), Laura Walthers (Photographer) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Shift: And How to Navigate It it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shamanic Journeys: An Anthology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Riding Spirit Horse: A Journey into Shamanism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The New Moon on Jan 29, 2025 ushered in the Lunar Year of the Wood Snake. The Lunar New Year is one of the most significant celebrations in many cultures, particularly in China and other East Asian countries. Each year in the Chinese zodiac cycle is associated with an animal and one of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. 2025 marks the Year of the Wood Snake, a rare and

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Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality

by Michael Harner

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Michael Drake rated a book it was amazing The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) by Anne Hillerman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I truly love the continuing series of novels by Anne Hillerman featuring Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, and Bernadette Manuelito. The mystery novel explores themes of fossil harvesting, witchcraft, greed, rejected love, and murder in Bears Ears National Mon ...more
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Michael Drake rated a book it was amazing Dance of the Jaguar by Terry Andrews	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
"Dance of the Jaguar" is a magical story about discovering your true self. This novel is a Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner. The Nautilus Book Award is given to books that are helping to change our consciousness and the world. This was a very inspir ...more
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Michael Drake rated a book it was amazing A Guide to the I Ching by Carol K. Anthony	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A few weeks after a completing a rite of passage pilgrimage to the Maya pyramids and ceremonial centers of Mexico in March of 1995, I began a transformational journey into the philosophy, symbolism and rhythmic code of the I Ching. My experiences in ...more
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Michael Drake rated a book it was amazing Quetzalcoatl Dreams by Terry Andrews	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I highly recommend this novel, which was an International Book Awards winner. It is an engaging book about shamanism and awakening to our truth and our power. This book is a continuation of Terry Andrew's first book, "Dance of the Jaguar." While it c ...more
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Douglas Gillette is a mythologist who co-authored several popular books with Jungian psychoanalyst Robert L. Moore on masculine psychology and spirituality. In "Shaman's Secret," Gillette writes about the discoveries he has made over the course of a ...more
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Michael Drake rated a book it was amazing Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I loved this book and highly recommend it! Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Native American botanist and storyteller who writes with great eloquence and insight. From the very first page, the author's love for nature shines through, inspiring the reader with ...more
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“Remember that drumming opens portals to the spirit world, draws spirit in, and opens you up to receive it.”
― Michael Drake, Shamanic Drumming: Calling the Spirits

tags: shamanic, shamanic-drumming, shamanic-healing, shamanism

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“Nature offers us the most direct and immediate experience of spirit, and through Nature we can gain access to the wisdom and power of the spirit world in order to help ourselves or to help others. It is a quest to find inspiration, insight, and ways to restore balance in the world.”
― Michael Drake, Shamanic Drumming Circles Guide

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“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: action, belief, faith, follow-your-bliss, life

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

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“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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