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		<title>The Quest for Authenticity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people say that they want to be authentic, that they want to express into the world who they really are rather than having to pretend to be someone they are not. They do not want to pretend to be who other people expect them to be. They no longer want to identify with the various [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=625&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assumptions and Beliefs</title>
		<link>http://blog.shamanicpassages.com/2011/11/08/assumptions-and-beliefs/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently reminded that one of the problems with assumptions is that they are always based on your beliefs, most of which are not accurate. You may believe you know someone, but you may very well be completely wrong. Assumptions are assertions of your belief system reinforcing itself. When you make an assumption about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=546&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most basic and important thing you do as a being of energy is flow. You channel energy &#8211; love, compassion, strength, being, universal consciousness, whatever you choose to call it &#8211; through you and around you effortlessly when there is no obstruction, no constriction. It is simply flow. This flow is both the source [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=498&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Swim</title>
		<link>http://blog.shamanicpassages.com/2010/12/06/learning-to-swim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Diving In article began as an invitation to &#8220;start where you are and jump in anytime&#8221; in answering the questions I often get about where to begin and what to do first. It turned instead into a provocative analogy about encountering the sometimes very challenging transformative potential of personal work. In comments, emails, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=443&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diving In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People sometimes say that they have been interested in personal change for many years. They&#8217;ve read the books and taken the seminars, but for some reasons or others, they have just not been able to begin the &#8220;real work.&#8221; Where do I start? What do I do first? When is the best time to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=414&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healing Self Curses (Cancel/Clear)</title>
		<link>http://blog.shamanicpassages.com/2010/08/26/healing-self-curses-cancelclear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerrystarnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exerpted from the upcoming book, &#8220;Spirit Paths: A Shamanic Pathway to Healing and Changing Your Life&#8221; by Gerry Starnes, M.Ed. For the most part, belief filters are based on learned behaviors that arise from past experience. You may have had a traumatic or frightening experience with an  abusive bully, for example, that set filter for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=400&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healing Deepwater Horizon</title>
		<link>http://blog.shamanicpassages.com/2010/06/20/healing-deepwater-horizon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerrystarnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform on April 20, 2010, the world watched in helpless horror as an environmental catastrophe unfolded. It was alarming at first to think of the thousands of gallons of oil, gas, and silt spewing unbridled from the ground. And yet, there was a sense that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=348&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shapeshifting Class</title>
		<link>http://blog.shamanicpassages.com/2010/04/18/shapeshifting-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerrystarnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not have any ambition to be a professional actor. However, I truly enjoy and take acting classes whenever I can. The practice of acting affords me an opportunity to examine myself from a completely different perspective within a safe and mostly anonymous context. In classes, I am provided with unusual scenarios and different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=333&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clearing Out &#8211; Letting Go</title>
		<link>http://blog.shamanicpassages.com/2010/02/04/clearing-out-letting-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gerrystarnes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.shamanicpassages.com/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the shamanic perspective, everything is alive, which means that everything also &#8220;dies.&#8221; The subject of &#8220;dead things that we keep hanging around&#8221; came up in a class some time ago. Imagine all those items being like beloved friends and relatives that have passed on, and see that they are like little boat anchors that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=318&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Messages</title>
		<link>http://blog.shamanicpassages.com/2010/01/21/morning-messages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on my front porch in the morning and watching what Spirit has to show me has become a daily practice. It is a way that I can integrate inspiration into my everyday activities. I take what attracts my attention as a sign, a guide that I can use throughout the day to give perspective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.shamanicpassages.com&amp;blog=5020854&amp;post=306&amp;subd=gerrystarnes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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