Ecstatic Trance

Thomas Berry, often considered father of our ecology movement, said that where we have gone wrong over the last 10,000 years is that we have put ourselves above or superior to all other life on Earth. With our growing knowledge of the interdependence of all life, we now need to return to the hunter-gatherer belief that we all need each other, that we are all equal. When I experience the bear or the honey bee as spirit guides while using the shamanic way of ecstatic trance and learn so much about life from them, I can no longer think of myself as superior to them. That is why I value, teach and write about ecstatic trance.

Nick Brink