Shamanic Practices with Nicki Scully

Nicki Scully has been teaching healing, shamanic arts, and the Egyptian mysteries since 1983. She is coauthor, with Normandi Ellis, of The Union of Isis and Thoth: Magic and Initiatory Practices of Ancient Egypt. Her other books include Planetary Healing: Spirit Medicine for Global Transformation; Alchemical Healing; Power Animal Meditations: Shamanic Journeys with Your Spirit Allies; The Anubis Oracle: A Journey into the Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt; and Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt: Awakening the Healing Power of the Heart.

Here she describes the shamanic path as generally starting with an illness that the shaman to be must learn to heal. On occasions, this condition may be misdiagnosed by the medical profession as a form of mental illness. She points out that, while some may not associate the high culture of ancient Egypt with shamanism, the Egyptian gods represent the various animal powers. The Egyptian temple initiation rites involve shamanic instructions concerning travel between the worlds. She notes that it is possible to weave together different shamanic traditions like the plaits of a braid.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.

(Recorded on March 18, 2016)