The blog is the quiet place. Longer articles on the five shamanic traditions Mark and Eileen carry. Background, practice guides, stories from Japan and Haiti. What cannot be said in a podcast format lands here.
English articles coming soon. The full blog with over seventy long-form articles currently lives in German. Mark and Eileen are gradually translating and adapting the strongest pieces for an English readership.
For now, the categories are mapped below as a roadmap. To read the existing articles in the meantime, visit the German blog. To be notified when the first English articles go live, join the Perception Test mailing list.
The Great Wolf across three cultural spheres — Ōkami in East Asia, the golden jackal and Loup de Baron in Africa, Fenrir in Northern Europe. Articles on initiation, pack, territory and the wolf as power animal.
Visit the wolf traditionThe Loa of Haitian voodoo — Papa Legba, Baron Samedi, Erzulie, Ogou. Origins in West Africa, transformation in the Caribbean, working with the Ghede, Rada and Petro families.
Visit the voodoo traditionKami, Shugendō, Onmyōdō, Mikkyō. The shamanic substrate beneath Shinto and esoteric Buddhism. Yes — Kuji Kiri before it was an anime trope; here is the actual text it came from.
Visit the Japanese traditionIsis, Osiris, Horus, Thot, Sekhmet and Hathor. Ma'at as cosmic order, Heka as magical force. The Netjer encountered as living presences, not museum pieces.
Visit the Egyptian traditionWu, Fu talismans, the Three Treasures, inner alchemy (Neidan). Bagua Zhang, Taichi and Qigong read shamanically — body practice that is cosmology in motion.
Visit the Daoist traditionNinjutsu, swordsmanship, Bagua, Escrima. The shamanic dimension of the martial arts — the warrior body as a vehicle for practice.
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Three years of research at Kyoto University · 88-temple Shikoku pilgrimage on foot · ninjutsu lineage · over 30 years of practice in wolf shamanism, voodoo, Egyptian and Japanese shamanism. Author of "The Master Path of the Wolf Shamans," "Shamanic Healing Drumming" and the international bestseller "The Big Book of Reiki Symbols."
Religious historian focused on Daoist ritual in Japanese folk magic · significant experience at the Abe no Seimei shrine in Kyoto · spiritual practitioner and mentor for highly sensitive people.