Odyssey Magazine

Odyssey Magazine publishes content to nourish, uplift and inspire, exploring all aspects of holistic and conscious living, the joy of living authentically, integrative approaches of complementary healing, spirituality, metaphysics, the intuitive arts and our integral connection with nature, planetary wellbeing and the mysteries beyond.

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Odyssey Magazine

Autumn is a season for balancing light and dark, letting go and accepting the impermanence of things

What dying taught me and how I was wrong • “Colleen, we're going to cut your head open… from here to here,” my doctor said, tracing his finger along my hairline from ear to ear

Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness • Materialistic thinking suggests that perceptions of life after death are a creation of the brain. Using evidence from scientific studies, Chris Carter, in his book Science and Afterlife Experience, shows that consciousness does not depend on the brain and that near-death experiences may truly provide a glimpse of an awaiting afterlife.

My brilliant burden • Noun: a particular course or line of thought especially as related to mutual understanding

My South African journey of the soul

Living Intentionally in an Ecovillage • ‘We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us, but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life.’ Steven Biko, South African activist and civil rights leader

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The Blue Swallows of the BRC • The Blue Swallow is not only threatened by habitat change; climate change is also a likely challenge.

Do you want the next generation to see the extinct Blue Swallow on a postage stamp?

(Extra) Ordinary Success • How much is enough?

Transcendental brightness of enlightened awareness • Andrew Cohen, author of When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva, shares his gripping spiritual odyssey from the heights of illumination, down into the existential ashes of failed aspirations, to the underworld of inner darkness and back again into the light. Building upon the lessons he learned, including the need to deal thoroughly with one's own shadow, the author explains the necessity of the guru in spiritual practice, while also exposing the dysfunctions of the traditional guru-disciple model.

Beloved Shaman • Shamanism knows and breathes nature in her entirety. Shamanism is fed by the spirit of nature and in return it feeds nature's spirit. The shaman and nature are like one breath, they inhale and exhale one another throughout time. This breath is a bond of love. Life breathes through the shaman in order to live life more fully so that it may come alive and the shaman cannot live unless it is through the breath of nature.

Modern Shamans and Shamanras • keepers of spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient masters

The Sacred Andean Tradition • The first concept Andean masters ever taught was that the omnipresent, wise and perfect teacher is Nature. Nature, created by the fundamental principle of Nojan Kani Kani, the I am that I am. Illa Teqsi Wiracocha, Lord of eternal Light, is creator, source. From that starting point, any ancient and present master or shaman is just an instrument of Nature to teach humanity the path of living energy. In the process, humans learn all about Existential Harmony.

San Pedro Cactus • the Shaman's cactus of the sacred waters

Secret of the Pyramid Revealed • “In the beginning was the Word…”

The Essence of Love

Find and feel your truest gifts and purpose • With The Human Design System

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Earthing - Quantum Physics in Practice

South Africa's shift to...