Jeff Russell

Good post Jeff. I read it once this morning over coffee and will definitely read it for more depth tonight. I look forward to more from you. I am restarting my own shamanism blog after a few years of hiatus and trying to put together my thoughts and assumptions as well.

I have a huge scientific background, having studied both physics and anthropology in college. Though I got exposed to the magical side of life a few years earlier and kept my interest in it. I think my acceptance that the World has both a scientific side and a spiritual side is still strong because at the time I was learning both, Quantum Mechanics was the hot topic in physics. When you see some of the things the top people in that field write, you come away with the feeling that what is believed in spirituality and magic isn't anywhere as weird. Now that the theory of "E8" and Quantum gravity is gaining traction in physics it's getting even weirder, lol.

Keep writing. I think that you can come to a worldview that accepts both material science and the spiritual as equally valid and complementary.