Are We All Shamans? Shamanic Healing & Exploring the Sacred | Itzhak Beery (2020)

Itzhak Beery join us for Season 1 (2020) of Birdsong.

Itzhak is an internationally recognized shamanic teacher, healer, speaker, community activist, and author of three Amazon bestseller books: - The Gift of Shamanism: Visionary Power, Ayahuasca Dreams, and Journeys to the Other Realms - Shamanic Transformations: True Stories of the Moment of Awakening - Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World.

Born in an Israeli Kibbutz, Itzhak grew up to have a fine art career and was the owner of an award-winning boutique Ad agency in New York City. A midlife crisis led to his transformation from a skeptical atheist, and business executive, into a passionate believer in shamanism and spirit, aligned with his life purpose.

For over twenty years, Itzhak has been bridging the physical and spiritual and sharing the practical wisdom his indigenous and Western teachers entrusted in him.

He was initiated into the "Circle of 24 Yachaks of Imbabura" by his Quechua teacher in Ecuador and by Amazonian Kanamari Pajè in Brazil. ​Itzhak is the founder of ShamanPortal.org, The Andes Summit, and co-founder of the New York Shamanic Circle, he is on various major global spiritual center faculties.

Itzhak received the 'Ambassador for Peace Award' from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.

www.itzhakbeery.com

www.nyshamaniccircle.org

www.shamanportal.org

www.theandessummit.com 

 

TIMESTAMPS:

[4:15] Exploring the sacred with Itzhak

[6:24] The Quechuan word “Huaca”, altars, & charging up items with sacredness

[10:12] Shamanic Transformations: True stories of the moment of awakening

[14:40] Teachings on the sacred from my daughter

[16:00] A story about the Dalai Lama of the Andes

[21:50] Integrating the sacred into regular ordinary every-day life

[22:47] Spiritual Yogis or Pushy New-Yorkers?

[26:00] “Becoming one with the rain”

[30:10] No lluvia, no vida: no rain, no life!

[34:18} Before plant medicine, cultivate a relationship with spirit

[36:53] Humans are primitive animals compared to a creature like the bee

[39:13] Children drinking ayahuasca?

[41:50] The cross-cultural pollination of greed and scarcity

[47:30] The real price of a cup of ayahuasca

[51:23] The superficiality of spirituality

[53:52] Planting seeds to better understand shamanism

[56:45] Rediscovering the qualities of water, fire, air, and earth

[1:00:15] Plant medicine is only a small branch of shamanism

[1:02:11] We all have the ability to be shamans, some of us just don’t develop it…

[1:04:23] Dreaming the dream of meeting Don José Joaquin Pinéda

[1:09:25] Advice on mentors, teachers, apprenticeships, and being in service

[1:16:15] Itzhak’s projects, offerings and the Andean summit

[1:19:47] Being an ambassador of our traditions and lineages…

[1:21:39] Do all shamans need human teachers?

[1:25:51] My filipino folk / faith healer ancestry

[1:27:05] Refusing the call to the path and initiatory sickness

[1:33:16] Confirmation of the path and being tormented by the spirit world

[1:38:40] At the end, all the shamanic work has to be grounded in being in service

[1:41:48] We all have to take responsibility that we are healers