Sarlo's Guru Rating Service
Earth Medicine

The teachers in this very interesting category do not talk much about enlightenment. And they have little in common with the organised traditional and especially hierarchical religions of the "dominant" cultures. Here the name of the game is truly direct experience. There is no one to mediate your experience and even the teacher will most often not claim authority but defer to nature or the creator. Natural energies are what is worked with, whether elemental, eg those of the sun, wind, directions; or totemic, ie those of specific animals, birds or plants. 
"The original religion" has been made more accessible, both physically and psychologically, by these teachers' having learned how to connect with seekers from the "dominant" cultures and by their adoption, when useful, of other methods to augment those of their own cultures. And their own cultures are many and varied, having in common only an intact connection to the earth and natural energies.
It has been pointed out that my former label for this page, Pagan, is somewhat Eurocentric, so i have used a broader term that is hopefully more inclusive and more accurate. I should like to include teachers in the aboriginal traditions of all the continents, though of course the requirement of a website will exclude many authentic teachers, perhaps more than in other categories.
So forget lineages, mass movements, religious garb and go outside (in order to go inside). If any of these guys turns out to be the next Avatar or Messiah, please let me know (Feedback).
Some descriptive information is included. An asterisk (*) indicates they don't really have their own sites, just an interview or short description on someone else's site. And a yellow asterisk (*) = suggested or located by visitor, thank you.

Navigation: Site Map   Home