Careful with those generalizations, we have a very diverse and highly educated global membership. This is a topic that many of our members have moar than a slight passing interest in. It is advisable to remain humble and open to learning from others that may have significantly moar knowledge and experience than you give them credit for.

Yoga, meditation, tai chi, ki gong, energy work, astral projection, hypnosis, prayer, fasting, chanting, drumming, kirtan, pranayama, dreamwork, psychedelics, magick, visioning, divining, reading, writing, studying, storytelling, etc. All sorts of methodologies to subjectively explore the nature of independent consciousness. I've dabbled in some, and explored others to great depth. The question of consciousness has always been at the forefront of my pursuits. This is psychonautics to me, many tools to get there, but the path is always inward and the practice is always personally between you and the divine withinfinity.

Neoshamanism to me is is not interchangeable with psychonautics and consciousness alteration. I hear the drumbeat of neoshamanism at 50,000 watts on the dancefloor at the festival grounds, I smell it in the hints of fresh basil on the wind at the farmers market. I feel it in the earth between my toes and the sunshine on my skin when I'm out in the garden. It brushes past in the wet wind that rustles the tree leaves foretelling the rain. It leaves its imprint on my consciousness when I'm reading the story of a pawprint in the mud. It's looking for the mushrooms in the leaf litter, it's listening to the river flow to guide your path, it's treading the trail by the light of moon and greeting the cold clear light of the dawn as the fire burns down. It's not a specific culture or a tradition, it's not a job or a hobby, it's 3 million years of instinct, it's a memory written in at the cellular level. It's treading softly, it's remaining mindful, it's being in right relationship, it's the beauty path, it's the red road.

hozho naasha