Willi Paul Interview with John G. Myerson, The LifeArts Center for Healing and Shamanic Studies. Co-Presented by PlanetShifter.com Magazine & planetshifter.com

Do you need to deal with emotional issues, such as grief, or feelings of loss, depression, anxiety, or rage?

Would you like to get to know your deep self and get "on track"?

Do you experience panic or anxiety attacks?

Have you often felt different and isolated?

Is your illness slow to respond to medical treatment?

Would you like to learn to handle your sensitivities better?

Do you need to accomplish a permanent karmic separation?

Do you have chronic pain that does not respond to medical treatment, or have medically undiagnosable recurrent pain?

Do you need to overcome spiritual interference?

Do you need to let go of hindering past-life influences?

-- Calling the Souls @ The LifeArts Center

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What do you suppose the folks on your LINKS page have in common, as a group?

They have all worked with me. That is the simple answer. They all are interested in service, usually through healing. They are all involved in some sort of spiritual practice.

How do you define healer? And Shaman?

I am not sure what a healer is. I usually try to avoid that word as it has lots of connotations and ego attached.

A shaman is someone who is able to travel between the consensus reality and all other realities to aid healing and help the practitioner connect to the Source or what I call the Universe.

Can you offer us some symbols, songs or stories that speak in mythological terms for the Sustainability Age?

I am not sure what you are asking here. I think it is a matter of semantics. I do not use any of those terms. I also try not to use any symbols or rituals in my teaching. I try to assist people in making a direct connection for themselves. This will create their own unique expression.

How you incorporate new mythologies and alchemy in your practice?

Please define new mythologies and alchemy.

"Shamanic Trance?" Is this a therapy that uses drugs to induce a para-normal condition?

We use everything except psychotropic drugs to induce a non-ordinary state of consciousness.

Are you seeing a trend away from Christianity towards a more Nature-centric spirituality?

No, I just think it depends on ones background and inclination. I see people from all backgrounds and thus look at the world from all perspectives. For me, they are all the same, so I can work with most any of them.

Nei Gung or inner arts is based on the martial arts, Taoist cultivation, Buddhist practices and by cultivating shamanic energy. Tell us what human issues this art addresses and what curative results have been demonstrated.

There are many Ways to connect to the Universe. One of the Ways I use is through the practice of nei gung or inner arts. This is something unique to me and is practiced by a very small few of the people I work with. I encourage everyone to develop their own expression of their experience in connecting to the Universe, so we have many Ways in our community.

Is sustainability like a new religion?

Anything can be a religion if you want it to be. As long as it gets you connected to the Universe.

Do you believe in a God? If so, please describe this process and benefit.

I do not believe in the Judeo/Christian view of God. I am more of a Taoist. First there is the One. The One becomes yin and yang. Yin and yang form the 10,000 things. That is as close as I can come to this question.

Where and what is the common well or interface for the shamanic powers you know?

I do not understand what you are asking.

John G. Myerson, Ph.D., Lic. Ac. Bio –

Dr. Myerson is a graduate of Harvard College, the New England School of Acupuncture and received his doctorate in Psychology from the Union Institute. He is the past President of the New England School of Acupuncture, the past Chairman of the National Accreditation Commission for Schools and Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Board of Registration in Medicine, Committee on Acupuncture the licensing body for acupuncture. He is former adjunct faculty member at the New England School of Acupuncture and the Union Graduate School. Dr. Myerson studied to be a Zen Buddhist priest under the late Maurine Stuart, Roshi, has studied, practiced and taught Hatha Yoga, Taoist Cultivation and Martial Arts for the past forty years. He was trained, as an apprentice in the traditional way, in a form of shamanism that comes from Kenya. He has given talks and leads journying seminars in Massachusetts on a regular basis. Dr. Myerson currently practices a combination of Oriental Medicine, Spiritual Psychology and Shamanistic Healing in Framingham, MA.

Connections –

John G. Myerson
john.myerson at verizon.net
The LifeArts Center for Healing and Shamanic Studies