EP 244 — Nicholas Brink: Your Inner Shaman

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Paul Chek

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Retired psychologist Nicholas Brink describes the use of ecstatic trance as a Shamanic practice for journeying and working with your spirit guides and power animals and how listening beyond your ears gets you there in this Living 4D conversation.

Learn more about Nicholas and his Ecstatic Trance groups on Facebook at this link, his books at this Facebook link and his book reviews at this link. If you want to take part in one of Nicholas’ ecstatic trance groups, email him at [email protected].

Timestamps

The importance of listening beyond your ears. (3:56)
We’re moving into a new era: The integral stage. (14:37)
Comparing the imaginal faculty to imagination. (25:45)
Ways people can engage their imaginal faculties for healing and personal growth. (30:19)
What is a power animal/spirit guide? (42:07)
Going into a trance state by using seven different body postures. (54:08)
The upper, middle and lower worlds of Shamanism. (1:10:47)
The healing power of ecstatic trance. (1:19:02)
Nicholas connects with his Scandinavian ancestors. (1:26:41)
Nicholas’ spirit guides/power animals. (1:31:50)
Living in the rational world, our society has become mired in patriarchy. (1:48:14)

Resources

Baldr’s Magic: The Power of Norse Shamanism and Ecstatic Trance by Nicholas Brink
The Power of Ecstatic Trance: Practices For Healing, Spiritual Growth and Accessing the Universal Mind by Nicholas Brink
Ecstatic Soul Retrieval: Shamanism and Psychotherapy by Nicholas Brink
Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy: Resolving the Unconscious Past by Nicholas Brink
Trance Journeys of the Hunter-Gatherers: Ecstatic Practices to Reconnect With the Great Mother and Heal the Earth by Nicholas Brink
Where Spirits Ride The Wind by Felicitas Goodman
Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Rachel Epstein
The Ever-Present Origin Part 1 by Jean Gebser
Paul’s Power Animals/Spirit Guides video on YouTube

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I was raised in a family that were churchgoers and going to church way back then I was taught that there was five types of prayer.
0:12.8	Lorification, Thanksgiving, petition,
0:15.8	intercession, and forgiveness.
0:19.2	And somewhere along the line,
0:21.1	and I'm not too sure where it came up that occurred to me what's missing
0:26.3	from that is listening.
0:28.6	Oh yes!
0:29.6	How do you listen to the spirits? Yeah. How do you listen beyond what your ears here?
0:36.5	Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Check.
0:40.0	Today's guest is a retired psychologist and ecstatic dance specialist Nicholas Brink.
0:46.0	Nick practice as a psychologist for over 37 years, during which time he presented many papers at conferences and published numerous papers on hypnosis, guided imagery and dream work. He was the president of the American Association for the study of mental imagery and sat on the Board of Directors of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
1:07.5	He retired from private practice after suffering significant hearing loss,
1:11.5	and since then he has been certified in
1:13.6	ecstatic or shamanic trance, published nine books and now leads online groups in
1:18.8	ecstatic dance. If you enjoy today's episode, please consider leaving us a five-star rating and a warm review at the top of the show page on Spotify or at the bottom of the show page if you are listening on Apple Podcast.
1:31.0	Your opinions matter and your ratings help us to grow and help more people to be healthy,
1:36.2	find freedom of body and mind and to live their dreams. We hope you enjoy listening to Paul and
1:42.0	Nick talking about your inner shaman.
1:44.6	Hello everybody, welcome to our topic today, your inner shaman with Dr Nicholas Brink,
1:52.4	who is a PhD in psychology and a very cool man that was turned on to me by
1:58.7	Rachel Epstein who did a great podcast on visualization a while back.
2:04.1	So if you haven't listened to that one,
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