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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the edge. Today my guest is Dr. Jose Luis Stevens.

Jose is an international lecturer, teacher, psychologist, licensed clinical social worker, and author of 18 books.

He's on the board of the Society of Schamanic Practitioners and is the co-founder of the Power Path School of shamanism and the Center for Schamonic

Education and Exchange.

Which sounds true, Jose has written a new book called Encounters with Power, Adventures and Misadventures on the

shamanic path of healing.

Jose is also a teacher in Sounds True's ongoing online subscription community called a year of ceremony.

This is a community in which participants from all over the world gather for full moon ceremonies designed

to facilitate both personal and collective healing.

If you're interested to learn more about a year of ceremony,

please visit sounds true.com. In this episode of Insights at the Edge,

Jose Louis Stevens and I spoke about Jose's definition of power and the importance

on the shamanic path of understanding power, acquiring it, storing it, and expressing it, and how the price of power is your

comfort zone.

Jose also shared with us stories of initiation and lessons learned from his new book

Encounters with Power and how he resolved for himself the question of free will versus fate.

Finally, Jose and I talked about our current environmental crisis

and how to take an empowered stance in the face of current events.

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