{"id":17027,"date":"2011-10-16T00:53:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T04:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=17027"},"modified":"2011-10-16T00:55:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T04:55:04","slug":"sacred-living-is-not-about-romping-with-your-power-animals-and-hugging-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/sacred-living-is-not-about-romping-with-your-power-animals-and-hugging-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred living is about de-culturing yourself to get to know what is truly real in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shamanism and sacred living is not about blissing out on nature, romping with your power animals and hugging trees &#8211; it\u2019s about empowering yourself and opening your eyes to the world and the illusions the consumer society has spun you. \u00a0It\u2019s about de-culturing yourself &#8211; shamans and medicine people are not social animals. \u00a0For by de-culturing yourself you get to know what is truly real in life; the Buddha didn\u2019t become the Buddha by deeply believing he really had to have a nice holiday or a new car.&#8221; &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacredhoop.org\/Pages\/About-Hoop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Breeze Wood, Editor of Sacred Hoop Magazine<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/sacred-living-is-not-about-romping-with-your-power-animals-and-hugging-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Sacred living is about de-culturing yourself to get to know what is truly real in life&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/sacred-living-is-not-about-romping-with-your-power-animals-and-hugging-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/sacred-living-is-not-about-romping-with-your-power-animals-and-hugging-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/sacred-living-is-not-about-romping-with-your-power-animals-and-hugging-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Sacred%20living%20is%20about%20de-culturing%20yourself%20to%20get%20to%20know%20what%20is%20truly%20real%20in%20life&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/sacred-living-is-not-about-romping-with-your-power-animals-and-hugging-trees\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shamanism and sacred living is not about blissing out on nature, romping with your power animals and hugging trees &#8211; it\u2019s about empowering yourself and opening your eyes to the world and the illusions the consumer society has spun you. \u00a0It\u2019s about de-culturing yourself &#8211; shamans and medicine people are not social animals. \u00a0For by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17029,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027\/revisions\/17029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}