I speak with Shamanic Teacher and Healer Jez Hughes about shamanism, animism and learning from indigenous cultures who are raised in an animist culture - believing in the aliveness and connection between everything. We talk about how the Western world has lost its way, soul sickness and the leadership of the shaman - a role in service to the community, creating healing for people and reciprocity between people and the earth.
About Jez
Jez is the founder of Second Sight. He has studied shamanism intensively for twenty five years with various teachers, from both contemporary shamanism and indigenous elders across the globe.
He has a worked full time as a shamanic healer and teacher for nearly twenty years, treating thousands of people from the U.K and across Europe.
He works closely with the indigenous Wixarika (Huichol) nation of north central Mexico, as a cultural liaison for their work in the U.K. and also through a ten-year commitment to apprentice with the sacred sites and teachers of their land.
He is one of the founding directors of the Maye Takuta Foundation which is dedicated to the support and preservation of indigenous communities worldwide.
His own initiation involved a fifteen-year journey through various mental illnesses, physical convulsions and psychotic breaks before finding a cure in shamanism.
His passion is restoring connections to the ancestral lineages and land that has lost its traditions.
His work has featured all across the national press and on ITV television and BBC radio. He is the author of The Wisdom of Mental Illness- Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of World and The Heart of Life- Shamanic Initiation & Healing in the Modern World.
Find Jez:
https://secondsighthealing.com