The Center of Shamanic Education and Exchange (CSEE) is a registered 501-c3 based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jose Luis Stevens Ph.D. and Lena Stevens of the Power Path School of Shamanism founded The Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange in 2007 with the intention of fostering exchange and preservation of the shamanic traditions of the world, beginning with the traditions they have studied and apprenticed in for over twenty-five years. In addition to a ten year apprenticeship with a Huichol Maracame (shaman) in the Sierras of Central Mexico they have also studied intensively with Peruvian shamans both in the Amazon and the Andes. They have taught and worked with individuals, groups, businesses and communities helping to bring shamanic nature-based wisdom back into people's lives. They are currently on the board of CSEE.
For additional information about the founders and the School of Shamanism, please go to www.thepowerpath.com.
CSEE's MISSION is to research, preserve and make available the shamanic wisdom, culture, practice and traditional ways of indigenous peoples worldwide. These are ancient, powerful and sustainable ways that have been important and helpful to human kind over the millennia.
The VISION is to bring Shamans and healers of different cultures together to both stimulate their own practices and to encourage new forms of shamanism to emerge, pertinent to the modern world.
We SUPPORT this research into indigenous cultures in order to create programs that will facilitate the continuance of their songs, dances, healing practices, ceremonies, arts, crafts, and teachings.
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Our HOPE is to make this shamanic heritage available to the first world peoples through the preservation of indigenous wisdom. These ancient ways will offer us in the modern world new understandings of resources available on the planet. This knowledge cannot be allowed to disappear.
The GOALS of CSEE are education, exchange and preservation of the shamanic arts and cultures of the world.
EDUCATION
Our educational projects encompass films, books, courses and workshops intended to educate people on the depth and breadth of shamanism and its continued relevance to healing, ecological sustainability spiritual wisdom and evolution.
EXCHANGE
The Center supports direct cultural exchange between shamans around the world in order to share unique and universal wisdom on healing, sustainable and balanced living, and knowledge about man's relationship to nature and the infinite cosmos.
PRESERVATION
CSEE Supports pivotal shamanic families through higher education scholarships, global marketing of their traditional crafts and art, and through projects that improve quality of life so the wisdom is not lost because of disease and cultural dilution.
We welcome your support through the purchase of products in our marketplace or by direct donation.