Metta Knowledge For Peace, LLC

About MettaKnowledge

MettaKnowledge for Peace is committed to healing the effects of trauma, violence, and conflict in order to foster a lasting worldwide peace with the best tools from the western sciences, social sciences, psychology, Buddhism and the new shamanism in the West. More»

Rachel is available to give one-hour shamanic healing sessions at Sacred Circle Books in Alexandria, Virginia once a month: the next date is Saturday, September 24, 11:30-7.  She is also offering a workshop at the bookstore on Friday, September 23, from 7-10 pm called “Native American Prophesies about 2012.”  To make an appointment or to register for the workshop, call 703-299-9309.

Sign up for the next MettaKnowledge for Peace workshop: Walking the Path of Power: the West Direction of the Great Medicine Wheel of the New Earth, Friday-Sunday, September 20-October 2.  Limited space available. To register, click here.

MettaKnowledge for Peace publishes two occasional email newsletters, “Explorations in Kindness” and “Shamanism in a New Age.” Click here for the most recent “Shamanism in a New Age” newsletter.  Click here for the recent copy of “Explorations in Kindness”.  For the archives of all past newsletters, click here.

About Rachel

I am an educator, scholar, writer and shamanic healer working to bring understanding about the causes and consequences of violence and conflict and in so doing, to help us all heal the world and foster peace.  My work is directly influenced by my lifelong spiritual practice in Buddhism and in new forms adapted into the West from Native American spirituality, sometimes called shamanism.  I am actively involved in educating westerners about the power, truth and efficacy of the spiritual and healing practices of both indigenous peoples and their new forms in the West.  I seek to put these wisdom traditions on the same footing as Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, and the Muslim faiths.  Indigenous and shamanic spiritual traditions offer all of us something very unique in service of healing our world in these critical times. We need not let go of our own belief systems, religions, or cultures in order to benefit from their power. To this end, I also link the words and works of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other renowned peacemakers to the teachings of peace, healing and compassion found in shamanism and other indigenous wisdom traditions. more

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News and Journal

• Taking Healing on the Road

  I take my healing practice on the road.  In addition to my home in the historic village of Batesville, Virginia (15 miles south of Charlottesville), I work in many locations around Virginia, including at Sacred Circle Books in Old Town Alexandria, conveniently located in Northern Virginia.  Call 703-299-9309 to sign up for a 30- or 60-minute session.  I also give sessions in the Hampton Roads area and Roanoke. I am available to travel to other locations both in- and outside Virginia.

• How to Interpret and Live Inspired by Native American Prophesies for the New Earth

  This past spring, the media was ablaze with a story about a Christian radio broadcaster, Harold Egbert Camping who predicted that on May 21, 2011, Jesus would return and those who were true believers and the “righteous” would be taken bodily up to heaven. The rest of us “nonbelievers” would be destroyed with the Earth itself in his end-times scenario.  Camping calculated the date based on a numerological interpretation of the Bible.  When the rapture did not occur as he had predicted (he had already been wrong once before in 1994), he backpedaled and said that instead a “spiritual judgment” had occurred and set a new end times date for October 21, 2011.

  Apocalyptic and end time prophesies have been around for millennia. Native American voices have been among them, most famously the Maya with their complex calendar. Given how many misconceptions there are about prophecy and how many fear-based messages, I feel it is important to sift the wheat from the chafe, so to speak, and offer my insights on how to interpret and live with prophesy. More»

• Why the Great Medicine Wheel of the New Earth? 2012 and Beyond

  Upon offering the first class of the series entitled the Great Medicine Wheel of the New Earth this summer, I feel it is important to tell the story about how this teaching came to be and why I have invoked 2012 and beyond. This Medicine Wheel that I have been called to teach will hold the energies of the world that Native American prophesies tell us will exist after a great shift in human consciousness that is occurring now through 2013.  I believe this world will be more kind and caring.  I must add here that I have never been one to give much energy to prophesies of any kind–despite my long years’ study of the new Native American spirituality.  However, the story about how the Medicine Wheel that I will teach this year emerged into my life will show why I changed my mind. More»