ABOUT
Patrick Corrigan
I was raised in a small town just south of the Twin Cities of Minnesota. From a very early age I felt a propensity toward the mystical spiritual side of life, and coupled with my ever-lasting love of camping, Nature, and the Animal Kingdom, it should be no surprise I walk a shamanic path. In fact, when I first found out about shamanism, it was more a sense of recognition than something new to aspire to. "Oh, that's what I've been doing all these years!"
Art was always my other passion. The one thing that I have always wanted to be more than anything else is a cartoonist, and it has taken me the longest time to realize that that is exactly what I have always been. I pursued my love of art through college, graduating with a BA in Fine Arts, while nurturing my spiritual life at the Benedictine monastery that is the backdrop of St John's University.
In the following years I continued my pursuit of Truth and Beauty through countless books, multitudinous classes and workshops, and endless experiences in the application of all I was learning. After just reading about shamanism for many years, one of the first things I did after being divorced was take a Shamanic Journey class -- and that changed everything, ramping my life up in ways I could not have imagined. And so I studied furiously with local teachers as well as renowned Shamanic Teachers, such as Tom Cowan and Sandra Ingerman, until after a Vision Quest, sitting in a Washington State Forest for three days, I was told to teach. My path was to be shared.
My shamanic education has never stopped, having just recently completed Sandra Ingerman's Two Year Shamanic Teacher Training program, but I am poised between my past and future, having so much still to learn while having a wealth of experience to share.
All these elements have conspired to create who I have become -- a Cartoonist, a Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher, a Reiki Master, and an Ordained Minister of SHES (International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards).
I now live in the Seattle area, where I am establishing my Shamanic and Artistic practices while finding time to play with the local Nature Spirits and critters of all kinds in between naps.
You can listen to an interview I did here: A SHAMANIC LIFE
Art was always my other passion. The one thing that I have always wanted to be more than anything else is a cartoonist, and it has taken me the longest time to realize that that is exactly what I have always been. I pursued my love of art through college, graduating with a BA in Fine Arts, while nurturing my spiritual life at the Benedictine monastery that is the backdrop of St John's University.
In the following years I continued my pursuit of Truth and Beauty through countless books, multitudinous classes and workshops, and endless experiences in the application of all I was learning. After just reading about shamanism for many years, one of the first things I did after being divorced was take a Shamanic Journey class -- and that changed everything, ramping my life up in ways I could not have imagined. And so I studied furiously with local teachers as well as renowned Shamanic Teachers, such as Tom Cowan and Sandra Ingerman, until after a Vision Quest, sitting in a Washington State Forest for three days, I was told to teach. My path was to be shared.
My shamanic education has never stopped, having just recently completed Sandra Ingerman's Two Year Shamanic Teacher Training program, but I am poised between my past and future, having so much still to learn while having a wealth of experience to share.
All these elements have conspired to create who I have become -- a Cartoonist, a Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher, a Reiki Master, and an Ordained Minister of SHES (International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards).
I now live in the Seattle area, where I am establishing my Shamanic and Artistic practices while finding time to play with the local Nature Spirits and critters of all kinds in between naps.
You can listen to an interview I did here: A SHAMANIC LIFE
PATRICK CORRIGAN -- perchingwolf@hotmail.com