Stone Age Wisdom: The Healing Principles of Shamanism by Tom Crocket © 2003 is designed to help readers learn how to realign their lives with their soul’s purpose thereby reinvigorating their lives. At its core, Crocket teaches how to live with a shamanic worldview and put into practice a new approach to living today that incorporates the spiritual, the unseen, and nature.

The beauty of Stone Age Wisdom: The Healing Principles of Shamanism by Tom Crocket is that you don’t have to believe what he writes as you go through the book. Instead, it encourages you to consider, what if the world works in a particular manner, what would you do? This questioning approach creates an experiential, questioning, participative approach to figuring out your own life’s purpose and map or cosmology to personal power.

How does he do this? Crocket asks readers to apply two tests to the five principles he develops throughout the book: (1) test how closely the principle describes the world in which we live and (2) sidestep where they are true or not and ask how your live might be different if you acted as if they were true. It is this second test that allows you to create an experiential approach to rediscovering how you want to live your life. The five principles are as follows:

1.     Everything is alive.

2.     Everything is conscious.

3.     Everything is dynamic.

4.     Everything is connected.

5.     Everything is responsive.

While Crocket offers a map of five principles, your map may vary as you learn to see, hear and become aware of the unseen and seen world in ways that our Stone Age ancestors did. Believe it or not, these ways of seeing and being in the world are still applicable today – and can even be helpful to bring you into alignment with your soul’s purpose.

What follows from these principles are a way to analyze your dreams, see the unseen world, communicate with Spirit, dance with the changing world, learn how to incorporate ceremony and ritual in your life, and manifest what you want in your life. Have you wondered what it meant to live in balance in this world?

You still can even today!