Lamb & Lion Spiritual Guidance Ministries

05/28/2026

Are you interested in…
..deepening your relationship to all of God’s creation and to our Creator?
..exploring a profound and ancient eco-spirituality?
..developing new practices in Christian mystical awareness and action?
..finding direct spiritual help for healing and discernment?
..recovering the deep spiritual wisdom and knowledge of shamanic cultures suppressed by dominating powers?

Register your interest now in taking this course by emailing Daniel Prechtel at [email protected].

Living into a Greater Reality:

A Course in Shamanic Spiritual Resources for Christians

Presented by the Rev. Daniel L. Prechtel, D.Min.

This highly interactive and experiential six-session course, of two hours each session, will orient participants to a shamanic understanding of reality, and how healing and discernment practices commonly used in shamanism are beneficial and complimentary to Christian living and our faith tradition.

I am very excited to offer this course online in the fall. When I was introduced to core shamanism ten years ago I found it to be a paradigm shift with profound implications for my faith life, spiritual practices, and theology. Core shamanism is not a religion, but rather it provides cross-cultural methods for entering and effectively engaging spiritual realities closed to our normal consciousness. It confirmed the mystical dimension of my Christian experience and reflected the love of God at work in our lives. I knew that many Christians could benefit from foundational assistance and guidance into the spirit dimensions of reality long known in shamanism and traditional Indigenous cultures that had been closed to our western minds for centuries.

After writing the book Soul Journeys in collaboration with two other spiritual directors, John Mabry and Katrina Leathers, on core shamanism and Christian spiritual practices I received requests from fellow Christians to learn more. I am now working on a new book that I will use as the primary text for this course.

I hope that you, and those in your circle, are interested in this project. Please feel free to share this invitation!

Course information can be accessed here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SO5FzXta9-i3lPS4ayeUofUP5xvkjo9XrF0g6nOWuJg/edit?usp=sharing

I will set our course session meeting times based on the availability of those who register their intention with me by mid-July to take the course this fall.

For more information or conversation please feel free to reach me at my phone (and text) 224-636-2874 or by email at [email protected].

Yours in Spirit,
Daniel

Living into a Greater Reality: A Course in Shamanic Spiritual Resources for Christians The Rev. Daniel L. Prechtel, D.Min. Purpose This highly interactive and experiential course will orient participants to a shamanic understanding of reality and how common healing and discernment practices from ...

02/15/2025

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02/07/2025

Please go to my website at http://llministries.com for updates activities and offerings.

Spiritual direction, spiritual formation, and other spiritual resources for individuals and communities.

11/21/2022

On November 17 I spoke at the NEST (Network of Emotional Support Teams) Conference in Palm Springs, CA on ethical issues and best practices in core shamanism and spiritual direction. The conference theme was "An Ethical Journey through Altered States of Consciousness." Though primarily a conference on ethics related to psychedelics and plant medicines it also invited practitioners in other fields who work in, or with others, in altered states of consciousness not dependent on psychoactive chemicals.

07/15/2022

I supervise some students who are learning the art of interfaith spiritual direction through the Chaplaincy Institute. Amy Kronzer Walker is offering free spiritual direction while she is going through that supervised training program. If you know of someone who might want to receive spiritual companionship/direction online please contact Amy at [email protected].

09/07/2021

I had the great pleasure of leading the Stephen Ministers of St Paul’s Cathedral, San Diego, in a three day (in person) retreat at the end of August on the theme “Depth Listening and the Spiritual Dimension of Life.”

06/17/2021

I was invited to be one of many speakers (panelists) at an Alternative Healing Summit hosted by Purvi Tantia and Women of Wisdom that can be viewed for free for three days starting June 25. To register please click on the link:

Watch these 47 power pact sessions from 6th July to 10th July 2020 and thrive as a woman in professional speaking industry. For the first time ever 100+ women professional speakers are coming to share their business wisdom.

10/25/2020

Three recordings of classes I taught at All Souls Parish, Berkeley on “Imaginal Meditation: Why and How”

October 4-
http://www.allsoulsparish.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GMT20201004-160607_Imaginal-M_1686x728.mp4

October 11-
http://www.allsoulsparish.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GMT20201011-160846_Imaginal-M_1686x768.mp4

October 18-
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/V2z5xN1YXPkaPIFscON74L1WcLSGQFeOcMA5RDWtAifZ9rn5vX3lLvWwugDCfPZz.9DcFN4LSgna-mljo?startTime=1603037532000

04/28/2020

I’m happy to announce that Soul Journeys: Christian Spirituality and Shamanism as Pathways for Wholeness and Understanding by Daniel L Prechtel, John R Mabry, and Katrina Leathers is now available in ebook formats. I’ll make another announcement when our book is out in the paperback version.

02/08/2020

A fascinating podcast on Hidden Brain about the power of imagination aired January 27. About ten minutes in it turns attention to spiritual practices from Christian evangelical perspective but it certainly isn’t limited to that group. It’s mining some deep riches.

Where is the line between what is real and what is imaginary? It seems like an easy question to answer: if you can see it, hear it, or touch it, then it's real, right? But what if this way of thinking is limiting one of the greatest gifts of the mind? This week, we meet people who experience the inv...