Human Nature
  • Human Nature
    • Natural Life Cycles
    • Modern Shamanism
    • The Modern World and Context
    • Medicine Wheel
    • Links to psychotherapy, religion and medicine
    • Altered States of Consciousness
  • Creative Bodywork
    • The Inner Child
    • Deep in the body
    • Dance for your Life
    • Shaking Medicine
    • Working Magic
    • Working with Power Objects
    • Shamanic Arts
    • Aikido
  • Community & Relationships
    • Adolescence and the Modern World
    • Community and Individuality
    • Celebrate the Ancestors
    • Rites of Passage
    • Communication and Relationships
    • Women's & Men's Work
    • Men in Movement
    • Parenting
  • Walk your talk
    • Heroes Journey
    • Training
    • Training Process and Evaluation
    • Aberdeen Training
    • Aberdeen Workshops
  • No Way
    • The Shamanic Elder
    • Dying for a Change
    • Consciousness & Love >
      • I Love You
      • Love and Oneness
    • Norman Duncan >
      • Apprentice
    • Value and costs
    • Resources and Links
    • Contact
No Way is a Spiritual Path with no definable path.
It is a religion with no religion.  It is nothing special.

If I mention that it has roots in the Tao or Zen or Wicca or Shamanism, you might
run to read the important texts on these ... So I will not mention them.
We are born into this life, with this body, at this time, with these parents, with this society ... on this Earth.
If there is any spiritual path, it is to simply be present, conscious and compassionate ... here and now.

No Way, in this format,  has emerged out of my life process, but non of it is mine. My personal experience, my fears,
my neurotic trance will all be reflected in this website and my work. I am open to share it all.


Norman Duncan

Picture
My approach in all this work is guided by:
  • Being a Monk on the path of no path
  • Trusting fully in the body, in the present, in the natural cycles, in the support and guidance from the higher spirits, 
  • Bringing love, consciousness, compassion and trust in those I work with.
 
My commitments, vows, monkey business and specialities:


  • Deep exploration of levels of consciousness and love in spiritual process applied to long term human well being as found in these pages.  Monks in infantile consciousness are necessarily devoted to their gurus or gods. Monks in adolescent consciousness need rules, bibles, sacred objects and rituals.  A fully adult monk realises that gurus, gods, bibles and sacred rules are all limited and finally divisive  - that everything on Earth is part of our greater spiritual process, there is no good or bad - nothing is prohibited, but I am fully responsible for my pains, emotions and actions. The elder, shamanic and truly transpersonal monk brings deep humility to all human existence, brings the experience that we are small grains of sand in the infinite, brings true compassion for all life on Earth.
  • In this exploration I get tangled in my own ego, arrogance, perfectionism, victimism, anger, judgement ..... sometimes acting this out with others  .....  I get lost in the needs of my hurt inner child. My inner adolescent gets attached to rules and techniques. Gently, with compassion, some consciousness emerges so that I can learn from each cycle.
  • Helping others in this process. All my work is offered by donation only - which does not mean 'free therapy', (this does not work) – see my contract page. All that I require is your commitment to this exploration of consciousness and love - your heroes journey into yourself. Spiritual Counselling - private and on-line sessions by arrangement.
  • I will be taking on a young apprentice in Aberdeen - details


Individual sessions, workshops and training with Norman simply bring consciousness and love

  • Here we can trust in not knowing, trust in the wisdom of the moment, in the body, … a real mature trust from life experience ...
  • For us modern humans this is about letting go of attachments, letting go of all concepts of success or failure, of health and illness, indeed of any duality.
  • We connect with deep compassion for the great diversity of life in all its phases, those we understand and the great majority that we do not. We now are able to look at death and decomposition with joy and humour, as part of the great dance of life. We find a Transpersonal Unity.
Be kind to yourself. There is no blame. You have done so well to survive and get this far… (Hafiz)
This awareness of our simple, humble humanity brings peace from trying to find great solutions to life.
There is unity, there is belonging, there is peace. We find the greatness when we stop looking for it.


Bits from my past include:

Engineer in the oil business in the early days (1975 – 1984)

Therapeutic Training & Experience since 1978 includes:
                Counselling, Art therapy, Gestalt, Drama therapy, Family Constellations, Dance Movement therapy, Bioenergetics,
                Massage, Macrobiotics, Permaculture, NLP, Dancing 5 Rhythms and Aikido (BKAA).

Spiritual and Shamanic training includes:
                Wicca and Celtic traditions (1979 - 1989),
                Rinzai Zen monk 1982-5,
                Amazonic tradition with Pio Vucetich (2004 – 2014),
                Training in SAT with Claudio Naranjo (2005 – 09)

Teaching and training experience includes:
                Teaching on Masters of Art Therapy and Transpersonal Therapy since 2004.
                Teaching Aikido since 1988.
                Organisational development, public speaking, stress management, leadership, effective meetings, team-building, coaching, ...
                Empowerment of special needs groups and training trainers in a social context since 1977
                Work with Men's Groups since 1978 ... then other Gender related projects since 2004
                Developing and applying a Medicine Wheel model applied to personal, community and economic Development - since 1986
                Developing  this 'No Way' approach to counselling and training since 2004

  • Human Nature
    • Natural Life Cycles
    • Modern Shamanism
    • The Modern World and Context
    • Medicine Wheel
    • Links to psychotherapy, religion and medicine
    • Altered States of Consciousness
  • Creative Bodywork
    • The Inner Child
    • Deep in the body
    • Dance for your Life
    • Shaking Medicine
    • Working Magic
    • Working with Power Objects
    • Shamanic Arts
    • Aikido
  • Community & Relationships
    • Adolescence and the Modern World
    • Community and Individuality
    • Celebrate the Ancestors
    • Rites of Passage
    • Communication and Relationships
    • Women's & Men's Work
    • Men in Movement
    • Parenting
  • Walk your talk
    • Heroes Journey
    • Training
    • Training Process and Evaluation
    • Aberdeen Training
    • Aberdeen Workshops
  • No Way
    • The Shamanic Elder
    • Dying for a Change
    • Consciousness & Love >
      • I Love You
      • Love and Oneness
    • Norman Duncan >
      • Apprentice
    • Value and costs
    • Resources and Links
    • Contact