My guest is Susan Mokelke, Executive Director of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Editor of Shamanism Annual, the journal of the Foundation, and teacher of such advanced programs as the Three Year Intensive which involves extended training in progressively higher levels of very advanced shamanism, and initiations into rare and little known practices.

My guest on Shaman's Keep will be Steven Ash, author of "Sacred Drumming". He was born in Britain, but grew up on Native American reservations in Canada where his father was the reservation doctor. Steven learned healing and natural medicine with his father, and later lived and studied with Ted Williams, Chief and Medicine Man for the Raven Tribe. He was given the name, Buffalo Spirit Man, and given the honor of being a pipe carrier by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man. He now resides in the UK where he teaches alternative healing methods at the College of Sound Healing.

Angeles Arrien will be my guest this week. She is a cultural anthropologist, award winning author, and Founder and President of the Foundation for Cross-Cultural Educational Research. Her book, "The Four Fold Way", has been translated in over 10 languages around the world, and the Four Fold Way Program which she developed is currently used in medical, academic, and corporate environments.

Serge Kahili King, Ph.D., has published the world's largest selection of books and tapes on Huna, the Polynesian philosophy and practice of effective living, and on the spirit of Aloha, the attitude of love and peace for which the Hawaiian Islands are so famous. In addition to speaking and teaching in many countries, he has formed Aloha International, a world-wide network of teachers, counselors, massage therapists and more than ten thousand individual members for the purpose of sharing his teachings.

Do we need ego if we are expanding spiritually ? where does it fit in, or does it? We can sometimes face obstacles as we traverse our spiritual path - our ego, if not balanced can really block us. Telling us everything from "you're not worthy" to "there is nothing wrong with you". But, if you are to have true mastership of God-self then yes ego must be balanced. Today my guest are a husband and wife team Rev. Dr. Linda Martin and Dr.