About Robinette Kennedy
Spiritual archaeology discoveries by clinical anthropologist and scholar Robinette Kennedy, PhD, reveal the shamanistic roots of Western culture. During spiritual retreats in the USA and on the Greek island of Crete, participants learn the Minoan spiritual art of experiencing ecstatic visionary awareness.
The spiritual technique that Robinette teaches combines specific rhythmic sounds created through rattling and drumming with unusual poses that were practiced together at rituals on the Greek island of Crete during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
Robinette was a colleague of the late anthropologist Felicitas Goodman, who discovered that many prehistoric non-Western cultures entered ecstatic trance during their rituals by combining rhythm with yoga-like positions. Goodman asserted that the practice of trance poses was not part of Western culture.
Robinette’s own research since 1992 reveals that trance poses do indeed have Western origins, stemming from the island of Crete, where the first European civilization was formed and where thousands of trance figurines have since been unearthed in caves, mountain sanctuaries and tombs.
After studying and physically experiencing Crete’s trance poses and teaching them to retreat participants in the USA and Greece, Robinette realized the powerful benefits these poses offer to anyone curious about the shamanistic roots of Western culture. These benefits include heightened awareness that opens visionary pathways into Western culture's original spiritual tradition, deeper understanding of one's purpose in modern life and a sense of spiritual meaning, clarity and reassurance that many people yearn for.