the soul navigator

Born in Brooklyn and reared on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Brian Brogan is a internationally recognized shamanic artist. He has lived a nomadic life, and now lives in rural Ireland with his artist wife Jessie Brogan. For Brian, discovering the act of creating poetry and art (painting) was both an epiphany and a revelation in relation to his shamanic interactions with nature.  Shamanism, art, poetry and dream mirror each other when one is practiced and purposely open to their imagery, language and energies.  They relate symbiotically and/or synergistically, as creative/spiritual expressions stemming from the same dynamic source… In a shamanic role one becomes a petitioner and host for intercommunication with unseen connections, and with archetypal and symbolic energies. The healer’s task is to focus and direct these entities, signs and currents of energy in order to redress imbalances in the body and regenerate the psyche. 

Brian writes, “In both my poetry and art much of my imagery is dreamlike, and comes to me in dreams, visions, and other liminal states of consciousness where the material world meets the spirit world. I am attracted to dreamlike places where tropes merge, meanings shift, and past, present, and future fuse. At these junctures space can become time, and time can turn into space.  Within my poetry are alchemical narratives that resurrect presences, light and hope inside the insistent paradox of the human condition.”

Brian states “I feel a kinship with Gary Snyder’s words”:

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”
Gary Snyder

Brian’s third book of poetry will be published this year 2026: Spiritual war Medicine.

Brian has given talks, teachings and consultations on Shamanism, Feng Shui and Qi Gong (Zifagong.) As a healer and guide he has been fortunate to have been taught by several respected international teachers. Ann Drake Psy.D – Shamanism, Dr. Richard Teh Fu Tan – Qi Gong (Zifagong,) Feng Shui. Grandmaster Letian – Qi Gong (Zifagong,) Qi Gong healing. Native American/Indigenous Elders. Western School of Feng Shui. Certifications in Qi Gong/Energy Healing and Feng Shui. Brian has both the worldly and spiritual experience that has brought insightful wisdom to a cross-cultural, wide demographic of individuals.  His counseling and healing services for Feng Shui clients, troubled teens, military personnel and prisoners brings a time-tested, valued, earthy approach to the hard choices and direction in people’s lives.  He works as a ritual healer for the malady of the spirit in individuals and families.  

 

Soul Compass on Keash Mountain Photo copyright Jessie brogan 2016

 

“The Sky Horse Rider” copyright Brian Brogan