Temple Illuminatus2024-03-29T05:01:42Zredfalcon xhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/redfalconxhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/66639973?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://templeilluminatus.ning.com/group/shamanism/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=3f5aq8aqh106v&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTales of power/Shaman or Sorcerer Part 2tag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2021-11-28:6363372:Topic:36063692021-11-28T04:02:52.034Zredfalcon xhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/redfalconx
<p><strong>Tales of power/Shaman or Sorcerer Part 2</strong><strong><br></br></strong> Crystal Seeds of Zion</p>
<p>For this quest to be successful, we first need to get past all assumptions, preconceptions, clichés, anthropomorphic diversions, and narrow categorizations to gain a sense of the various possible totem plants’ core nature, attained through direct physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual interaction. This is easiest done through a series of specific steps that Kiva Rose lists…</p>
<p><strong>Tales of power/Shaman or Sorcerer Part 2</strong><strong><br/></strong> Crystal Seeds of Zion</p>
<p>For this quest to be successful, we first need to get past all assumptions, preconceptions, clichés, anthropomorphic diversions, and narrow categorizations to gain a sense of the various possible totem plants’ core nature, attained through direct physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual interaction. This is easiest done through a series of specific steps that Kiva Rose lists as “observation, sensory experience, emotional response, cognition, integration and application.”</p>
<p>We can then appraise and test any candidate species we feel profoundly connected to, whether seemingly revealed through method or magic, with a series of questions such as:<br/> •Does it feel especially familiar, allied, relevant, related?<br/> •Or significant, communicative, essential, momentous?<br/> •Is there anything about its form, shape, color etc. that reminds you of yourself?<br/> •Do you act on the world – or contribute to it – in any ways similar to how the observed plant does?<br/> •Or do you respond similarly to stimuli, threat, reward, isolation, exposure, stress, nourishment or care?<br/> •Has it been in your life for a long time, appearing again and again like someone seeking your attention?<br/> •Or has it only fairly recently become significant in your life, but in a very dramatic, vital, extreme or timely way?<br/> •Has it proven to be particularly potent medicine for a chronic ailment or imbalance of yours?<br/> •Or has it been medicine for your emotional balance, helping you deal with especially difficult traumas or situations, to calm you enough to function or arouse you sufficiently to accomplish what needs to be accomplished?<br/> •Do you find yourself thinking about it for no obvious or urgent reason?<br/> •Or did it come to you in a vision, or appear to you in dreams?<br/> •Does it feel like you have somehow dishonored or trivialized it, when you speak of it loosely, to those who may not care?<br/> •When you have avoided it or ignored the thought of it for a while, do you feel out of sorts, neglectful, unassisted or unmoored?<br/> •Do you feel unreasonably relieved when reunited after a physical absence, or after a long period of not giving it any mind?</p>
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<li>Does it seem to ask anything of you, require response, point to a mission or calling, excite significant acts?</li>
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<p>Please note that your totem is not always the plant you’d most like to resemble or emulate. A giant redwood sounds like a strong and noble totem, many would like to think of themselves as being sweet as Honeysuckle, and I can’t tell you how many people I know that for good reason call themselves Rose! It may even be a plant that’s not very popular with people, yet it may still be your totem, instructor, and significator… if a number of the following conditions are met.</p>
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<p><strong>Regional:</strong><br/> One’s totem plant will often be associated with a particular bio-region, so that when you say its name – Ginseng for example – people immediately think “Southern Appalachians.” It is usually one that grows locally, native to or often associated with the region where you live. But if not, it will likely inhabit the area you grew up in, or else where you entire being feels most at home. Even if your totem proves to be a known world traveler, green gypsy, botanical opportunist or incessant vagabond – such as Russian Thistle (Sola tragus) – it will still be strongly associated with the place where you either are, used to be, or are drawn to and will probably end up one day. It will thus be place-based, and inevitably recognizable, au fait, au courant.</p>
<p><strong>Significant:</strong><br/> Your totem will seem imbued with significance, with the plant bearing, imparting, or signifying meaning well beyond what any casual observer might glean. For whatever personal reasons, you will experience it as personally and particularly notable, noteworthy, weighty and important. You will find your plant to be signal, apparently calling for you attention, and expressive of a presence, quality, characteristic, form or way of being or doing that has uncommon relevance for you.</p>
<p><strong>Familiar:</strong><br/> It will be a species that you feel highly familiar with, conversant with, specially informed by or about, no stranger to, at home with. It could be a pervasive weed, a rare herb that you find special, or else a threatened or disappearing plant… but in any case, it will be one that when you see it, feels like “Aww, there you are!” as though an appearance by an old friend you can never predict the arrival of but who could always be counted on to drop by unexpectedly, at the most mysterious or fortuitous times. No matter how rare the species might be, or how uncommon or bizarre its form or function, it can never be called exotic because it is too well known by you… and too close.</p>
<p><strong>Intimate:</strong><br/> You will feel a very close connection, even when physically apart. You will know details about it gleaned through personal interaction, facts and nuances that other people would not necessarily find interesting. You may feel that the plant somehow recognizes you, resonates with you, knows you, that there is nothing you either can or need to hide from it. If words passed between you, it would be as with folks who have been married for twenty years, with each of you finishing the sentences that the other starts. It will also be like the newly in love, “in their own world” with an impassioned oneness that no few can see and none participate in, in the exact same way.</p>
<p> <strong>Discrete:</strong><br/> Being in its presence will seem in some ways like a shared secret. You may automatically feel a need for discretion, to conceal or guard from the public that which your totem plant communicates or reveals, protecting it from misappropriation, trivialization and ridicule. Even when there will seem to be no harm in telling people about the depth of your relationship, you will probably feel that it somehow dilutes, distracts or disrespects, to expose that relationship to the uninvited or unconcerned, uninitiated and uninvolved. When you do share its story, you will wish it to be to people most attuned to hearing you. And at those rare times when you lead others to your totem’s refuge – and into its presence – it will be those you most trust, who are most sensitive, respectful, and likely to learn from, benefit from such confidence.</p>
<p><strong>Correspondent:</strong><br/> You and your totem plant will feature close, recognizable similarities in character (personality, style, energy, impression), form (aspects of actual appearance, shape, color, growth patterns) or function (you and your plant’s roles within the respective human and biological communities). A redhead is more likely to have a red blossomed plant, an Oak woman likely to be broad shouldered and strong and a Willow man thin and flexible, a slow starting but perseverant and evocative person associated with Mandrake, an herbalist with a potent medicinal plant… though not necessarily so. These may be analogous (performing a similar function but having a different evolutionary origin) characteristics, attributes, features, properties, essential qualities or peculiarities, and herbs actions and your own effects on people. You might find patience exemplified by the ephemeral Desert Anemone (Anemone tuberosa) which can wait years for the right conditions to sprout from hidden tubers. You may share insistence and movement with something like Wisteria or Bamboo, and share a preoccupation with the cracks between the worlds with the sacred night-flowering Datura.</p>
<p><strong>Magical:</strong><br/> Your relationship with your totem plant could very well feel extrasensory, requiring, and inspiring connection and communication at a level beyond the physical senses, unencumbered by conjecture and prejudice. Your encounters with it may appear preternatural or ultra-natural, extraordinary or inexplicable, unaccountable, fantastic or even phenomenal, and the timing of its appearances or instrumental usage appearing incredibly significant and synchronistic. If you come upon it with other people, it may seem an ordinary discovery to them and a momentous one to you. You may have first become familiar with it at a time of bodily illness or emotional challenge and transition, or you may notice that it always seems to show up just when you need unburdening and cheering. It may follow you from the field or garden into the house, as a picture or thought that won’t let us leave it behind, as the predominant inspiration for your art or recurrent feature of your poetry or story, or in dreams the come to you again and again. It can serve as the flower that illuminates your quests or fuels your migrations, or as the heartful medicine leading you in the broadest and deepest sense to health and home.</p>
<p><strong>Allied:</strong><br/> Perhaps not consciously, but certainly by its very nature, a totem is a plant in alliance with you and your greater intentions, mission, or purpose. It is your ally, confidante, guide, supportive reminder, co-traveler, and somehow even partner in your complimentary and overlapping roles. More than reflecting or clarifying who you really are, “resonating” with you or providing example and consort, it will seem to empower and motivate, instigate and percolate, to enable a connection, ability, vision, or your proactive efforts on behalf of some valued goal. It can help you to not only treat ailments, but to also understand a condition or situation, find the resources you need, or recall your native talents and reservoir of strength and determination. Your totem will serve, fuel and support not only your process of becoming ever more self-aware, but also your most insistent calling and purposeful acts.</p>
<p><strong>Initiatory:</strong><br/> A totem plant will never imply or tell you what to do, or what you should do. “Should” is not even in the language of the natural and inspirited world. What it will do is to help point you to or remind you of your own desires, needs, gifts and missions… and to help initiate your acting on them. It can inspire you to realize your calling and actualize your dreams, to play your individual part in the conscious co-creation of a personal reality and larger world. If your totem were a childhood friend instead of a plant, it would be the kid your parents don’t want you to play with because it has such a profound influence on you… worried in their motherly and fatherly way that it could be leading you to walk a wilder, unconventional path, inciting/exciting you to follow your heart rather than follow the rules. Your totem brings to you not a sealed assignment or set of exacting instructions, but a mischievous dare to rally and risk, to move and progress. If and when you identify your totem, look ever so closely. Along with whatever other hints or gifts it may convey to you, is a most personal imperative.</p>
<p>You’ve noticed that when folks identify with an animal totem, they often create an altar-like space to honor it, gather historic and mytho-poetic images of it, purchase an old ceremonial mask with its countenance, get a picture of it tattooed somewhere on their body, and carry or wear actual pieces of the animal such as a tooth necklace, bits of fur and bone in a medicine bag, or a fur vest rescued from a dusty secondhand store bin. This is not macabre aesthetics, but a ritual honoring. When they interface with any actual animal parts, they often treat them as not just representative of the animal but as spirited artifacts, venerable extensions of the once living creature that link us to them and the inspirited, informative natural world in powerful ways. Yet when they collect dried plant parts, travel with an herbal sachet, or sleep with dream-stimulating Artemesia beneath their pillow, they may be thinking more often about what these plants can do to or for us, rather than feeling how they connect us back to the living plants themselves, to their species, communities, and ecosystems.</p>
<p>With a real and awakened sense of what it means to find and ally with a plant totem, we become inspired to treat every bag of dried herbs as special and sacred, to arrange and appreciate old branches as much as fresh cut flowers, to heed the hints and prodding’s, to savor every blessing and utilize every lesson that totems or any other plant ever teach us… switching from asking what a plant can do for us, to what we can do together in partnership.</p>
<p>Our plant totems first contribute to our being and self-knowing, and then – necessarily, essentially, wondrously – to our purpose and practice, to ever more effective ways of sharing our knowledge, contributing to the great healing, manifesting our love.</p>
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<p><strong>Tales of power/Shaman or Sorcerer<br></br></strong> Crystal Seeds of Zion</p>
<p>We must give thanks for that which strengthens us. When it comes to sacred traditions, the same applies. For many of us in the White culture it is difficult to find our way and to embrace our heritage. The wisdom of the Vedas, or of Native Elders or various other traditions celebrated in our country are able to feed our soul fires when we learn to be thankful for the part they play in nourishing us in our…</p>
<p><strong>Tales of power/Shaman or Sorcerer<br/></strong> Crystal Seeds of Zion</p>
<p>We must give thanks for that which strengthens us. When it comes to sacred traditions, the same applies. For many of us in the White culture it is difficult to find our way and to embrace our heritage. The wisdom of the Vedas, or of Native Elders or various other traditions celebrated in our country are able to feed our soul fires when we learn to be thankful for the part they play in nourishing us in our paths of growth and fullness. Perhaps they are there to remind us that it is not our path but it still may be a path that is well worn and proven for others, yet there may be signs or symbols that actuate seed memories that we can learn to sprout when the season or time is right.</p>
<p> In the ways of these older traditions often we find a process that has been in place for a long time, where elders or spirit guides are accessed to keep one on the path of self or to alert one that may have strayed into parts unknown or areas that trigger deeply hidden fears. For many of us Rainbow Children, who hold vague memories of other times and still smell the smolder of the ceremonial fires, we find that this world of vast technologies and designed wonders rings hollow in its wisdom and ultimately leads away from the path with a heart. This can easily lead to a sense of disconnection from the outer world, as riches, fame and glory pale beside the rich textures of deep memory that stirs our dreams.</p>
<p> So often we seek affirmation in things outside of ourselves. Sometimes it is wondrous synchronicity that hearkens us like the call of the raven, to pay attention to now and to be of this moment that only always is. Other times it is forms of distraction that pull us from our center. That is part of the path we walk upon! What is essential is to BE, to recognize where your power lies and to know your heart path. For many people this is too difficult and is easily forgotten or overlooked. There is an immensity of information and it is increasing in an exponential way as the forms of communication have now connected continents and hemispheres. But what of our own two hemispheres? When will we seek the silence that unites us and brings us peace and tranquility?</p>
<p> For me the path has not been direct and for most this is the way of the world and perhaps part of the truth of why we are where we are. To me there has been a choice that has been there for many years and one that asks me where my power lies and how to connect to it and still live in service to this world. It could be seen as a choice between shaman or sorcerer. Both, indeed are paths of power, and that is what makes this recognition so mystifying. Dark nights of the soul, sufferings and sickness, healings and the beauty of moments all color the canvass of experience. Those of us with families are presented with years of observation, contemplation and often times of action. It is not an easily understood lesson to release those we love, so that they can walk their talk, stumble, and fall and also surmount the difficulties along the way.</p>
<p> A sorcerer can be the coyote, an entertainer, or a magician or one who has mastered certain abilities and is able to display and utilize those abilities that would pull others this way and that, and yet for them allows opportunities to arise. Not unlike the warrior’s path, they have learned to use the navel, tan tien or solar plexus as a source of power and a way to sway opinion, distract from concentration and utilize others power to display their own abilities.</p>
<p>They have excelled in their trainings and often attain positions in the world that hold power over others, or powers that others seek.</p>
<p> The shaman sometimes can be seen in much the same way to those who have been disenfranchised from their own hearts path. The medicine of the shaman is often a mystery or a mysterious process and for many this blurs the lines between these two traditions. For me, however, there is a distinction that is often more easily understood through the wisdom of the elders. Outward displays of power are not so obvious when the quest for position is not outwardly displayed. Yet, there has also been a choice or transitioning away from paths that were found to not have a heart. The shamanic tradition has warmed my heart. It’s learned wisdom is of the heart indeed! It seeks not control of others but also recognizes that there are no accidents or coincidences, and when the Great Spirit or God or Higher Self acts or speaks through them, they give thanks. Yet with all things, there is no simple dividing line, no ascertainable duality that simplifies our choices, each and every day or moment. We all find the fork in the road. We meet Hecate at these crossroads each day as we open or close our eyes. It is humbling for me to realize how often we seek some type of affirmation of being right, of being appreciated for the path we have chosen to walk upon. Still it is in the moments of silence, wherein the path to or away from the heart is illuminated.</p>
<p> Too often, when sharing thoughts, ideas, or feelings we look again for like-mindedness, instead of acceptance. We lure others to our caves of comfort, into our ways of understanding, to make ourselves feel connected and to feel that we are of value. We also desire that others recognize our ways and understand that we have grown and learned to love and understand one another. Yet, again, it is in the quiet hours of darkness, times we have awakened in fear or anxiety, or out of a need for prayer, that we find ourselves, our true selves and our struggles. It is then we have the strength of surrender or see the shame we hide by the light of day.</p>
<p> It is the mirror of our soul that shows us the thousand faces of life that is each and all our own. All truth is simple, but there are no simple ways for most of us in this world. The ascetic path, the mystical worlds we can hear or read about are not available as we succumb to schedules and routines and often we do not see the opportunities for true change. I have done ceremony both in groups and alone, have experiences that run round and round the wheel of life, and I have come to understand that wisdom that has learned to forgive others and especially myself, for the assumptions of easy truths, or the justification of actions that often end differently than one would expect. I have learned to give thanks in my heart for the truth of my own path.</p>
<p> I can be an example in this world, of the world I seek to be a part of, and to be the change that I also seek to see in the world, yet also realize that I cannot make my loved ones choose those things that bring me comfort, or that I desire for them to be or become. That path is not easy at times and it too has its pitfalls, stones to align or stumble upon. In the end I understand that which is left, is ourselves, myself, and so I choose to do that which feels right inside of me. That is a path with heart! I realize that life is not perfect and that my choices may also not always be perfect and I have come to truly understand that this is why I am here. To learn to be content with what I have and the choices I have made. The ceremonies I have done with others have been very powerful at times and at other times have been no more than a gathering of egos with no group intention. Both are medicine and both are about growth and healing.</p>
<p>For me it is the ceremony I do alone that is important for my soul’s growth. Learning to surrender to honesty and to be humbled has brought rewards, as much as the failure to recognize opportunities to growth has also been valuable lessons. In many ways my work in the world has been learning to realize that there are many choices to be made and many opportunities to return to the same simple choice of letting my mind, brain, intellect or heart choose.</p>
<p> It could be seen at times as distinct as a centripetal or centrifugal force. A creative or destructive cycle of awareness that includes the acceptance of lessons that repeat themselves ‘til learned, and even then, keep repeating over anyway…So in short, I choose the shamanic path in a world that has forgotten its meaning or has sensationalized and glorified its image. Even now as an elder by age I come to recognize that I need to seek clarity. I need to evaluate the choices I make from multiple perspectives.</p>
<p> The challenge of finding like-minded folks, loving groups of well-intentioned individuals is not always readily available. For me it is the interactions of the moment, the one on ones, that quicken my heartbeat. That is when I soar or stumble, while making the choices that are presented in those moments to find a common ground of assisting other folks and continuing my own forward progressions. I surround myself with objects of power, tools for healing, crystals and gemstones etc., and try to remember that their power is a mirror of my own power. In and of themselves, they become, like all things, tools or weapons…..a sorcerer uses and a shaman fuses, but even that simple dialogue or duality is only the surface of a reflecting pool.</p>
<p> There are times I feel tired and feel the weariness of this lifelong journey, and then there are times I feel that all the preparations, the long list of lessons, the dead ends and empty vessels, have all led to this moment now. It is in that moment I am thankful to be awake, thankful to know that now is what is truly important. Each step forward becomes a prayer to Father Sky and Mother Earth, and this place in my heart where we meet, greet, and sit awhile in ceremony, in service and in song.</p>
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<p> I cannot always make my desires come to pass for others or even myself. That is when the silence heals me. Each time a need to heal comes into my life, thru sickness, dissent, selfishness or a need for possession, I am one step closer to remembering why I have come to this Earth school. The student becomes the teacher by recognizing both faces that are within. I am thankful for music in my life, for birdsong and the babbling brook. I am graced with periods of calm abiding and then again my heart pounds as I awaken at night, amidst disquieting dreams, or even worse, not knowing where I have been in dreams, or to be fearful for finances or the struggles of my children or grandchildren. Then, with crystals in hand or over heart or third eye, I am quieted again to realize that all this is the path I have chosen.</p>
<p>All of life speaks to us, though certainly not in a language most are used to hearing. And no creatures or persons communicate more personally, bodily, relevantly or poignantly than one’s totems.</p>
<p>When practiced with intense awareness and uncompromised honesty, the plant totem quest and realization can be a functional method and means for increased self-knowledge and self-actualization, inter-species alliance, and growth, a system or partnership which can result in a more effective herbal practice, improved learning, and teaching, and a new or heightened commitment to a purpose beyond the narrow, predictable, conformist, mundane and unsatisfying.</p>
<p>We use a comparison chart of botanical designs and attributes to positively identify a new plant we discover. A totem is a way to “key-out” our authentic personalities and personas, to help distinguish the pretend from the genuine, projection and spin from understanding and wisdom. It can provide us with another way to see ourselves, and to honor ourselves as we would honor the most powerful and significant of all the plant species to ever come into our lives.</p>
<p>Every plant, every creature, lives to serve itself and contribute to its ecosystem, with an intrinsic value and evolved roles irrespective of any service it ever provides to you or your kind, your culture or the herbal practice and field. That said, a totem can serve to personify, inform, mirror, model, connect, inspire, and initiate.</p>
<p>Seeking out one’s totem is a deliberate and sometimes lengthy process, not like giving job interviews to strangers, but more like rediscovering something that had all along been integral to their selves and lives. I’ve heard people say they didn’t feel like they had vetted and selected their beloved spouse so much as fortuitously or even magically “reunited” with their “soul mate,” that after years of searching for a partner they’d finally “gotten out of the way” of whatever destiny or process that then brought them together. They may feel they have found or been given the one person who could be their ideal partner in struggle and growth, bliss and purpose. Similarly, we can methodically search from among our encyclopedia of plants, in yard and wilderness for years without luck, or – through a combination of our heightened awareness and kind synchronicity – feel we’ve been led to or visited by the one species that best serves as our totem.</p> Shamans and their belief systemstag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2021-11-28:6363372:Topic:36065482021-11-28T03:50:55.152Zredfalcon xhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/redfalconx
<p><strong>Shamans and their belief systems<br></br></strong> http:/api.ning.com</p>
<p>There are many healing traditions which are very old and honored by indigenous people of the earth. People who feel called to do the work of healing in their tribe or village are sometimes called shamans. Sometimes these people are led to the calling by a sign, sometimes they face a health…</p>
<p><strong>Shamans and their belief systems<br/></strong> http:/api.ning.com</p>
<p>There are many healing traditions which are very old and honored by indigenous people of the earth. People who feel called to do the work of healing in their tribe or village are sometimes called shamans. Sometimes these people are led to the calling by a sign, sometimes they face a health <a href="http://www.starseeds.net/group/templeforthewiseones/forum/topic/show?id=2312030%3ATopic%3A2448040&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic">crisis</a> of their own and have a vision through that of helping others, some are taught from childhood to follow a family tradition of healing, and a few are just gifted people who take on the role of healer because so many people come to them for help because they are just natural born healers.</p>
<p>Many of the traditions of this path involve occult practices. In this context, I use the word "occult" in the literal sense. It involves seeing "that which is hidden" using intuition, inspiration, and other methods than the usual five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It can involve empathy, psychic vision, and energy healing as well as <a href="http://www.starseeds.net/group/templeforthewiseones/forum/topic/show?id=2312030%3ATopic%3A2448040&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic">things</a> like massage, herbal healing, and rituals.</p>
<p><strong>Animism</strong> Shamans often have belief systems that there is a spirit to everything in nature. Scientists call this animism. So in this occult system, animals have a spirit, the places of the earth have a spirit, water has a spirit, and human beings have a spirit and all things in the cosmos are connected in spirit. <br/> Because of this, shamans will use some method to journey into the spirit realm to do their work. Sometimes they gain altered states of awareness by drumming or chanting. Many shamans practice the same kind of techniques that mystics use in meditation. In fact, many of our spiritual and religious traditions can be traced back to their beginnings in ancient shamanistic work. </p>
<p>The Bön are what remain of these kinds of healers from Tibet. One of their practices is making the drala (dgra bla) a protective warrior spirit or an entity that brings peace and a sense of belonging in a place. Something you can do if you are planning to do spiritual work, or even if you are starting a creative project or just want to have guests in your house, is make the drala. <br/> You do this by burning some incense and other little rituals to make the space inviting and make it a happy place to be. It is the same thing many people do to create a sacred space for a ceremony. You can see this done in churches, when people have a baby, dedicate a building, or even when they launch a boat. Some ceremonies of beginnings go way back to this kind of practice. </p>
<p>The Maya people of Central America often do ceremonies for anything they <a href="http://www.starseeds.net/group/templeforthewiseones/forum/topic/show?id=2312030%3ATopic%3A2448040&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic">start</a>, like a home, a farm field, a school, or even a road. They do their offerings to put spirit into things that they create so that they can be connected to the flow of life energy. </p>
<p>In native traditions it is often taught that there are layers or insides to everyone and everything. The hidden form of things can be seen within, and work is done to make the subtle body of the patient who needs healing strong and solid, so that this vibration will correct the physical problem that makes them ill or in pain.</p>
<p>A very effective technique like this is lomilomi. If you have ever had the pleasure of going to a traditional Polynesian massage therapist, you may have experienced this type of healing. It involves many levels of work and it is hard to resist feeling better when it is done. It is much more than massage. It involves prayer and intention. The healer will help the patient with <a href="http://www.starseeds.net/group/templeforthewiseones/forum/topic/show?id=2312030%3ATopic%3A2448040&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic">diet</a> and exercise. Herbs are given for therapy. A kind of hypnotic suggestion and forms of inducing trance and relaxation are combined with therapeutic touch and long, slow strokes of massage. Warm stones may be placed on points that need special attention. Some healers of this tradition will specialize in diagnosis, and some specialize in the different forms of treatment. This practice was outlawed and went underground. It is difficult to find masters of it except in those who have continued their family practice.</p>
<p>This leads me to the last little thing about being a shaman. Many people venture into altered states and the occult and call themselves a shaman. It is one thing to use these practices to explore our hidden worlds and the wonderful landscape created in the spiritual world by the shamans. To be a true shaman you would have to have that village or tribe that comes to you for healing. You would have to have a relationship to a place that is sacred to those people, and you would have to make the sacrifice of giving up the ordinary mundane life to become something greater than yourself for the good of a community. My uncle was asked by an old man in his family to learn the healing arts. In the Cajun culture we call these healers "traiteurs" which is a French word for "treater". He refused because he didn't want all the sick people in town coming to his house. It involves lots of training and an oath to help people. This is something like what doctors do in modern society. </p>
<p>Just as you would not get an amateur to cut you open with a knife and remove disease from you, a wise person would not get and unskilled and untrained shaman to open their spirit and remove the things that bother our emotions and our minds. I hope people would have enough common sense to know this, but it must be said. Many people go out and begin their spiritual practice and gather followers before they have done all the work to heal themselves. It is just one of the things that have given shamanism a bad reputation. I know tribal people that do not practice their old folk healing ways at all. It is much easier for them to go to a doctor and get treatment, and there are stricter rules about the competency of doctors than there are for medicine men and shamans. </p>
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<p>A good thing to do if you think this path is for you is to find a shaman that works in your area. If he will take you as an apprentice or initiate you into his tradition, you will be on your way. If you can't find this teacher, or your teacher does not find you, maybe you are not shaman material at all. It is helpful to have some skills at seeing things that other people do not see to begin with.</p>
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<p><strong>SHAMANISM & Five Elemental Qualities</strong></p>
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<p>Power animals most often come to us in dreams, meditations, initiations, and visions. You can have more than one power animal. Your power animal at a given time can change depending on your life path at that time. Power animals are often attracted by one's emotional needs of the person - viewed as protectors who…</p>
<p><strong>SHAMANISM & Five Elemental Qualities</strong></p>
<p>Shamanism <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/shamanism.html">http://www.crystalinks.com/shamanism.html</a></p>
<p>Power animals most often come to us in dreams, meditations, initiations, and visions. You can have more than one power animal. Your power animal at a given time can change depending on your life path at that time. Power animals are often attracted by one's emotional needs of the person - viewed as protectors who help overcome fears and empower us.</p>
<p>The concept of a Power Animal is universal to all cultures. Tribal cultures will recognize a Totem for the tribe, one for the clan one belongs to, and one for the family that one is born into</p>
<p>Power Animals are usually a reflection of your deepest self and also represent qualities which you need in this world, but which are often hidden or obscured. A mistake that people often make is to be dissatisfied when they find that their Power Animal is some non-ferocious animal like a mouse. We tend to think that a mouse is not very powerful - that it is meek and afraid. What they forget is that spirits are not limited to physical reality and that size is irrelevant. Your Power Animal may be a tiny mouse, but in times of need this mouse can and will change its size and deportment to that which is appropriate to the occasion.</p>
<p><strong>Working with your Power Animal<br/></strong> Prepare to meet your power animal - as you did in the first lesson. <br/> You can try this while at your computer - or in a place you meditate. <br/> Out in nature might give the best results! <br/> Relax your mind and body. <br/> Now close your eyes and take two long deep breaths - breathing slowly in through your nose - holding the breath as is comfortable for you - and breathing out slowly through your mouth! <br/> Connect with your power animal as your third eye begins to open and shows you images . . . <br/> If you can see the animal in movement - follow the animal to see where it takes you and what messages it wishes you to learn. <br/> If you are having trouble following the animal - first visualize the animal - then see it moving away - perhaps through time and space - perhaps on the Earth plane . . . <br/> Once you have connected with the animal - mentally tell the animal that you wish it to take you on a spirit journey so you can learn more about your soul journey at this time. <br/> It will take you on a journey . . . <br/> Make notes about your journey when you return.</p>
<p> While the causes of disease are considered to lie in the realm of the spiritual, being affected by malicious spirits or Witchcraft, spiritual methods as well as what we would consider physical methods are used to heal. The shaman often will enter the body of their patient to find the spirit making the patient sick, and heal by removing the infectious spirit by the patient.</p>
<p><br/> However, many shamans have expert knowledge of the plant life in their area, and an herbal regimen is often prescribed as treatment. In many places, the shamans claim to learn from the plants directly, only being able to determine the effects of a plant and use it to heal after meeting the spirit of the plant and getting permission.</p>
<p><strong>Power Plants</strong> <a href="http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/bardotea/bardotea.html">http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/bardotea/bardotea.html</a> <br/> Tobacco <br/> Fly Agaric <br/> Psychedelic Mushrooms Alluded to euphemistically as "holy children" by Mazatec shamans such as Maria Sabina <br/> Peyote <br/> San Pedro Named thus (St. Peter) by Andean natives because he's the guardian of Gates of Heaven <br/> Ayahuasca Quechua for "Vine of the Dead" <br/> Iboga</p>
<p> Shamans often observe special diets or fasts and taboos particular to their vocation. Sometimes these have physical purposes beyond effecting a change in brain state or taboo; for example, the diet followed by shamans and apprentices when drinking Ayahuasca includes eating foods rich in serotonin as well as avoiding foods rich in tyramine, which could cause a hypertensive crisis if ingested with an MAOI such as Ayahuasca.</p>
<p>Our present unenlightened state is based on a fundamental state of ignorance, a fundamental discursive consciousness, <em>'kun shi nam she'</em>. It is the fundamental consciousness which is distorted and confused. There is, however, a possibility of experiencing the true nature of mind, and when that pure awareness is present, we no longer have <em>'kun shi nam she'</em> but <em>'kun shi yeshe'</em> (wisdom consciousness). That change of a single syllable from <em>'nam'</em> to <em>'ye'</em>, makes a tremendous difference, because now we are referring to fundamental Primordial Awareness rather than fundamental ignorance.</p>
<p><strong> </strong> In both cases we are talking about mind, which essentially embodies what in our physical universe we term the five elements. The potential for these elements exists in the mind and always has - it is not something created at some particular time.</p>
<p> In its inherent nature, mind always has the five elemental qualities, and it is from this potential that the experiences of the after-death state arise. <br/> <strong> </strong> When we speak of mind, we speak of something that is not a thing in itself. In its most fundamental sense, mind is not something we can limit. We cannot say it has a particular shape, size or location, color or form, or any other limiting characteristic. <br/> The element we call space, which in our perceptual situation also has no limiting characteristics, is this very emptiness of mind; this is the elemental quality of space in the mind. <br/> But mind is not simply empty; it has the illuminating potential to perceive anything whatsoever.</p>
<p>This unlimited ability of mind to perceive is its illuminating nature, and corresponds to the element of fire. <br/> <strong>This mind</strong>, essentially empty and illuminating, gives rise to all experiences which, whether samsara or Nirvana, is rooted in mind just as plants are rooted in soil. <br/> This function of the mind as the origin of all experience corresponds to the elemental quality of earth. <br/> Another aspect of the mind is its dynamic quality. Mind is never still: no single experience in it lasts, but quickly passes to another. Whether one is undergoing an emotional reaction, an experience of pleasure or pain, or a sensory perception such as seeing or hearing, the contents of the mind are always in a state of flux. <br/> This continual activity of mind is the elemental quality of wind (air).</p>
<p> Mind with these four elemental qualities has always been so and always will be. <br/> This very continuity, and the fact that mind adapts it to different situations, corresponds to the element of water. <br/> Just as water sustains its continuity and adapts itself to every contour as it flows, the mind too is fluent, continuous, and adaptable.</p>
<p>The origin or basis of all experiences is mind, characterized by the five elemental qualities. Our particular situation at the moment is that of physical waking existence, in which we experience what is termed the body of 'Completely Ripened Karma' (<em>'nam min ji lü'</em>). The meaning here is that completely ripened karmic tendencies have given rise to this seemingly solid, concrete projection of mind that is our physical body.</p>
<p> The connection between the body we now experience and the mind which produced it is as follows. <br/> The solid elements of our body, such as flesh and bone, represent the element of earth, just as the "solidity" of mind - its function as the basis and origin of all experience - reflects the element of earth. <br/> Similarly, the bodily fluids such as blood, saliva, urine, lymph and so forth, represent the element of water. <br/> The biological warmth of the body is the element of fire, while the element of space is represented by the orifices of the body, and by the spatial separation of the organs, which, instead of forming a homogeneous mass, are distinct and separate from each other. <br/> Finally, there is the element of wind (air) which is connected with the breath, and maintains the organism by way of the respiratory process.</p>
<p>In short, it is from mind, which embodies the five elemental qualities that the physical body develops. The physical body itself is imbued with these qualities, and it is because of this mind/body complex that we perceive the outside world - which in turn is composed of the five elemental qualities of earth, water, fire, wind (air), and space.</p> Shamanismtag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2021-11-14:6363372:Topic:36055492021-11-14T01:19:42.859Zredfalcon xhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/redfalconx
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<p>Power animals most often come to us in dreams, meditations, initiations, and visions. You can have more than one power animal. Your power animal at a given time can change depending on your life path at that time. Power animals are often attracted by one's emotional needs of the person - viewed as protectors who help overcome fears and empower us.</p>
<p>The concept of a Power…</p>
<p>Shamanism <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/shamanism.html">http://www.crystalinks.com/shamanism.html</a></p>
<p>Power animals most often come to us in dreams, meditations, initiations, and visions. You can have more than one power animal. Your power animal at a given time can change depending on your life path at that time. Power animals are often attracted by one's emotional needs of the person - viewed as protectors who help overcome fears and empower us.</p>
<p>The concept of a Power Animal is universal to all cultures. Tribal cultures will recognize a Totem for the tribe, one for the clan one belongs to, and one for the family that one is born into</p>
<p>Power Animals are usually a reflection of your deepest self and also represent qualities which you need in this world, but which are often hidden or obscured. A mistake that people often make is to be dissatisfied when they find that their Power Animal is some non-ferocious animal like a mouse. We tend to think that a mouse is not very powerful - that it is meek and afraid. What they forget is that spirits are not limited to physical reality and that size is irrelevant. Your Power Animal may be a tiny mouse, but in times of need this mouse can and will change its size and deportment to that which is appropriate to the occasion.</p>
<p><strong>Working with your Power Animal<br/></strong> Prepare to meet your power animal - as you did in the first lesson. <br/> You can try this while at your computer - or in a place you meditate. <br/> Out in nature might give the best results! <br/> Relax your mind and body. <br/> Now close your eyes and take two long deep breaths - breathing slowly in through your nose - holding the breath as is comfortable for you - and breathing out slowly through your mouth! <br/> Connect with your power animal as your third eye begins to open and shows you images . . . <br/> If you can see the animal in movement - follow the animal to see where it takes you and what messages it wishes you to learn. <br/> If you are having trouble following the animal - first visualize the animal - then see it moving away - perhaps through time and space - perhaps on the Earth plane . . . <br/> Once you have connected with the animal - mentally tell the animal that you wish it to take you on a spirit journey so you can learn more about your soul journey at this time. <br/> It will take you on a journey . . . <br/> Make notes about your journey when you return.</p>
<p> While the causes of disease are considered to lie in the realm of the spiritual, being affected by malicious spirits or Witchcraft, spiritual methods as well as what we would consider physical methods are used to heal. The shaman often will enter the body of their patient to find the spirit making the patient sick, and heal by removing the infectious spirit by the patient.</p>
<p><br/> However, many shamans have expert knowledge of the plant life in their area, and an herbal regimen is often prescribed as treatment. In many places, the shamans claim to learn from the plants directly, only being able to determine the effects of a plant and use it to heal after meeting the spirit of the plant and getting permission.</p>
<p><strong>Power Plants</strong> <a href="http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/bardotea/bardotea.html">http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/bardotea/bardotea.html</a> <br/> Tobacco <br/> Fly Agaric <br/> Psychedelic Mushrooms Alluded to euphemistically as "holy children" by Mazatec shamans such as Maria Sabina <br/> Peyote <br/> San Pedro Named thus (St. Peter) by Andean natives because he's the guardian of Gates of Heaven <br/> Ayahuasca Quechua for "Vine of the Dead" <br/> Iboga</p>
<p> Shamans often observe special diets or fasts and taboos particular to their vocation. Sometimes these have physical purposes beyond effecting a change in brain state or taboo; for example, the diet followed by shamans and apprentices when drinking Ayahuasca includes eating foods rich in serotonin as well as avoiding foods rich in tyramine, which could cause a hypertensive crisis if ingested with an MAOI such as Ayahuasca.</p>
<p>Our present unenlightened state is based on a fundamental state of ignorance, a fundamental discursive consciousness, <em>'kun shi nam she'</em>. It is the fundamental consciousness which is distorted and confused. There is, however, a possibility of experiencing the true nature of mind, and when that pure awareness is present, we no longer have <em>'kun shi nam she'</em> but <em>'kun shi yeshe'</em> (wisdom consciousness). That change of a single syllable from <em>'nam'</em> to <em>'ye'</em>, makes a tremendous difference, because now we are referring to fundamental Primordial Awareness rather than fundamental ignorance.</p>
<p><strong> </strong> In both cases we are talking about mind, which essentially embodies what in our physical universe we term the five elements. The potential for these elements exists in the mind and always has - it is not something created at some particular time.</p>
<p> In its inherent nature, mind always has the five elemental qualities, and it is from this potential that the experiences of the after-death state arise. <br/> <strong> </strong> When we speak of mind, we speak of something that is not a thing in itself. In its most fundamental sense, mind is not something we can limit. We cannot say it has a particular shape, size or location, color or form, or any other limiting characteristic. <br/> The element we call space, which in our perceptual situation also has no limiting characteristics, is this very emptiness of mind; this is the elemental quality of space in the mind. <br/> But mind is not simply empty; it has the illuminating potential to perceive anything whatsoever.</p>
<p>This unlimited ability of mind to perceive is its illuminating nature, and corresponds to the element of fire. <br/> <strong>This mind</strong>, essentially empty and illuminating, gives rise to all experiences which, whether samsara or Nirvana, is rooted in mind just as plants are rooted in soil. <br/> This function of the mind as the origin of all experience corresponds to the elemental quality of earth. <br/> Another aspect of the mind is its dynamic quality. Mind is never still: no single experience in it lasts, but quickly passes to another. Whether one is undergoing an emotional reaction, an experience of pleasure or pain, or a sensory perception such as seeing or hearing, the contents of the mind are always in a state of flux. <br/> This continual activity of mind is the elemental quality of wind (air).</p>
<p> Mind with these four elemental qualities has always been so and always will be. <br/> This very continuity, and the fact that mind adapts it to different situations, corresponds to the element of water. <br/> Just as water sustains its continuity and adapts itself to every contour as it flows, the mind too is fluent, continuous, and adaptable.</p>
<p>The origin or basis of all experiences is mind, characterized by the five elemental qualities. Our particular situation at the moment is that of physical waking existence, in which we experience what is termed the body of 'Completely Ripened Karma' (<em>'nam min ji lü'</em>). The meaning here is that completely ripened karmic tendencies have given rise to this seemingly solid, concrete projection of mind that is our physical body.</p>
<p> The connection between the body we now experience and the mind which produced it is as follows. <br/> The solid elements of our body, such as flesh and bone, represent the element of earth, just as the "solidity" of mind - its function as the basis and origin of all experience - reflects the element of earth. <br/> Similarly, the bodily fluids such as blood, saliva, urine, lymph and so forth, represent the element of water. <br/> The biological warmth of the body is the element of fire, while the element of space is represented by the orifices of the body, and by the spatial separation of the organs, which, instead of forming a homogeneous mass, are distinct and separate from each other. <br/> Finally, there is the element of wind (air) which is connected with the breath, and maintains the organism by way of the respiratory process.</p>
<p>In short, it is from mind, which embodies the five elemental qualities that the physical body develops. The physical body itself is imbued with these qualities, and it is because of this mind/body complex that we perceive the outside world - which in turn is composed of the five elemental qualities of earth, water, fire, wind (air), and space.</p> Shamanic Teacherstag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2021-11-14:6363372:Topic:36055462021-11-14T01:11:29.170Zredfalcon xhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/redfalconx
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<p><br></br> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><u>About Shamanic Teachers<br></br></u></strong></span> <br></br> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Some of you will use the practice of shamanism only for your own personal healing, growth, and evolution. After extensive practice, some of you will be guided to also use this work for helping others in your community and in your…</span></p>
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<p><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><u>About Shamanic Teachers<br/></u></strong></span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Some of you will use the practice of shamanism only for your own personal healing, growth, and evolution. After extensive practice, some of you will be guided to also use this work for helping others in your community and in your work to help the planet.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> I feel the times we live in call for our communities to be seeded with well-trained shamanic teachers. It is time for us to bring the practice of shamanism back into our communities and make the work available to those who wish to learn more about how this spiritual practice can be bridged and integrated into our lives.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> This website is designed to help you find a shamanic teacher in your area who can teach you basic and advanced shamanic skills. Throughout 2004 - 2011, I conducted several two-year teacher trainings and this website lists over 150 teachers who have been trained to teach shamanic healing methods.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Please note: Many people are curious about the practice of shamanism and it is good to take a short workshop to see if this is a spiritual practice you would like to explore. Shamanism is a lifelong spiritual practice.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Please recognize the results you will notice from practicing shamanic journeying is a matter of right timing, destiny, and your commitment to the practice.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><u><br/> About Shamanic Practitioners<br/></u></strong></span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Shamanic healing is a spiritual method of healing that deals with the spiritual aspect of illness. There are three common causes of illness in the shaman’s worldview. A person may have lost his or her power, causing depression, chronic illness, or a series of misfortunes. In this case, the shaman journeys to restore that people lose their powers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Or a person may have lost part of their soul or essence, causing soul loss, which sometimes occurs during an emotional or physical trauma, such as accidents, surgery, abuse, the trauma of war, being in a natural disaster, divorce, the death of a loved one, or other traumatic circumstances. Soul loss can result in dissociation, post-traumatic stress syndrome, depression, illness, immune deficiency problems, addictions, unending grief, or coma. Soul loss can prevent us from creating healthy relationships and the life we truly wish to live. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is the role of the shaman to track down the parts that have fled and been lost due to trauma by performing a soul retrieval ceremony. Another cause of illness from a shamanic perspective would be any spiritual blockages or negative energies a client has taken on due to the loss of his or her power or soul. These spiritual blockages also cause illness, usually in a localized area of the body. It is the role of the shaman to extract and remove these harmful energies from the body.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">A shaman heals both the living and the deceased. In healing those who died, the shaman performs a psychopomp ceremony of helping those who have died cross over to a comfortable and peaceful place. The ceremony may also include clearing a home or land of spirits that are in a state of unrest.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">As shamanic healing deals with the spiritual aspect of illness there is no way to predict the results that will manifest emotionally or physically. Shamanic healing does not replace the need for traditional psychological and medical treatment.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> There are different ways that practitioners can work. One way is for the shamanic practitioner to only provide spiritual healing and follow up treatments if necessary. Another option is after the healing work to continue to work with your shamanic practitioner on the process of integration.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The purpose of continuing the work would be to find ways to restore balance and harmony in your life and create a positive present and future for yourself through the use of spiritual practices and ceremonies. Life without passion and meaning can result in despair. With shamanic practices you can explore how to create a meaningful life. </span> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Some people feel they have their own support systems in psychotherapy and with other spiritual practices and do not feel they need such follow up work with a shamanic practitioner.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It is important that you find what you need to support the shamanic healing work that has been done. The practitioners on this list can supply support if you need it.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here are some guidelines to find a practitioner:</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Go to the list in the state where you live and try to find someone you can see in person. It is best to work with the practitioner in person rather than long distance. Long distance work can be done with shamanic healing; however, It is best when the client sees the practitioner in person unless there is a critical situation that prevents the client from traveling.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Talk to the practitioners near you and choose a person you feel comfortable working with.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Find a practitioner who is flexible in their fees.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Make sure the practitioner is accessible and does follow up work if you need it.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It is important to understand that in the practice of shamanism the shamanic practitioner works in partnership with his/her helping spirits. The helping spirits do the diagnosis and advise on what healing ceremony should be done.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Today in a psychologically sophisticated culture many clients show up telling shamanic practitioners what healing work needs to be done. This is not how shamanic healing works. The shamanic practitioner listens to the problem the client presents and then consults with his or her healing spirits for the spiritual diagnosis and the proper healing method. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Also, please understand that all shamanic practitioners have different styles of working. A good shamanic practitioner follows the directions of their helping spirits who know what is best for the client.</span><br/> <br/></p>
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<p>Modern shamanic healing arts are largely similar to the ancient techniques, with the important inclusion of therapy-based aftercare. It is highly recommended that the client attend several therapy sessions to assist in the process of "reintegration".</p>
<p>Often soul parts have returned that were lost years prior, and the client must patiently explain to these soul parts how the client's life has changed in the intervening years. One client of soul retrieval compared the integration period…</p>
<p>Modern shamanic healing arts are largely similar to the ancient techniques, with the important inclusion of therapy-based aftercare. It is highly recommended that the client attend several therapy sessions to assist in the process of "reintegration".</p>
<p>Often soul parts have returned that were lost years prior, and the client must patiently explain to these soul parts how the client's life has changed in the intervening years. One client of soul retrieval compared the integration period to "leading a school field trip with earlier version" of himself. This client recounted tales of explaining the layout of his current city to his soul parts, explaining current events, and describing the nature of his current personal life.</p>
<p>Part of the integration process may include setting boundaries with newly returned soul parts. For example, a soul part returning from adolescence, before a client became a vegetarian, might crave meat. This client would have to explain the nature of his or her new diet to the soul part, and negotiate a proper boundary.</p>
<p>Most importantly, it is necessary to be tender with newly returned soul parts, and with yourself. These soul parts left due to some traumatic event. It is likely that feelings surrounding that event will surface, and that these should be dealt with in a responsible and respectful manner. One of the ways to do this is to build altars in your living space to the ages of the soul parts which returned, or to the Power Animals and allies who may have stepped forward during your healing work.</p>
<p><strong>In the Wildest Garden<br/></strong> The breath of fear Is a passion for a healing that is about to take place<br/> Bloodline rush all things calling—sweetness calling care<br/> your waterways open like<br/> talking with spirit—singing the sacredness of the infinite orange Sunset<br/> our birth—it gets chipped away with living<br/> The idea is to remember these pieces that have been dismembered—from our hearts—<br/> from our heads—from our hands.<br/> Remembering…this is called healing—<br/> ancient ways—to accept it all.</p>
<p>In some instances, it is possible to perform your own soul retrieval, it all depends on the situation and the trauma. Read Sandra Ingermans book 'Soul Retrieval' if you can get your hands on a copy.</p>
<p>Set your intent "I want all my energy back now." Start an active journal process together with tracking your dreams. Follow the new moon energy for three moon cycles and get yourself acquainted with the ebb and flow of the moon in relation to your own body. Moon is soul energy and many people can begin to call back their power through the new moon process. You'll soon know if this is working for you</p>
<p>I have checked this site out and it seems to be quite genuine with some very good links!<br/> <a href="http://shamanicteachers.com./">http://shamanicteachers.com./</a></p>
<p> </p> Impact of a Soul Retrievaltag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2021-11-08:6363372:Topic:36051542021-11-08T00:47:18.290Zredfalcon xhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/redfalconx
<p>The experience of soul retrieval varies from person to person. Some people experience soul retrieval as life-changing: a sensation of being filled up, a tingling or a heat. Other people feel a subtler impact. Often a much greater effect is felt some hours after the soul retrieval than immediately after the work is completed. I felt the largest impact at dawn the day after my soul retrieval. <br></br> <br></br> The shift in your life can be subtle. Some clients have reported that they felt very…</p>
<p>The experience of soul retrieval varies from person to person. Some people experience soul retrieval as life-changing: a sensation of being filled up, a tingling or a heat. Other people feel a subtler impact. Often a much greater effect is felt some hours after the soul retrieval than immediately after the work is completed. I felt the largest impact at dawn the day after my soul retrieval. <br/> <br/> The shift in your life can be subtle. Some clients have reported that they felt very little at the time but found that they felt more solid in themselves, less tired, more sure of their choices and path following a soul retrieval. Things that would have been nearly impossible seem fairly straightforward after a soul retrieval. <br/> <br/> In terms of emotional impact, soul retrieval is very gentle. Even when parts are lost due to severe trauma, they come back unharmed. When people get back memories of the traumatic events that caused soul loss the memories are factual, with no emotion attached. After a soul retrieval, people often want extra downtime, to reflect and just be with themselves. If people have a strong emotional response to soul retrieval, it’s almost invariably one of profound joy and celebration. “Dark night of the soul” work and emotional catharsis are valuable, but they are not generally part of the soul retrieval experience. <br/> <br/> Because soul retrieval is so gentle, people are sometimes surprised by how much of an impact it has. Afterwards you may find it much harder to accept situations where you are not being honored, regardless of the economic or emotional advantages of being in that place. For example, I used to be very good at swallowing my truth and not speaking up. After my soul retrieval it became much more uncomfortable to be silent than it was to speak, so I began saying what I needed to say to those around me. It was a good change, but it happened very quickly. A soul retrieval has the potential to put you on the fast track of interpersonal growth. <br/> <br/> If you get soul parts back from another person, this can impact your relationship with them. In some cases, returning the soul parts instantly improves the relationship. Tensions and conflict may dissipate overnight. In other cases—if a marriage is teetering on the edge, for example a soul retrieval could precipitate its end. Any relationship where the other person is invested in controlling my client is likely to be made rockier by a soul retrieval. This is because a soul retrieval makes the recipient stronger, more complete, and harder to control or manipulate. <br/> <br/> Those individuals who have ended a major relationship and are having trouble moving on are perfect candidates for a soul retrieval. Very often a soul part is left behind with the former spouse or lover and returning that part to my client frees them to move on. If someone who held your soul part has died, returning that soul part has a powerful benefit for both of you. It frees the soul of the other person to move on, unburdened by energy that they can’t use. For my client, it can release them from a fascination with and a pull toward death. <br/> <br/></p> About Soul Retrievaltag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2021-11-08:6363372:Topic:36051522021-11-08T00:45:01.096Zredfalcon xhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/redfalconx
<p>It is a gentle, graceful, and profound healing practice. This information will better help you understand your soul retrieval. In the description that follows, I am using a shamanic framework to describe and clarify the nature and experience of the soul. This article will help you understand and possibly engage with the unseen world by presenting a framework that our conscious minds can understand. You don’t have to believe in or agree with this framework to have soul retrieval. …<br></br> <br></br></p>
<p>It is a gentle, graceful, and profound healing practice. This information will better help you understand your soul retrieval. In the description that follows, I am using a shamanic framework to describe and clarify the nature and experience of the soul. This article will help you understand and possibly engage with the unseen world by presenting a framework that our conscious minds can understand. You don’t have to believe in or agree with this framework to have soul retrieval. <br/> <br/> <strong>The soul,</strong> as referred to in soul retrieval, is the energetic essence of your being. It encompasses the intangible aspects of your being, including gifts, qualities, and aspects of who you are. It is the “you” that transcends physical experience. Pieces and parts of that soul essence can sometimes become separated, trapped, and/or lost. If you imagine the soul energy as a sphere, when soul loss occurs, there are voids and areas that are missing. <br/> <br/> Soul loss is part of the human experience. It’s designed to protect our nonphysical essence from various kinds of trauma. If something traumatic is happening, such as a car accident, physical violence, or an emotional assault, the last place we want to be is fully present in our bodies and in the experience. Instead, part of us goes away to avoid the trauma. Psychologists refer to this as dissociation. The shamanic community calls it soul loss. Either way, it helps us to survive the various kinds of trauma that happen in our lives. <br/> <br/> Lots of kinds of trauma can cause soul loss. Examples include accidents, surgery, sexual violence, and combat trauma. Whenever someone says, “I’ve never been the same since my accident/that relationship/my surgery,” they are describing a soul loss experience. Trauma that causes soul loss can be subtle and different for each person. Being teased or shamed can cause a sensitive child to lose soul parts. <br/> <br/> Whatever the trauma, the protective mechanism of soul loss causes part of our life essence to leave in order to protect itself from being damaged or traumatized. The soul part leaving sometimes carries away some of the memory and immediacy of the experience. In the normal course of events, the soul part would return on its own after the trauma had passed. But sometimes the trauma is so severe that the soul part goes so far and fast that it can’t find its way back and gets lost. In cases of chronic trauma or abuse, the soul part may not know it’s safe to come back. There’s no time in shamanic reality, so the soul part doesn’t know that twenty years have passed and the violent stepfather is no longer in the picture.</p>
<p><strong>Another type of soul loss</strong> occurs when a part leaves because it doesn’t fit or because it is sent away. This could be an aspect that is shamed or punished; for example, a girl might send away her anger. Sometimes we send soul parts away because they don’t fit into our adult lives, disowning our impractical passions. <br/> <br/> Finally, soul loss can happen when parts of our soul are taken by or given to the significant people in our lives. As human beings, we struggle to maintain good physical and emotional boundaries. <br/>The concept of good energetic boundaries is not something that occurs to most people. When soul parts are taken or exchanged, it invariably happens on an unconscious, energetic level. People who have had soul parts taken unknowingly take soul parts from others. While there’s no judgment or blame, this does put people in an inappropriate energetic relationship. <br/> <br/> Picture a mother, already diminished by her own soul loss experiences, looking at her child. She might think that if she could just have some of her child’s vitality and energy, she would be able to cope with her life. <br/>On an energetic level, she reaches out and takes some of the child’s essence. The child may resist at first, but eventually it is easier to give up the soul part than keep struggling. Or perhaps the child feels sorry for the parent and gives up their soul part willingly. Again, I want to emphasize that this isn’t deliberate. When I retrieve soul parts, parents are always glad to give up their children’s soul parts once they realize what they’ve done. <br/> <br/> In a romantic relationship, the people involved often will trade soul parts. Our culture’s love mythology implies that when we love someone, we give them our heart and our soul. It’s easy to mistake a lack of energetic boundaries for closeness and connection. People often unconsciously give their lover some of their own vital life essence along with their love. This exchange makes both people more dependent on each other, less able to stand on their own, and thus less likely to leave. It can feel safer and more connected to both parties, but in reality, both people are diminished. <br/> <br/> Whatever the source of soul loss, the effects are much the same. <br/>Soul loss will diminish a person’s sense of well-being and joy in life. It can cause a lack of vitality and interest in the world. People often feel depressed, listless, and as though the world was all gray. Soul loss can lead to gaps in memory.</p>
<p>People can feel fragmented or spacey or even like pieces are missing. Sometimes people become accident-prone or keep falling into the path of misfortune.</p>
<p>People with soul loss can spend a lot of energy working through events of their past and still feel impacted by them. In extreme cases, soul loss can cause a lack of sense of self, suicidal tendencies, and vulnerability to physical illness.</p>
<p> </p> Shamanism & Psychotherapytag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2020-02-01:6363372:Topic:34925252020-02-01T03:15:49.125Zredfalcon xhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/redfalconx
<p><a href="https://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/shamanism-psychotherapy-a-powerful-healing-approach-abby-wynne/">https://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/shamanism-psychotherapy-a-powerful-healing-approach-abby-wynne/</a></p>
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<p>I watch as my client…</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/shamanism-psychotherapy-a-powerful-healing-approach-abby-wynne/">https://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/shamanism-psychotherapy-a-powerful-healing-approach-abby-wynne/</a></p>
<div class="container"><div class="site"><div class="main-wrapper"><div class="container single"><div class="content-wrap"><div class="single-page-content-wrap"><h3>I find myself in a desert landscape; it’s hot, there’s no life present.</h3>
<p>I watch as my client drags an impossibly big rock off of the road and on to a flat in the ground. I tell her there’s another rock that she’s missing, about the size of a radiator. She finds it and drags it—this time, it’s a little easier—bringing it so it’s touching the larger rock. She sits down on the sand and surveys the work before her.</p>
<p>Only an hour earlier, I was immersed in the crystal waters of a bottomless lake, searching for a crevice or a crack that was affecting the lake’s structure. I was working with another client, however this time he knew just what to do and I was simply there to be a witness.</p>
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<p>Both of my clients experienced great healing during these sessions. The first acknowledge the size of the pain she held inside her <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/rethinking-our-fear/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and existed with it</a>. The second finally stepped into his own power and out of his parents hold.</p>
<p>These shifts, obtained through visualizations, are the journey of healing. The work, both psycho-therapeutic and shamanic, centers on the transformation of pain, the retrieval of life force and the empowerment of the individual.</p>
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<h4>Where Psychotherapy Fails</h4>
<p>I find that people like to do the thinking part, some of them actually relish in it. There are so many books and workshops available that self-analysis could be considered a hobby by some. Some people will see a psychotherapist to help them make sense of their findings, but psychotherapy doesn’t heal. Psychotherapy helps you discover what needs healing.</p>
<p>My first client (above) had been to psychotherapy before and felt stuck. “<a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/12/healing-our-families/">I know I need to forgive</a>,” she said, “but I don’t know<span> </span><em>how</em><span> </span>to do that.”</p>
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<h4>Where Shamanism Triumphs</h4>
<p>“Think of a time in the past where you know you forgave someone—what was that like?” I ask.</p>
<p>She puts her hand on her heart and thinks.</p>
<p>“There was something there, and then there wasn’t anymore,” she says. “I felt free—lighter somehow.”</p>
<p>Using a version of the “shamanic journey” in our session, we travel together to a safe place in nature to discover how much pain she is holding onto through not forgiving.</p>
<p>We are in a barren land, faced with this rock,<span> </span><a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/unexpected-clarity-in-a-moment-of-self-doubt/">this monstrosity which is blocks her path</a>. I am delighted—now, we have something to work with. In the shamanic landscape, my client can speak to the rock, listen to the rock, go traveling with it, to ultimately deconstruct it. Each time she connects with the rock it shrinks and she feels that little bit lighter.</p>
<p>This landscape never fails to amaze me in how it represents what is needed for each individual; also amazing is the speed at which most of my clients embrace working in this way. As practitioner, you must work with no attachment to outcome, no expectations; sometimes to witness, sometimes to guide and sometimes to step in.</p>
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<p>We are required to be clear of our own issues and gain experience that teaches us what is appropriate…and when.</p>
<h4>Why we need both the mind and the soul work</h4>
<p>I disagree when people say that the ego edges God out. We have a physical body and we need our ego to keep us well, safe and protected. Our ego is a fundamental part of being here, on this journey of life; yet it seems to work against us for most of our lives.</p>
<p>Through logic, patience and time, we can make friends with our ego so it works for us, not against us.</p>
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<p>I liken the ego to an enthusiastic dog which needs to be trained; a good dog will bring offerings to its master, and sometimes our ego proves its loyalty by bringing us remnants of the worst parts of our lives. Using psychotherapy, we can train our ego to bring us the good stuff instead, and it, like a dog, is usually happy to learn.</p>
<p>The spiritual part of us needs nourishing too, especially when it feels like a dry, barren desert. There’s no point having an intelligent, active, focused mind if deep inside there’s something not quite right.</p>
<h4>The Healing Part</h4>
<p>In our next session my client says, “I went to work with my rocks when I was at home. They moved, they are on a beach now. The big one looks much smaller and it has things living on it—starfish and barnacles.”</p>
<p>The presence of life, an ocean appearing in this once barren desert, you can see already that healing is taking place, even if you don’t understand exactly what it is. No attachment. No expectations.</p>
<p>“And where is the smaller rock?” I say to her.</p>
<p>“I smashed it, it broke into five pieces, each had a letter appear on them. It was much smaller then. The letters spelled GUILT.”</p>
<p>During our session she dropped one piece into a volcano in Hawaii, buried one in the sand, let a bird fly away with one, threw one into the sea and watched the other one shrink into a small pebble. Her face changed, her eyes were wider, and the sparkle began to come back.</p>
<p>“Do you feel like something you were holding onto has left?” I asked.</p>
<p>“Yes. Definitely yes.”</p>
<p>Still more work to do, there is always more to do </p>
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