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Shamanism Shaman Shamanic Journey Healing
Background Beliefs Overview Traditions
The spirit of their particular Animal Totem symbolized many things to the clan or group. It was honored by them in many ways such as ceremonial offerings and carvings of its likeness. The animal totem was sacred to them; therefore, it was taboo to injure or harm that animal in any way.
Animism was a belief that everything, everywhere is alive with Spirit and Beingness, which infuse and animate all of Creation. Plants, animals, humans, and spirits are all interconnected by energetic threads of light. Shamanic power is obtained by journeying and by communicating and communing with this collective of spirits.
To enhance the pursuit of knowledge and power, Shamans may use magical tools, altars, rhythmic rituals, and give offerings to the spirits. Animism, when it is combined with spirit trance journeying, forms a core essence of Shamanism.
The Dreaming was the foundational blueprint and energetics template that interpenetrates and surrounds the dimensions. Each dimension is separate and distinct in its own rite/right with each dimension sequentially (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th etc.) vibrating at a slightly more refined or highly modulated frequency level, enabling them to all to simultaneously co-exist in the same time/space continuum of the eternal now.
For example, the midrange
frequency levels of the fourth dimension are the realm or place where your more
etheric body, part of your overall circle of soul essence, journeys to every
night when you dream. We are all Shamans unawares.
Shamanic All are Kin Soaring Eagle Animal Totem
Shamans undergo training so that they can leave their physical bodies at will and journey, out of body, into the dimension of the Dreaming where spirit guides and fairy helpers reside. Sometimes Shamans develop their abilities to the point where they can fluidly and easily accomplish trance journeys in the waking state into other dimensions or have visions, waking dreams, that originate there.
Drumming as a Shamanic practice encouraged a trance state conducive for mental travelling into altered states of consciousness, or for journeying into other realities. Drumming circles offered the participants the opportunity to share the knowledge and wisdom of the spirits and to work together for individual, group, or earth healing.
The Earth Mother, the whole planet is alive with Spirit. The wind, the clouds, the stones, the seas, the ocean, the birds, are all alive with Spirit. All beings, including human beings, have Spirit and are worthy of respect and consideration.
In the Elder Days, our ancestors talked and mediated with the spirits they shared sacred space with as a way of life, not as a mythos that only special seers could interpret accurately.
The Earth Mother provides
shelter, food, and healing herbs for everyone. Since she is the seat of
spirituality for us in this universe, the Shaman knows that it is important to
develop a harmonic relationship with her, to respect and appreciate nature, the
land, and the gifts continually bestowed up us from the loving heart of the
Earth Mother...Continue on
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