Shamanism Shaman Shamanic Journey Healing
Glossary Terminology
Shamanism is a global rainbow bridge
that spans from Australia to Africa to Asia to Europe to the Americas touching
and connecting all continents and countries in between, in a reciprocal loop of Dreaming.
The Shamans are the water singers, the tree talkers, the cloud walkers, the rock
guardians who bring a feeling of sacredness and dignified meaning to the
mundane.
Animal Totems
Traditionally clans and groups identified themselves with the spiritual essence
of an animal, plant, or tree whose presence as a mentor, helper, protector and
guide rooted them more firmly in the Earth and bonded them to the Land. 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
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 magickal 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.
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Dreaming
The Dreaming is 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.
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
Drumming as a
Shamanic practice encourages a trance state conducive for mental travelling into
altered states of consciousness, or for journeying into other realities.
Drumming circles offer the participants the opportunity to share the knowledge
and wisdom of the spirits and to work together for individual, group, or earth
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Read Shamanism Shaman Articles
Aboriginal Australia Shamanism,
Aboriginal Walkabout Journeying,
Celtic Shamanic Traditions,
Druid as Shaman,
Glossary Terminology,
Heathen World Tree Shamanism,
Native American Shamanism,
Receiving the Shamanic Call,
Pleiadian Shamanic Spirit Guides,
Shamanism Spiritual Beliefs,
Soul Loss Retrieval Visionquests
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