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Shamanism is a path one is called to in diverse ways to Walk and Travel upon: by Spirit, the Spirit Guides, Power Animals and/or their Soul. When the Shamanic Call comes from the depths of one's own star core, it is the voice of the most primal essential Self, yearning for home, for a sense of Wholeness. Not everyone who hears the Shamanic Call, chooses to make the Shamanic Journey. A common experience that accompanies the Shamanic Call (and it acts as an impetus for change and growth by the potential shaman) is a physical, psychic, or spiritual crisis where the Shaman often has to heal herself or himself. (Healer heal thyself). This Shamanic Sickness (marked by solitude; visions; singing; eccentric behavior; mood swings; and periods of illness and melancholy as one forgives the past and releases pain, forgetfulness, and illusions) may go on for days, months, or even years, providing the Shaman with necessary between worlds experience. The Dreaming of the prospective Shaman often is the venue for initiatory experiences as well as spontaneous trance or waking dream states. 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 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 angelic 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. One may receive the Shamanic Call during a spontaneous Shamanic experience similar to that of Shamanic Ecstasy which is a state that transcends the perception of the Sacred by involving the Shaman directly in the transcendent reality itself where both waking and Lucid Dreaming play a significant role. This ultra-ordinary zone of Ecstasy where universal unity and verity surrounds the Shaman in a shimmering cloak of transformational energies can be used to heal others. Traditionally, Ecstasy was only acheived after the Shaman had undergone a lengthy period of initiation and training. This state of focused exalted consciousness is normally induced by Shamans through drumming, fasting, meditation, breath control, chanting, dancing, or the ingestion of entheogenic plants. An individual person, rather than a group or clan, forms close relationships with the Spirit of one or more Power Animals who instruct, protect, and guide the individual. As the unique bond between the person and the Power Animal continues to grow the person often takes on the spiritual attributes associated with that Power Animal to the point where the Power Animal almost becomes an alter ego. Each Power Animal has distinctive traits which it embodies, for instance, the butterfly is identified with transformation, the bear with introspection, and the mountain lion with leadership...Continue on
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