Shamanic Training
Shamanism is an ancient practice of indigenous cultures where one person with special spiritual and inter-dimensional gifts served the people of the tribe they lived in. The shaman could talk and work with spirits other did not see or hear. They could also talk and work with nature - animals, plants and minerals and the little people were the partners of the shaman in serving the people. The shaman also had the ability for interdimensional communication and travel, what is called shamanic journeying.
Michael Harner, Ph.D. is an anthropologist who brought shamanism to the Western world and created an international knowledge base of core shamanic practices. Dr. Harner defines shamanism:
"Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary
to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence."
Michael Harner, Ph.D.
The world we physically live in now is in its final death throes and we are on the cusp of the birth of a whole new world. Never has the knowledge and healing practices of shamanism been more important to the people of this planet. With the advent of the Internet and social media we are all awakening to the reality that we are ONE people, one with all life, one with each other and that we share life here on a burdened and overwhelmed planet. All we have to do is look at the oil gushing from the collapsed oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to realize how much the people and this planet need what shamanism has to offer.
We also know now that shamanism is not about a person with special gifts that others don't have. Everyone here is a hologram of Source Energy, Great Spirit, God / Goddess. No one has anything that everyone does not have. We all have all the gifts of Spirit. It's really a matter of who is waking up and ready to be more than the Newtonian Cartesian limited view of us as just physical beings here on a physical world limited by physical laws.
Physicists are confirming what channels are telling us - that time is speeding up. What took ten or twenty or thirty years before can happen - must happen - in a great deal less time now. Everyone is feeling the pressure of time speeding up.
What can a shaman offer the people and the planet?
- A shaman is a counselor who helps people face and and transform their fears that hold them back from living as the spiritual beings that they really are
- A shaman communicates with Spirit on behalf of self and the people
- A shaman knows the true history of this earth and the people; the story of creation and the different worlds that have come before this one
- A shaman is a healer, knowing the natural healing ways of the earth and all life around us and knowing how to heal using subtle energy
- Each shaman has a unique role to play in Great Spirit's plan to awaken the people from their dreams of separation from Source; and personal gifts and talents that they carry in this life, not to be special or separate from others but because they simply have their part to play in the awakening given them by Great Spirit
- A shaman teaches all that they know to others to help them remember Who and What they are and awaken to Love and Oneness
Shamanism is not a religion although it is most definitely about spirituality. It is a way to communicate with Spirit. It is a healing way, a way of expanding consciousness and awareness.
The birthing world is in need of shamans, people with expanded awareness and abilities to work with subtle energies. As we move forward into the new Aquarian world we will keep what is valid of ancient traditions and practices and we will blend them with emerging new knowledge and practices. It's time to "Keep the baby and throw out the bath water." We'll be keeping core shamanic practices and expanding shamanic knowledge because they work so well.
Awakening: A Center for Positive Living
offers contemporary shamanic services and training.
