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Life Energy
Tonight, or today as the case may be, we are talking about Shamanism. Not any one cultures Shamanism, but the essence of Shamanism that has run through many cultures. It has influenced cultural thought as well, but it is a way of thinking, and acting, and being, more than a credo. That’s perhaps the first…
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World Of The Shaman
In the world of the Shaman, there is no real separation between the inner world, that we now call the mind, and the outer world, that includes nature. They understood all experience as part of one single world. If the life energy is doing it, it’s real. Everything is meaningful? Yes, but not necessarily of…
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Shamans Gifts
Perhaps some examples. Shamans actually tend to specialize. It was considered that a Shamans gifts and personal spirit suited them better for some things than others, though they did explore the spirit world in general as a rule. Everyone familiar with Crazy Horse? Or from eastern society, Genghis Khan? Khan was very famous, and he…
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Knowing The Spirits
The Shaman comes to know the spirit personally, and they learn more than just how the spirits affect humanity. They learn how the spirits relate to each other, and just as when a fight breaks out in a tribe, a little bit of reason can lead to peace being restored. They saw troubling events in…
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Shamanic Practice
Want a general example of how to do Shamanism? Well, you can just let your spirit wander, but they call that day dreaming these days. So let’s actually chose a focus, something we want to understand, or a problem we want to solve and issue we want to overcome. If you care to share, I…
Category: Shamanism
Shamanism is spiritual, but it is not a religion. The energy that has been the focus of Shamanism is life. Life force. Everything exists because it has life energy, and nothing can exist without it. To the Shaman, everything that exists has something to teach you. The moon has life energy that it can share with you, and so does the sun. The vision you have in moonlight won’t be the same as those you have under the sun, because the wisdom of the moon and sun are different.
Ultimately, everyone is or can be a Shaman. For the Shaman, their way wasn’t just a role, it was a passion as well. Often an all consuming interest.
Read the Dark Shamanism chapter in Dark Metaphysics.
“The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.” Carlos Castaneda
“Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.” Carlos Castaneda (Peruvian born American best-selling Author and Writer, 1925-1998)