Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Shamanic Healing 101 - Killing the Messengers

Shamanic healing is an ancient tradition, carried on for centuries by remote indigenous peoples enduring a brutal and irrational effort toward extermination waged by the prevailing religious/political regimes that is of the last few decades experiencing great interest and exploration by intrepid spiritually inclined individuals worldwide.  For centuries, it has been punishable by death to practice healing in the spiritual realm, by the Christian Church, in their burning of the witches, by all monotheistic religions, many political regimes including the Soviets, by the CIA in South America seeking to raid secret ethnobotanical substances from the tribes in the Amazon rainforest area and throughout the world, and even by the Buddhists.  The first Dalai Llama of Tibet ordered the burning alive of all shaman upon inception of his religious regime.   Yet it has survived and continues to thrive, like something that has a life of its own, springing forth ever new from beneath our feet.

How can this be?

A spiritual practice that insists on staying alive despite the worst most brutal suppression by countless political and religious corporations, corporations composed of people willing to surrender their individuality for the support of a meme stating that they are not able, capable or allowed to commune with the creator of the universe, heal or listen to the plants and animals they share this biological gem of a planet with unless they use specific labels and ideations and refuse to believe their own senses and observations.  Oh, and they will pay for all this wonderment with their money and property in life, and in the end, by their very ability to ascend.

For those of us born to become shaman, or the connection between the people and the fourth density containing the dead, other beings, and superconsciousness the question is actually How can it not be?  Being butchered for having the ability to walk between worlds has given shaman to deep and abiding traditional containment of their craft and information.  It is considered bad luck to speak of one's soul journey observations, even with each other.  Ego is blamed for that and said to contaminate the one speaking about their journeys, but it's clear in the face of historic suppression and destruction of the shaman that it is also to prevent more genocide of the gifted and skilled multi dimensional traveler.

This fact alone has made shamanism extremely interesting to many people, including me.  

What could be more intriguing than a spiritual practice so threatening to the god corporations that they engage in burning the practitioners alive to suppress it, not to mention the school of thought that says the burning is to make "milking" the shaman possible by other fourth dimensional accessing beings, but that is another story one can explore via the offerings of writers on the subject of the Ptah, or reptilian race.  For the style of execution of the shaman via fire being consistent from one era and region to another is a circumstance beyond coincidence.

What do shaman do?  In various degrees in the many cultures shaman inhabit, the main point of their existence is to serve as a bridge between the spirit world and the living world of humans.  The Celtic shamanic tradition includes abilities in the martial arts, music, herbal medicine, mediumship and the lore of the culture.  In other traditions it's much the same, with differing emphasis on medicine and mediumship, leadership of the people and bridging the membrane between the land of the living and the world of the dead, as well as connection of the human and animal consciousnesses.  

The totem is a representation of the consciousness of animal clans, and aligns with the shaman to bring together the different worlds, and exists in many forms and many shamanic traditions.  There are as many ritual methods and traditions as there are different ethnic and regional groups, and most of the healing is done in ritual method involving the shaman entering a trance state and doing business with the spirits and worlds of other types of consciousness in what is commonly referred to as non-ordinary reality.  The shaman is often someone who in life has a hard time staying out of non-ordinary reality, and who trances simply to shake off the ego structure that is necessary to interact in this 3 dimensional reality.  Whole cultures still exist wherein the ego structure is a minor element of consciousness, such as the aboriginal cultures of Australia, where fourth dimensional interconnectedness is referred to as "Dream Time", and the entire tribe experiences the same dimensional explorations.

In this culture, dreamtime is considered madness, or lack of work ethic.  And yet what is more insane than destroying one's own planet?  How can we bring the best of the shamanic world into our lives in this culture to expand consciousness and create awareness beyond the immediate gratification levels demanded by the meme-infested populace, and why would anyone wish to are the subjects of the next portion of this blog.