I’ll never forget the morning I awoke and was initiated into the world of shamanism on a deeper level. Shamanism encompasses a lot and has a very broad spectrum when applying it to the modern world. It is my belief that we can’t be taught shamanism, it is rather something that unfolds naturally along our path. More often than not we’ll meet our teachers and be given the guidance when it is needed, in the natural unfolding of the divine design.
Applying shamanism to the scope of human evolution can be seen as people (souls) whom are able to bring to the surface the root issues or core beliefs held within the subconscious mind of an individual or group of individuals so that they may become more aware of what is motivating their actions and creating the situations in their lives that are causing them suffering. Shamans also have the ability to help clear these if there is a soul invitation to do so.
On an energetic level this is experienced through imagery and felt sense. Shamans are often people who will trigger those around them due to their ability to bring to the surface painful emotions that are lying unconsciously within another. They might share a story or simply ask a particular question that shines a light on a negative core belief or a limiting self-belief that allows the person to awaken naturally to parts of themselves that have been hidden away. Parts of their subconscious minds controlling aspects of their lives from deep within their being or the collective body. Either way a shaman will begin to trigger something within someone due for healing often just by their presence.
Some modern shamans are geared towards activating and healing the collective mind, addressing society as a whole while others work with individuals but often these lines are blurred. Modern shamans come in many forms and often appear very different from the traditional shamans we’ve seen in books and movies who’s roots are Native American. From my observation of other modern shamans I’ve come into contact with in my life, most of them will have a spirit guide who is connected to the land and can be psychically perceived with my third eye as Tribal or Native Indian.
After spending a good two years meditating, at least an hour or two a day, my crown chakra began to open up. As each day passed I would receive more and more information from the quantum field, connecting not only to the collective human consciousness but animal consciousness, mineral and elemental. As this process unfolded, a new layer of vision was bestowed onto me that allowed me to see beyond the veil and into a world that was beyond the limitations of the five senses.
I’ve always been someone who is pre-disposed to the psychic realm, receiving premonitions within dreams and in waking life but this was a whole new layer of awareness that was slowing integrating itself into my every day waking self that would sometimes throw me for a loop, due to it’s outlandish nature and contrasting vision to what we can deem as normal human perception or normal human inner guidance.
About two and a half years ago on a beautiful sunny day, I awoke and got the kids ready for school, wished them off and started going about my regular work in the house and on a project I was working on, when I was stopped and given guidance to follow a step-by-step procedure to work on another woman whom I was in contact with. The directions which seemed to flow in crystal clear were not things I was accustom to doing as I prepared for a session, at that point on my journey I was doing body work, reiki and therapeutic yoga with clients which had a set standard practice to them, based on the knowledge passed down to me from my teachers and personal experience, as I developed my skills.
As guided by a higher source I prepared myself and a space to work in. I was invited to begin to produce sound. I’ve always enjoyed singing and had even spent a couple sessions in an improvisational choir the previous year but aside from that I had no previous knowledge of the ancient use of sound and it’s powers to transcend time and space to activate portals into different dimensions and timelines of history or to call into being different energies from within the cosmos. I also had never used it in any of my previous sessions.
The sounds that I was producing were not very pleasing to the ear, many of them very primordial. None the less I went with the guidance and continued to allow what was coming through without judgment or restraint. Over the course of about 20 mins I went from lower sounding vibrations to a kind of polyphonic overtone singing in combination with sounds that you might hear listening to Tibetan monk throat singers. A little weird to say the least for someone that has never experienced this sort of thing but what happened next was even more far-out than I what I could have imagined.
I was transported to a dark dungeon looking place that existed around 400BC Roman time. Not only was I transported in my minds eye psychically but even with my eyes opened I could see clearly my surroundings and feel deeply what the prisoners in the dungeon were feeling. I could hear yelling, moaning, smell blood and see the details of the location I was in and communicate with the individuals in the space to some degree. They would not look at me but I was able to communicate with them energetically as they moved about in response to my guidance.
During the time I was there I was guided to make adjustments to the physical environment by bringing in specific earth elements. I was also guided to do energetic work on the space by channeling the frequency of love, mercy and compassion. I stayed there for about an hour and had to endure feeling all the emotional pain that those within the walls of the dungeon were experiencing. It was a totally draining, heart breaking and mind blowing experience. By the time I was guided to leave the space that had opened before me, there was a new vibration within the souls I had been working with and the physical surroundings had started to improve. It was still the same dungeon but the conditions weren’t as bad.
As I came back into my body I felt an enormous weight, I was totally exhausted and had to lie down to sleep for a good three hours. Looking back on this first type of shamanic experience I still feel blown away by how real everything felt and by how much this shamanic experience ignited a collective healing around me in real time. Since then I have spoken with other people whom have been initiated into the spirit realm this way and found many similarities in the ways in which we were guided to work. It seems many of us were awoken around the same time period to penetrate some dark historical timelines, times and spaces of consciousness, to bring them into the light and clear these passages of time in order to create a ripple effect through human consciousness for awakening and evolution.
Since this initiation I have been working with people on an individual basis to clear within their field all sorts of energies that have clung to them over the course of their lives (and past lives) that are no longer serving their highest good and the highest good of those around them.
When I work with someone I very rarely use sound because the first experience was so powerful and profound rather I chose to enter their energetic space from a distance using only my third eye to bring forth images and sensation to show me what parts of their soul are lost and what extra baggage the person is carrying that’s not a vibrational match to their highest good and those around them. I can do this simply by speaking with someone or I can go in energetically. As shamans it is possible to penetrate theses dark areas through the arena of the mind, physical body, energy field or soul stream.
It’s obvious why it’s so important for people doing this work to maintain a good energetic self-care practice, it’s imperative that we never take with us the energies that are being release or healed within the person(s) we are working on. Sometimes we’ll carry these energies with us unknowingly if we are not self-aware of our gifts and abilities.
Immersing yourself in nature is probably the best purifier of energetic debris from these sessions but it is also important to use the gifts of other healers to help you. We are meant to work together in groups to uplift each other and I think the most detrimental thing a shaman or other type of healer can do to themselves is to not have a self-care routine in place and to not have a community to connect with.
The sessions I have with others are not always intense, often the energy work I provide can be felt more along the lines of simply up-lifting their vibration so that they may tune into guidance from their higher selves to follow their heart, life calling and find balance, health and joy.
One Love,
J
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Hello, I was wandering about the colorful shaman woman image 2 pictures above. Do you own the rights to this image> If not do you know who does. THanks – paul
Hi Paul, I list my image sources at the bottom on the page as well as the artist if I have the into. If you have any information to share regarding this image please let me know, thank you!