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Eventually as Shamans evolve and grow, like Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz, they realize that they do not really have to travel on extensive journeys, the answers to their questions are right in their own backyards, berries for the picking on the bushes of intuition and inner knowing. Over at least twenty millenium, Shamans have shared many different functions for the tribe, clan, or group (traditions keeper, magician, seer, poet, diviner of the weather and of the hunt, and healer of mind, body, and spirit). Found in many diverse cultures, they are the ecstasy travellers, the trance journeyers, and the purveyors of spirit world knowledge. Traditionally Shamans came to the path by hereditary transmissions, personal choice, or they were called by intense encounters with death or dark nights of the soul (falling from heights, being hit with lightening, lucid dreaming experiences that they almost did not return from, and life threatening illnesses). Shaman are the wounded healers who have passed through thorny thickets of pain and crisis to bring the message of the aliveness of nature, of the interconnectedness of all spirit beings, of the partnership of the god and goddess, of the wisdom of the spirit realms to all the people of the planet.
The Shamans are the water
singers, the tree talkers, the cloud walkers, the rock guardians who bring a
feeling of sacredness and dignified meaning to the mundane. Using feather and
stone, smoke and sound, song and dance, ritual and transformation, the Shamans
journey up and down all homeward bound roads, and feather float up and down all
streams that flow to the cosmic seas.
Recognizing the sacred presence of the nature spirits, the Shamans gather their wisdom and blessings for others. The teachings they receive from the Spirit Worlds are often individually tailored to match the measurements of understanding of the recipients of the knowledge or healing. Truly the most ancient of days and ways, Shamanism, is a global rainbow bridge that spans from Australia to Africa to Asia to Europe to the Americas touching and connecting all continents and countries in between, in a reciprocal loop of Dreaming. As a prototypical faith, Shamanism recognizes the equal importance of the sanctity of Wholeness and Wellness, of the holy energies of the goddess (chalice/cauldron), as well as those of her partner the god. Shamanism extends backward in time to the deep mystery caves and looks forward to a time/space when there is a universal harmonic resonance of all the diverse soul essences that comprise this glorious life dance we all call Creation.
Traditionally clans and
groups identified themselves with the spiritual essence of an animal, plant, or
tree whose presence as a mentor, helper, protector and guide rooted them more
firmly in the Earth and bonded them to the Land...Continue on
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