The Shaman’s Path – a Journey Into Timeless Worlds
Shamanism is not a system of belief or faith, it is a system of knowledge, and is directly experienced first hand by the senses. Shamanism has always been a way for living as humans on our planet Earth, both in balance within ourselves and the world of which we are part.
An underlying facet of shamanism is access to the Spirit Worlds, the place of causality, the energetic matrix or source of the physical world. These worlds which have been most eloquently described by Black Elk , the Lakota Medicine man and great visionary “the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. This is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world”.
The separation in Western society from the natural world with it’s accompanying myth of man having “dominion over all living things”, has led to spiritual disconnection from the universal energy field. At some level we are aware of this, and we are experiencing a heart-led desire to reconnect to the universal field of energy. Many people are being drawn to Shamanism as one of the ways to achieve this.
Shamanism contains time tested healing practices, ceremony and teachings to support people in this re-balancing of ourselves, these are fundamentally healing, not only for the physical body , but also for our inner sense of being and our soul. However the challenge is to build a bridge between the ancient wisdom and practices in such a way as to be useful , effective and meaningful to the modern Western individual.
The reality that Shamans work in is not a consensus reality, such as in physical reality. The Shaman sees i.e. experiences with all the senses.