Shamanic Methods
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My Favorite Shamanic Methods
I opened this lens to provide links and resources about some of my favorite shamanic methods - alongside lenses I've built for shamanic journeying, meditation, and wilderness-experience.
This lens that looks at shamanizing though matter is a cousin to my Shamanic Energy Healing lens.
In my interpretation of contemporary shamanic ways, a method is a larger set of practices and usually ties together a toolkit of related techniques as they taught by one teacher. What I present are my original teachings, though they may be inspired or influenced, subtly or obviously, by shamanizers I have studied or "hung out" with. Hanging out is one of the best ways to grok and adapt!
I live and teach modern shamanic ways in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and on the Net.
Visit my Shamanic and Giant-About-Me lensographies too!
Photo: By me, ECP, a.k.a. @ShamanicShift on Twitter and Shamanic-Shift on Flickr.com
Important!
The most powerful shamanic methods are singular and original - new to the healing or transforming situation at hand here and now!
My Favorite Shamanic Methods With Dirt, Soil, Rocks, Hard Stuff & What's Slow
I will keep adding to this list!
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=> Multi-Colored All-Purpose 'Shaman Stones' Found Close to Home - Make a point to notice rocks and pebbles around your neighborhood...Some will seem to be signaling you in some way, by color or by shape, or by some other quality, or just a sense or feeling you get...Rocks live millions upon millions of years so even a long human lifetime is but a brief, fleeting few moments to them...So walk or wander about for a while every day, for a week or two or three, expectantly holding the thought that neighborhood stones are waiting for you and imagining (or pretending) they are eager to meet you...You might meet them on the sidewalk, in the street, on landscaping, in your yard, just about anywhere near where you live...Gradually collect 17-26 (or so) local rocks (tiny-sized to an inch 1/2 across), smooth to rough, regular to erratic, harder to softer, many types, colors, shades, and shapes)...When you notice a rock ask "Would you like to join a group of 'shaman stones' I'm gathering?" or some other words to that effect...See if you can find 4 of them about an inch across in 4 distinct shades or colors (such as white, black, red, orange)...See if you can find 1 or 2 slightly larger than the rest, about 1 + 1/2 inches across...See if you can find diverse colors as well as variegated and lined...See if you can find 11-13 smaller ones, all nearly the same size...Keep collecting until you sense and feel you are done...Keep your stones together on a sturdy, attractive (to you) scarf or similar sized square of cloth covered with a second scarf or cloth...Spend periods of your day admiring and handling your new life-traveling companions...For this purpose, only gather together as many as you can hold all at once using both hands...There are many shamanic techniques you can practice with the assistance of this bunch of rocks...I will be linking up a lens with further instructions about this 'shaman stones' method, not too long from now!
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=> Crystal Shards - Peruse a lapidary shop seeking bulk or 'on sale' broken quartz crystals...Handle and gaze over the available selection, blurring your eyes a bit, until you know which 3 -5 shards (palm sized, 1-2 inches wide or long) seem to want to go with you...Decide which of the bits of crystal calling 'take me with you' to your childlike imagination...Buy these and keep them in your pocket for a few days (1 at a time if there isn't room for all at once)...Find, buy, or make a drawstring pouch for keeping them out of sight when you are not paying attention to or shamanizing with them...Realize that at the microscopic level these 'broken' crystals are perfect...Allow yourself and these crystal shards to become more and more closely attuned...The subjective sense or feeling of this is different for everyone...Watch for a link to a lens I will build not too long from now about the shamanic techniques you can practice with crystal shards!
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=> Portable Shamanic-Experience Portal and Shamanic Journeying Vehicle - Lay two square scarves down in the shape of an 8 pointed star...Spread out your 'shaman stones' (from the exercise above, or a collection of tiny to palm-sized stones you have collected somehow, preferably locally, or from a place you find renewing and refreshing) and your crystal shards too (from the exercise above or some other palm-sized quartz crystals)...Allow your hands to move over the rocks and crystals and begin to create a shape out of them...When you shamanic journey imagine yourself within this shape, as if they are huge or you are tiny, and travel into the shamanic state of consciousness and reality through it to the lower or upper non-ordinary spiritual realms to meet up with your helping spirits and begin working on your shamanizing intention....I will build a lens showing other shamanic techniques for this 'portable portal' method and link it here, but you will be able to come up with many of your own!
- I shall return to fill in MORE how-to information and add more to the list, as spirit moves!
My Favorite Shamanic Methods With Air & What Blows
I will keep adding to this list!
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=> Shamanic Words - When you speak care-fully, with intention you speak shamanic words. This means any and as many of the sounds you say out loud or under your breath or in your mind as possible. For example, be care-full of what you say after you think, whisper, or speak the word "My..." and notice what you are saying. My _____ (?)! How do you fill in the blank? What do you want to be yours?! "My...!" is magic. Even more powerful are the shamanic words "I am _____!" Be careful to say, whisper, and think the words "I am..!" for better rather than for worse.
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=> Feather Wand and Incense Blessing, Extraction, Re-Energizing, Re-Balancing, Re-Cycling - If you find a feather, consider it a spirit gift full of life-shifting power, a wand and fan combined. If you find a plant that grows in your neighborhood that billows forth a refreshing smoke when it smolders, fire some up then smudge it down, and infuse your found-feather in its incense smoke and begin wafting fumes around you and your space to open a sacred space-time circle. As you breath (and chant and sing and dance), fly the feather around you, imagining blessings flowing through its shaft, barbs, and vanes in rhythm with your breathing and moving. Then imagine any hurt or stuck patterns in you and in any beings present with you freeing up and flowing into the feather and all the way back to spirit and spirits for healing. Then imagine the transformed pain patterns flowing back through the feather into the environment with renewing, re-balancing energy. Finally let the feather push away, down into the earth or up and out into the universe for recycling, whatever wants and needs to continue traveling onward.
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=> Shamanic Questioning - Clever, courageous, purpose-full questioning shifts reality. Ask and you receive - but knowing who, when, what, and how to ask is crucial. Instead of shamanic journeying to get answers to a question, journey for a shamanic question to ask yourself.
- I shall return to fill in how-to information and add more to the list, as spirit moves!
My Favorite Shamanic Methods With Water & What Flows
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=> Shamanic Baths and Showers -
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=> Ad Hoc Shamanic Beverages -<
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=> Shamanizing Through Rain -
- I shall return to fill in the blanks and add more to the list, as spirit moves!
My Favorite Shamanic Methods With Fire & What Glows
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=> Shamanic Dream Upon a Lightning Bug -
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=> Shamanize a Lightning Strike Surprise -
- I shall return to fill in the blanks and add more to the list, as spirit moves!
More Favorite Miscellaneous & Mixed Shamanic Methods
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=> Dedication of Night and Day Dreaming -
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=> Bless No Matter What -
- I shall return to fill in the blanks and add more to the list, as spirit moves!
Important!
Learn many diverse shamanic methods from UNIVERSAL LIFE along your earth voyage, and no matter who your personal teachers and mentors are, and no matter how impressive they may be, always be your own shaman!
Shamanic Methods Links
- Shaman Stones
- Learn Divination with Authentic ShamanTools
- A Shamanic Methods Story in Wild River Review
- African Roots in The Andean Highlands - The Shaman of Cotacachi - Part II, By Angie Brenner and Joy E. Stocke
- Seasonal Salon - Summer Solstice 2009 - Rolling Philosopher Stones in my Shoe!
- Or Shamanic Healing Crystals, By Marisa Folse - Having worked with Shamanic Stones and Crystals for years, it had not occurred to me to share my personal insights with others. Shamanic Stones are those with properties that best enhance the energetic and healing work associated with shamanism.
Everyday Openings, Every Day
Some of my photos on Flickr flash hints how to find everyday openings every day...
Find openings to journey though on your block: Parting clouds and branches, lurid details in flatlands, unexpected contrasts or vibrances, energy-bubbles popping and flowing colors, sudden winged messengers near windows, glimpses through pauses to relax for untasked moments and purposely blur the gaze--suddenly show journey openings amid everyday scenes and scenarios.
Photos: By me, ECP, a.k.a. @ShamanicShift on Twitter and Shamanic-Shift on Flickr.com
Photos: By me, ECP, a.k.a. @ShamanicShift on Twitter and Shamanic-Shift on Flickr.com
Important!
The best shamanic methods for you will be revealed to you close at hand, in your backyard, or along your block. You might stumble over some of them and others will jump out at you!
Shamanic Method Lenses I Like By Others
Of diverse stripes, modern to traditional
Lensmasters with many shamanic methods and/or closely related lenses:
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To be continued...!
A listing here does not imply my endorsement of any particular shamanic or related methods, but it does recommend reading, studying and considering.
Shamanic Methods Through YouTube:
Why not?
Be guided by spirit and spirits!
Often, I receive "how to" inspiration and information that differs from the teachings being presented through media and workshops. Instead of copying or imitating those, I allow myself to be given understandings how to adapt what I am seeing and hearing and then go on to shamanize my own ways with new teachings.
Often, I receive "how to" inspiration and information that differs from the teachings being presented through media and workshops. Instead of copying or imitating those, I allow myself to be given understandings how to adapt what I am seeing and hearing and then go on to shamanize my own ways with new teachings.
Shamanic Shifting Dreaming Drumming & Foolish Wondering
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- I just wanted to let you know that I have featured this page on my lens: Native American Spirit Guides
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- Fantastic page. This past Sunday I have the most amazing connection the Air Spirits deep in the woods. Something I have not experienced in a while, I actually felt my soul swaying with the breeze. AMAZING!! Love your writing as always, leaving you with a *Blessing* on a well deserved lens!!
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