What is Shamanism?

Shamanism is one of humanity’s oldest spiritual and healing traditions, a practice of direct revelation that has sustained communities across all continents and throughout tens of thousands of years.

Despite it's age, it continues to be an evolving living, breathing system of knowledge offering profound tools for navigating the complexities, challenges, and existential issues of modern life.

Shamanism is neither a religion, nor is it based on dogma, written scripture, or a fixed set of beliefs. It's a system of direct experience, where practitioners engage with the sacred through personal interaction.

This path is founded on the animistic understanding that all things in the universe: plants, animals, rocks, mountains, and even concepts; are alive, possess consciousness, and are infused with Spirit.

Shamanism teaches that everything is interconnected, and within this framework, any feeling of separation is an illusion. Practitioners who recognise this underlying unity of all things, move from a state of disconnection, into one of deep, empathetic participation with the natural world and the human realm.

This unity worldview is essential for the practitioner, as it shifts the perspective from human domination over the environment to one of mutual respect, dialogue, and cooperation.

Historically, the shaman was the essential "go-to" person within a community. They were recognised as seers, medicine men and women, counsellors, and spiritual guides, serving any need that could not be met by conventional means.

A shaman is an individual who has developed the mastery to enter and exit altered states of consciousness at will. They use shamanic trance, where their consciousness travels to spiritual dimensions, enabling them to communicate with spirits, ancestors, and powerful beings to gain insight, solve problems, and heal.

Doing this helps them function as a bridge between the physical world and the non-ordinary, invisible realms of spirit. A role that serves the community, collective, tribe, family, or individuals seeking healing.

Shamanic Cosmology

The shamanic universe is typically mapped into three realms, which exist in non-ordinary reality (NOR). These dimensions are non-linear, existing beyond the constraints of time and space:

The Middle World: the realm that overlaps with our ordinary, everyday physical reality. It is populated by the spirits of everything living - animals, weather, plants, and the spirits of place, such as mountains or rivers.
The Lower World: Often reached by "climbing down" roots or traveling through a tunnel, this realm, in some traditions, seems much like nature on Earth, but in a spiritual form. It is frequently the domain of power animals and ancestral wisdom. 
The Upper World: Often reached by ascending, this is a realm of light, celestial beings, and transcendent teachers. It is often described as a place of higher guidance and wisdom. 
Connecting these three worlds is the Axis Mundi, often represented as the World Tree, a central pillar that allows the shaman to travel between realms and return safely.

Shamanic Clearing Overview

Depending on your level of sensitivity, a Shamanic Healing will be experienced like a non-intrusive energy clearing, an energetic purge, or a boost in vitality.

It is not uncommon to go through a period of mild grief after a session.

We can become emotionally attached to those things in our energy bodies - even though they may not be helpful to us.

Clients typically come with around 60 - 120 different energies to remove, and we can detect over 600 different types of energies and entities.

The practitioner will draw upon their helping spirits to assist with the removal.

The Practitioner evokes a receptive state that enables access to information or assistance from the helping spirits, to guide the session.

Everyone will benefit from a clearing, every few months, depending on what type of lifestyle you lead.

See below for what is cleared and examples of the types of healings available.

Shamanic Healing can also involve retrieving information from guides on various afflictions, or provide useful information to help you make decisions.

Sometimes a little assistance from our helping spirits can help us make tweaks that can change the course of our lives.

Plus they are happy to provide some guidance where necessary.

Sometimes, we are influenced by conflicting desires that are not our own. Such influences can cause us to adopt undesired habits or personality traits.

Removing these 'spirit' influences can lift a very heavy burden from us. Also, our Soul energies can fragment and get temporarily lost to us. This can happen with simple shocks, or setbacks, or accidents and can impair our ability to feel like ourselves.

See the section on Soul Retrieval.

Getting these fragments back can transform our energy states and sense of wellbeing. The wisdom that shows us how to access our own innate guidance and healing is always available to those willing to listen. Our organs, cells and bodies have the ability to tell us what is needed to restore balance.

Where a person has not developed the sense acuity to commune with the body or Soul, then there are alternative sources of help available. The spirits of plants, animals, mythical creatures, and transcendent beings, are powerful allies.

However, we meet them fully when we place ourselves in our highest sovereign state and treat them as equals. For those who have been trained to access them, plants and animal spirits can provide a gateway to commune with our bodies, souls, and spirit guides. This should not replace, but rather augment our sovereign authority.

Everyone will benefit from an entity clearing session...

Space Cleansing

Sha Qi, is sharp Qi energy, and is usually created inside a building. For example, when a sharp wall angle, called poison arrow, is pointing at your bed, there is a constant emission of attacking energy directed at your body. This bad energy can lead to illness and depression for those who are exposed to it for a long amount of time.

The land can be imprinted with human activities, for example where the energy of human massacre, or other overwhelming human tragedies, is still potent. It can also be found inside buildings that have strong geopathic stress. Toxic Qi, resonates with the frequency of the Shadow realms. This energy is also in the landscape.

Clutter, a lack of order, as well as a lot of repressed emotions and other negative energy that has been experienced inside the walls, can be stored in the house, that's why it is so important to have a space clearing session at least once a year.

Soul Retrieval

Restoring disassociated Soul portions, which can be easily dislodged from the body's energy field. This can be a contributing factor to chronic fatigue and other debilitating symptoms.

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Power Animal Retrieval

When a person no longer accesses their Spirit Animal, nor listens to its guidance, (mostly due to not knowing of it's existence); it eventually leaves them. Reconnecting a person back with their Spirit Animals can offer amazing healing opportunities.

Spirit Weaving

Weaving Divine threads invokes appropriate energies and spirits as necessary to fulfil a client's intention for healing or otherwise. The practitioner may work with different spirits: ancestors, devas, the angelic realm, mythical beings, power animals, elemental beings, etc., grids, timelines, energies, akashic records, dimensions and frequencies to assist in the healing session. This potent Celtic method can clear over 600 types of Spiritual and Spirit Intrusions.

Divination

In those instances where clarity, to help decide the right course of action, is needed; the helping and compassionate spirits can provide surprisingly useful insight and information.

Shamanic Healing Examples

A Few Examples of Healing techniques used in a session

Spiritual Intrusion Removal

Clearing unwanted and troublesome energies from the body, organs and energy field to restore balance and patch auric holes and punctures. Much of this will be done via Spirit Weaving and can clearly over 400 types of intrusions. More ...

Compassionate Deposession

Clearing the influence of a deceased person from your energy field. Spirit influence is surprisingly common and not as dramatic as it sounds. The effects of a clearing can substantially change one's energy. More...

Shamanic Doctoring

Healing where the Shamanic Practitioner journeys or merges with their compassionate Spirit Allies to collect healing energies for the client for their specific ailment or illness, and transmits these through words, songs or movement.

Drum Healing

Sound, smoke, light frequencies all exist in vibrational form, between the physical and etheric realms. This makes them perfect mediums to transmit intention. More ...

Psycho Pomp

Crossing over deceased spirits. Usually done as compassionate work - pro bono. There are times when the confusion of death requires an intervention.

Soul Portion loss occurs when our experience of events causes our soul to disassociate from our body. In many cases this will cause a portion of the Soul to fragment and dislodge from the body's energy field.

Soul Portion loss is a contributing factor to power loss and also a contributing factor to chronic fatigue and other debilitating symptoms.

Many people are running on a reduced percentage of their power due to Soul fragmentation. Soul Portions generally want to come back.

SOUL PORTION RETRIEVAL

Situations that can result in Soul Portion Loss:

Accidents can make one disassociate
Shocks and traumas no matter how smallaSubstance abuse
Physical violence
Relationship Break down
Bereavement
Living in a big city
Being forced to face a particular emotion when not ready

Symptoms of Soul Portion Loss:

(symptoms are not a guarantee of soul portion loss)

Accident Prone
Tendency to be in wrong place at wrong time
A Sense of Something Missing
Inability to remember dreams
Recurring dreams of childhood locations
Dreams of smaller versions of yourself
Numbness - not being able to feel emotion - so one goes to extremes to feel to break through the numbness
Event Shocks "Never been the same ever since …"

Addictiveness
Panic Attacks or Anxiety (not localised)
Low energy or Depression
No immunity / Chronic Sickness
Chronic Misfortune or Bad Luck
Inability to complete projects or make decisions
Mental Illness is a good indication of Soul Portion Loss
Some Countries have high incidence of SPL due to oppressive rules and regimes
Ended relationships and friendships - one of you could be holding on to a portion
Mortification "I was mortified" "Embarrassed to death"

SPIRITUAL INTRUSION REMOVAL

Spiritual Intrusions is the term given to the 'beings' that metaphysically infest a person's energy field, weakening it or draining it of spiritual vitality. Intrusions can 'attach' to a person's field or can cause interference remotely.

We have identified over 600 different types of intrusions and past life influences that can reduce one's spiritual vitality, causing us to feel depleted and always tired or feeling like we are constantly under attack.

Intrusions appear in many forms and if they remain unchecked, may deplete the field enough to leave the body susceptible to disease and illness. They normally affect the weakest areas of your energy field, but can interfere with any part of the body or field regardless of where they are located.

Physical symptoms can result from such intrusions – some systems believe that all physical symptoms have metaphysical causes.

A typical healing session will remove between 40 and 80 common intrusions. The following gives some examples of causes:

Curses, Hexes, Spells, Attacks

These feel like Bad Vibes and are usually sent or picked up unconsciously:

INDIRECT come from Gossip – talking about people in an unkind manner
UNCONSCIOUS these may be accidental negative thoughts, unintentionally directed at you
CONSCIOUS are intended interactions of focus (such as hurling abuse at someone like, or intentional curses
DIRECT can be caused by 'psychic attack' intentionally or unintentionally

Thought Forms

The negative circling thoughts you tell yourself can weaken your energy field. Also, other people's negative thoughts of you in your presence does this as well. If they persist, they are given 'life' and linger in the field. A weakened energy field is more susceptible to Intrusions.

Psychic & Etheric Parasites

Usually eat up psychic debris and waste but can also attach to already weakened energy fields opportunistically and add to one's generic toxicity.

Energy Vampires & Chords

Beings that feed of another's emotional energy. As well as people who are not aware of their own energetic boundaries, and create dynamics where their own power is leached from them by other people; or this energy can be given unintentionally to the things we put our focus on or give our attention towards.

People whose state of hardship becomes too much for them to handle can become emotionally and energetically drained and due to lack of awareness may seek other people as their source of energy.

Overbearing Institutions

Institutions, organisations and governments can impose energetic servitude which weakens one's energy field; so can extreme religions and draconian business practices.

Compassion Fatigue

Empathy puts you in energetic resonance to the person you are focusing on and if they are afflicted in someway then you make yourself an energetic match to the affliction. It's vary hard for Humans NOT to be compassionate - but you should understand the energetic cost to you.

Note when someone is in pain or suffering or complaining about symptoms or telling their story, they may unconsciously dump their negative energy onto you and this could either pass intrusions or weaken your energy field leaving you susceptible to intrusions.

Healthcare providers have to be aware of being dumped on. Indigenous cultures consider this sort of Shamanic knowledge as essential for everyone and not a luxury for the few.

Human energy fields are rechargeable...

Cleansing can be done regularly, as needed, depending on your level of risk from exposure to heavier energies.

COMPASSIONATE DEPOSSESSION

Spirits can get stuck when they are in a contracted state of consciousness. In this state they have lost the ability to reason or explore other choices and options that might be available. This work provides the opportunity to wake them from their trance and guide them to a place that gets them help.

Spirt influence can be slight or substantial, with the later leading to drastic personality changes. This can all happen when our personal vitality is low, and at such times when we are under the influence of heavy emotions or substances.

Am I DEAD?

Much of the time the influencing Spirit is not aware that they have passed. Which means that this discovery can be quite a shock for them. What generally happens is that somehow they have been attracted to a weak field and managed to penetrate it, with out knowing that they have done so.

Surprisingly common

Some believe that most people have at some stage or are experiencing some degree of spirit influence. If the influence is lite, it may not be noticed at all, you will be making your own decisions, and usually running your own life.

Where the influence is greater than 50%, one may even notice personality changes to a lesser or greater degree.

Don't freak Out

Practitioners will not usually tell a client that they have spirit influences, depending on the clients level of maturity and level of "awakening".

However, some clients, already knowledgeable about Shamanic Healing specifically ask for this service.

Spirits are People too

Practitioners usually treat influencing spirits with a great deal of love and care as they can present like lost children - quite literally.

Even acting out Spirits are people

As with a bully, we tend to find that those spirits that are labeled dark or demonic, have suffered greatly in their life and quite possibly are still reliving the trauma they experienced when they were alive. It is always useful to remember that everyone deserves a chance to be helped, grow wiser, receive understanding and kindness, be awoken from trances or delusions and given an opportunity to gain greater understanding or chance to do the right thing and or atone.

Compassionate Depossession will mostly be a chance to provide care for someone in need and for the person being influenced, its an opportunity to be restored to a clearer state of being.

SHAMANIC DRUMMING

Drum Hypnosis & Journeying

Drumming is very useful for facilitating clients, who struggle to enter hypnotic states for therapy. Many of our private ceremonies will have an element of guided journeying facilitated by the medicine drum.

TUVAN Drum Healing

The Republic of Tuva, just outside of Mongolia, is home to an ancient tradition of Shamans that have shared their drum healing techniques with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies - from whom I learned this technique. Tuvan drum Healing can be used for chronic pain or physical illness, using the power of the helping spirits acting through the drum to help facilitate healing. Sky signals are used to call upper world beings to facilitate the healing.

Sound, smoke, and light frequencies all exist in vibrational form, between the physical and etheric realms. This makes them perfect mediums to transmit intention. Drums have been used in many traditions to help create sacred spaces, journey to other realms and heal. Some traditions maintain that no ceremony is possible without the presence of a sacred drum.

Drums, can be imbued with the spirits of the once living creatures that were used in its creation: the spirit of the wood surround, animal hide, and other materials used in the drum and stick. It is also possible to transmit healing from compassionate spirits.

Drums, like rattles, are an excellent means of sonic driving to create a shamanic state of conscious. When the correct cadence is used, this creates a carrier frequency to assist in traversing non ordinary reality.