Shamanism as a methodology affords its practitioners to live fully in the everyday, ordinary reality of life, and at the same time access non-ordinary states of consciousness at will for the purposes of healing, advice or gaining understanding. In indigenous cultures, the shaman acts as the psychological and medical healer of his community. Non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by the steady beat of a drum, physical deprivations such as fasting or ingestion of enthenogens have been employed by nearly all mystical wisdom traditions; they allow practitioners to discover how to live a richer, more meaningful life. Shamanism, together with quantum physics and chaos theory, which I encountered during my studies at Bryn Mawr, gave me answers to the questions I had asked since childhood: Who are we? Whence do we come from? Where do we go? My travels to Ecuador, Nepal and Peru and my studies there with powerful shamans provided additional answers to these perennial questions. All my teachers, in ordinary and non-ordinary reality, assist me in developing and shaping my intellectual, spiritual, intuitive and psychic faculties. At this point in my life I feel so capable to participate joyfully in the universal dance of life. (By Jeanne-Rachel Salomon ’00)
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lovedogs
Thank you so much for this story from The Alchemist. I really enjoyed it. I work with teens and they all seem to have some connection to the larger world, and they are trying in their own ways to understand it. I think this story would be really interesting to them and very helpful.
On a more personal note: I did the clearing suggested here (Chi energy) and used the pendulum to help clear and understand a serious bout of anxiety I was having. It was really helpful. I gained some insights that hadn't even crossed my mind before.
Thanks for your generosity in sharing this information.
MM
lovedogs
Thank you so much for this story from The Alchemist. I really enjoyed it. I work with teens and they all seem to have some connection to the larger world, and they are trying in their own ways to understand it. I think this story would be really interesting to them and very helpful.
On a more personal note: I did the clearing suggested here (Chi energy) and used the pendulum to help clear and understand a serious bout of anxiety I was having. It was really helpful. I gained some insights that hadn't even crossed my mind before.
Thanks for your generosity in sharing this information.
MM
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