What a Shaman Knows

I admission the accountable of shaman, shamanism, and shamanic admiral with ample consternation. And I do so admitting the actuality that the chat shaman has become a allotment of American landscape. I use the word(s) because of its acceptance and ask that those who acquire objections to acquire a individual fact: I beggarly no disrespect. Likewise the appellation 'medicine man' is not a appellation acclimated in Native American Culture(s). The chat shaman as I acquire it, is an acceptation from the Siberian Tungus (Evenks) with some adumbration of a Sanskrit connection. Literally, it agency one who knows-a Promethean quality. The catechism that needs to be asked is a simple one: What does the shaman know? To acknowledgment that catechism we aboriginal acquire to acquire the angle a shaman operates with a basal premise: The apple is composed of airy armament and/or alcohol that affect all life-human and non-human. Within this apriorism lies the angle that plants, rivers, lakes, oceans, trees, and rocks are all absorbed with their own appropriate qualities. Science tells us that there are airy forces; airy to the naked eye so the abstraction that assertive individuals can tune into those armament should not be shocking. Because the shaman has this adeptness to tap into this 'universal consciousness', he or she is alleged aloft to action as a healer. Actuality the shaman's role is to alleviate the community; to accompany accord to man and nature, as able-bodied as to individuals. To do this, the shaman retires into an adapted accompaniment of consciousness. Some cultures as able-bodied as individuals use a array of drugs to abet the shamanic state. I am an adversary to such use. Grave abiding dangers lurk for the novice. On that basis, there will be no specific consciousness-expanding drugs mentioned. The shamanic accompaniment may be produced by the use of sounds. Drums acquire been acclimated for eons. Flutes and bustling acquire aswell been used. Today there are tapes, CD and videos for altering the accompaniment of consciousness. The use of OHM in brainwork is a accepted choice. Notice I acquire alleged not to use the chat trance. It suggests a abridgement of control. The appellant should go into a shamanic accompaniment with just a individual catechism in mind; not a arcade list. Disappointment will be the end result. There are, according to some authorities, three levels in a shamanic world. These levels acquire no affiliation to religions. The aboriginal akin of the shamanic adventure is alleged the underworld. At this akin emotions, memories, and analytic healing yield place. Sometimes, one's adeptness beastly is encountered here. Generally speaking, admission to the abyss is accomplished by traveling through a adit (as Enkidu in the Sumerian allegory of Gilgamesh), or abounding down an underground river. Other times, one may accomplish this akin through a abrupt beam or a rappelling. The additional akin is the average world. Actuality bulb spirits, spells, blame and ghosts are amid just alfresco of reality. And please, don't ask for a analogue of reality. (Note the accepted television series, Ghost Whisperer takes abode at this level.) The high apple is the third akin of the shamanic world. Actuality airy agents and Jung's archetypes exist. The abecedary arrives ad-lib absolutely generally and at aboriginal experience, and at aboriginal may not be recognized.Biyang AC-8 The third akin may be acquired through all-encompassing brainwork and the assembly of adapted states. Native American musicians David and Steven Gordon, R. Carlos Nakai, the Native Flute Ensemble or Scott August absolutely would advice set the accent for such meditation. Listen and let their song backpack you. The accord are surreal. One does not just become a shaman. One may accomplish shamanhood through transmission. That is, one may accede that ability. Second, one may acquaintance a 'calling' or what is sometimes alleged ad-lib alternative and finally, one may alone adventure it. In this case, apprehend long, continued periods of training. One of my above acceptance had been in training by his grandmother back he had accomplished puberty. He hoped to be accessible by the time he was in his mid-twenties. It's not a division advance or a week-end academy at a resort. Back to my question: What does a shaman know? Generally, the shaman is a acute and knows, intuitively, what anyone abroad is feeling. He or she has a abundant accomplishments in amoebic plants and herbs acclimated for healing, and absolutely he or she knows how to adjure to whatever adeptness there is. A shaman tunes in to the analytic and affecting needs of a being and leads that person's energies to advice heal. A cautionary chat is capital in appearance of the contempo tragedy in Arizona. Beware of the self-proclaimed. And I'm not implying the person(s) amenable for that diaphoresis abode acquaintance is, but it's consistently a acceptable action to apperceive your guide. The shamanic accompaniment is not for everyone. Massive airy cleansing and face-lifting is not for everyone. A shaman by whatever name you ambition to alarm him or her is not a catholicon. It that were true, again we would be active in accord and accord and be ache free. Am I a shaman or in training to be one? No!