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the original School of the Shaman Fool
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Everywhere and Anywhere -Here and Now -Inside and Out - Within and Beyond
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The Way of the Shaman Fool is an ecstatic, animist, gnostic, and pantheist way of living continuing revelation through individual and circle direct experience of Spirit and the Spirits on the Way of All Ways and radical engagement our world through the prayer-magik of the ordinary. The Shaman Fool is a spiritual adventurer who quests farther and further forth in this Dream of Dreams, yet always keeps the FUN and returns to companions and relations with new stories and gifts of living shapeshifts. The Shaman Fool is at home on the voyage to everywhere, yet never finds a comfortable niche to hide or settle in anywhere.
Education in the School of the Fool is Self and Spirit directed. A Fool is like a feather or leaf on the cosmic winds - but with attitude and purpose. Self-teaching takes place in all levels, dimensions, and realms of the Many; the Two and Three as One; and The Zero as one and all, or none - ordinary, non-ordinary, and beyond. Yet, at the Center, from the First to the Last, is freedom, unity, and newness, now...All ways, remember F.U.N. N.O.W (No Other Way - but now). Shamanic ways are for adventuring, dreaming, dancing, and storying the moment of here and now anew, mystically and magikly, as well as practically. A Shaman must give all, to recieve all from Mystery, Life, and Spirit(s), for giving all, again and again.
Spirit and the Spirits must stir your shamanic vocation and after you live through the tests of your calling, your real teachers for the rest of your earth journey and beyond are Holy Spirit and the Spirits of Life in non-ordinary reality and throughout everyday challenges, assisted by mentors and companions of all kinds around sacred circle spacetime. If your hunger and thirst is for adventure, fun, and righteousness, nothing in the universe can stop you.
A Shaman Fool is everyone's or anyone's apprentice on the road of universal life, though s/he may have special mentoring and trickster teachers. The Shaman Fool is always being taught by, and teaching spiritual companions who resonate nearest along the journeys outward and back, and the Journey.
Like all Shamans, the apprenticing Shaman Fool researches, reconciles, synergizes, and transcends as many of h/er world's ancient to contemporary paradigms of art, science, and philosophy as possible, while cultivating, deepening, and clarifying conscious connections with Spirit(s). And, s/he keeps on adventuring Mystery, always conducting self by the best codes of honor, courtesy, and ethics s/he knows, until all journeying days are over and done.
The way of the wise-foolish shaman adventurer is full of challenges and fun. There are also many tests, trials, and ordeals to face head on - or otherwise.
Then a Shaman Fool must discover alone, along h/is Way of All Ways, h/is own unique secret(s) for acting out and keeping the FUN of it ALL, no matter what. Only you can know when you are a Shaman-Fool.
Yet, we keep saying that (almost) all Shamans know, incarnate, and act-out some particular kind of universal foolishness and are joining in the cosmic FUN-flow to some degree, somehow. (And the practices of even the most solemn of Shamans will seem foolish to many, for many reasons.)
Shamans can travel as prayer through HERE and NOW into all the realms of Spirit, Soul and Psyche, and Energy-Matter. Shaman Fools adventure the Cosmos of Universes, the ordinary and non-ordinary, the Tree of Trees and Web and Wheels of Knowing Life - all of the interconnecting, overlapping, interweaving, inter-permeating circles of circles of All-That-Is. The Gnostic Pleroma or "fullness" corresponds (though not exactly) in our experiential shamanic practice-way, to the Creative realms of the Jewish mystical Tree of Life and the World Tree of some Pagan paths, or to the most archetypal levels of the non-ordinary realities of potential and possibility where shamans travel, within and beyond everything forming and manifesting in the psychic and ordinary realms - yet always accessible within and beyond any shamanic gateway of HERE and NOW, from the greatest to the least.
We practice core and cross-cultural shamanic ways that emphasize the "magic ofthe ordinary" and the Way of the Shaman as Wise-Fool. Though we quest the non-ordinary, we begin and end in the ordinary spacetime, matter, and energy-flows of everyday moments and whiles in our backyards and on neighborhood blocks.
Shamanic Ways are a set of ecstatic, animist, gnostic, and pantheist spiritual practices known in many cultures and traditions since the most ancient ages of Lifekind, for re-dreaming intention and attention in the non-ordinary and dancing new dreams and stories to life here on earth to shift possibility, potential, and power in the ordinary universe. Ecstasy is essential to the Way of the Shaman. All shamanic ways are original - unfolding as direct, spiritual experience and ongoing revelation and prophesy though individuals, spiritual companionships, and sacred circles. Shamanic practitioners may work within and add to a tradition, tradition-blend, initiatory way, or religion, and perform some or most of the duties of ministers and counselors and healers, yet key to shamanic practice is connecting and relating directly to Spirit and Spirits, expanding the here and now moment of any situation to bring into the world new knowledge and dreams, and conducting souls, stories, and gifts to the next new life experience.
A Shaman or shaman - for many prefer to use a small 's' - is called through dreams and visions, crisis and ordeal, and possibly ancestral and traditional lineages. After undergoing years of experiential education and rigorous testing a shaman becomes able to intervene on any level of reality by being an open passageway for alchemical spiritual shifting of beings, dreams, dances, stories, and gifts to the best new life experience. A shaman - whether with a large or small "s" - always effects change by revealing and conducting Spirit(s) and/or Soul(s) in some way, no matter what other counseling, divining, ministerial, or healing interventions s/he offers. Shamanic ways go beyond the sacerdotal and clerical functions of churches or religions. A shaman always functions within a community yet nowadays a contemporary shaman's community may be an innovative and emerging one.
A shaman, shamanizer, or shamanic practitioner works and plays directly with the spirits and souls of all things from the greatest to the least to benefit self, community, the wider world, and the whole universe. Frontier, outsider, and alternative artists, scientists, technologists, and philosophers may also be fulfilling the role of the shaman in community and society - on purpose, or not (sung or unsung) - whether the word shaman is ever used in reference to them, or not.
Foolish Wisdom is flowing all kinds of energy everywhere and when, incarnating divine experiences as every here and now moment of new possibilities and power, adventuring all levels, dimensions, realms, and orders of living, spiraling, spacetime without settling on any branch or in any niche - without even resting and reveling more than two or three nights at any crossroads - until all wondering, shifting, dreaming, dancing, journeying, and jesting is storied to The End.
As adventuring, sharing shaman-fools, we teach fun first and last. Without fun and laughter, all is lost. Yet, if all is ever lost, no worries, the Last Laugh will restore the FUN anyway.
One of our Companion Teachers reminds us often, that
"All organized religious...or published belief systems...are sincere and powerful - yet usually fun suppressing - attempts by devoted followers, to preserve the fruits of some Wise Fool's original, individual, direct experience...knowing and flowing the original, cosmic FUN, yet they fall further and further behind, and must catch up eventually...So no matter what...first and last, betwixt and between, live inside-out, and keep the FUN."
We like this handy reference to the (free) Moon...
| CURRENT MOON moon phase |
You can follow the link and get your own free Moon....
Here are a few favorite fun, FUN, educational, attention-shifting www prerequisite or elective courses in themselves - when you follow the link trails - for this School of the Shaman Fool, for shifting gut, heart, and mind, toward a shaman-foolish mode:
Must Be Funny - Humor Religion
Chameleon Recommends Keeping A FunLog...This Wonderous Example Might Inspire You!
In the School of the Fool the courses are ongoing, open-ended, self-serve, self-educational FUN - adventuring the challenges and fun of shifting self, world, multiverse, spirit, and consciousness, through Wisdom & Mystery and back again to more fun!
Visit our Link Library, beginning with the Fool's Clever Bag and meandering the Way of All Ways.
For our convenience and entertainment a circle companion is constructing a Reference page.
Here is another fun place of preparatory study
for all aspiring Shaman-Fools -
Click over to our News Room for religious, spiritual, magikal, and science news, opinion, and good news!
Shaman Foolish Practice Way
A shaman-fool radically incarnates an intentional adventurous open doorway of self in the ordinary world - of gut, heart, and mind - as a free passageway for Spirit and the Spirits, available as close to full-time as possible. Using blessings, questions, expressive arts, and self as the most flexible tool kit possible, a shaman-fool usually entertains and restores fun and healing laughter anonymously, undercover, while dangerously involved in the thick of everyday situations. A shaman-fool travels lightly and keeps on travelling, throughout life.
This travel does not necessarily literally mean physical, geographical relocation (though it may) but rather a profound and intense awareness that the earth and all earthy beings are always and all ways journeying the universe in many dimensions and levels, through all realms of potential, power, and possibility. Shaman-fools resolve to keep navigating and voyaging the universe of experience on purpose, and never settle down into any comfortable niche of tradition, or any fixed paradigm or canon of dogma and ritual, keeping on until all journeying days are dreamed, danced, storied, and done.
The Way of the Shaman Fool can be practiced like the contemporary Way of the Shaman. On the Way of the Shaman-Fool the shamanic practitioner or shamanizer attends above all to h/er individual, ordinary life as the Shamanic Journey and celebrates all kinds of living and being as divine incarnation everywhere and celebrates the absolute singularity of each spacetime moment through expressive arts, prophetic entertainment, dramatic blessing, and as many more ways as s/he improvises.
First and last any shaman, shamanic practitioner or shamanizer somehow rattles, drums, sings, and dances h/erself empty and open in every moment for Spirit and the Spirits to spiral blessings, wonders, goodness, laughter, and gifts in and out of our worlds and the universe. At the center and all around the circle all shamanic practitioners encounter life as death and dying, and death as a shapeshift to new life. Every shaman must know how to bring in the new and guide what is dying to new dreams and shapes and maybe even awaken the dead. Shamantic! The Wise said "If your way helps you laugh in the face of death, and then laugh right along with death, then that is a good way!" All around the circle and through the center, shamans, shamanizers, and shamanic practitioners shift, dream, drum, and dance with death and dying in many ways to new life. Yet, some go out of the way to make bigger fools of themselves than others.
We live and teach playing and praying without ceasing while living actively engaged in ordinary reality challenges and fun, joined in the great unceasing shamanic circle of circles within circles spiraling (as Spirit blowing and breathing) everywhere and anywhere. Whether we travel the world or within, we are shamanic adventurers - questers, questioners, jesters, and wandering, wondering hermits cloistered at large, amidst everyday life.
All of spacetime is travelling so is really impossible to stay in one place even though paradoxically one forms deep and widespread connections with places and beings in ordinary reality. All Shaman-Fools find their own original, radical, ways of adventuring universal living and being on purpose.
We're Looking for More Shamanic Humorists & Optimists:
Click on this button to to visit and join in
the Shamanic Humorists & Optimists online circle. We would love to have more Shamanic Humorists & Optimists join in to story their experiences, encourage the others, and share shamanic humorists & optimists links. Remember, many of you may already members!
Shamanic Humorists & Optimists is a widespread dis-organization,
of shamanic and shaman-antic wonderers, dreamers, jesters, wisefools, and scientfic optimists,
from here and there, who intentionally link shamanic revelation and reconnecting
to humor restoration, prophetic entertainment, expressive arts, healing laughter, and foolish rushing in (to bless).
If you link shamanic ways to divine fun - you probably already are one...
| The Shamanic, Scientific, and Cosmological University and Seminary: Deepest Self, Life Spirit, and The Whole Universe |
Aloha Salem Quest University Seminary begins and ends
here and now, within the self on Earth and Universe,
and includes (yet is not limited to) the entire Cosmos of all Universes...
We, and several others, sometimes call this way of original shamanic education
The School of the Fool...
Yet, this is also a way of all Arts, the Sciences (from Astronomy to Zoology!) and Philosophy -
a way of Understanding and Wisdom and Knowing....
Aloha Salem Quest can mean, among many more meanings, like "We share breath in loving happy harmony searching all ways!"
This is a way of self-teaching through many effective outer and inner spiritual technologies
practiced amidst, and as, the challenges and fun of everyday life,
by mundane and scientific as well as mystical and magical means.
This way of ways is always beginning and ending with
radical wondering
about eveything in ordinary reality, from the greatest to the least, shamanic questing and jesting around the unceasing spiraling circle of life, and
enthusiastic greeting, acknowledging, and blessing of whoever and whatever just IS...
We live, learn, teach, and practice shamanic blessing, wonder, and fun restoration
to shift consciousness and reality and reveal and open more passages in and out
of the non-ordinary realms of Life Spirit and the Spirits of Life
right here and now, amidst the ordinary, everyday.
Here are more recommended Elective Courses in website form for the School of the Fool:
A Solitary Animist Gnostic (Druid) ||Independent Historian's Books Another Researcher's LogsTo be continued...
To join the School of the Fool, simply begin questing and requesting - and receiving for giving...or to enroll officially, follow the instructions at CompanionsCircle.Org!
Many of the websites we link to are serious attempts to receive and share wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. We explore many ways and find our way, the way of remembering the FUN of it all!
Since shamanic education in the School of the Fool is self directed and Spirit stirred, self-teaching is always, all ways, taking place simultaneously at all levels, dimensions, and realms of the Many; the Two and Three as One; and the one and only Zero. First decide and dedicate yourself to this inside-out, upside-down FUN. Second, wonder and wander, quest, question, and re-quest (journey, dance, dream, shift, and bless) all history; science and art; and mystery. Third...
Another page of this unfolding self-educational living and linking project is A Fool's Clever Bag and our Link Library maze.
We are learning and teaching that at the spacetime coordinates of the final moment of the dreaming and shifting of the Last Laugh when all is said and done - art, science, philosophy (and even religion) all agree in one.
This free verse link-poem is a work-in-progress, being composed by a circle companion, as a reminder:
There is always only one time and place to begin the
journey over Earth and one place and time to consider watching under
close and faraway cosmic skies,
and universal
deep and high
starry spaces...
Open up to wonder at WONDERS, be and live amazed (by wisdom and understanding)! Radiate, navigate, voyage, and resonate
over and under yourself, and know Earth's Universal Mysteries...
Then, stand on Holy Ground...
Do you remember being stardust?
As Companion Chammy is always saying,
"Go WONDER! Wonders never cease!"
Excellent free eBook:
The Sacred Site
http://www.the-sacred-site.co.uk
A brand new collection of FREE e-Sources which explore many ancient 'alternative' and complementary disciplines and practices that are still relevant and working today. Full of useful information, interviews and links. Regularly updated to include news of new workshops, publications and retreats.
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