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Welcome to the original website for Shamanic Shift Center, the Shamanic Humorists & Optimists, and Companions Circle
~ hosted by shamanic jester Shamantic! The Wise (played by The Rev. Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins) ~
~ living universal shamanic shifting and FUN restoration amidst the ordinary everyday ~
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To send or receive shamanic prayer assistance...visit Shamantic!'s online Fool's Sancturary or Sanctuary 2
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Call 414-289-8661
and leave a call-back voicemail to contact The Rev. Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins if you need an ordained minister
for individualized, interfaith ceremonies - marriage, handfasting, same-gender union, vow-renewal, space and place blessing, dedications,
baptisms, lifecycle celebrations, rites to honor events of life transition, funerals, and more!
Light a candle for any intention in this shrine online:
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| Blogging Shamanic Shifting | Shamanic Assistance |
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| The 'Shaman-Antic' Arts | Ceremonies and Ministerial Services |
| ASQ University of Shamanic Ways | Shamanic Ways Links | Related Links |
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| Our Circle's Blogspot | Suggestions for background reading... |
Chammy's free verse link poem:
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 an elder companion is always saying,
"Go WONDER! Wonders never cease!"
~ Chammy
Shamanic shift and restore fun anywhere!
Definitions, Practices, and Teachings
We practice contemporary 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-flow-patterns of everyday moments and whiles in our backyards and on neighborhood blocks.
Shamanic Ways are a huge set of ecstatic, animist, gnostic, and pantheist spiritual practices known in many cultures and traditions since the most ancient ages of humankind, for waking self up and re-dreaming one's intention and attention in non-ordinary reality to shift ordinary reality towards better and best. Shamans shift possibility, potential, and power in the ordinary universe from within their wild imaginations and act out these shifts in shamanic performances through psychodrama, expressive arts, ceremonies, and rituals. Shamanic ways are also methods and techniques of spiritual practice and earth sustaining and community harmonizing ways of living rather than an organized religion, though shamanic ways underlie and overlap most religions and still exist within and resonate harmoniously with many.
Ecstasy is essential to the ways of shamans. All shamanic ways are original - unfolding as direct, spiritual experience and ongoing revelation though individuals, spiritual companionships, and small 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.
Key to shamanic practice is connecting and relating directly to spiritual reality, expanding the here and now moment of any situation towards the new knowledge always present in divine or ultimate reality, and conducting the souls, stories, and gifts in spiritual and ordinary realities to the next better or best new life experiences. Shamanic ways are earth- and universe- centered yet mystical and magical all at once for shamans live the unity, interconnectedness, and harmony of matter and spirit 24/7/365 for reality shifting purposes.
A shaman called through dreams and visions, crisis and ordeal, and possibly ancestral and traditional lineages, after undergoing years of experiential education and rigorous testing, becomes able to intervene on any level of reality and live as an open passageway for 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 might live at the fringes of society but always functions within a community. Nowadays a contemporary shaman's community may be an innovative and emerging one.A shaman, shamanic practitioner, or shamanizer works and plays directly with Spirits and Souls and energy-flows of all things from the greatest to the least to benefit self, community, the wider world, and the whole universe. Shamans may journey the non-ordinary in trance but there are too many other shamanic methods and techniques to count. 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.
Shamans know the Law Of Attraction (LOA) and all cosmic and natural laws inside-out. Shamanic ways do not work through dogmatic, fundamentalist, literalistic, or superstitious practices but through living the ways of Mystery, Consciousness, and Spirit(s) at the quantum and universal levels of being where religion, philosophy, science, and art agree. Shamanic ways are all the ways of expanding and experiencing here and now as 'all things new' now!
Many who some might call Shamans use a small "s" or do not call themselves shamans at all even if others do. In many indigenous tribal traditions, religions, and cultures the word shaman and words deriving from it, popularized in recent history by anthropologists, are not (and probably never have been) used to refer to the psycho-spiritual or magico-spiritual practitioners we might call shamans, shamanizers, or shamanic practitioners, and might even carry negative connotations.
In some traditions shamans (whatever they are called in their tribes or communities) never charge money for their services yet in others they do. There is always an energy-exchange of some kind for shamanic assistance even if this is informal and not reckoned in currency. Some contemporary shamanizers hang out their shingles and charge hourly fees and others practice almost in secret on a donation basis or for free and many fall somewhere between.
Shamanic ways are really too widespread to be defined or described under an "-ism" at all even though the word shamanism has been widely in use for decades. There are many shamanisms, traditional, eclectic, or innovative. All shamanisms are ways of directly encountering and relating to the divine or ultimate reality - however those words or concepts are understood - and many shamanic ways and methods complement and blend into many other types of religious or spiritual healing or transforming practices.
Some of us are called to travel with Trickster!
The Name: "Shamantic!"
As revealed by LIFE Spirit(s) in a shamanic dream-journey the word 'Shamantic!' is one of the public, pronounceable names of power and possibility of a Wise Old One - an inner guardian angel and ancestral spirit stream for the shamanic outreach of Shamanic Shift and Companions Circle. Shamantic! is also one of the names of our entire LIFE Spirit(s) team - recovered and bestowed upon us many years ago by an esteemed elder teacher of LIFE on Life's terms. There are several vibrational juxtapositions of sacred number, sound, letter, and shape resonating within this name to discover if you want to as well.
Shamantic! bridges with the letter M, the cosmic, universal, earth, and self creative coordinate sounds in sham, related to the Hebrew word for presence, and mantic, the Greek word for divination or prophesy, and alludes to many other teachings also, including Saint Paul's way of being both Hebrew and Greek, both stumbling block and fool - on purpose. The exclamation point combines the the point and the line, the zero and the one, and even gives a tenth and eleventh letter to the name.
Besides all that, "Shamantic!" is a fun, stage name for shaman-antic acting out or shamanic jesting in the street theater of everyday life.
(Shamantic! is not a misspelling of the word shamanic, nor was it generated by "just putting a T into" the word shamanic!)
WHO Is The Real Shamanic! The Wise?
The Real Shamantic! Is One Who Is Wise!
Here are OWL's nature spirit favorites:
Shamanic Humorists & Optimists' science, alternative science, philosophy, and metaphysics favorites
For the Shamanic Humorists & Optimists (S.H.O) page on this website open this window or Chammy's trickster page here.
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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