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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 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 in order to dance new dreams and stories to life in everyday reality. Shamanizers shift possibility, potential, and power in the ordinary universe from within their 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 underly and overlap most religions and still exist within 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 or shamanizer, 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, shamanizer, or shamanic practitioner 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 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.
Within the experiential practice way of our circle, school, and order, we enter Shamanic State(s) of Consciousness (SSC) - like a blend of active imagination, awareness, and meditative trance, yet more - for shamanic shifting, dreaming, healing, and divining through sound, dance, expressive arts, wonder, blessing, and jesting, and not usually through the assistance of entheogenic Teacher Plants or Chemicals. We do relate to many entheogenic and healing Teacher Plant and Chemical Spirits in non-ordinary reality, and we agree that intentional shamanic ingesting of Plant and Chemical Teachers in ordinary reality is Sacramental, an outward way to open within to more wisdom, knowledge, and understanding from the Tree Of All Trees of Life.
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The Sacred Site
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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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