Today, practicing shamanism doesn't mean you have to live in a
rain forest or a desert. Thanks to a modern renaissance of shamanic
spirituality, practitioners from all walks of life now use powerful
indigenous techniques for healing, insight, and spiritual growth.
With Awakening to the Spirit World, teachers Sandra Ingerman and
Hank Wesselman bring together a circle of renowned Western shamanic
elders to present a comprehensive manual for making these practices
accessible and available in our daily lives, including:
How the original practice of shamanism shaped the world's
spiritual traditions and why it is still relevant today
The art of the shamanic journey--a time-tested meditative method
for experiencing important spiritual lessons and truths
Guidance for avoiding common pitfalls of shamanic practice
Instruction for working with your dreams, connecting to your
spirit guides, healing yourself and your environment
The core of shamanism is the experience of direct revelation--
to communicate firsthand with your spiritual allies and discover
your own power. Awakening to the Spirit World takes you through
each step of developing a personal connection with your helping
spirits to receive wisdom, insight, and healing energy. From an
overview of shamanism, to your first journeys and encounters with
your power animals, to expanding your skills and insight through
long-term practice, here is an in-depth resource for the shamanic
arts that includes:
Creating rituals and ceremonies for healing and
transformation
Reconnecting with nature to heal ourselves and the planet
Working with your dreams, songs, and artistic vision to strengthen
your practice
Traditional wisdom for children-- healthy rites of passage for
each phase of a child's journey to adulthood
Honoring the cycle of life and death-- shamanic practices to
prepare for and celebrate our final transition in this life
Table of Contents
1 What is Shamanism?
2 The Shamanic Journey
3 Reconnecting with Nature
4 Visionary Work with Weather and Environmental Changes
5 The Power of Ceremony and Ritual
6 Dreams
7 Creative Art as a Bridge
8 Working with Sound and Light
9 Death As a Rite of Passage
10 Experiential Work with Death and Dying
11 All Changes Involve Death
12 Our Children Are Our Future
13 Working in Community
14 The Transformational Community
15 The Return of the Shaman
Excerpt
Shamanism is the most ancient spiritual practice known to
humankind and is the ancestor of all our modern religions. As a
method, it is a form of meditation combined with a focused
intention to accomplish various things, as well become apparent in
this book. As a spiritual practice, shamanism can become a way of
life that may utterly transform the one who practices it.
The word shaman comes from the language of the Evenki peoples, a
Tungusic tribe in Siberia. This is a word whose meaning has to do
with esoteric knowledge and extraordinary spiritual abilities and
as such a shaman is often defined as an intermediary between the
human and spirit worlds. In shamanic cultures, the word shaman has
come to mean the one who sees in the dark or the one who knows.
There are certain commonalities in a shaman s worldview and
practice across the world that allow us to make certain broad
generalizations about shamanism. In the majority of indigenous
cultures, the universe is viewed as being made up of two distinct
realms: a world of things seen and a world of things hidden, yet
that these two worlds present themselves together as two halves of
a whole. The shaman is the inspired visionary, a man or a woman who
learns through practice how to enter into this world of things
hidden, and once there, he or she typically encounters
extra-mundane personalities or archetypal forces that the
indigenous peoples refer to as spirits, ancestors, or even
gods.
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