everything is alive
About Shamanism
Shamanism is the collective name anthropologists give to the spiritual beliefs and practices of many of the world’s tribal peoples. It is the oldest spiritual tradition known to humanity. One of its basic tenets is that everything is imbued with the essence of the Divine and so in a spiritual sense everything can be said to be alive. Shamanism taps into and explores that cosmic vitality. Though ancient, it remains a robust and viable path for people today.
Elements of the Shamanic Path
shamanic healing
Shamanic healing is spiritual in nature. Its techniques are not therapy as generally defined by modern psychology or medicine, and they are not a substitute for the therapeutic methods practiced by these fields. However they may serve as powerful complements to those methods.
divination
Probably for as long as humanity has been able to conceive of “yesterday”, “today”, and “tomorrow”, people have wanted to know what tomorrow holds in store. Since the spirits live in a timeless dimension, they are considered to have larger, longer, wider perspectives regarding the trajectories of the universe than we people can possibly have.
rights of passage
Every person, while alive, goes through many important transitions. These are framed by two we all experience: the transition from nonphysical to physical existence at birth, and birth’s complement, the transition from physical to nonphysical existence at death.
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My Journey, Timothy Cope
I stepped onto the shamanic path in 1983 when, in a local Minneapolis bookstore, the topmost copy of Michael Harner’s The Way of the Shaman leapt off its stack by the cash register and landed in my hands. It was shouting: “READ ME!” I got chills and said to the clerk behind the counter, “I guess I’ll take this too.”