Questions for the Shaman
Shaman Idealisms Chapter 1 How do I
How do I become a shaman? How do I learn shamanism? Have you lost your mind?
People often come to me and ask the one question that drives me nuts. “How do I become a Shaman? Become, Become.. perhaps you can “become” anything you set your mind to, perhaps you can become any one you want. You don’t really “Become” a Shaman. You can learn shamanism, you can be taught what a shaman is, how they live, how they believe, and other aspects of the shaman but, you don’t become shaman.
There are things we look at in the personality of a person, much like “Witch”, “Druid”, Fey, and other crafts, you either are, or you are not.
The question is, “how do I learn to live, deal, and respect my gifts, how do I honor the power given to me?”
These questions can never be answered in a book, blogs, or a 90 minute dvd, or any thing but living the experience. You have to live the craft to be that craft, you have to understand the trials, the life style, the dreams, the wonderful blessings of the shaman life style.
Shamanism actually has no beginning, its just always been.
Its always been in every society known to man kind.
I am actually rambling because I really don’t know where to start with the Shaman Idealisms, its like trying to explain how I breathe, its just there, I just do it, I just “am”.
Something my spirit guide has always told me, “When you understand the earth, when you fly with the air, when you walk the fire, when you have rode the wave of water, and when you have accepted the spirit, then will you understand the scope of the task laid down before you”.
This perplexed me for years, I never understood the meaning of what Spirit Guide was trying to tell me, and I am still learning. I have yet but scratched the surface of the responsibility of our job.
“There is a walk you must take, a journey, a place you must see before you can achieve the goal, there are places to go, things to see, and people to learn from, before you can sleep.”
“Places in your mind are like pool of water, they are smooth, clear, transparent and yet you can’t see the bottom because of your doubts, your fears, your insecurities.”
“If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, then what the shortest distance from one side of the mountain to the other?”
Answers to these questions are vas, because they are really not questions, but parables, things ask by spirit, to force you to think, to open your mind and expand you idealisms to escape the closed plane where we now live.
The expanse of the cosmoses is beyond even the wildest imagination, its size is incomprehensible. If this is so, then why people strive each day to find out the size, how old it is, where it came from, and other questions that my never be answered.
As shaman, we pull our energy from the Cosmos, we have the sun, moon, stars, and the energy of the earth mother, but why drain the sources that depend on the cosmos anyway?
I meet people every day who feel its ok to pull form the Earth, to pull from other people, and to pull from where ever they can find an energy source. I find this truly funny, and sad at the same time. There is a never ending energy pack, always there, a source of power. You just need to understand how to tap into that power, its there for all of us, all we have to do is respect it.
In the following chapters, you will learn the deferent layers of the Shaman, the life style and the personalities.
You will get insight to where we stand on many of our moralities and how we live in the societies we do, and make it work.
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