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Post by chynacariba on Jul 30, 2005 19:38:36 GMT
hehe.
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Post by dancingwind on Jul 31, 2005 6:20:16 GMT
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Post by stef on Jul 31, 2005 11:43:29 GMT
I´m a stupid girl ...LOL because by editing my profile, I press the wrong button and then I was out. ;D ;D I do that sort of thing too I know someone who is a shamanic healer. Next time I talk to her I will see if I can find out more information. love stef
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Post by dancingwind on Jul 31, 2005 14:27:14 GMT
I´m a stupid girl ...LOL because by editing my profile, I press the wrong button and then I was out. ;D ;D I do that sort of thing too I know someone who is a shamanic healer. Next time I talk to her I will see if I can find out more information. love stef Dear Stef! These are very good news. I feel a lot of happiness for you. Please share the information she gives to you. It would be interesting my very very much! Thanks.... Love, dancingwind
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Post by stef on Aug 1, 2005 12:53:10 GMT
Hi dancingwind I will send her an email tomorrow to tell her you are interested in finding out more about shamanism. She has written a couple of books and she runs workshops, so she should have a lot of answers ;D Found another link www.innervoiceshaman.co.uk/index.htmllove stef
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Post by chynacariba on Aug 1, 2005 12:57:10 GMT
Thanks Stef- Love cc xx
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Post by dancingwind on Aug 1, 2005 14:03:38 GMT
Thanks very much for sharing Stef.
Love, dancingwind
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Post by dancingwind on Aug 3, 2005 6:07:35 GMT
Shaman Mountaion Meditation
Now lay back on the floor or bed, and relax. Close your eyes, and breathe deeply
Open your inner eye, and see around you a lovely Summer day. It is a joyous day, and all your senses are alive. You can hear the sound of a small brook nearby. You feel the touch of a light, warm breeze playing around you. The smells of earth and richness and growing things fills your heart with wonder and joy. Under your feet is a rich, grassy path that winds along beside the little brook. Looking toward the horizon, you see a mountain standing out of the earth. It rises beautifully, majestically in this flatter landscape, but it is not impossibly high. Your eyes drink in the sight of the mountain, and you know that it is calling you. You can feel yourself vibrate with the need to be there. This is a sacred mountain, a place of power. And it is calling to you.
Raising your arms, you hold them out as if to embrace the mountain. You take a deep breath, and feel the earth skimming just below your feet. You set down with a slight bump, and look up to see the mountain. You are standing at the base of the mountain, and it is YOUR mountain. Recognize that this is your life's journey, your chosen spiritual path. This is the place of power you can truly call your own.
You are ready to begin this journey to enlightenment. But the path goes up the mountain, and you need to lighten your load in order to make your trip easier. Just where the path starts up the mountain, there is a beautiful tree. It is shady and cool, and yet very alive and sentient. Sit down under this tree, and take a moment to connect with it. Ask it for, and accept its strength.
Now take a moment, and look at your physical world, your physical life. What burdens, problems, cares, connections or other things do you need to leave behind before you begin this journey up the sacred mountain? Think about it for a moment, and make a decision. What is it that you need to leave behind? Take your shooter crystal from your pouch or pocket, and put into it what you need to leave behind. Then "shoot" it into the ground. Affirm to yourself that you are doing this so that you may continue to grow, to seek, to come to know your true self.
Continue until you feel that you have lightened the physical load you carry enough to allow you to continue your journey. When you are done, open your pouch or your pocket, and take out the small bag of tobacco or sweetgrass you have there. Put a pinch at the base of the tree, in thanks for the help you have received.
Take a moment to remember those things that you are leaving there. Each thing that we decide we no longer need or want in our lives is the result of a lesson learned. There is no need to carry such excess weight, but at the same time, there IS need to remember what those lessons were. For a moment, honor and thank those things you have discarded for whatever lessons or service they have given you. Now it's time to move on.
The trail begins at your tree, and winds up in a spiral up the mountain. You feel the pitch of the trail change and become slightly steeper. You are walking at a good pace, and feeling wonderful. The breeze on your face is light and warm, the sky is a radiant turquoise blue. You are lighter and happier than you have been in a long time.
About a quarter of the way to the top, you begin to tire a little bit. There is a nice flat area where you can sit, on the flank of this sacred mountain, and recover your strength. With your hand, your staff or something else you choose, draw a circle in the dirt, and sit down inside it. Reflect for a moment on how the spiral path to the top of the mountain could be rendered as a wheel - a medicine wheel. All things in nature go in cycles, and although the cycles are never ending, they are ever changing. No spring is exactly like the spring before. No cycle of seasons brings the exact same weather. Your development is like that circle/cycle/spiral. You are growing as well as changing through your cycles. You are spiraling upwards toward your true nature and enlightenment. Yet you hold on to things from the past when they are no longer needed or even good for you to have.
Ask yourself what you need to let go of emotionally, in order to continue with your journey. Be receptive for a moment, and listen to your inner voice. When you have made your decision, put the thing you wish to let go of emotionally into your crystal, and shoot it into the earth, as you did before. Take your tobacco or sweetgrass, and leave a pinch in the center of the circle. Use that time, and make that offering, to remember the worthy things about that which you have left behind.
Leave the circle, and continue up the trail.
It's getting steeper now, and you are feeling fine, but have to slow down a bit and struggle a bit to keep on moving upward. At a point which is half-way up the mountain, you come to a place where a large rock rears up from the ground, casting an inviting shadow, and providing a convenient back-rest. You sit down with your back against the stone, feeling its smoothness, coolness. You can smell the warm rock where the sun is hitting it, and hear the sound of the wind in the grasses and stones on the mountain. Looking out from where you sit, you can see the valley below - the one you left just a short time ago - and the brook glistens like a shiny crystal ribbon amid the riot of greens.
You have been taught all your life that intellect is supreme, yet just intellect without compassion or love can be as limiting as carrying your boulder up the mountain! Ask yourself what you need to let go of intellectually in order to continue your journey up the mountain. You may be surprised that some things you thought of as your greatest strengths will now be revealed as being weakness...indeed, there is a strong and a weak side to everything! Place any and all of the blocks you note on an intellectual level into your crystal, and dispose of them as you did before.
You get up, feeling rested and much better, and again leave an offering of tobacco or sweetgrass at the base of the boulder.
You walk on up the mountain, and the path is now narrow and very steep. You walk carefully, steadily, and you are happy. Just before the last rise of the mountain peak, there is a place where you can rest. You are sitting nearly on top of the world here - your feet can hang out where only air separates you from the valley floor. You have no feelings of fear - you know you are safe up here on the mountainside.
This is a time to ask yourself what you need to let go of spiritually, in order to continue your journey. Listen to the voices inside you, and any guidance that comes from outside. Put all of these things into the crystal, and dispose of them as before. When you are done, you have such a feeling of joy and ease! Put a pinch of your offering in the place where you have been sitting. Stretch and loosen up your muscles a moment, and continue your journey.
The clouds that once seemed so high over your head are now within your reach. Your trail ends abruptly, and you look around. You made it! You are standing on top of your mountain - the highest point. The sky is still blue, and yet tiny stars twinkle overhead. The wind is brisk here - chilly almost, but it feels good to you. The valley below is far away and tiny - looking like a child's smallest toys.
This is the journey of your life, and also of every day of your life. Every choice, every anchor, every connection you have has some connection to this mountain and your journey. Remember that. Know that everything connects on this mountain path of your life's journey.
Look around you now at the top of your mountain. There are flowers here - blue ones. The air is sparkling clear like nothing you can find in a city. The evergreen trees lend a fragrance to the air that is refreshing. See, smell, hear, and touch all these things. Be aware of this as a real place - one that you can continue to use whenever you need to. One you will ultimately conquer many times, as you have today.
A sparkle on the ground catches your eye, and you look down. There is a crystal there - made of light and air and all the parts of your journey here. It is breathtakingly beautiful. You reach down and pick up the crystal. Hold it to your heart for a moment - then hold it up in the rays of sunlight. As you do this, a rainbow of color spills from the crystal, bathing you in its light. Inside your heart, a prayer is forming - a prayer for balance and harmony, a prayer that you find and take your rightful place in the universe.
Listen to your inner voice, trust your inner feelings. Believe that harmony and balance are not only possible, but available to you, if you will only remember this journey!
Leave a pinch of tobacco or sweetgrass at the place where the crystal came from. It is now time to begin your journey down the mountain.
You travel lighter, faster, and happier than you have done in the past, carrying your crystal from the mountain top.
As you pass each point where you left behind something, touch the crystal to your heart chakra, remember the lesson, and give thanks.
As you reach the tree at the bottom of the mountain, you notice that the shadows have lengthened and the sun is moving toward setting. It's time to be going home again. Let the blue sky, the warm golden sun, and the green of the grassy plain soak into you for a few moments, like recharging a battery. Hear the brook by your feet, and feel the breeze as it whispers goodbye.
Now realize you are back in your own world, your own place, in your own body. Open your eyes, and recognize your surroundings. Bring yourself fully back into the present.
The special crystal that you received on your mountain journey is one which is used only on the other side. Anytime you journey or travel there, you have only to remember where you "keep it" - a medicine pouch or your pocket, or whatever - and it will be there. It is not necessary to have a counterpart for it on this side, although one may find you some day!
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Post by Suzie on Oct 5, 2006 23:22:14 GMT
I don't know if anyone has tried Salvia Divinorum, I have and my experience was not a great one.
After smoking it I felt like I was walking sideways, hope that makes sense. My skin felt like it had a thousand tiny needles in it, all jabing at once. I have known others that it took them to a different place, and had a good experience, I was not so lucky.
So please be careful, you could have a bad time with it like I did. I was so glad when it was over and I will NEVER do it again.
SeaGlass
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Post by shiro on Oct 6, 2006 5:07:36 GMT
shamanism... i've always seen it as the way of people who are more attuned to the spirit world, who are in tune with the spirit in all things. they see, in the spirits of everything, guides and companions, advisors and kin. they are those who live simultaneously in our world and the world a half-step away from our own. there are many shamanic paths, and i believe there are even modern shamans, who are in tune to the spirits of technology and the modern world. (yeah, sounds weird... but well... that's what early afternoon musing can do to you. )
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Post by paulford on Feb 16, 2007 19:40:45 GMT
Traditionally the shaman, would and will start his journey under the tuition of an elder.Intially you would be required to firstly identify the plants, to be able to identify and locate each individual plant species.The apprentice would then build a relationship with the plants over a period of time, it isnt a case of simply finding yourself a handful of leaves and boiling them up.Harvesting the plant in itself is sacred, the preparation of the plant may take many hours, Ayuahasca is a plant that is used by Shamans in South America.The plant is harvested and cooked for several hours until it is deemed ready for consumption. It is believed that each plant has its own associated spirit and the apprentice has to be able to call upon this spirit and make himself know with it, build a rapport with it and be able to work with it. Over a period of time the shaman will consume the plant, and over a period of time plants and plant spirit knowledge is accessed and gained by the apprentice.It is not until the apprentice is fully aware of what each plant can do,and to what level.Then only can the apprentice be called upon for healing.Initiation into this way of life comes through the consumption of plants and experiencing first hand to how the plant works.The shaman has to learn and be able to gain control of himself, the plant spirit and so too assist any person who has consumed plants with hope of personal healing. The pathway is lengthy and cannot be rushed. Plants are teachers to be respected and not abused.If you are considering walking the pathway, then it would be advisable to seek guidance from experienced people.If you cannot find the guidance then the consumption of plants is to be in moderation and increased over a period of time.like Reiki the greatest gains are made from knowing yourself, the energy you work with and the operation of.
Paul ;D
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Post by Lady Skydancer on Mar 17, 2007 1:01:09 GMT
Chynacariba,
Are you the woman I used to correspond with and attuned a few years ago? Your name was slightly different then.
Why don't you rejoin the forum?
Blessings,
Lady Skydancer x
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Post by Suzie on Mar 24, 2007 3:33:40 GMT
Oregon is one of several states trying to ban the legal sale of Salvia Divinorum because of it's hallucinogen effects.
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Post by Lina on Mar 24, 2007 9:01:40 GMT
Jeez.... I guess I have to grow my own before they try to ban it here as well.
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Post by Suzie on Mar 25, 2007 0:34:16 GMT
Lina, I wouldn't worry about it. I am surprised that Oregon is trying to ban it since we are one of a few states that have medical marijuana in effect.
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