Dear Shamanic Community,
The shamanic path teaches us responsibility to the collective dream we live within. It calls us to recognize our part in creating injustices in our communities, to take action to make amends, and to participate in creating a new and better way forward.
The task of a shamanic activist starts with looking within and listening — connecting to Spirit, calling on our guides to show us where our own work is, and asking Spirit to illuminate a path of beneficial service. And then, when we have a clear sense of knowing, to take prayerful Spirit-guided action.
This isn’t a one and done task. It is a task to visit over and over again until a new and just world is created. And just as each new step can begin with listening to our spirit guides, it can also begin with listening to the way Spirit speaks through the many voices of wisdom on our planet. Here are a few places you might start:
- How To Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
- List of Anti-Racism Resources including books, podcasts, movies, articles, etc. compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
- Kojo For Kids Jason Reynolds Talks About Racism And The Protests
- Stone Soup A Child’s View of the Death of George Floyd
Black Lives Matter. May we all make steps toward creating a better way.
The Staff & Board of SSP
Thank You. The desire is clean. The momentum is deep. We the People will Vote.
The article on calling our spirit guides to end racism is very touching. There are some of us who have racial descrimination in some parts of the world. The article is very educative on how to create justice in our communities.
The Society for Shamanic Practice staff have asked us to avoid racism to contribute to the formation of a just equitable society and decolonize our minds, souls and bodies on a deeper level inorder to be brothers and sisters all over the world. Thanks for your good work.