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Thanks for contributing your valuable insights to illuminate this subject Christina, which is especially important to neophytes like me. Shamanism is results oriented, so my view is quite simple; If you can do the work, you can claim the title.
I found journeying to be a natural spiritual process that many human spirits have discovered intuitively, regardless of cultures. Look at how easily we fall into it in the very first workshop…much easier than swimming.
We experience altered states of consciousness many times in the course of a day without noticing, because we have become conditioned to not notice.
“To build an authentic shamanic culture out of our current contemporary lives will seem insane every step of the way“ —
… our natural ‘initiates’ almost always end up in the mental health system diagnosed as mentally ill, when these individuals free themselves … our shamanic understanding will once again establish itself. There are those who learn how to play the guitar, and those who were born to play.
Awesome thank you!
Thanks Christina! Very astute comments, particularly about distinctions between journeying as a shamanic skill that isn’t dressed in a particular culture and the necessity of honoring this practice when it is a strong tradition of a particular indigenous culture.
Dear Christina, Thank you for this! “Living authentically is not comfortable. One great misunderstanding is the belief that once I find my authentic self, everything will be slick as spit. My heart will always be singing in all that I do and I will manifest everything that I ever wanted. Actually living the life of your authentic self is a constant challenge.”
My reality of hiding from this authentic life is even more damaging and less fun than the challenge we get once we dare to try to allow our real feeling self to be in the forefront (that’s authentic to me). Once we are more connected and doing the work the universe opens up to us more and more. But I understand your message to mainstream and dull-down any of these possibilities is totally inauthentic.
Also too bad that dead arguments still exist as to who gets to be doing shamanic work and who is a fraud based on your country and culture. Makes no sense to life itself.