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…much GRATITUDE for sharing one of many teachings that Hank (with Jill) offered his students during his 25+ year tenure as a “Shamanist”, scholar, and teacher.
Over the years I was privileged to attend many of Hank’s workshops throughout the US and quickly acquired an affinity for his professorial style of teaching. Always deliberative in his choice of words and phrasing which yielded a mesmerizing cadence and discernible gravitas to his every spoken word.
I considered Hank my most revered teacher in Shamanism, and it remains so, to this day.
His crossing to the “other side camp” has created a void yet to be filled. A’ho!
I’ve respected Hank and his work for decades, and his insights about our triune souls are important for all of us who are healers. One small clarification I’d like to offer. Hank writes, “..authentic spiritual wisdom is a fluid process (a verb) that shifts and changes as it moves across time, not a set of rules or scriptures (a noun) that is fixed and immutable such as the Sutras, Talmud, Bible, Ku’ran, Vedas, and the Upanishads.” As a practitioner of Jewish shamanic healing, I have to say that the Talmud isn’t a set of fixed rules at all– it’s an ongoing conversation, literally over millennia; there’s no such thing as Jewish dogma or a “rule” without exception. Everything is up for discussion (and sometimes disagreement!)
But what’s really cool is that in Jewish tradition, people have three souls also– nefesh (sort of a body soul), ruach (a breath/emotion soul) and neshamah (sort of a true-self soul). [We also have chaya (a life-force aura) and diyokna (an astral body), but that’s a different topic.) This is an old tradition, over 2500 years, so it goes back to tribal times.
Thanks to Hank for all he’s done for us! More power to him!
The article on Hawaiian Perspectives on the Matrix of the Soul is very educative spiritually. Hank Wesselman has done wonderful work for explaining the existence of body and soul in accordance with his experience in Ethiopia and Hawaii.
After reading through his explanation of how body and soul are related and the aspect of physical body, mind and spirit I felt enlightened and given new knowledge I never had before. I thank Hank for the good work which will help many people spiritually.