The Shaman's Journey (Part Three)

A Shaman’s Knowledge

Intent + Emotional Control + Knowledge = Shaman

There are many things a Shaman comes to know over a lifetime of learning and practice. Many of these things are impossible to explain with language. The same can be said for certain tenets in Taoism, Buddhism and other faiths and philosophies, for example, faith.

Everything is spirit. Every rock, tree, fish, animal, person, ocean, planet and universe is an active energy or spirit. The spirit or energy showing itself as a rock is not necessarily just a rock. Looks can be deceiving. But the quality or level of the spirit is evidenced in its physical form. For example, the energy of a rock is slow and at a low vibrational rate. It takes a long time to act but it vibrates for a long, long time. A butterfly has a higher and faster vibration but acts much more quickly and evolves faster.

There are also non-visible spirits in various forms. More than you can imagine. Shamans spend lifetimes learning to "see" and perform various tasks using these spiritual forms both physical and non-physical. Some of these forms are neutral and some are beneficent and some are predatory. Let’s look at the predators.

The only spiritual form that can gain "gong" or grace-the only thing we take with us from lifetime to lifetime is the human being. It is through experiencing life in all its fullness that we get the opportunity to amass "gong" or goodness. This grace or goodness allows us to evolve into more spiritual beings of greater light. So there are many entities that would do anything to have the experience you are having here on earth. All they need is for you to invite them to come into you and they can them share your experiences or use your energy and perhaps get enough of your goodness or gong to be able to incarnate into this world themselves.

They also have limited abilities and powers and they will peddle these to you so you will invite them into your life.

These abilities include the power to attract and repel, the ability of precognition or foretelling the future, as well as limited healing abilities.

A man lost his wife to breast cancer and found himself lost and lonely without her. One day he sent up a wish filled with intent and emotion for a new wife. He didn’t care what he had to do or how she would manifest. He would do anything to have a new love in his life. The entities heard this invitation and a new wife did arrive. The entities arrived as well and man felt as though he had a monkey on his back. He could not explain it and didn’t know where the feeling came from. He blamed it on feeling guilty for replacing his first wife. He started going do to the local pub to wash the feeling away in alcohol. Of course, the entities loved all this experience and the man eventually became an alcoholic. The man never knew that he intended for all this to happen and unless he met someone who could remove the entities, he was stuck.

Most disease can be traced shamanically to spirit possession. Spirit possession is included in the books of knowledge of almost all religions. Take the exorcism in the Catholic and Lutheran churches, for example. Soul retrieval is one Shamanic way to heal spirit possession. Soul retrieval can be described as a Shaman going to these spirit entities and bartering, negotiating or forcing the spirit entity to leave the person afflicted, virtually reclaiming the soul. It is highly dangerous for the Shaman, as the entities do not wish to leave and can attack the Shaman, attach to the Shaman and cause mental, physical or emotional harm. It takes an impeccable Shaman who has the knowledge, emotional control and proper intent to do this healing effectively.

Shamans also know that there are three parts to you. They are: Your self: that physical self you have known all your life Your Master Self: your higher self, that part of you connected directly to the Universal Oneness, sometimes speaking to you as a little voice inside your head or the angel on your left shoulder.

Your Second Self: on your right side who is just like you physical self-but not attached to your body. This is the self that Shamans use to travel to Inner Worlds. It just obeys what you put out for it. It is that part of you that accomplishes your intentions.

Your emotions come from your physical body. Your intentions come from your Higher Self (hopefully). Spiritual entities can attach to any of these three bodies so you must gain the knowledge necessary to guard each of them.

How do you protect yourself from these predatory spirits?With knowledge. Learn their ways and be aware of them and you can maneuver in life successfully. They are not dangerous if you know what they are and how to avoid them. If you choose to learn Shamanism, learn all you can about the Inner Worlds where they live. Find your totem animal and always travel with it as it will guide you around giving anything away to these spirits. Everyone has a totem animal and this animal travels with all three of your bodies. By being aware of your totem animal you will sense well being or fear, even in your daily life and you can respond appropriately to keep your power at all times.

But the best protection whether you practice Shamanism or not is knowledge. A Shaman is a warrior, a sorcerer, a mage, and a hunter. He is on his highest alert, fully prepared, moving deliberately with his intention held firmly in the forefront of his mind at all times, ready for anything. He is emotionally centered although feeling the excitement of the hunt and the anticipation of the successful outcome of his hunt.

No one could sneak up on a good hunter. It is he who is doing the stalking. The hunter knows his skills, has practiced a lot, and knows where to look for the game he needs. His senses are ignited and he can smell the breeze and see in low light. He also knows the danger he is in. He knows his prey may turn and kill him at any minute so to become lazy or inattentive may be lethal. He knows there is no one there to help him and he knows that he himself can do it best anyway.

He would not be a hunter if he wanted someone else to do it. You too are a hunter here on this planet. You chose to come here, to have this experience so that you could gather the one thing that you can take with you when you leave; goodness, gong, spiritual energy, light quotient. So you must develop your hunting skills impeccably. You have all the abilities that you need to gather great power here. It is your task to gain knowledge about your skills and how to use them. Skills given to you by other than your own means are just borrowed from leeching entities and are not worth the cost. Entities have nothing to offer you that you don’t already have.

A Shaman walks this dimension in pure peace and joy using his or her physical body to communicate and maintain a physical presence with emotional power Using the Master Self as the sail and rudder of life’s ship, the constant small voice of the Higher Self, intent, and the second body self to work, to create and to destroy, to attract and to repel whatever the Shaman intends with the knowledge of the Inner Worlds.

I invite you to walk the way with me through the courses I offer on Shamanism or to walk your own intended path with knowledge, emotional control and intent. Each of us must learn about his three selves as they are unique to each of us but I can light a torch along your way and you will not be alone on your journey.

Aho!

Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls

This is part three of a three part series on Shamanism.

Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls has been a practicing Shaman for over 50 years. She offers teaching, public speaking and healing to bring the ancient art of Shamanism into today’s world. She can be reached through her website at

http://www.shamanelder.com or by email at shaman@shamanelder.com Part one is entitled Intent and Part two is entitled The Value of Emotions.