Shamanic Spirituality Workshop

Shamanic spirituality is an open door to the spirit world, there is no line of division between the spiritual and the mundane because the two are parts of the whole. One is as valid as the other when it comes to the physical and spiritual realities. One cannot exist without the other and therefore they interweave themselves in daily life where there is no delineation. To the western mind that’s not been the perception and they are seen as separate when in truth the spiritual and physical realms are One.

The Native Medicine Chiefs and Holy People are commonly sought for their gifts and abilities as Seers, Healers, Dreamwalkers, finders of lost people or things, those who touch the lives within their communities in a sacred way. Medicine Men and Women are honored among them, sought by all when there is need, and without the dogmatic restrictions of those outside this cultural lifestyle to hinder them, the perceptions of enlightenment are a part of daily life within the cultural bounds.

It is in the Native teachings I have been blessed to receive that I found the ways to explain the things I had been experiencing all my life. I found teachings that could take me deeper into the understanding I already held but had no name for. It is where I found like-minded individuals who were willing to embrace me and foster my growth. I’d found my path to true enlightenment and that hasn’t changed, I’m still evolving with it. Those teachers and friends who crossed my path nodded when I told my stories and expressed my abilities. They understood and embraced them, nodding when I told them about my Guides, my Helpers from the elemental worlds, about the Wind that Danced and played with me and told me things as a child and they shared their stores with me. They nodded when I talked about shifts in time and how time stopped or slowed down so that I could take in the Now of the moment fully or be taken on journeys to distant dimensions where more teachers presented themselves. They shared similar stories… their Medicine Stories.

They understood the things I didn’t and they explained them to me, and they understood the things I was being shown and helped me assimilate them. They blessed me in so many ways knowing I was to carry these teachings to others. They understood when I shared that I’d been told to be a Bridge…a bridge to enlightenment to serve others and they helped me prepare for that. Blessed? You bet I was! Our guidance comes in many forms, Totems, Spirit Helpers, dimensional entities, Spirit Keepers, Master Teachers, Ascended Masters, Angelic Beings, as well as the people we meet. The list is a long one and all these sources of connectivity are there waiting for you to tap into them. Imagine what it is like when you choose to open your mind to embracing them and that you can do so.

These sources of guidance bring us enlightenment. They shine a light in the darkness of the unknown and help us find our way to where truths reside. They help us through the transitions, transformations, and evolutionary phases of our earthwalk as we grow from a child to an adult to an elder. They assist us through our experiences and lessons, teach us how to work with our abilities and co-create, manifest, or bring about changes that serve the path we walk and those who walk it with us. Enlightenment is found through them.

Universal consciousness is the source of stored knowledge for all that has ever been or will be. It is something we can tap into as we seek to find our answers, to reach a state of enlightened understanding. Just as we receive our enlightenment and share it with those we are close to when we can, the spirit within becomes enlightened by its physical experience of life and shares that with the spirit group. It deposits the information into Universal Consciousness at the same time. This repository of knowledge and understanding is there for all of us; it’s a part of the Oneness. You can learn to tap into it from any tradition you so choose to follow. It exists for the greater good of all of us as we learn to walk between the worlds.

What does it mean to walk between the worlds? It means that we become aware of our Inner Spirit, our guidance, our sensory impressions, tapping Universal Consciousness when needed, and putting that knowledge in our conscious awareness on a daily basis. Knowing we can do this, we remain open for the tap on the shoulder from a Spirit Helper or a sign that is sent to us as a marker along the course of the day. It’s walking in awareness that spiritual realms are as much a part of the physical reality as the physical reality is a part of them. It’s walking in the awareness that in the duality is the Oneness—that the veil between the worlds is an illusion of forgetfulness the mind has created and one that can be parted with the simple desire to embrace the truth and a desire to learn to do so.

Walking between the worlds is keeping an eye, ear and foot firmly placed in both the physical and spiritual realms of life. Oh, does that sound like a lot of work? It’s no different than the mother doing her housework while her children are playing in another room…she knows when she needs to set down the dishtowel and go check on them or tend to an upset. It’s no different than a man driving down the road hearing a new sound in the engine and knowing he needs to pull over immediately to tend a problem, perhaps tighten a belt and then get on with things. It’s no different than a student engrossed in a book waiting for a friend to join them in the lunchroom, when the friend arrives the student’s focus shifts. It’s no different than chewing gum and walking at the same time.

We are so capable of multi-level multi-tasking and we don’t even notice we’re doing it. Raising conscious awareness to see that we do it all the time in one form or another is going to help you see that you can walk between the worlds just as easily. It’s like breathing once you see this and takes no more effort than that. Walking between the worlds keeps our awareness tuned into the taps from guidance, the bits of enlightenment we encounter here and there, the signs along the way to help us steer our courses. Raising our awareness to see that both worlds are active at all times allows us to shift focus between them as needed and to remain connected to both in the Oneness by choice. It’s that simple…it’s a choice.

Why not choose to open your mind to receive enlightenment, learn to journey shamanically, to do research and explore dimensionally, and to work with the many Spirit Helpers that have come to journey with you? Why not? There is so much more to life than the eye can see…until it’s trained to see in a new way that is. Learning to see between the worlds, to hear between them, to walk between them, to sense their presence all around you is a beautiful and vibrant way of living life to its fullest. It’s also an asset as a way of achieving all that you potentially can. Why not turn the key in your locked mind and open the door to enlightenment? The choice is up to you.