What is a Shaman? What is Shamanism?

Since a person who appeared to be dressed supposedly as a shaman gained world media attention during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol incident, I would like to firmly state, that he and that in which he participated, is NOT a shaman nor representative of shamanism. That is, he has done a great disservice by misrepresenting a shaman for those are being exposed to a shaman and shamanism for the first time.

Shamanism is, in fact, the model upon which all healing modalities exist today including allopathic modern medicine which due to the lobbying and infiltrating of the medical school by BIG Pharma, has reduced many doctors to sales reps for often toxic, body harming meds and vaccines.

The shaman is the oldest role in society. They served and still serve as healing guides, storytellers, musicians, priests and priestesses, guides of rites of passage, visionaries, and tribe therapists. The mindset of a shaman is that everything is connected by a creative force that dwells within and out of everything. The human being never “fell” from Eden nor is the human being separate from God. The Shaman works with the energy of All That Is, for a less charged title than God, and in individuals, more specifically, this energetic body is known as the Luminous Energy Field. Since all energy is nonlocal, the person may be in front of the shaman or thousands of miles away. Einstein would call it E=MC2, and Nikola Tesla has said “if you wish to understand the Universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration”. Shaman have been intuitively working with these concepts for millennia.

Rather than dominate in a predatory way the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, the Shaman senses the connection and deeply honors the role each plays for connecting to the invisible worlds as part of of him or herself. The shaman had a holistic image of life before modernity coined the term holistic as integrating body, mind, soul, and spirit. For the shaman, these levels of consciousness are called serpent, jaguar, hummingbird, and eagle.

The serpent slithers upon the ground, is legless, and therefore, deeply connected to Earth, the purely material and physical realm. A serpent also sheds its skin when it has outgrown it thereby representing all that we need to let go of from our past to evolve.

The jaguar has no predators and is therefore, fearless and teaches us to not have any enemies, especially those within ourselves which we tend to project onto others. This represents our emotional/mental aspects that we over fuel by keeping them alive and reliving them through dramas. Jaguar reminds us to allow the emotions and thoughts to exist without over feeding them. Starved, they will die, and so death becomes a healthy process of life and not something to fear. By letting go of that which no longer serves us, lightened our energetic load, and quite literally become en-lightened.

Hummingbird, a winged one, represents our soul level and the remembering of divine aspect that courageously chose to incarnate into “smallness” from its All That Is state. This small creature undertakes great feats of flying great distances despite the impossibility and challenges. This is the leap of faith to go towards new horizons. It is the hero’s journey we must choose to take to realize in this physical realm the greatness we have always been.

Then, there is Eagle level, representing our visionary, angelic aspect by living out our greatest destiny and creating a future for the highest good of all. Eagle connects to the divine worlds and allows us a God’s eye perspective on our lives. This is the alchemical level in which we can consciously prepare our transmution of our earthly form into our luminous eternal form.

The shaman guides through the different worlds: the lower, middle and upper. The lower world represents our unconscious, subconscious in which all our suppressed memories and traumas are stored. The effects of these traumas cause aspects of ourselves to fragment, and we lose access to them. A shaman then journeys to the lower world, in a soul retrieval or what I prefer to call a soul reintegrating, because the soul does not leave as it is who we are. The middle world is the world we live in and the shaman does illuminations on our blocked energy centers in a relaxed state, so the body naturally heals. In the upper worlds the shaman can reconnect us to our spiritual parents and retrieve our destinies.

This gives a basic overview of what shamanism is and what shamans do. Probably, the most essential aspect is that the shaman must first heal him/herself before guiding others. This is the universal principle of one cannot love others without first loving oneself. This is a general overview of what shamanism is, these points will be further elaborated in other blogs.

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