Woman as Shaman and Mystic

Monday, May 26, 2008

Shape Shifting into Soul BodyMindSpirit

Following the Path of Primordial Feminine
Shaman and Mystic is congruent with multiple
spiritual traditions in that the woman must
successfully realize herself as her soul and
transition her bodymindspirit consciousness
into the vessel of her soul. For her soul is
where all needed wisdom, knowledge, shamanic
gifts and abilities accumulated in past lifetimes
as shaman, and mystical abilities reside.

Such a woman has strength, courage, endurance,
and a great determination to follow the path no
matter what. She will pursue whatever initiations
must be completed, whatever training must be
accomplished, and be able to endure severe criticism.
The woman on the path of the Primordial Feminine
Shaman and Mystic realizes that she must surrender
her ego, her psyche, her body, to her soul or she will
drop into madness and decay.

Most women are subordinate within their minds to
something, whether it be partner, culture, career,
lifestyle, money, trauma memories, perpetrators,
and the list goes on and on when a woman embodies
ego identification and victimhood. You don't have
to have been abused by someone to be a victim. Many
women are victims to cultural definitions of woman
and who she is supposed to be accordingly. In order
for women who are filled with a great desire to follow
the path of Primordial Feminine Shaman and Mystic
they must adeptly comprehend in all it's gory details
their subordination, then let it all dissolve and
surrender to their soul. Only in this surrender will
they find restoration and equality.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

DreamTime & Inner Space
The World of the Shaman
By Holger Kalweit
Chapter 12
The Song of Power:
Joy, Joy, Joy!
Page 152

The "song of power" lies dormant in us. It is
awakened by great physical or existential suffering
and then spontaneously bursts forth from within us.
In the last analysis all transpersonal experience
slumbers in us, buried under thick layers of habitual
and ego-oriented psychological processes. Heightened
concentration and sharpened attention can act like a
drill boring toward the center of our personality. In
this way successive layers of ego are penetrated until
the higher self, or what we might call the transpersonal
dimension, is reached. The parings and shavings brought
to the surface by this drill are only a small part of this
extensive realm of the psyche, but they can give rise to a
song or vision which deeply transforms us by making us
aware of another reality.

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Unconscious Medicine Women

There are some women who have been born
shaman who are not aware of the alchemical
primordial feminine medicines which are within
them and which flow through them. Because
they are not aware and awake to these powerful
medicines and using them to facilitate healing,
transformation, peace, and harmony within
All Relations and the environment they suffer
various difficulties. The difficulties vary from
medicine woman to medicine woman. Some have
physical ailments and illness which cannot be
diagnosed by doctors. Some have psychological
difficulties such as confusion, a chaotic mind,
problems with focusing. Most have a partner
whom they channel all of their medicines into
so they have no power and are co-dependent upon
this person who is the sole beneficiary of their
powers. Which of course is harmful in many ways
for the partner.

On the one hand it makes sense that these women
would not want to follow the path of shaman in a
culture that does not recognize shamanism as a
viable life style or career. Unless she is willing to
be a pioneer and blaze a trail for herself there are
no viable ways to make a living and support a family
as shaman within this culture. Unless the woman is
very creative and clever she has to find other ways to
support herself in order to survive while practicing
her medicines as shaman.

Even so if she does not follow the path of shaman when
she is called out by shamanic spirit family she will have
severe difficulties in her life. Medicine Women are being
called out to do what is impossible. Which is to create and
leave a legacy behind for future generations of daughters
who will be shamans. Who will be born into a culture which
is accepting and recognizes, once again, the necessary and
indispensable shamanic medicines of the shaman woman.
So it may be impossible for us but it will be easier for our
daughters and our daughter's daughters because we have
the courage and stamina to blaze the trail.

Blessed Be the Future Generations of Shamanic Daughters
Who Will Transform the World and Bring Peace to All Relations

Friday, May 23, 2008

video

Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men
By Holger Kalweit
Chapter 6
The Trance of Healing and the Logic of Trance
Page 85

Research into rhythm and sound will one day reveal
an entirely new picture of human consciousness. The
human being is essentially sound, vibration, and melody,
and perhaps our consciousness frequencies can be
arranged in scales. That would be the first step toward
creating a fundamental representation of consciousness.
Holophonic sounds bring about synesthetic experiences;
that is music is not only something we hear but something
we feel with our bodies and see and smell (Zuccarelli1983).

...,trance states can be meaningfully and creatively applied
to many problems of our everyday lives. Indeed, if we were
to make extensive use of trance procedures in therapeutic,
pedagogical, and psychological applications, it could lead
to a resurrection of the powers latent in our consciousness,
a scientific renaissance in which broader forms of perception
would advance our research, our knowledge, and our ability
to solve problems by leaps and bounds. Indeed, the trance
state is actually the real perception of mankind. It is just
that it has been consigned to oblivion by a grand-scale
cover-up strategy.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Great GrandMother Black Tara

Out of the darkness comes laughter.

What is darkness?

Sit in the dark doing nothing for an hour.

What are your illusions about the dark?

The Light of Darkness
The Darkness of Light

In order to know darkness you have to let go of
all your definitions of dark.

If you have to ask how to do something then you
don't recognize what it is to be doing that's undoing
the not doing. It's a new way of being a new way of
learning how to be.

People live in a world of questions and answers.
Awakened Beings live in a world of Energy.

Wonder if the pitch black darkness has energy?
Wonder if the pitch black darkness has sound?

Great GrandMother Black Tara
Sacred Primordial Female Onyx Body
hidden rainbows within
of ancient colors
singing songs of the Great Feminine Mysteries
creating out of the Void
creating out of darkness


Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The Shaman's Regalia

Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men
By Holger Kalweit
Chapter 17
Inverted Worlds: Shamanic Paradoxes
Page 225-226

For us, seeing means looking outward; for the
shaman it means looking inward. That is
another basic paradox of shamanism: seeing
the world with closed eyes. We speak of an
inner world, but that is only metaphor. There
is no inner and no outer. Everything lies before
us: one is visible, one is invisible, depending on
our outlook and knowledge. What we see, shamans
see too, but more vividly, with more participation,
more feeling, more clarity. From this comes their
spiritual perspicacity; for this reason they see more
and differently. Perception is a sensory continuum
along which it is always possible to go further. Our
world does not end with emotion, with concept, with
genius, with orgasm, with aesthetics, with music----
these are not the final boundaries, the peaks of
appreciation. Where we end, the shamanic level of
appreciation begins. Shamans remain alien to us
because they take their first step where we dare to
take our last. Their knowledge, their appreciation
are boundless; their emotions border on the infinite;
their perception is a true participation in an ever-
expanding reality. Western culture takes the visible
spectrum for the entire spectrum. ...

Shamans do not think; they are neither primitive thinkers
nor dreaming poets of the fantastic. They simply experience
a vaster world. They are not inventors of refined inner
worlds. With devotion, they experience that which comes to
them, and they incorporate it into their culture. Shamans
do not store up professional knowledge that they study.
They do not sit at a desk in a classroom. They acquire their
healing powers in the dimension of death, and they discover
those powers through visions; personified nature powers
have whispered to them. Shamans do not cram by reading
piles of books; they are transformed, whether they want it
or not, not by taking in intellectual knowledge but by being
turned inside out psychologically, according to the principle,
inmost outward. Therefore they are upside-down. They are
the living embodiments of inwardness, of the hidden, the
skeleton----which is why skeletons are so often depicted on
shamans' drums and clothing, as symbols of their nature.
The shaman is a clown, a fool, the reflection of an antimatter
universe, a mirror image. Shamans are immune to every
disease they know how to cure----how logical, really, but so
strange to us. What doctor could assert that of himself? To
what are doctors immune? I ask----to inner knowledge?

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Extraordinary Sphere of the
Great GrandMothers

The Kashta Tua Tai Ma are revered within
their domain as the embodiment of wisdom
and knowledge which others are heading
towards and growing into. Their guidance
and teaching is sought out be all because
to have such a teacher makes the journey
so much easier, safer, and provides the
potential to go places where no one has
gone before.

Most people in the world here are unable to
explore the vast reaches of the unknown
territory because their ego drives and desires
keep them locked into a limited range of
consciousness. Unable to open out from the
little envelope of their psyche many are
doomed to limited views of life and the after
life. Controlled by the existing systems of
politics, religion, and corporations they are
not free to explore and unable to navigate the
unknown territory and potentials of humankind.

In order to break free and explore the vast territory
of consciousness one needs to be able to disect and
fully comprehend the psyche. Then the ability to
enter the pure state of consciousness (without
thoughts, concerns, or thinking) is possible. This
pure state of consciousness from the Great Grand-
Mother perspective is the gateway to the unknown
territory. Know your psyche and you are rich, allow
yourself to be in dissociation, denial, self-righteous
indignation, judgementalism, and ignorance of how
your psyche functions and you will always be poor.

Become SuperWoman and do not let the psyche continue
to maintain a place of superiority over your spiritual
soulbody consciousness and the rich lush abundant
valley of the Great GrandMothers will be within your
reach.