Shape Shifting into Soul BodyMindSpiritFollowing the Path of Primordial FeminineShaman and Mystic is congruent with multiplespiritual traditions in that the woman mustsuccessfully realize herself as her soul and transition her bodymindspirit consciousnessinto the vessel of her soul. For her soul iswhere all needed wisdom, knowledge, shamanicgifts and abilities accumulated in past lifetimesas shaman, and mystical abilities reside.Such a woman has strength, courage, endurance,and a great determination to follow the path nomatter what. She will pursue whatever initiationsmust be completed, whatever training must be accomplished, and be able to endure severe criticism.The woman on the path of the Primordial FeminineShaman and Mystic realizes that she must surrenderher ego, her psyche, her body, to her soul or she willdrop into madness and decay. Most women are subordinate within their minds tosomething, 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 haveto have been abused by someone to be a victim. Manywomen are victims to cultural definitions of womanand who she is supposed to be accordingly. In orderfor women who are filled with a great desire to followthe path of Primordial Feminine Shaman and Mysticthey must adeptly comprehend in all it's gory detailstheir subordination, then let it all dissolve and surrender to their soul. Only in this surrender will they find restoration and equality.
DreamTime & Inner SpaceThe World of the ShamanBy Holger KalweitChapter 12The Song of Power:Joy, Joy, Joy!Page 152The "song of power" lies dormant in us. It isawakened by great physical or existential sufferingand then spontaneously bursts forth from within us.In the last analysis all transpersonal experience slumbers in us, buried under thick layers of habitualand ego-oriented psychological processes. Heightenedconcentration and sharpened attention can act like adrill boring toward the center of our personality. Inthis way successive layers of ego are penetrated until the higher self, or what we might call the transpersonaldimension, is reached. The parings and shavings broughtto the surface by this drill are only a small part of this extensive realm of the psyche, but they can give rise to asong or vision which deeply transforms us by making usaware of another reality.
Unconscious Medicine WomenThere are some women who have been bornshaman who are not aware of the alchemicalprimordial feminine medicines which are withinthem and which flow through them. Becausethey are not aware and awake to these powerfulmedicines and using them to facilitate healing,transformation, peace, and harmony within All Relations and the environment they suffervarious difficulties. The difficulties vary from medicine woman to medicine woman. Some havephysical ailments and illness which cannot be diagnosed by doctors. Some have psychologicaldifficulties such as confusion, a chaotic mind,problems with focusing. Most have a partnerwhom they channel all of their medicines intoso they have no power and are co-dependent uponthis person who is the sole beneficiary of theirpowers. Which of course is harmful in many waysfor the partner. On the one hand it makes sense that these womenwould not want to follow the path of shaman in aculture that does not recognize shamanism as a viable life style or career. Unless she is willing tobe a pioneer and blaze a trail for herself there areno viable ways to make a living and support a familyas shaman within this culture. Unless the woman isvery creative and clever she has to find other ways tosupport herself in order to survive while practicingher medicines as shaman.Even so if she does not follow the path of shaman whenshe is called out by shamanic spirit family she will havesevere difficulties in her life. Medicine Women are beingcalled 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 DaughtersWho Will Transform the World and Bring Peace to All Relations
Shamans, Healers, and Medicine MenBy Holger KalweitChapter 6The Trance of Healing and the Logic of TrancePage 85Research into rhythm and sound will one day revealan entirely new picture of human consciousness. Thehuman being is essentially sound, vibration, and melody,and perhaps our consciousness frequencies can be arranged in scales. That would be the first step towardcreating a fundamental representation of consciousness.Holophonic sounds bring about synesthetic experiences;that is music is not only something we hear but somethingwe feel with our bodies and see and smell (Zuccarelli1983)....,trance states can be meaningfully and creatively appliedto 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 leadto a resurrection of the powers latent in our consciousness,a scientific renaissance in which broader forms of perceptionwould advance our research, our knowledge, and our abilityto solve problems by leaps and bounds. Indeed, the trancestate is actually the real perception of mankind. It is justthat it has been consigned to oblivion by a grand-scalecover-up strategy.
Great GrandMother Black TaraOut 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 DarknessThe Darkness of LightIn order to know darkness you have to let go ofall 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 undoingthe not doing. It's a new way of being a new way oflearning 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 TaraSacred Primordial Female Onyx Body hidden rainbows within of ancient colors singing songs of the Great Feminine Mysteries creating out of the Voidcreating out of darkness
The Shaman's RegaliaShamans, Healers, and Medicine MenBy Holger KalweitChapter 17Inverted Worlds: Shamanic ParadoxesPage 225-226For us, seeing means looking outward; for theshaman it means looking inward. That is another basic paradox of shamanism: seeingthe world with closed eyes. We speak of aninner world, but that is only metaphor. Thereis no inner and no outer. Everything lies beforeus: one is visible, one is invisible, depending on our outlook and knowledge. What we see, shamanssee too, but more vividly, with more participation,more feeling, more clarity. From this comes theirspiritual perspicacity; for this reason they see moreand differently. Perception is a sensory continuumalong which it is always possible to go further. Ourworld does not end with emotion, with concept, withgenius, with orgasm, with aesthetics, with music----these are not the final boundaries, the peaks of appreciation. Where we end, the shamanic level ofappreciation begins. Shamans remain alien to usbecause they take their first step where we dare totake our last. Their knowledge, their appreciationare 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 thinkersnor dreaming poets of the fantastic. They simply experiencea vaster world. They are not inventors of refined innerworlds. With devotion, they experience that which comes to them, and they incorporate it into their culture. Shamansdo not store up professional knowledge that they study.They do not sit at a desk in a classroom. They acquire theirhealing powers in the dimension of death, and they discoverthose powers through visions; personified nature powershave 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 beingturned inside out psychologically, according to the principle,inmost outward. Therefore they are upside-down. They arethe living embodiments of inwardness, of the hidden, theskeleton----which is why skeletons are so often depicted onshamans' drums and clothing, as symbols of their nature.The shaman is a clown, a fool, the reflection of an antimatteruniverse, a mirror image. Shamans are immune to every disease they know how to cure----how logical, really, but sostrange to us. What doctor could assert that of himself? Towhat are doctors immune? I ask----to inner knowledge?
The Extraordinary Sphere of theGreat GrandMothersThe Kashta Tua Tai Ma are revered withintheir domain as the embodiment of wisdomand knowledge which others are heading towards and growing into. Their guidanceand teaching is sought out be all becauseto have such a teacher makes the journeyso much easier, safer, and provides thepotential to go places where no one hasgone before.Most people in the world here are unable toexplore the vast reaches of the unknown territory because their ego drives and desireskeep them locked into a limited range ofconsciousness. Unable to open out from thelittle envelope of their psyche many aredoomed to limited views of life and the afterlife. Controlled by the existing systems of politics, religion, and corporations they arenot free to explore and unable to navigate theunknown territory and potentials of humankind.In order to break free and explore the vast territoryof consciousness one needs to be able to disect andfully comprehend the psyche. Then the ability toenter the pure state of consciousness (withoutthoughts, concerns, or thinking) is possible. Thispure state of consciousness from the Great Grand-Mother perspective is the gateway to the unknownterritory. Know your psyche and you are rich, allowyourself to be in dissociation, denial, self-righteousindignation, judgementalism, and ignorance of howyour psyche functions and you will always be poor. Become SuperWoman and do not let the psyche continueto maintain a place of superiority over your spiritualsoulbody consciousness and the rich lush abundantvalley of the Great GrandMothers will be within yourreach.