Consciously engage in this moment

Notice regardless of what we encounter, a shamanic initiation mirrors our own healing journey. Initiation is also a metaphor for the journey of transformation we are now making and experiencing through the matrix of the Earth, planetary and cosmic environments. More than ever, each of us benefit from stepping up into new levels of initiation, going deeper into our psyche, working out how we really process energies in this world. The point is to grow familliar with strong forces that when misused can hurt ourselves, others, prevent us from seeing beyond.

The classic shamanic initiation involves the experience of a catastrophe, mental and physical suffering. Heredity may come into play, signs at birth, a gift detected in childhood, a realization arising from a pivotal ceremony, vision quest, our response to the crisis of someone we know. However it comes, we accept or resist the information we bring to the surface of ourselves for healing. Every thought and feeling is directing and redirecting the course of our existence.

My experience is genuine initiation begins as unforeseen crisis, but this is actually the tip of the iceberg. Our illusions are systematically called into question, until we dismantle them and let go. Encounters with illness, suffering, and death, not only open other worlds to the shaman within, they also ground the work of social, personal, and environmental healing. Our personal reality is shaken up when we are ready. Everything prepares us for the unforeseen.

We share our journey with mythic heroes, those who have had death-rebirth experiences in rites of passage, the posthumous journey of the soul, clinical death experiences and LSD or other hallucinogenic experiences, and to what one can encounter in deep spiritual and meditation practices. Its all here right now.

To embark on a shamanic journey offers us insight into human development, evolution, devolution, and society's relationship to nature. This guides us to understand social values as they are reflected in art, myth and shape our relationship with the Earth.  It is significant to understand what happens in the journey of unravelling our crisis because we are undergoing this on a personal, collective (global) and cosmic levels simultaneously.We a re a filter for energy flow until the filter is no longer.

At some stage it dawns, for initiation to be effective, it must be entered personally, whoelheartedly, not thru heresay. It is an experience that does not function at a distance but under the skin of each the energy passes through. The benefits of initiation only arise as the path is directly experienced and known. Its visceral and energetic language flows through the body. When one is ready, opportunity is knocking. Everyone is chosen but not everyone hears the call. Opportunity passes through our timelines and experiences again and again in varied forms.  Consciously engage in this moment.  Watch that happens.

Shamans are conscious shapeshifters.  This requires the ability to transcend our attachments (ego) to identity and who we are. To move through attachment to labeling self and openly letting go of identity, we can be virtually anybody. We can slip in and out of different shells, masks, even different animal forms or deity forms. 

Shatter myths & decipher taboos

No time like the present to be aware you create myths and ideas of taboos in your life. Notice when a sense of restlessness arises. Its a pointer. Imagine how empowering it is to recognize how you adopt beliefs and what prompts you to feel its time to let them go. Every thought and feeling is a gift to be unwrapped. Decide each one serves you.

Consider everything you see through physical eyes actually resonates sounds beyond what you are conditioned to hear. As you raise awareness, you sense everything is light that vibrates at a certain frequency. Spoken words, thoughts, and feelings also have tones. You can come to recognize vibrations of love and acceptance and whatever blocks them. Get ready to take responsibility for creating realities you vibrate into being. At any moment, you can make a new choice. Changing your attitude changes your perception. See through filters of fear. Be loving and change your sense of reality.

On another level, your body is full of geometry. It is constantly transforming from the inside based on your thoughts, words, action and inaction. Your entire body can be mapped according to sounds. It automatically grows toward the ideal unless something (i.e. "you") get in the way. Thoughts affect various organs and the senses too. You use sounds internally and externally. A simple sound can reorganize the body's cellular structure. Specific sounds activate and heal the body. Explore what it is to be more aware of a range of sound frequencies. Discover how every choice you do and do not make contributes to your own sense of limitation or limitlessness right now.

Shatter your own myths

Take this opportunity to raise awareness and shatter at least one of your own myths.  What do you recognize about yourself at this moment? What stands out? Share a belief, attitude or perception you outgrow.  What triggers this new perspective within you? Feel why this is perfect timing.