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Category: Shaman
Energetic Cleansing Methods
An expansion of a 2017 post on smoke cleansing, this time with more nuance and detail on energetic cleansing vs grounding and centering.
Sage and Smudging
How to perform a smoke cleanse; why is sage smudging culturally appropriative, and how do you avoid being negative towards other cultures?
Intuition and Divination
There is something special about being able to deeply connect to the divine, to the spirit world. In both Zen Buddhism and Shamanism, there’s a belief in the unseen. You only have to look just one layer removed from everyday awareness to find the real of the spirits, devas and djinn, greater and lesser entities…
The Give-Away
Let me start by acknowledging right up front that I’m not a member of a First Nations Tribe, so any understanding that I have of First Nations spirituality is to be taken with a huge helping of salt. The give-away is a spiritual practice for First Peoples that was outlawed for many years in a…
Healing the Community
The role of a Shaman is that of a healer. Shamans heal people, communities, systems, the world as a whole… As such, their healing is an expression of compassion. We’ve already discussed Idiot Compassion, the notion that sometimes the most compassionate thing you can do for another human being is to ignore what they’ve asked…
Right View for Shamans
In Buddhism we have the Noble Eightfold Path, which lays out the steps needed to live a worthy life. Taken as a whole, the Noble Eightfold Path is an entire system that explains and directs the practitioner in how to live their entire life. Shamanism has no centralized set of beliefs like the Noble Eightfold…
Zazen for Shamans
To sit zazen is to meditate on the nature of existence. For a shamanic practitioner, meditating on the nature of existence means working to get in touch with all the aspects and layers of reality. Zen teaches that the ultimate nature of reality is illusion, with reality being thing/no-thing beyond ordinary comprehension, available through the…
Shamanic Energy Work
My friends are my tribe, the people I think of as family, extended community, my people. They’re mine, I keep them, and I do work to help ensure that they are happy and content. At least work to alleviate their suffering, if nothing else. A Shaman takes care of the spirit world in their community,…
Eat With Gratitude
In Shamanic practice, all things have a spirit and a soul, including the food we eat. When we eat, the food that we take in gives us nourishment and sustenance, giving up it’s existence in order to help sustain ours. Because we completely consume the energy of our food, it’s important to remember to be…
Zen Shaman 