Shamanica Institute

07/22/2025

In this gathering, we will continue to explore the timeless principles of Karma and Dharma, and the deep connection between them—how unconscious patterns shape our path, and how conscious choice can realign us with our deeper purpose.

Karma & the Unconscious
Karma is often the result of unconscious actions—patterns, reactions, and choices made without awareness. These actions are usually:
-Driven by past wounds, conditioning, or survival mechanisms.
-Repetitive and automatic, looping through lifetimes or generations.
-Rooted in unresolved emotional, ancestral, or collective material.
In this sense, karma accumulates when we act from the shadow or the autopilot of the psyche.
The key idea is: "You reap what you sow"—not as a moral judgment, but as a mechanism for growth.

Dharma & the Conscious
Dharma arises when we begin to act from awareness, listening to the deeper intelligence within. It involves:
-Responding instead of reacting.
-Aligning with values, intuition, and integrity.
-Living from the Self, not the ego.
Conscious action is dharmic action—it breaks old cycles and brings healing, not just to the individual, but to the world around them.

Bridging the Two
The shift from karma to dharma is essentially the journey from unconsciousness to consciousness.
From a Jungian view, karma could resemble unconscious complexes or shadow material, while dharma is the process of individuation—stepping into the Self and fulfilling one’s deeper purpose.

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07/13/2025

Karma, Dharma, and the End of Worlds: Cycles of Collapse and Return

In a world undergoing rapid transformation, ancient wisdom offers a compass for navigating both personal and collective evolution. At this meetup we will explore four powerful archetypal forces — Karma, Dharma, Apocalypse, and Apokatastasis — as interconnected patterns within the psyche and cosmos.

We will look at:
- Karma as the result of action — psychological, ancestral, and energetic — that shapes our experience and repeats in cycles until brought to awareness.
- Dharma as our deeper calling — not solely duty, but the soul’s alignment with truth, balance, and service to life.
- Apocalypse not as destruction, but revelation — the tearing of old veils, the death of false identities, the collapse of illusion.
- Apokatastasis, the forgotten promise of restoration — a return to original wholeness, where all that was fragmented is reintegrated and redeemed.

Drawing from Jungian psychology, shamanic traditions, and mystical theologies, we will explore how these forces manifest in our personal stories, in the state of the world, and in the deeper process of spiritual evolution.

We will reflect on questions like:
— What must end in me for something true to begin?
— How do I meet collapse without bypassing it?
— Are apocalypse and apokatastasis sequential or independent?
— What are the shamanic practices that can facilitate those two processes?

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07/06/2025

The theme for this week is Possession and the Loss of Self: When we are no longer at the center of ourselves.

What speaks through our anger, our addiction, our obsession, and our overwhelming pain?

In both shamanic traditions and depth psychology, possession is not simply about spirits or pathology—it is about the loss of center, the moments when we are no longer fully ourselves. Whether it’s called spirit intrusion, archetypal inflation, ancestral burden, or psychic fragmentation, the core experience is the same: something else has taken over.

In this presentation, we will explore possession as a cross-cultural and psychological phenomenon. We’ll look at how shamans work to identify and extract foreign energies from the energetic body, and how Jung understood possession as being overtaken by unconscious complexes and archetypes..

Themes we’ll explore:
-What is possession? A shamanic and Jungian definition
- When trauma leaves us open to intrusion or fragmentation
- How possession may manifest through addiction, emotional dysregulation, or toxic relationships
-Shadow projection and ancestral entanglements
- Shamanic tools for extraction and re-centering
- Jung’s view of “complexes” as psychic entities with their own will

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06/30/2025

This week we will continue with discussing a few concepts that are important to understand in our spiritual journey. We will do so from the Hermetic perspective and also from the Shamanic standpoint.

- Understanding the impact of trauma - trauma-influenced decisions and free will; the impact of trauma on physical health, mental health, and social interactions

- Healing deep trauma, Jungian complexes, spirit possessions, arcanas, and the shamanic techniques employed in this transformative work

- Pathological behavior and the forces behind it - how emotional wounds shape our personalities and behaviors. We will look at five key emotional injuries—rejection, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal, and injustice—that originate in early life and significantly influence how we perceive ourselves and interact with the world. These injuries are linked to specific masks or personas we develop as coping mechanisms: the rejected person becomes the escapee, the abandoned the dependent, the humiliated the ma*****st, the betrayed the controller, and the unjustly treated the rigid perfectionist.

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06/23/2025

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Map of Consciousness, Death & Transformation

What if death is not an end, but a passage?
What if the states described in The Tibetan Book of the Dead are not only about physical dying, but also about the little deaths we experience through trauma, ego dissolution, and rebirth?

In this meetup we will explore this sacred text not as a religious manual, but as a mythic map of the psyche—one that guides us through dissolution, disorientation, and reintegration. Drawing from both shamanic traditions and depth psychology, we will reflect on the bardos (intermediate states) as stages of personal transformation that can be experienced in dreams, altered states, deep grief, or rites of passage.

We will also touch on experiences such as astral travel and sleep paralysis—phenomena often feared or misunderstood in modern culture, yet long acknowledged in spiritual traditions as signs of consciousness moving through liminal spaces or bardos.

Themes we will explore:
- The Bardos as inner landscapes of the soul
- Psychological “deaths” and ego surrender
- The confrontation with projection and shadow
- Rebirth and integration through ritual and symbolic guidance
- Parallels between Tibetan, Jungian, and shamanic cosmologies

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06/16/2025

The spiritual roots of mental disorders go far deeper than diagnostic labels. From a shamanic perspective, what we often call mental illness is not a malfunction, but a spiritual crisis — a calling for healing. Pathological behaviors may be the surface expression of deeper forces: ancestral wounds, soul loss, unintegrated shadow, or spirit intrusions. In indigenous traditions, these symptoms are not silenced — they are honored and listened to. The depression, the anxiety, the negative emotions — all are messengers from the soul or from the unseen world, asking us to realign with our true path.

Sometimes, a breakdown is not the end — it's the beginning. What feels like falling apart may actually be the unraveling of old identities, illusions, and survival strategies that no longer serve us. In many shamanic paths, this descent is seen as an initiation — a rite of passage. The darkness is not there to destroy us, but to initiate us into a deeper relationship with the soul. When met with compassion and skilled support, these moments of collapse can become gateways to profound healing and awakening.

But this journey is not meant to be walked alone. The right environment — one rooted in safety, sacredness, and deep listening — is essential. And just as our ancestors relied on shamans and elders to guide them through the unseen realms, we too need wise support to navigate these liminal spaces. With the right guidance, what once felt like chaos becomes clarity, and what once felt broken becomes the seed of something whole.

If you're feeling called to explore these deeper layers of your being and reclaim your path of healing, join us in sacred circle.

Looking forward to seeing you!
Dan Motoc

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06/13/2025

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06/12/2025

05/02/2025

In this meeting we will explore the role of psychedelics in today’s culture and introduce a practical 10-Point Framework for Integration—offering tools to help make sense of and integrate psychedelic experiences into daily life.

From a shamanic perspective, the key distinction between using psychedelics for spiritual growth and using them as mere drugs lies in intention, sacredness, and integration.

When approached with purpose and commitment, psychedelics become a tool for deep healing and self-discovery. In contrast, recreational use often lacks direction, leading to escapism rather than transformation. While both may induce altered states of consciousness, one is a path to wisdom, while the other risks disconnection and fragmentation.

Used with care and respect, psychedelics can be portals to profound healing. But the key lies not merely in the substance itself, but in the sacrality of the experience—the container in which it unfolds. It is the sacredness of the experience—not the intensity of it—that makes it truly transformative.

Integration is the most crucial phase of a psychedelic journey. The real transformation happens not during the experience but afterward, when insights are processed and applied to daily life. Shamanic traditions and spiritual seekers emphasize the importance of being in a healthy environment, engaging in intentional reflection, and embodying newfound insights, to ensure that the wisdom gained becomes a part of your being.

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04/25/2025

If you know better, you should act better. Minimize that gap—it will be your own salvation. You can redeem yourself. For if you know better but don’t become it—if you ignore it repeatedly—a gap begins to grow between what you know and who you are, between what you know and how you act.

That gap becomes the cesspool from which catalysts will emerge. Keep that cesspool minimal. Collapse the distance between what you know and who you are. When that distance collapses, no new karma is created. And there’s no longer a need for catalysts that bring suffering.

The more this gap grows—the more you know, and the less you implement what you know—the less consistent and congruent you become with what you recognize as highest or best.

If you know there is poison in the cup, don’t sabotage yourself. Stay present with what you know—so you can avoid drinking from that cup.

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04/25/2025

Exiting the Labyrinth of the Mind

The labyrinth is one of humanity’s oldest symbols of entrapment and transformation. In mythology, it holds the Minotaur—the shadow we must face. Psychologically, it represents the complex inner architecture of thought loops, trauma patterns, self-sabotage patterns, and unconscious defenses that can trap us in suffering.

In this discussion, we will explore the labyrinth as a metaphor for the psyche—its twists and turns, its hidden dangers, and the deep instinct to escape or transcend it. From a Jungian perspective, we will examine the relationship between the labyrinth and the unconscious, and how facing the inner “Minotaur” can lead to integration and renewal. From a mythological perspective, we’ll revisit figures like Theseus, Ariadne, and Daedalus, uncovering insights into the challenges and potential of navigating the mind’s inner maze.

We will also address a crucial psychological reality: the risk of collapse when one becomes lost in the labyrinth. We’ll discuss signs of fragmentation, existential fatigue, or spiritual bypassing—and share simple but powerful tools to re-orient, self-regulate, and find threads of meaning that can lead us out.

This is a space for those who are deep in the process, holding questions, seeking clarity, or walking the edge between confusion and breakthrough.

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