A Shaman's Inner Reflection

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08/29/2022

Belonging
By Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
Last night I began to ponder once again the idea of belonging. A long-time theme and contemplation of mine. I’ve come to discover that Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs indicates belonging as one of our basic needs and close in importance as food and shelter. Belonging.
I know someone from here who was born, raised and has lived more than three quarters of their life in this place. The roots of the place and the roots of their life run deep into the land itself. One might contemplate the land and the person and wonder if they are of the land itself and the land of them. Living so long in one place affords a belonging that I can only contemplate and never experience. There is a longing in me to know this experience. Me having lived in 11 states and two countries have felt more like a gypsy or wanderer collecting places as color patches that live within me, but I never belonged to any of them.
But they walk the land and know it like the back of their hand, like their very skin. They know the sounds of the birds that belong in this place. They know the stillness in the woods and the light that comes through the tree tops of this place. They know the rustling of animals on the forest floor. They know the trees and the trees know them. The Cedar tree recognizes their walk when they arrive as does the White Oak and the Whispering Pines. They know the smell of this natural wooded place and it is home and they belong there like no other place.
They know the rivers and the winds that direct the waters and push the rivers and the waterways this way and that. They have in their mind a slideshow of a hundred sunsets over the bridge and the water at dusk on the rivers here. They know what it feels like with deep familiarity to move over the waters here and feel the sticky air and the moisture heavy on their skin from the summer heat with such familiarity that if they left it behind part of them would ache to return to it. Their discoveries as a child live in this place. Their firsts of everything live here in this place.
Their family history lives in this place. The people here are the fabric of their sense of self, their connectedness and has steered their sense of value in the world. They have loved church and Jesus and those who worship alongside them and those who have prayed for them and that they have prayed for. They have been embraced and encircled in a community that has bolstered, help to define and cared for them. And it has been encircled by music and song and melody and an open heart.
Their community knows their history, too. They are woven into the fabric of the place, the community and their family. The stories go way back. Stories that are important and vital to remember and to tell in this place. This home of theirs. Stories of family, music, community, time passing, personal and family strengths and accomplishments hang in the air like joy, and hopes, and longings, and grief, and love.
The family gatherings at full tables and babies being brought into such a rich way of being and life direct the months, the years, the decades. Their must be a deep fulfillment in this that brings a deep sense of belonging. It is a wonder to me and I ponder the belonging afforded so organically to those who have found themselves forever embraced by the land, history, community, religious fellowship, family and this place of home.
It is remarkable to witness and to have a very small window open for me to peer into their life and the feeling of this place and those who are part of all of it here and where the people and the land and the history are all intertwined in Grace and Embrace. I see the stillness of the woods in this person. It is a wonder to me, because I know this stillness, too, and it has come by such different paths. Their life is such a clear expression of belonging…belonging so deeply.
I think on this with my heart as the gypsy, the second hand rose of sorts…and I think that I have found belonging within me at my center core - for the places have all scattered and changed hands like the seasons. Instead, I feel I belong to the sunsets, the mountains, or these collective experiences in my life that take a broader sense of things within me. I belong to my family which also is scattered like leaves on the wind. All of which have never come together for any length of time into one place. But this has formed who I am and I am glad of it now at my age.
But I have seen through a small open window…graced to me…of a life of belonging that was never questioned but simply grew with them, through them, and lovingly held them as they grew, stretched, dreamed and lived a life of deep rootedness. I am grateful.

08/29/2022

Five Beautiful Teachings of Shamanism
A Written Series of Five installments
by Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW
Installment One: Healing Our Ancestors

It appears that there is a real uptick in ancestral healing & transformation happening in the field of shamanic healing. I’ve been working with individuals myself for the last year or more and have developed a 3-session process for individual ancestral healing. The demand for this work required it!

So, what is this ancestral healing thing? When I first was introduced to ancestral healing I had images of my cave man ancestors come to mind. Quickly I learned that not only did I have a very limited idea of ancestors in the way that medicine people and many indigenous people understand them.

Yes indeed, we have ancestors that were cave people and ancestors that come from Africa which is understood now as the place of man’s beginnings on earth about 2 million plus years ago. However, we are more interested in our ancestors of today when we look through the lens of ancestral healing. These ancestors you know! These would be mother, father, grandmother, grandfather (both maternal and paternal), great grandmother and great grandfather. Some people knew or know their great, great grandmother or great, great grandfather and some may have heard many stories about them and their influence still lingers and lives on in the family and in the descendants. In this healing work we are concerned with the ancestors who have influenced our lives directly. It is this pool of ancestors that we look to for healing and transformation of ourselves, our ancestors themselves and also our descendants.

So, what is this all about?
Our ancestors have had wonderful lives that were full of joy, love, cheer, successes and accomplishments as well as grief, loss, trauma, illness, relationship challenges, childlessness, abuse and more.
In fact families struggle with seven types of shadows:
1. abuse
2. addiction
3. violence
4. poverty
5. illness
6. abandonment
7. betrayal

These shadows and the wholeness are passed down to descendants at the time of the ancestor’s death. They move down through the DNA of their descendants as energetic signatures. The unhealed wounds of our ancestors visit their descendants as illness, trauma; that was the same or very similar to the unhealed trauma of the ancestor, relationship wounds, money problems, issues children and bearing or losing children, addiction and on and on.

This goes in the opposite direction as well in that our ancestors pass down, talents, ability to amass wealth, to acquire a great job, happiness in family life, beauty of the body and heart and on and on. The unhealed wounds of our ancestors however, keep us from our gifts that are our own as an individual Soul and from those gifts that we have inherited from them. Ancestral wounds can keep us sick, stuck and senseless.

It is important to honor our ancestors for the lives they have lived, the courage it took to forge forward as well as for the challenges they faced and conquered. Their lives, joys, struggles and earned wisdom helped us to bring us where we are now.

Whether we know it or not we live the stories of our ancestors in our thoughts, bodies, memories and mind. They comprise what we learn at our foundations as a child and they are concretized as we grow older. This creates a heavy and carved in stone belief system of how you work, how the family works and how the world works. Most never look at their foundation stone that was carved at age 5 to 7 and live their whole lives with these beliefs and guidelines. Often, they are great grampa’s learnings and hard-earned wisdoms and descendants simply don them as if they were their own without question.

Your story isn’t new, in fact it is a replay or a retelling of stories handed down to you. They are the sagas inherited from your mother, grandfather, father and great grandmother. Some are stories and conclusions that came from fear or trauma and other stories that are really our beliefs, come from joy and wholeness. To reflect and decipher these is life changing because we recognize what needs to be made whole within us. This is where shamanic healing with the ancestors can be life changing and open you to more joy, success, passion, love, stillness and contentment.

In ancestral healing we want to clear our DNA that contains our ancestors’ limits, wounds and traumas from our body, energy field and mental and emotional bodies. In this healing work we bring their lessons fully into our awareness and discover which of these wounds live in our life, heart, mind and body. In the shamanic ancestral healing work, we clear these shadows from our lives and our energy field and in doing so we also free or ancestors from their unhealed wounds. This also keeps these traumas and wounds from our descendants and prevents them from showing up or clears them like the ancestors are cleared energetically through the awareness building and the energy clearing. The DNA signatures are made whole and are cleared through this sacred healing work.
In this healing of the ancestors, you will also connect with your ancestors’ joys, loves, passions, successes and accomplishments. You will see where these also live in your life as well! Ultimately, you change your inner stories and are no longer limited by an old, old list of guidelines for life that you have outgrown or never explored your own sense of them to see if they fit, if they serve you or even if you agree with them at all.

This is ancestral healing work, this is the clearing and transforming of family trauma and unhealed wounds found in the culture, behavior and shadows of families. Each generation is tasked to clear and heal their own wounds and shadows so that their descendants do not have to carry and heal them and they leave a beautiful legacy after they die.

I implore you to honor your ancestors or they will continue to haunt you and to live through you through these energetic DNA signature, family stories, beliefs, and culture. You will be destined to live their trauma wounds, illnesses and unhappiness’s.

In shamanic ancestral healing you can change the stories and break the curse from your ancestor's wounds so they and you are restored and healed. Then you can begin to celebrate your ancestors no matter how terrible their legacy was.
We do this work for ourselves, our ancestors and our children and grandchildren! We also do it to elevate the world. When we rewrite the ancestral stories, we elevate our ancestors and let go of holding them responsible for our lives and negative legacies. In this way we stand in self responsibility. We then can bring home to our hearts the beautiful gifts, wisdoms and joys of our ancestors and our Soul!

08/29/2022

Five Beautiful Teachings of Shamanism
A Written Series of Five installments on Shamanism
By Gwendolyn C. Natusch, B.S.Ed., M.Ed., MSW

As a practitioner both personally and professionally of shamanism since 1989 I write this series on shamanic teachings because I am passionate about what shamanism is, its organic nature as a means to connect and transform in relationship with God/Source and it’s potential as a tool for inner transformation and healing. It is my hope that you will find inspiration and maybe even a new idea about the world and your relationship with The Divine in an active and “partnershipped” way! Read on oh courageous ones!
The first line of order is to speak to what shamanism is and what shamans do. Without this context the five beautiful teachings of shamanism, which varies from culture to culture, but maintains core, universal beliefs that define the heart of shamanism, has little meaning or connection. So, with the help of eloquent Mariah Molyle, I begin this series with just that:
What is Shamanism & What Do Shamans Do?
Shamans are mapmakers working on the energetic level, closest to Source, (a.k.a. - the Universe, God, Spirit, etc.) to help to dream our world into being. Problems are solved, healings occur and new perceptions are created by opening a dialogue with nature, utilizing the power of archetypes, and by journeying into realms of consciousness. The shaman develops this capacity of moving through levels of consciousness through deep focus and moving through states of consciousness like we do when we dream at night; only the shaman participates in consciousness in awareness and practice. Shamans do not wait to have a meaningful and potent dream every now and again or every 5 to 10 years. Shamans dream consciously by choice and in this way develops an intimate, active and informative relationship with The Divine.
Mariah Molyle shares, “We use the term mapmaker in shamanism, which is just a fancy term to describe the shaman’s ability to assist their clients with charting a new life map. Maybe the client feels like their current life map is limiting or has a lot of dead ends to it. Perhaps the desired destination isn’t even on the current map. The shaman helps create a new map, or a new route to the client’s destiny.”
The map that Molyle references is really the inner stories that serve us and the inner stories that do not serve us and instead limit us or create blocks that lead, often, to physical presentation in the body as disease. Shamans as channels for the Divine and through Spirit’s lead and healing energy, can repair and release long held imprints in their own or a client’s energy field that oftentimes lead to disease. The shaman assists in shifting the beliefs, which shifts the inner map we hold, and in this shift, new perspective have room to arrive and healing can potentially happen in the body because the story map has changed and when this happens the body follows the new story!
“Dreaming our world into being means being a dreamer, instead of being dreamed. This includes dreaming of and achieving outcomes, instead of letting life just happen to you, and seeing misfortune as lessons in strength and character-building instead of devastating pitfalls or victimhood”, says Molyle.
Shamans often walk on the edges of society because they do not buy into the mainstream way of being and doing. Shamans are visionaries with connections to larger realities and this connection allows them to see and do things that do not always reflect the thoughts and ways of the majority. It is often said that shamans have one foot in ordinary reality and another foot in the spiritual realm. It is the work of the shaman to refine their ability to see the physical world and the spiritual world in their every day, moment to moment experiences. This takes mental discipline and a committed spiritual practice and a committed willingness to continue to better themselves and heal all wounds and shadows within them that keep them limited, stuck, wounded and limited in their capacity to hold Divine Light, Love, joy and the ability to dream their highest and most refined dreams/visions into reality and physical manifestation.
The shaman also befriends benevolent spiritual allies in their journeys into the spiritual realm. These are referred to as archetypal spiritual beings. They are guided by Love and Beautiful Intentions. The work of the shaman is that of discernment of these energies. Shamans are also charged with the essential task of keeping their own energy, thoughts and bodies clear and perpetuating their own inner growth, healing and being a clear and integral channel for healing and visioning. Source meets us where we are through journeying in forms that are beautiful, safe and loving. These are the archetypes. They show us our beauty and our shadows that long to be transformed and they help us to heal.
When the potential shaman has walked their path long enough, they are ready to be called to help others heal because they have walked the path of inner transformation and healing and can be an experienced guide for others to walk through their healing journey.
“The archetypes are ancient forces of nature that live in our psyche. These can be a wide range of elements within us including the masculine and feminine, the creator, preserver and destroyer like Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva in Hinduism, or the victim, orphan, movie characters, perpetrator and rescuer”, describes Molyle.
Spirit or God meets us where we are and appears in the image that will open our hearts to healing, new perspectives and spiritual teachings and come as guides, animals, trees, a flower, a cloud, and also as archetypes. There are archetypes such as the Fool, the Princess or Prince, Jesus, Mini Mouse and the Generic Stepmother to name just a few. There are many, many kinds of archetypes and these are beings or ideas that we all know collectively.
“But the main archetypes that shamans work with, Molyle points out, are animal spirits. When journeying (aka meditation), the shaman calls in these archetypes as allies for guidance and healing.”
Molyle concludes with: “Shamanism is about seeing divinity in all living things and interacting with the spiritual realm. Shamans work with stones, plants, animals, archetypes and spirit guides, knowing every element in our reality has its own energy and potential. Shamans use dreams, plant medicine, drumming, rattling, singing, chanting and journeying to travel through and between the realms of Spirit and timelessness.”
A note about Mariah Moyle: Mariah is a shamanic energy medicine practitioner. She is passionate about her path as a healer and is dedicated to bringing these ancient shamanic teachings to the western world through writing and practitioner work.

01/17/2022

When I went to Omega in New York in October last year to see Alberto Villoldo and three of the Laika Shaman’s, Alberto spoke about viruses and bacteria being the mind of Mother Earth. He spoke briefly so I didn’t understand the depth of what he shared, but he invited everyone present to come into relationship with bacteria and viruses, and so forth by beginning a dialogue and conscious relationship with the bacteria/virus. His example to us is an invitation to us to speak to the bacteria where we meet it in our lives; such as taking our probiotic. Before you take the probiotic speak to these living, helping organisms as if you were speaking to the mind of Mother Earth. Let Mother Earth know that we, you and me, are part of the solution to all this unfolding on earth. Come into relationship with the virus in this way with love. This can be done in journey and in your waking dreams. What imbalance is Corona wanting us to become aware of and assist in transforming into wholeness?
-In Munay❤️

10/18/2021

The Soul Calls for Transformation Part I
Many refer to this sort of thing as the ascension process or even the dark night of the Soul. In these last many months our world has brought us to a place of looking within and moving through all kinds of challenges, fears and doubts. It has been a process happening collectively and individually.
I haven’t written here on the Reflections of a Shaman page for quite some time because I wanted only to write here when it came from a deep place within me that was real and authentic and in whatever way had brought me wisdom or healing or insight.
It is with this that I begin my reflections on the journey I am currently on of transformation at the foundation of my life, at the level of the bedrock of my belief systems. Sometimes a house needs to be opened, exposed and even parts of it torn down and other parts valued and saved and cherished in order to rebuild the foundation it was built upon. This is the path I’m on. It is a spiritual path and it is also a human and very physical path.
In my life I have been through two periods of a dark night of the Soul. The first was, after a 10-year search, I met both of my biological parents in a two-week time span. I learned many stories about my life from ages 0-5. I was adopted at 5 years old and came from a family with mum and dad and three children. 31 years after being adopted I met my birth parents. This experience changed me. The ideas and beliefs I had about who I was and what my identity was completely changed which left me in a place of having to pull myself back together into a new identity.
The second time I experienced a dark night of the Soul is when my husband and I split up for a year after being married for 29 years. Again, I had to let go of an old identity and allow a new sense of self to come into being.
Both of these experiences were challenging to the core and I fell apart in order to transform and come back to myself more whole, stronger, freer and happier.
This year, I have embarked upon another dark night of the Soul.
But what is a dark night of the Soul really?
The Dark Night of the Soul is when everything seems to come apart at the seams and one is left in a place of feeling bereft, lost, separate, desperate, alone, frightened, hopeless and all of the beliefs, spiritual tools and comfortable ways you have dealt with life and challenges seem to not be enough or don’t have deep enough reach to calm your mind, heart body and Soul.
The dark night is a time when the universe reaches out and asks us to move through an experience that will change us forever and to do it with awareness, grace so that we find the wisdom, gift and transformation in it.
Each of us in our own way will have a dark night of the Soul. It is an experience much like the caterpillar turned to liquid in its chrysalis and emerges after the greatest challenge, giving up who we know ourselves to be, to exit the cocoon as someone completely different…free…new…and this newness, these gifts, these lessons direct our life forward…

Check out this link for more indepth meaning on the dark night of the Soul:
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/a-dark-night-of-the-soul-and-the-discovery-of-meaning/

Are you going through a dark night of the Soul? Share your thoughts…

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True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.
~ Alberto Villoldo

What is calling you?

09/05/2020

The Coronation Initiation of the World

Our world now is defined and held within the invisible walls of Coronavirus. We have become a nation ruled under the demands of Coronavirus. The Coronavirus initiates a new world.

We are now a Corona Nation.
What in the world is this all about?
Well, let’s look a little deeper…
Let’s begin by looking at the meanings of two words:
Coronation and Initiation.

What is a coronation?

The ceremony of crowning a king, queen, or other sovereign to become a supreme ruler.

What is Initiation?

To initiate means to begin a process, to start something. Initiation sets forces in motion for your own personal metamorphosis, transformation and spiritual journey.
The initiation then activates this knowledge with spiritual power to support you to be in alignment with your highest and best good, to live out your purpose here on earth.
Corona in Spanish means crown.

Are we initiates being crowned to usher in a new world, a new paradigm, a new mythos? A higher story of man and earth? Are we being asked to put on a crown and become supreme rulers on earth in a new way?

We are being initiated and coronated to be stewards of the earth, a new earth, a new way, a new mythos to transform the world through each of us individually.

We are begin given the crown of authority to wear the title of steward of earth in a new way, a way that comes from the heart and from a higher dream about ourselves, each other, nature and the world.

It is time to dream a new dream for ourselves and for the world.

For many years we have spoken about how the world needs a new story, a new mythos, a new paradigm because the old one has been grown out of.

The new initiated Sovereigns wearing their Crown must dismantle the old constructs and dream a new dream to write a new story.

“Every nation, every man, requires a story or many stories and when taken together form a national narrative or personal inner narrative about the nation’s or individual’s origins. A self-defining mythos that says something about the character of a person or the character of a nation; about its people and how they operate in a larger world and amongst each other. The strength in these stories lies in the shaping of power and empowerment, the ways they illumine aspects of character or embody ideals that in turn effect individual or collective behavior.

Let’s recall the story in our history of the journey of the Mayflower! The brave and rugged individuals coming to a new land with courage, a dream in their belly and hope bursting from their hearts. A stance like that can tackle any mountain; and they did!

We are a new land now. We are on our own proverbial Mayflower and we have been crowned captains of our ships. In fleets individuals are arriving on the shores of a new dawning sunrise of a new world. A world that has at its core a new story, a new mythos that has been dreamed in the hearts of men and women and children.

We have become the initiates being called to embark on our own Mayflower ship and become residents of a crowned nation, the corona nation.

We are the initiators, we are the crowned captains, we are the dreamers and we are at the helm!

To shift the current running mythos that we are emerging from we must first dismantle it. We are being invited to discover how the current mythos lives within us and become aware about how the old mythos suits us or fits us. We do not need to look outside ourselves to shift the story, we need only look within ourselves.

National and mainstream Mythos shifts can be changed on the outer stage of the world, the macro level or they can be changed on the inner stage of a man or woman’s heart, the micro level.

We are being asked at this time to create a new story within us at the micro level and in doing so create a new way as it makes its way to full expression on the macro level in the world as a new story, a new motivation, a new story that serves both the individual and the collective.
How do we do it?

We must individually dream a new dream and become new characters in an unfolding and living mythos. A new tale made now from higher and clearer visions which come through experience of the coronavirus in our world at this time. Coronavirus has corralled us into pausing, reflecting, finding what is truly valuable, being content with what you have right in front of you, to stop chasing time and sit in stillness and notice, reflect, complete experiences, feel, cry, laugh, to see nature again, to be in nature again, to love nature again and to remember who you are and become a new tale for yourself and for the world.

We are the medicine for the earth. We are the story tellers. We are the dream weavers. By writing our new tale we write the mythos of the world.

It’s alchemy! It’s all spiritual alchemy. In order for the new myth to emerge in you, and in the world, we must dismantle the old story to make room for the new story, the new mythos to unfold. We must reflect, let go, clear and release those things that no longer serve us, keep us stuck, hurt sad or unrealized.

So that we become new and have space to embody the new story within us, which will contribute to and actually be the new emerging paradigm for the world.

We then can dream from a new place, a clear place, a place within us that we have opened up and made room for creating a new world. We have been crowned! Empowered! Sovereign as creators! It is time to create the world through our heart, our inner inspired self, seeing with new eyes!

We are the ones the world has been waiting for. We are the ones, at this time and in this crowned nation that the world has longed for. We are the dreamers of the new world arriving.
Today, we will be alchemists. We will be in ceremony in the company of our God, our guides, our Creator to respond to the initiation of kingliness, queenliness stepping into the shoes of earth’s stewards and stewards of our hearts and the dreaming of a new tale for ourselves and for the world.

08/29/2020

Mongolian Shamans Messages for the World
Written Up by Gwendolyn C. Natusch, M.Ed., MSW

(Please note that I will not use the correct name for the disease that is being spoken about in this document so that I can offer it on Facebook and not get taken down. This has already happened and it, sadly, hasn’t been shared until today.)

On Monday July 27th, 2020 an unprecedented and historic event occurred. Today’s technological advances has allowed for live transmissions via Zoom from Mongolia to the United States of a Shamanic Ceremony to be experienced by people all over the world. Hundreds zoomed in to witness ceremony performed by Mongolian Shamans and to participate with them in their efforts to end this world wide disease, and further; to assist in the dissemination of this information in order to bring more people into the effort to bring an end to the global health threat in order to heal and rebalance earth.

The Society for Shamanic Practice, early in July 2020, was contacted by Mongolian shamans via a man who is also from Mongolia and lived in the US for a time. His name is Bachi and during his time in the United States he was involved with the Society for Shamanic Practice (SSP). Bachi is the connector and translator for the Mongolian Shamans and reached out to SSP who brought in and is working on this project in partnership with Shamanism Without Borders Together they have orchestrated this amazing and historic event.
These are Mongolian Shaman’s who are descendant from Ganges Kahn. They are spiritual warriors. The Shamans of Mongolia have been deep in spiritual work to eradicate the World Health Problem and to restore health and balance to nature and man. Since the breakout of this disease, Mongolia has had individuals carrying this sickness and have returned home to their country, but what they have witnessed is that the illness does not spread to others. Mongolia is free of this global sickness. How is this possible one might ask? It is possible through the spiritual work of the Shaman’s who are working on the spiritual level, in non-ordinary reality, with Spirit(s) to combat and dissipate this disease and to discover the source of this imbalance on earth for the restoration of nature and human kind across the globe.

Over 900 people from around the world tuned into Zoom to open a 14-day ceremony intended to clear the disease from the USA. As preparations for the opening ceremony began, Bachi began to tell us what the Mongolia Shamans had discovered while deep in a trance state working to understand how to eradicate the virus. The shamans saw in trance that a big black dragon was swirling and pounding the ground over North and South America. The dragon swirled and pounded its tail on the ground. They reported that the tail of the dragon is what is over the North and South American continent. The Shaman’s intention for their 14-day ceremony is to cut off the tail of the dragon and vanish the disease and banish the dragon.

Live Stream: Day One
In the first live stream we, the witnesses, observe people preparing for the ceremony and the events that will transpire for the coming days. Individuals are building Gers (ger is a hut and its pronunciation rhymes with air). Gers are huts build specifically for ceremonies such as this. These huts are where the Shaman’s will do trance work and take journeys into the spiritual realms for healing, understanding, messages for the people, and to fight the dragon and win victory over the global sickness for the next two weeks.

The camera allows us to be privy to the 12 Mongolian Shamans as they arrive one by one to the sacred ground to prepare for the opening ceremony. Each Shaman will battle the dragon and work to cut off the dragon’s tail. The dragon will be battled 12 times, each battle will be different according to the gifts and tools and spirits of each Shaman. The first to arrive to the opening ceremony circle is the Elite Shaman. He is dressed in the garb of the Shaman.

In the opening ceremony the Elite Shaman throws a ceremonial bowl three times to divine what the outcome of their work will be against the black dragon. The bowl is thrown and it lands facing up all three times. This indicates success three times so success in the defeat of the dragon is assured. If the bowl had landed face down this would indicate that more spiritual work is needed. In this case, more work would be needed to cut off the tail of the dragon and defeat the disease. It is promising to begin with three bowl tosses that divine success in the Shaman’s efforts.

The twelves Shamans arrive and take their places one at a time. They move through a ritual dance, drumming and movement before they sit. This is ceremony to bring their consciousness into a deeper state of awareness; a trance state. They have attendants who tend to them so that they remain steady and do not fall or run into anything as they go deeper and deeper into an inner, spiritual awareness. Once they sit, they are given milk which is a mixture of milk, vodka and tea which they call “milk”. They are also given ci******es. These assist the Shamans in the ceremony to come. As the Shaman’s prepare and are readied, they move into a new state of consciousness beneath their eye curtains which is the division between the spirit world and ordinary reality or ordinary consciousness. They hold and eat hot coals from the fire. I am unsure why they do this, but a few of the Shamans held red hot coals and ate them, chewing and munching loudly on the hot, red coal chunks which were burned, coal like and large pieces of food that had burned in the fire.

The first ceremony at the opening of this intention to eradicate the disease and to restore balance in nature is all in support of the Shaman’s going into trance and journeying to discover what is needed to bring to the fire ceremony. The Shamans also receive information and messages during this time of trance state insight.

Messages from the Shamans
There are twelve shaman and many of them gave messages. Bachi sat with many of them and then translated their messages to those in attendance via the live feed. It wasn’t always easy to hear the translation with the sound of drumming happening and other sounds of natural instruments being played as the Shamans gathered around the circle and settled themselves into trance. They each drank milk and were given ci******es and other offerings in preparation to step into an altered state of consciousness.

The first Shaman that Bachi heard was weeping as he spoke. He said: “Ask for forgiveness of Mother Earth for not caring or tending her, then she will start listening. Mother Nature is crying because human kind has become so selfish. Clear our own hurt, our own wounds. In all of our responses we can heal or hurt. This is a call for unity. We are all one. We are living in one world. In any tragedy come closer to Mother Earth, come closer to nature. The world will become a much better place when we get through this. The more ceremony we do and the more people we involve the illness gets smaller and smaller. Shamans from everywhere practice differently. As long as you practice your way, with your heart and great intention, this is what matters.”

The question hanging in my mind is why is the tail of the dragon swirling and pounding the ground of the North and South Americas? The Shaman’s indicate that the dragon is not just over the Americas but that this is what it is doing over the Americas and Spirit has indicated that this is important to eradicate. The Shamans then say that in North America, the US, there is no reciprocity with Mother Earth. Modern Nations just take resources. They do not ask the land; they do not ask nature and the do not give back! They take and take and take and nature and man become imbalanced. The focus and the only focus of the 14-day ceremony is on cutting the tail off of the black dragon and ending the global illness and bringing nature into balance and humankind back into right relationship with Mother Earth and nature itself. The world illness is a man made disease because of this imbalance.

Bachi sits with another Shaman and their messages is this: Mother nature is taken aback because of the carelessness of man towards nature. It is hard for nature to handle it. So now nature starts elimination work because too many lives have been destroyed and nature cannot handle it and so we have natural disasters. In your journey work and your meditations respect Mother Earth, pray to and for Mother Earth. Ask for help from your ancestors, both living and dead. Ask from your heart with feeling and love and right intention.

Live Stream: Day Two
Question & Answers with Bachi

Bachi begins to share information with us about the Mongolian Shamans and their practices. He shares that when the Shamans go into trance they channel or bring through information from Shamans that no longer walk the earth and are 700 to 800 years old. As I witness the Shamans channel the spirits that follow and work with the Shamans they come through speaking in tones and voices that sound very ethereal. Some of the Shamans speak in very low tones that have a sort of reverberation in the sounds of their voices.

Other Shamans come through with very high-pitched voices and others sound almost like cartoon character voices. It has been fascinating to witness. As a shamanic practitioner myself, I have experienced a shift in my tonality and in cadence, but this really was quite striking to hear the voices from these Mongolian Shamans. When the Spirit Shamans come through, they speak ancient Mongolian.

The Mongolians believe that there are thousands of War Lords in the sky ready to fight the world disease. The Shamans ask the land for permission to do a ceremony in the place where they have built their ger and their fire. They explained to the land spirits, before they set up this spot for the ceremony, what they were going to do and why they were doing it. The land spirits granted them permission to hold the ceremony to eradicate the illness by cutting off the tail of the dragon that is pounding its tail on the land in the United States.

One of the Shamans says, “We musts become unified to overcome this sickness in the world.”

Bachi shares that the name of this global illness is the Spanish word that means crown – makes the earth’s condition very important. He tells us that the Shamans ensure that the world sickness will be gone in two weeks. The end of the ceremony…two weeks…at that time the dragon will be without a tail!

I couldn’t help but think a bit about the show “The Game of Thrones” when I hear about the dragon and the battle in the sky with the sky worriers. It is thrilling though to hear this from the Shamans and to witness their ways.

Bachi shares more about the Shamans practice. He tells us via video feed on Zoom that the Shaman Spirits come through their armpit and not the crown of the head. They believe the armpit is the easiest way for the Shaman Spirits to merge with the Shamans.

The Shamans say that at this time the sun is too far away to fight the virus and that every 60 years there is a virus that breaks out on earth. They also believe at this time that there is too much pollution in the air and this keeps out the sun as well from reaching the surface of earth and balancing things such a sickness.

The Shamans wear feathered headdresses and eye curtains as well as their drums on their backs. Throughout all of the ceremonies the drums are played. The Shamans also wear mirrors on their clothing and on their headdresses. These mirrors are used as protection and to reflect off of them any evil energies. The mirrors are also said to catch and hold evil energies.

The Shamans want to cut the tail off of the dragon so that the sun can come through and balance and reduce the disease naturally. The worst hit with the global illness are the industrial nations because the sun cannot pe*****te these areas on earth.

The Shamans say that we only help ourselves and we live longer the animals do not live longer. There is an inference here that we don’t help the animals we really only help ourselves.

Another Shaman says that meditation is not spirituality. Spirituality is something else.

Live Stream: Day Three
Mongolian Shaman Fire Ceremony

The fire ceremony begins. The fire is built before the Elite Shaman and other shamans arrive. The fire is built in the shape of a goat as a symbol and offering of the goat to the ceremony and its intention. It is a black goat that the fire is built in the shape of. It faces west towards the United States. It is a black goat to undo and eradicate the black disease.

Three female shamans light the fire. There are female shamans and Spirits find the female energy softer and their energy more stable. They light the fire and due to the wet land the rains in their area it takes some time to get the fire going.

The female shaman light the fire and the male shamans go to battle against the dragon in order to cut the tail off of the black dragon!

One of the shamans says to Bachi, “In your heart and mind, release this disease.”

The black goat fire also has ribbons tied around it. The ribbons are yellow, blue, white and green.
White represents milk; the sweet milk that is an offering to Spirit
Red represents fire
Blue represents the sky
Yellow represents the sun
Green represents nature and the land

The fire is a transformative element and we burn all of our intentions and our own prayers on prayer ribbons. You can do this on your own in your own fire ceremony. You can use other things like colored paper, yarn etc to represent your intentions. All is burned in the fire. All the prayers and intentions for the defeat ot the illness! To win the battle of cutting off the tail of the Black Dragon that is beating itself on the land of America!

To dissolve and heal this black sickness and also the
imbalance of our relationship with nature and mother earth so that we can emerge as a relationship between man and mother earth that is reciprocal; based on reciprocity. Giving and receiving in equal measure with love and gratitude and in awareness of the gits we have to give mother earth and the sustaining life force that she gives us. To be in balance with all Nature and to stand in right relationship with all of life and to know our place on/in the web of life.

In the fire ceremony worshipping happens at the fire – sending messages in the smoke that goes up into the sky to Source. Fire and smoke is powerful in this way.
One of the Shaman’s says: “It doesn’t matter where you are on the earth, we are one.”

As the fire ceremony begins and the fire is ablaze, each of the shamans comes to the fire one at a time to battle the black dragon. The shamans play the drum while they journey before the fire and work to cut the tail off of the black dragon on the spiritual plane. Shamans move into trance with the drum. The Shamans are assisted to the fire in a trance state so they can see into the spirit realm while also walking here on the mundane level of every day. When they are finished, they are assisted back to their seated place around the fire while the next shaman comes to the fire. The other shamans around the fire continue to speak and give messages from Spirit. The voices of the shamans seem ethereal and almost unreal. Some of their voices are very high and other’s voices are very low.

Others around the fire offer milk as offering to the ceremony and to spirit. They do not throw the milk on the fire but near the fire. They offer sage, milk, butter and heart felt intentions to the fire and to Spirit.

Some of the shamans will lead songs around the fire which raises the vibration by bringing song and joy and happiness to the fire ceremony. The offerings are given or thrown to the earth around the fire but not to the fire. Other shamans will actually eat hot, red glowing coals from the fire and hold them in their hands with no result of harm.

Message from one of the shamans: “There is one plant that grows out of rock. It is green and grows in cold climate and is used for this sickness, against it.”

This shaman asks everyone to give milk offerings to nature, to the sun, to the mountains and to ask for forgiveness and to get rid of this world wide illness as soon as possible.
Bachi shares that within 30 days the result of this 14-day ceremony of the 13 shamans the global sickness will be gone. It could be 13 days, 17 days or 30 days. Starting tomorrow (July 31st, 2020), Bachi says, we begin to see progress. Check the website of Society of Shamanic Practice for these updates.

The fire burns down and out and this day’s ceremony is complete. The shamans will continue for the next 10 days. They will dance and channel for the next several days ahead. We can give milk to earth and butter and sage as our offerings every day during the time of this ceremony. Offer your gifts and say you are sorry to Nature. Ask to come into right relationship with Nature. Light candles, clear your own wounds, keep vigil for the next 10 days or until the end of the 14-day ceremony. Continue on with your own development of balance into reciprocity with Mother Earth/Nature.

Personal Fire Ceremony
How you can hold your own Fire Ceremony

1. Set your intention for the fire ceremony

2. Write your intentions on cloth or paper in the colors of the ribbons used by the Mongolian Shamans. (white, blue, green, red and yellow)

3. Blow your loving intentions into each piece of colored paper or colored ribbon so that your intentions will rise up in the smoke and be heard by Nature and Spirit

4. You can also use matches to blow your intentions into and then burn the match in a fire proof container outside.

5. Give a daily offering of milk, butter, and sage to the earth, to Nature and say you are sorry to Nature for being out of reciprocity (giving back and not just taking from Nature). Ask to be inspired how you can clear your own nature and how you can come into balance and right relationship with Mother Earth/Nature.

6. Say thank you for all that have been given to you to sustain your life and your body and your Soul here on earth.

Sources:
Below is a link to the audio/video of these events.
You can visit this link at The Society for Shamanic Practice website at the following link:
https://shamanicpractice.org/audio/mongolian-ceremony

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https://shamanicpractice.org/shamanism-without-borders/