It is a direct experience of spiritual knowledge. Because of the direct nature of the work, it tends to facilitate growth in every religious faith. People will share shamanic experience in-groups, but the insights you gain from shamanic practice are unique to you.
As a healing practice shamanism has been very powerful for both the people of today and those reaching back into the beginnings of recorded history.
The reason that it is so powerful is because each healing is tailored to the needs of the individual being healed. Western medicine seeks to find one cure that works for many; if the number it helps is too small it isn't offered at all. The shaman provides unique treatment, which holistically addresses what a person needs at this time.
Over tens of thousands of years, our ancient ancestors all over the world discovered how to maximize human abilities of mind and spirit for healing and problem-solving. The remarkable system of methods they developed is today known as "shamanism," a term that comes from a Siberian tribal word for its practitioners: "shaman" (pronounced SHAH-mahn). Shamans are a type of medicine man or woman especially distinguished by the use of journeys to hidden worlds otherwise mainly known through myth, dream, and near-death experiences. (Taken from the Foundation for Shamanic Practice.)
Shamanism is the oldest spiritual practice on earth. It is alive today in indigenous cultures around the world in its original form, and is rebirthing in non-tribal peoples who are awakening to their ancestral memories.
A primary principle of shamanic belief is that everything is alive and has a spirit. All of life is spiritually interconnected. Each of us is a bridge between ordinary reality, the world in which we live... and non-ordinary reality, the world of the unseen. By journeying to non-ordinary reality we interact directly with Helping Spirits for guidance and healing.
The word shaman originated from a word in Siberia and eventually came to be applied to all medicine men and women of indigenous cultures whose practice includes the flight of the soul. The core practices are called core-Shamanism - a phrase coined by Michael Harner.
Shamanism is the practice of these core techniques, either for healing or to gain spiritual knowledge. Shamanism is sometime studied with the cultural reference, sometimes without, but the essential nature of the shamanic practice does not change, nor has it changed since ancient times. It has adapted to fit the times or the culture, but its essential core has been the same.
As a healing practice shamanism has been very powerful for both the people of today and those reaching back into the beginnings of recorded history.
The reason that it is so powerful is because each healing is tailored to the needs of the individual being healed. Western medicine seeks to find one cure that works for many; if the number it helps is too small it isn't offered at all. The shaman provides unique treatment, which holistically addresses what a person needs at this time.
Over tens of thousands of years, our ancient ancestors all over the world discovered how to maximize human abilities of mind and spirit for healing and problem-solving. The remarkable system of methods they developed is today known as "shamanism," a term that comes from a Siberian tribal word for its practitioners: "shaman" (pronounced SHAH-mahn). Shamans are a type of medicine man or woman especially distinguished by the use of journeys to hidden worlds otherwise mainly known through myth, dream, and near-death experiences. (Taken from the Foundation for Shamanic Practice.)
Shamanism is the oldest spiritual practice on earth. It is alive today in indigenous cultures around the world in its original form, and is rebirthing in non-tribal peoples who are awakening to their ancestral memories.
A primary principle of shamanic belief is that everything is alive and has a spirit. All of life is spiritually interconnected. Each of us is a bridge between ordinary reality, the world in which we live... and non-ordinary reality, the world of the unseen. By journeying to non-ordinary reality we interact directly with Helping Spirits for guidance and healing.
The word shaman originated from a word in Siberia and eventually came to be applied to all medicine men and women of indigenous cultures whose practice includes the flight of the soul. The core practices are called core-Shamanism - a phrase coined by Michael Harner.
Shamanism is the practice of these core techniques, either for healing or to gain spiritual knowledge. Shamanism is sometime studied with the cultural reference, sometimes without, but the essential nature of the shamanic practice does not change, nor has it changed since ancient times. It has adapted to fit the times or the culture, but its essential core has been the same.
