#sandra ingerman

[vintage-trish]

[earthisaperson]

Our discovery of this path begins with a spontaneous, yet profound, awareness of our direct connection with Nature. Usually this happens in childhood, and yet it can occur and reoccur at any time of life. It is through this awareness that modern mystics may find themselves drawn into an intimate and compelling connection with the overarching web of life.

—Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman, Awakening to the Spirit World

[siamkram]

"The ancient Celts saw the land as a living being, a Goddess, from which all else sprang. The land was a memory, an archive, a consciousness, and a conscience. To heal what is amiss in the present world, we must recapture the reverence of the world of the past and reconnect with our ancestral lands."

-Celtic Shamanism: An Awakening Landscape

Audio Dialogue With Jane Burns and Sandra Ingerman

[saintcranky]

A white woman making a ton of money calling shamanism “basically a form of meditation” and calls JKR a shaman because she wrote harry Potter

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[siamkram]

One way to support someone who is ill or going through a difficult time, teaches Sandra Ingerman, is to envision him or her in divine light:

One of my discoveries on the path of direct revelation has been that the true help we can give people—family, friends, or strangers—is to visualize them in their divine light and perfection. Just as you can practice experiencing your own divine light, you can also visualize everyone you know, or with whom you feel a connection, in their divine light. In this way you are not denying them the challenges they are facing; rather, you are sending them strength and the power to stand strong in the midst of change and even in their transition back into the spirit world.

In quantum physics, there is a teaching that has meaning for us here: lower frequencies entrain to higher frequencies. In other words, if you choose to live and act, think and speak, emote and express your feelings as a true visionary, you must transfigure yourself so that you exist in your divine light and perfection—and then it will be effortless to project that experience onto all of life.

In this way, you as the inspired visionary will help the radiance of life around you to shine strong.

-Awakening to the Spirit World

[siamkram]

“Among some of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, there is a state of being known as dadirri, which translates into English as “deep listening”. Hank notes that through deep listening, we are able to connect to the spiritual mosaic of Nature from which we are inseparable.” -Awakening to the Spirit World

[siamkram]

Although there must have been a great deal of ritual in ancient shamanism, Alberto Villoldo points out that it is important to note that shamanism is not so much a religion as a spiritual path. There is a difference. He also notes that a shaman is much more than a mystic. He writes:

Spiritual practices are based on personal, direct experience and are replicable by others who choose to undergo the practices and initiations. Religion, on the other hand, is based on belief. My teacher, an old Indian man from the high Andes, once said to me as we were walking the edge of Lake Titicaca, the Sea on Top of the World: “Religions are simple concepts of spirituality: values, standards, truths, principles communicated in the form of a story that uses poetry and metaphor to illustrate its wisdom.” These stories have been told and retold until even their embellishments acquire profound meaning and the figurative is taken literally and the lessons are lost. And my friends, the priests, were devoted caretakers of a story that was not their own.

But the shaman is the author of the story, the mythmaker. El Viejo’s (my teacher’s) faith was based on his own experience of the divine in Nature. A shaman stands with one foot in this world and one foot in the world of spirit. With the priests and in the schools, I learned the lessons of others. With El Viejo, I learned my own lessons.

El Viejo showed me that the consciousness that creates our waking reality is a universal consciousness, a vast sea that is navigable. Most people are content to live on the land and they know this sea only as it appears to them from their own shores. But it is possible to know it fully, to navigate the sea, to cross it, to immerse yourself, to let it wash over you, to discover its depths. The shaman is one who has learned how to swim and how to sail, how to navigate through this sea and return to its shore. And to communicate its wonders to his people.

-Alberto Villoldo in “Awakening to the Spirit World”

[ishiganto]

"Yet the physical plane appears to most as a camouflage universe where Spirit does not appear to exist."