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Shamanic Journeying
Shamanic journeying is the process that opens the doors between our waking, ordinary reality, and non-ordinary reality so the soul can dialogue with the spirit energies that dwell there to receive help and guidance. Across cultures the landscape of the journey is similar, generally composed of the upper, middle, and lower worlds. The middle world is considered our ordinary world, where we reside in our day-to-day life. The lower world contains our subconscious, our old wounds, lost soul parts, and helping spirits that can guide us to those parts of ourselves including gifts and abilities that may have been lost to trauma. The upper world is similar to what we…
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Jaguar Journey
A journey with jaguar can help us overcome our fears. This is not a journey we’ll be taking in a beautiful automobile. This is a journey with the great cat that resides in the west of the Inca Medicine Wheel. Once we’ve faced things “the way they are” without emotion in the South with Serpent, we may notice that we have emotions about those “facts”. Often those are emotions of fear, based on doubt and shame. Those emotions result in stories where we can lay responsibility outside ourselves and onto “the other”. These stories become the “reasons” that our life is the way it is and not all that we…