Shamans and the shamanism
Shamans and shamanism in particular is classified by anthropologists as an archaic magico-religious phenomenon in which the shamans are the great master of ecstasy. shamans itself, was defined by the late Mircea Eliade as a technique of ecstasy. Shamans may exhibit a particular magical specialty (such as control over fire, wind or magical flight). When a specialization is present the most common is as a healer. The distinguishing characteristic of shamans is its focus on an ecstatic trance state in which the soul of the shaman is believed to leave the body and ascend to the sky (heavens) or descend into the earth (underworld). Shamans make use of spirit helpers, with whom he or she communicates, all the while retaining control over his or her own consciousness. (Examples of possession occur, but are the exception, rather than the rule.) It is also important to note that while most shamans in traditional societies are men, either women or men may and have become shamans.
There are a number of relatively common practices and experiences in traditional shamans which are being investigated by modern researchers. While the older traditional practices are ignored by some researchers, others have begun to explore these older techniques. The emergence of the new field of the "anthropology of consciousness" and the establishment of Transpersonal Psychology as a "Fourth Force" in psychology have opened up the investigation of research into the nature and history of consciousness in ways not previously possible. Outside of academic circles a growing number of people have begun to make serious inquiries into ancient shamans techniques for entering into altered states of consciousness.
The traditional shamans developed techniques for lucid dreaming and what is today called the out-of-the-body experience. These methods for exploring the inner landscape are being investigated by a wide range of people. Some are academics, some come from traditional societies and others are modern practitioners of non-traditional shamans or neo-shamans. Along with these techniques, the NDE or near-death-experience have played a significant role in shaman practice and initiation for millennia. There is extensive documentation of this in ethnographic studies of traditional shamans. With this renewed interest in these older traditions these shamans methods of working with dreams and being conscious and awake while dreaming are receiving increased attention.
The ability to consciously move beyond the physical body is the particular specialty of the traditional shaman. These journeys of Soul may take shamans into the nether realms, higher levels of existence or to parallel physical worlds or other regions of this world. The Shamanic Flight, is in most instances, an experience not of an inner imaginary landscape, but is reported to be the shamans flight beyond the limitations of the physical body.
The prospective shamans often directly relates the Call of shamans to a near death experience. Among the traditional examples are being struck by lightning, a fall from a height, a serious life-threatening illness or lucid dream experiences in which the candidate dies or has some organs consumed and replaced and is thus reborn. Survival of these initial inner and outer brushes with death provides the shaman with personal experiences, which strengthen his or her ability to work effectively with others. Having experienced something, shamans are more likely to understand what must be done to correct a condition or situation.
How to become a shaman
Some have wondered if the experience of shamanic ecstasy or flight makes a person a shaman. Generally speaking, most would say no. Shamans are more than someone with an experience. First, he or she is a trained initiate. Usually years of enculturalization and training under a mentor precede becoming functioning shamans. Second, shamans are not just initiates who have received inner and outer training, but are master of shamanic journeying and techniques (shamanic ecstasy). This is not a casual acquaintance with such abilities, there is some degree of mastery of them. Finally, shamans are a link or bridge between this world and the next. This is a sacred trust and a service to the community. Sometimes a community that shamans serve in is rather small. In other instances it may be an entire nation. A lot of that depends on social and cultural factors.
One becomes a shaman by one of these methods:
a. Hereditary transmission;
b. Spontaneous selection or "call" or "election"
c. Personal choice and quest. Listed below as Shamanic Systems of choice
a. Ecstatic (dreams, trances, etc.)
b. Traditional ("shamanic techniques, names and functions of spirits, mythology and genealogy of the clan, secret language, etc.) The two-fold course of instruction, given by the spirits and the old master shamans is equivalent to an initiation." (Mircea Eliade, The Encyclopedia of Religion, v. 13 , p. 202; Mcmillian, N.Y., 1987.) It is also possible for the entire process to take place in the dream state or in ecstatic experience.
Thus, there is more to becoming a shaman than a single experience. It requires training, perseverance and service.
The role of personal crisis or trauma or crisis in the selection or development of shamans.
A common experience of the call to shamans is a psychic or spiritual crisis, which often accompanies a physical or even a medical crisis, and is cured by the shaman him or herself. This is a common occurrence for all three types of shaman candidates described above. The shamans are often marked by eccentric behavior such as periods of melancholy, solitude, visions, singing in his or her sleep, etc. The inability of the traditional remedies to cure the condition of the shaman candidate and the eventual self cure by the new shaman is a significant episode in development of the shaman. The underlying significant aspect of this experience, when it is present, is the ability of the shaman to manage and resolve periods of distress.
Note: Shaman comes from the language of the Tungus of North-Central Asia. It came into use in English via Russian. |
The role of the shamans
In contemporary, historical or traditional shamans practice, shamans may at times fill the role of priest, magician, metaphysician or healer. Personal experience is the prime determinant of the status of a shaman. Knowledge of other realms of being and consciousness and the cosmology of those regions is the basis of the shamanic perspective and power. With this knowledge, the shaman is able to serve as a bridge between the mundane and the higher and lower states The shamans live at the edge of reality as most people would recognize it and most commonly at the edge of society itself. Few indeed have the stamina to adventure into these realms and endure the outer hardships and personal crises that have been reported by or observed of many shamans.
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System 1 - Ama Deus Shamanic System:
AMA DEUS - THE SHAMANS ANCIENT HEALING SYSTEM
THE LEGEND:
The legend tells us that about 6000 years ago, the Guarani Indians from the Brazilian tropical woods were visited by giants, that they called "high beings". Those visitors coming from the stars, landed with enormous vessels and during their stay they went for long walks with the natives and taught them about healing art.
Centuries after, around 1700 AD, when the Christian missionaries arrived in the Brazilian jungle, the natives have incorporated the Christian doctrine, made them an integrated part of their healing culture, Ama Deus becoming then the new name of those ancient teachings.
WHAT DOES AMA DEUS MEAN?
Ama Deus is an expression of Latin origin, meaning "Love God". It has even become a given name (Amadeus - the one who loves God - being one of Mozart's given names).
This system's name came through the Portuguese channel, since this is the main language in Brazil, although the notable differences that the linguistic evolution has produced against its basic European variant.
HISTORY:
Ama Deus has arrived for the first time in the United States in 1998., when the famous Brazilian healer Alberto Aguas held his first informing and training workshops. Then, the system has spread in Canada and Europe. Some even say that during Alberto's life the descendants of those Indians were visited again by their starry teachers.
Alberto Aguas came from a family of Brazilian doctors that was responsible for the Guarani tribe's health, when necessary, although they had their own healers - the shamans. The Aguas family come to know those well, therefore a mutual long lasting respect was developed between the doctors family and shamans.
The shamans have revealed some of their secrets and Alberto Aguas was the depositary of all this knowledge and ways of healing, using all that he was gifted during his entire life.
Since the Guarani were prepared for years in this healing art, it seems that only a slight part of their teachings are to be found in this system. Children were taught stating their early age of 6 to perform psychic surgery. By entering a trance state they felt how God's energy was growing inside their being and then they become capable to open the chest of a person just with the fingers, to undergo the operation (without any scalpel or similar tool) and then to close back the patient's chest, smoothly and gently.
When grownup, only those who felt a strong calling for a healer career were continuing to practice psychic surgery. Alberto formerly said that only once he was asked and guided to perform this sacred technique to a friend and he was amazed himself that, after all those years he had not the occasion to use this instrument learnt in childhood, the operation went on perfect.
WHAT IS AMA DEUS?
Ama Deus might be described as an energetic shaman healing system that uses God's love and a series of symbols, as energy vehicles.
The symbols are multidimensional as nature, they don't have a predefined name, they don't have a certain color, but they are designed for more specialized actions than those used in Reiki. Most of the techniques are visualized with the third eye, the mind's one, but the work can be done with the hands also. The system is based on the passing of energy through an affective channel created between man and divinity, an opened gate for the divine love, that specifically works in us through the heart chakra. This channel is activated with a specific mantra, spelled for three times, sustained by a breathing technique combined with a powerful visualization. The basic technique is extremely simple, it can be learnt in just one day, but it takes a long practice to achieve levels that for some of us might seem miracles.
THE SYSTEM'S GOAL:
All real healing traditions have as final goal the creation of a certain state of being in which man unites and becomes one with Divinity. But most of the modern healing systems are more concerned with the healing effects than the goal of it, but the shamans knew that the soul salvation is the first priority of their work.
UTILIZATION:
Ama Deus - this simple and wonderful system, defined by a fine energy, yet extremely powerful and easy to apply - can be used in a multitude of situations that occur during our lifes:
- helping a person with adeep suffering to choose either to live any longer or not, the option being seen from a spiritual perspective - accepting that any end is a new beginning after all.
- offering support for the souls of the deceased to return into light
- treatment for plants and animals
- healing treatment for oneself and for others
- helping unborn children to come by offering a better anchoring in
- the physical bodies
- receiving a spiritual gift on your birthday
- settling conflicts appeared in the world, supporting the political leaders in making the decisions that can affect the entire Earth
- receiving spiritual information during your dreams
- visiting a faraway friend
- distant treatments
- treatment illness of unknown causes
- healer purification
- journeys in the Akasha Chronicle
- mental healing
- physical and emotional healing of heart
- solving medical emergencies
All this notions described above, together with many others, are going to be detailed during the classes.
With an daily, proper practice and with many, many love this system shall show its real force and spiritual value only to those of us that have the courage to get rid of their ego and to become as pure and innocents as we were in childhood.
With this package you will receive:
- Ama Deus attunements
- Ama Deus Certificate (via international postal service)
- Ama Deus Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 39 USD
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System 2 - Celtic Reiki:
What is Celtic Reiki?
Celtic Reiki is a beautiful and earthy form of Reiki. Reiki is the use of cosmic or universal energy, channeled through the healer to provide the necessary healing. Reiki is the Japanese word for this universal life force energy. "Rei" means universal and "ki" means vital force energy. The Celts themselves called this universal force Neart or Nerth, in Gaelic and Welsh respectively. It roughly translates as power, strength and Energy. Created by Martyn Pentecost, Celtic Reiki beautifully combines the healing vibrations of the Earth, of specific plants and trees as well as the Ocean. Celtic Reiki connects to the ancient wisdom ad lore of the Celts, the symbols used in this form of Reiki are the symbols of the Ogham - the ancient Druid alphabet. The Druids used this alphabet to store much of their wealth of knowledge and magic.
Like Nature itself, Celtic Reiki is ever evolving and changing. In working directly with the Trees and spending time and Energy to get to know and work with particular Trees, we can realise the true potential that lies not only within our Tree friends and Nature, but also ourselves. We are part of a web of life, we are not above or separate from Nature in any way, by communing with Nature in this way, with this realization, we build up what is a very personal relationship with the Trees and plants, and the world around us.
With this package you will receive:
- Celtic Reiki attunements
- Celtic Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
- Celtic Reiki Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 39 USD
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System 3 - Dophin Reiki:
Experience the love and wisdom of the dolphins and orcas with Dolphin Trilogy Reiki. This system uses the love and energy of dolphins and whales to heal the mind and the spirit. It is particularly effective at helping with emotional problems such as addictions, depression, and feelings of being separate; or incomplete. This energy can soothe the sadness of the soul, by helping us release past trauma, forgive ourselves and others, and finding our own truths
Dolphin Trilogy Reiki evolved from Dolphin Reiki, a reiki system created by Mark Scott
Dolphin Trilogy Reiki builds upon the energy and principles of Dolphin Reiki, expanding it to include three levels of healing: Dolphin Healing Reiki, Orca Empowerment Reiki, and Dolphin Crystal Reiki. The dolphins and orcas shared this system with Shanti Johnson (founder of Dolphin Crystal Reiki, Dolphin Trilogy Reiki) and Rev. Sheryl Carter (founder of Orca Empowerment Reiki), through many meditations and close work within their realm.
DOLPHIN HEALING REIKI: This is the first level of Dolphin Trilogy Reiki. You can use Dolphin Reiki Breathing technique to centre yourself and connect with the energy of the dolphins. Through regular use of this technique, you will learn to circulate Life Energy throughout your physical and energy body. It will enable you to transform suppressed negative patterns from your cellular memory and reprogram your cells, opening blocked energy pathways and increasing your vitality.
ORCA EMPOWERMENT REIKI: This is the second level of Dolphin Trilogy Reiki. Orcas are the largest members of the dolphin family. The orca encourages us to heal by releasing our memories, taking deep breaths, and communicating through sound
DOLPHIN CRYSTAL REIKI: This is the third and final level of the Dolphin Trilogy Reiki. The magnificent energy of the dolphins combines with powerful crystal energy, to form an integrated whole healing system that can heal at a variety of levels.
With this package you will receive:
- Dolphin Reiki attunements on each level
- Dolphin Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
- Dolphin Reiki Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiations for only $ 29 USD
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System 4 - Elemental Reiki:
Elemental Reiki was created by Rebecca Doolin and employs symbols derived from Goddess, Elemental, and Pagan symbology . The Reiki energy harmonizes with the frequency of The Goddess so as to work in accordance with Wiccan Tradition.
This unique style of Reiki beautifully combines the healing energy of Reiki with the Goddess, Elemental, and Pagan symbology and can be used for both healing purposes and connection with the elements.
The Elemental Reiki course will guide you through the various frequencies of the energy symbols and techniques that you can use to improve and enrich your life.
If you are already a Reiki Master you will need just one attunement. If you are not currently a Reiki Master you will need two attunements, the second attunement will be need to be given 24 hours after the first.
With this package you will receive:
- Elemental Reiki attunements
- Elemental Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
- Elemental Reiki Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 29 USD
After you have paid over the secure server of PayPal we will agree on a date and time for YOU to receive the attunements and the manual.
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System 5 - Hawaiian Trinity Reiki:
This system has been revised and updated by Stephanie Brail and has a beautiful energy and feel to it.
This was originally taught as three separate systems ~ Hawaiian Trinity Reiki brings together the following three Reiki systems: KaHuna Reiki (aka Huna Reiki), Aloha Reiki, and Uhane Nui Reiki.
In this updated and revised system, the three Hawaiian Reiki systems work not only as standalone energies, but also work together as an entire system.
You will receive 3 pdf emailed manuals, one distance attunement and a certificate .
The cost of the Hawaiian Trinity Reiki course is $49.00 and is available to current Usui Reiki Masters
With this package you will receive:
- Hawaiian Trinity Reiki attunement
- Hawaiian Trinity Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
- Hawaiian Trinity Reiki Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 49 USD
After you have paid over the secure server of PayPal we will agree on a date and time for YOU to receive the attunements and the manual.
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System 6 - Inga Reiki:
Inga Reiki contains new possibilities for healing and also contains some very interesting energies.
Inga Reiki was developed or rediscovered by Severina Silva in Brazil.
Inga Reiki is based on the mysterious stone carvings in Ingá, Brazil.
These stone carvings are said have originated in Lemuria many thousands of years ago. In the lemurian society stone carvings were used by Adepts to reach altered states of consciousness and to confer upon them powers to communicate with the beyond and to intervene in the real world.
Since there are many different energy systems in the world today from many different cultures, Inga Reiki presents for the first time the Lemurian Brazilian energy connection.
Ingá Reiki has 3 Levels with the 1st level containing 2 symbols and Mantras.
The energy is soft and pleasant and penetrates the body blancing our Chi flow. Blockages are worked on and dissolved.
Level II has two symbols and you learn long distance healing the Inga Reiki way.
The level III contains the master/teacher Attunements.
Ingá Reiki can be regarded as a wonderful alternative to Usui Reiki or can be combined with it.
With this package you will receive:
- Inga Reiki attunements
- Inga Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
- Inga Reiki Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 39 USD
After you have paid over the secure server of PayPal we will agree on a date and time for YOU to receive the attunements and the manual.
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System 7 - MaitriVihara Reiki:
MaitriVihara Reiki story is simple. I began to intuit new symbols some time after my third level Karuna Reiki initiation almost two years ago. This creative process intensified during a trip to Macchu Picchu in Peru (during the Fall Equinox of 2000). While meditating there, I felt a profound connection to the God/dess & was guided into developing my own system of subtle energy healing with a Reiki base. As such, it is a prerequisite to have already been initiated into the Shinpiden level of Usui Reiki.
Maitri Vihara comes from Sanskrit and simply means the abode of love. It is an age old fact that sounds, colors, scents, geometric shapes &/or specific symbols and, even physical postures, help each individual awareness to access specific frequencies, which, in turn, can provoke a diverse range of states of consciousness. Because we are condensed units of awareness swimming in a Cosmic Ocean of energy, these frequencies Interpenetrate our being at all levels of density.
Maitri Vihara focuses on the inner journey towards healing (at each of these levels) through the ever-unfolding expansion of consciousness. By first balancing and focusing your compassionate awareness, you will perceive that these symbols serve as catalysts for subtle energy frequency shifts. They also serve to empower by working as constant reminders of the interindependence of each individual wave in the Cosmic Ocean.
It is my conviction that Maitri Vihara Reiki's role is that of serving as one more step along the path of conscious awareness of our reality as multidimensional Selves. Maitri Vihara Reiki symbols may even help to activate & accelerate dormant DNA strands as appropriate to each person. This is because a symbol is an extremely powerful form of visual language, which creates a diversion for the ego in order to allow the Self to interface with the creative source of the Universe. At this implicate order (borrowing physicist David Bohm's term for the interconnected Cosmic Ocean); our individual consciousness & frequency signature undergo an expansion process or "awakening". This expanded or accelerated frequency will eventually overflow into all your bodies (from the most subtle to the most dense), creating changes in the mind-body synergy.
There is a period of time right after an attunement during which the person adjusts at his/her own pace to the new frequencies & integrates them into his/her energy bodies. In order to help the process along, I'd suggest meditating on each symbol individually & as a pattern. Try to perceive the energy frequencies and use their shapes; names & colors as bridges to the source.
With this package you will receive:
MaitriVihara Reiki attunements
MaitriVihara Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
MaitriVihara Reiki Manual with attunement process
Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 69 USD
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System 8 - Ma'heo'o Reiki:
Ma'heo'o translated means Great Spirit, Great one, or God in Cheyenne (Native American language). This system of Reiki will combine the elements of Air, Earth, Fire and Water with the Great Spirit to effectively promote and activate healing in the human condition. This system is simple, yet power, and can be used by anyone.
There are 5 symbols specific to Ma'heo'o Reiki, used with one from the traditional styles that are incorporated into this healing system. The first 4 represent the elements and enable us to connect with and channel Mother Earth's energy; combined with and activated by Great Spirit this becomes a very powerful system; promoting great energy channeling ability, use of healing light and color, connection with higher intellect, ground-ness, promotes calming peace and relaxation. This system combines the gentleness of Reiki with the raw power of the Earth elements. It can bring you into contact with your spirit totem, give you your sacred name and balance your mind & body with the 5 elements.
There are 3 attunements involved in Ma'heo'o Reiki. The first two enable a better connection and heightened sense of the elemets through Mother Earth. Not only do the symbols allow harmony of the elements of Mother Earth, they allow harmony of the elements as they pertain to the human condition. The third attunement is the master level which connects you with Great Spirit; enabling you to harness the power of Earth and Spirit to effectively use the light as it facilitates, promotes and activates your healing from within.
With this course you will receive all three attunements and upon completion will be a Ma'heo'o Reiki Master Teacher (able to teach and attune others) and unlimited support even after the course.
Course Lessons:
Lesson 1- Introduction
Learn about the history of Reiki, energy healing and Native American Tradition.
Lesson 2- Breathing Awareness
Focusing on breath and awareness.
Lesson 3- Our Chakra &Nadis system
Exploring the Chakra and nadis systems.
Lesson 4- The symbols
The Ma'heo'o Reiki symbols, what they mean and when to use them.
Lesson 5- Master level
Attunements- how to, Distance Healing- how to. Client consent forms.
With this package you will receive:
- Ma'heo'o Reiki attunements
- Ma'heo'o Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
- Ma'heo'o Reiki Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 69 USD
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System 9 - Rún Valdr Reiki:
Rune Reiki will now be called Rún Valdr. This is Old Norse for Rune Power or Authority. I wish to distance Rún Valdr from Reiki, as it is not so much a Reiki that uses Runes, but rather a Reiki-like way of using Runes. It functions, in many ways, very differently from Reiki.
I will describe a new and wholly separate energy system that is similar to Reiki, but is not based on ancient Sanskrit or Tibetan teachings, but on the Norse Runes. This system is complete unto it self and does not rely in any way to other Reiki systems beyond cursory similarities in using the new symbols and in giving attunements. This system that I call Rún Valdr goes beyond what Reiki does in that the symbols and techniques can be used for more than healing. They can be used for magic as well including a way to easily and powerfully charge objects to create magical items, programmed to do whatever you desire.
Much of the material was revealed to me during mental journeys I took to meet with my Gods, Odin and Freya. They gave me the symbols, their names and what they were for. Even though there are quite a few new symbols they have, curiously enough, an internal consistency. That is, they have a consistent look about them that indicates that they are not merely random symbols, but are part of a larger system. I wasn't told to keep anything secret, so I'm revealing the whole system here. You still need an attunement to make it work, but feel free to experiment.
I’m as skeptical about so called “channeled” information as the next person, but I have found through extensive testing that these symbols work and work well.
You will receive:
The Symbols
Runes
Performing a Working
Performing Magick
Attunements
Making Magical Objects
With this package you will receive:
- Rún Valdr Reiki attunements
- Rún Valdr Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
- Rún Valdr Reiki Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 49 USD
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System 10 - Sacred Breath Reiki:
Sacred breath is about balance of breath body, mind, and spirit.
Sacred Breath gives the ability to heal ourselves in a natural and simple thing.
Now more than ever in these times of change, we need the ability to heal.
The contents of the manual are below:
• Outline Of Workshop
• History
• Breath of the East Wind/Elemental
• Breath of Air Breath/Elemental
• Breath of Water Breath/Elemental Breath of Fire
• Breath of the North/Elemental Breath of Earth
• Breath of the Rainbow Breathing/Moon
• Breathing the Sun
• Crystal Clearing Breath
• Dolphin Breath/Meditation
• Healing with Sound
• Hand Positions
• Additional Information/Aides
• Bach Flower Remedies
• Healing With Essential Oils/Herbs
• Gifts of the Stone Lodge People
• Chakras
• Ethereal Crystals
• Animal Medicine/Totems
• Working With Colours
• Feather Healing
• Cardinal Directions
• Smudging Ceremony
• Attunement process
With this package you will receive:
- Sacred Breath Valdr Reiki attunement
- Sacred Breath Reiki Certificate (via international postal service)
- Sacred Breath Reiki Manual with attunement process
- Support from me via email
You will get these initiation for only $ 29 USD
After you have paid over the secure server of PayPal we will agree on a date and time for YOU to receive the attunements and the manual.
For any questions please contact me.