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"It is probable that you already have (an animal) guide; it is a representation
of your personal shamanic identity and of the qualities you mediate to
the rest of the world. It may be kept secret as part of your inner, shamanic
name, or displayed openly on a shield. But remember that you do not choose
your totem beast; it is more true to say that it chooses you." "Community is the teacher. It stands in the North on the medicine
wheel, the realm of wisdom. It is the mirror, the feedback, the context
of realization. To eat, to cut firewood, to own a car, to overturn a stone
is to participate in community, consciously or not. We are rearranging
the universe. There is no standing apart even in death. Interconnection
is the condition of this universe. Nothing is exempt." Shaman Drums Hark, oh hark my horse - ye female maral deer! Oh, painted drum who standeth in the forward corner! Like flitting clouds, carry me They [Spirit Helpers] provide instruction in magical techniques and enhance
the shaman's perception, while the teaching also represents a process
of moral and spirtual growth." "There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby, and invisible, and there is where God lives, where the dead live, the spirits and the saints. "A world where everything has already happened and everything is
known. That world talks. It has a language of it's own. I report what
it says. The sacred mushroom takes me by the hand and brings me to the
world where everything is known. It is they, the sacred mushrooms, that
speak in a way that I can understand. I ask them and they answer me. When
I return from the trip that I have taken with them, I tell what they have
told me and what they have shown me. Note the interesting corollary between Sabina's comments and this information on theoretical physics: "According to this theory, before the Big Bang, our cosmos was actually a perfect ten-dimensional universe, a world where interdimensional travel was possible. However, this ten-dimensional universe "cracked" in two, creating two separate universes: a four- and a six- dimensional universe. The universe in which we live was born in that cosmic cataclysm. Our four-dimensional universe expanded explosively, while our twin six-dimensional universe contracted violently, until it shrank to almost infinitesimal size. "This would explain the origin of the Big Bang. If correct, this
theory demonstrates that the rapid expansion of the universe was just
a rather minor aftershock of a much greater cataclysmic event, the cracking
of space and time itself. The energy that drives the observed expansion
of the universe is then found in the collapse of ten-dimensional space
and time. According to this theory, the distant stars and galaxies are
receding from us at astronomical speeds because of the original collapse
of ten-dimensional space and time. This theory predicts that our universe
still has a dwarf twin, a companion universe that has curled up into a
small six-dimensional ball that is too small to be observed. "I drew a circle with a stick and sat down in the center of it, planning to remain here for the next four suns and sleeps. Once Wind Chaser saw that I was not going on any farther, he disappeared into the woods. I prayed to Apo to give me a vision, then began to sing my song: Hu-nai-yiee. Gradually I felt my consciousness expand until I was one with all life. I was a deer running swiftly through the forest and an eagle flying high in the sky.
"On the third night, Oapiche, my spirit guide, came again and took me
into the spirit world. I found myself in a shimmering white body beside
Oapiche outside the entrance to a cave. He led me through the cave to
an opening that held many ancient objects. I could feel the power radiating
out from them. He told me in thought impressions to find my personal totem,
which would give me strong medicine. I examined a pipe and reverently
touched a painted shield with feathers on it, then reached out to clasp
a small sculpture. The inner vision faded and I found myself back in my
body. I continued to pray in hopes that my Spirit Guide would return and
take me back to the cave. He did not reappear. I was left wondering at
the meaning of the vision and if the cave existed in the physical world."
This new book is visionary author Heidi
Skarie's re-telling of the story of Red Willow, a young Shoshoni
maiden who undertook a dangerous quest in the early 1800's to successfully
become a medicine woman.
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Red
Willow's Quest
Shamanism
in Red Willow's Quest