preview of shamanic self initiation

The clear light prayer, to be read aloud to( or by) those in shock or disoriented and ungrounded from shamanic voyaging.;

I am the voidness of the void,
infinite

eternal

uncreated

there is no other,

I am the bornless one,

not the void of darkness,

not the void of non existence,

not the void of nothingness,

I am endless crystal waters,

All phenomena is illusion,

What is not illusion?

No one thing more than another.

Appearing in the dream,

Emotion, Thought , Sensation,

Acting and reacting,

With or without my presence the play goes on ,

Impartial to it all,

neither attracted nor repelled,

alert and watchful,

not making any sudden moves,

my habits will carry me through.

( the habits of the essential being to evolve)

Control of all sorts of states normal people consider crazy, is paramount in regards to taming helper spirits. Make absolutely sure your spirit work is contained to the time and space you alot for it and that it does not detract from your life in any way or imbalance or predispose you at all. This work should be contained , otherwise it will dissipate. Using these prayers to come to oneself when overloaded by the intensity of non ordinary or visionary states churning up personal material is what is being recommended here.
The shamanic voyagers quatrain should be memorized by the practitioner before doing any further shamanic voyaging.

Impartial to it all,

neither attracted nor repelled,

not making any sudden moves,

my habits will carry me through.

SHAMANIC SELF INITIATION FOR BEGINNERS

This guide will be expanded to explain a few practical methods of contacting inner world spaces and beings that can guide our evolution and heal us, showing us who we are. The expansion of this text will occur in the near future. Meeting spirits whom are our eternal teachers/friends/lovers and maintaining contact with them is what this will be about. This work initiates the shamanic path for one. It is intended for healers with a higher level of commitment to developing power and adheres to high ethical standards.

We aim to cover;

.5 getting into visionary space and travelling in the homeland of innerworlds and upon the tree of life to shamanically journey.

1 FSS and Harner influenced modern power animal retrieval, underworld journey and upperworld journey to meet a teacher, and variations on this pioneering technique.

1.5 Andean mestizo Kamaska and Altomisayok curanderx approaches

1.7 Emergent celtic neo shamanic techniques.

2 Art Study and sacred performance, lets pretend, daily relating and merging with , shapeshifting into, becoming possessed by ones allies, and ecstatic dancing to feed and maintain contact with ones allies to develop real power. Paratheater, enteotic theater, objective art painting, collage, drawing, music and dance methods for relating with the unseen worlds. Creating Shrines for allies, power animals and guides. This is an overview, together with pithy instructions, for profoundly deepening your relationship with spirit helpers.

3 Taoist alchemical formulas to call on spirit animals of the 5 elements(organs). By purifying ones organs energies and arousing stronger spiritual resonances one is able to call spirit animals and a class of spirit called , Pure Child..

4 Martial arts inspired techniques of connecting with spirit of animals for empowerment in combat. Techniques inspired by modern martial arts experts (who have mastered fighting styles based on animals)http://whiteorchidkungfu.com/?page_id=237 http://www.chiflow.com/html/Applications_Xingyi.htmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Z0W-4Z_-o

5 African tradition/ ancestor inspired techniques. Ancestors connecting is different class of spirit and a little easier to start initial contact with in some cases as these are your unbroken ancestral divine family lineage guardians and they are already trying to contact you, so it may be easier to validate their reality in your experience. The process ive developed for self initiated Ancestral healing appeals to those who dream, like baths and dont mind making offerings and sitting quietly, often....

6 Art based techniques for working with spirits from canadian post tribals Norval Morriseau, Floyd Kuptana, and from japanese canadian artist sai. I worked closely with Floyd and Sai, Norval was a friend of a friend, yet his teachings came to me with a strength that rings in my ear............I feel as though I was called to help one of his groups healers learn about the book of the dead....Norval's circle of spiritual friends passed on custodial relations with an arte from their lineage to me in reciprocity and it is the center of my medicine.Working closely with Floyd and Sai I couldnt help but notice both of these artists work with helper spirits and represent them alot in their work. Any of their sculptures or books are artifacts which lead one into the transcendent sensations of relating with helper spirits. I solicited their internal strategies and representational modes to share them with you.

Connecting with the Inner Shaman, work pioneered by Jose and Lena Stevens of the powerpath school of shamanism. I found a way to deepen this practice and find ones inner shaman in a self validating heart centered process. Once one has a daily practice with the inner shaman, aligning all the other spirits one works with sets one up to do powerful work with all of ones resources known and unknown .

Notes on the "fnordj" animist approach;I recommend a multiple spirit helper approach (Spirit team )strategy for a few reasons.
Essentially we want to gracefully make a sincere friend or many , in the macrodimensions . One whose magical powers,help,love and guidance,are going to flow through us as our own healing gifts and shamanic powers. An advanced shamanic practitioner has invited several magestic spirits to live in their body with them.............. this is inseperable from/ one with  obtaining real occult power.....

The relationship with an inorganic ally can fulfill human social needs as well, one can marry spirits and be endlessly fulfilled socially by the depth and comprehensive nature of this bond.....
The reality of the spirits is validated in the process of coming to know them and that is one of the precious beauties of the shamanic path.We will start with journeying for a power animal because that is the convention in the emerging western neoshamanism, especially “core shamanism”, and if you start with only this, when you are interacting with other practitioners you will have the understanding developed through this experience as common ground when remembering your intrinsic community with them....
I was advised by some teachers to think of compassionate helper spirits and power animals as large wild animals, archetypes for their kind. Developing a mutually reciprocal relationship with any large wild creature can be dangerous and takes focus, time and energy. A daily practice is the best way to connect and reciprocate with the spirit helper who has stepped forwards. It is demanded that you find a daily practice to have a deep relationship, and only a deep relationship is sufficient to realize power.
Daily merging and singing dancing creating healing, gardening, art, etc etc etc is necessary, there is just no way around this. Once you have done this work you are free of the need for any spiritual intermediary such as a priest, you are connected to spirit and the whole web, through relationship to inner guides, guardian angels, power animals, elevated unbroken ancestors, and more,and have access to the tree of life and the three worlds, and all the spiritual help you need .
For most healers, the work of performing this self initiation , will be all the guidance they need to eventually become proficient as shamanic healers, taught by their own guides. As shamanism is a specialization in working with compassionate helper spirits, initiating a relationship with at least one helper spirit ( I think its natural and best to eventually have many many.) is how this specialization starts.
Once connected , one could literally draw out, in a series of well planned questions, their own instructions on how to be a shamanic healer from the helper spirits within them, and that is why we get called and sometimes even forced with real authority to do certain work. The spirits are real, transcendence and power are real, you are divine!
Healing self opens one to higher obligations and awakened shamanic voyagers are sometimes made this way. Necessity and persistence is all. The journeys undertaken to become healed oneself, aligns one with reality and power which comes with certain obligations to change so as be able to carry the shamanic power or wisdom gift in ones own life and/or to share the power, as a healer etc, with others.The path of shamanic healing and animism is a science of obligation.

So Over the next few weeks I will be completing the method parts of this report. This is just a preview... enjoy!