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Shamanic Methods
SHAMANISM & ITS HISTORY
Shamanism is one of the oldest spiritual practices, dating back tens of thousands of years to the beginning of time. It originated across many ancient cultures, including those in Siberia, Central Asia, the Americas, and parts of Africa and Oceania. At its core, shamanism involves a practitioner—called a shaman—entering altered states of consciousness to interact with the spirit world for healing, divination, and guidance. Traditionally, shamans act as intermediaries between humans and spirits, using rituals, drumming, chanting, and plant medicines. Though often suppressed by organized religions and colonial powers, shamanic traditions have enduredthroughout time.
Shamanism is increasingly being used as a catch-all term for various forms of energy work, spiritual healing, and New Age practices, many of which lack the cultural, historical, and ceremonial roots of true shamanic traditions. Traditional shamanism is deeply tied to specific indigenous cultures, cosmologies, and community roles, often requiring years of apprenticeship, initiations, and a profound relationship with the natural and spirit world. Diluting the term risks erasing the rich complexity and sacredness of these practices, and can lead to cultural appropriation when divorced from their original context.
In "The Big Book of Reiki Symbols" by Mark Hosak and Walter Lübeck highlights the deep spiritual roots of Reiki in Japanese traditions, particularly emphasizing the role of female shamans, or miko, in early Japanese spirituality. These women acted as spirit mediums, performing healing, divination, and ritual work—core aspects of shamanic practice. The authors argue that Reiki draws heavily from these traditions, showing that its origins are not just energetic healing but also deeply spiritual and shamanic in nature.
SHAMANIC JOURNEYING
Shamanism is essentially rooted in the superconscious connection and the ability to journey beyond ordinary reality. Shamans enter altered states of consciousness—often through drumming, chanting, breathwork, or plant medicines—to enter non-ordinary realms such as the upper, middle, and lower worlds. These realms are held by spirit guides, ancestors, animal spirits, and ancient energies, which the shaman connects with for healing, guidance, or soul retrieval. Unlike subconscious or unconscious work, the superconscious journey is intentional, visionary, and often deeply transformative, allowing access to expanded wisdom far beyond the waking mind.
1. Lower World
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Accessed through: journeys involving descent (e.g., visualizing going underground, entering caves, roots, or water).
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Purpose: healing, connecting with power animals, grounding, retrieving lost soul parts.
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Inhabitants: power animals, nature spirits, ancestral energies.
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Nature: primal, nurturing, earthy, and deeply connected to instinct and personal empowerment.
2. Middle World
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Accessed through: altered awareness of the physical world (often used for real-time guidance or healing).
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Purpose: divination, space clearing, communication with spirits of people, places, or land.
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Inhabitants: spirits of the land, plant spirits, human ghosts, and elemental beings.
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Nature: closest to our waking reality but accessed through spiritual senses—can be both light and shadow.
3. Upper World
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Accessed through: ascension (visualizing climbing, flying, or rising up through clouds, trees, or ladders).
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Purpose: spiritual guidance, wisdom, vision, initiation, connection to divine consciousness.
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Inhabitants: spirit guides, ascended masters, angelic beings, deities.
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Nature: luminous, expansive, and filled with archetypal and divine intelligence.
Each world is a symbolic realm rather than a literal place, and shamans or journeyers typically use drums, rattles, or trance states to enter them. While modern journeying techniques often follow these maps, indigenous traditions vary greatly, and not all cultures divide the spirit world in the same way.
HYPNOJOURNEY
With hypnojourneying, I use a technique called hyperempiria, which involves crafting hypnotic suggestions to evoke vivid sensory experiences. This guides you into a heightened state of consciousness—similar to the shamanic journey to the Upper World—where your creative and spiritual capacities can expand beyond ordinary perception.
One of the most powerful aspects of Upper World journeying is addressing soul loss, a condition where parts of the soul fragment due to trauma or emotional distress. These soul fragments often retreat to other realms for protection, leaving you feeling disconnected, numb, or incomplete. Soul retrieval is the sacred process of journeying to these realms to locate, recover, and reintegrate these lost parts of the self.
Symptoms of soul loss may include a sense of fragmentation, emotional detachment, apathy, depression, or a persistent lack of joy and love. Through soul retrieval, healing begins—restoring not only your emotional and psychological well-being but also your spiritual strength and vitality.
By journeying to the Upper World, you can access higher realms of guidance, wisdom, and healing. This sacred practice supports deep soul repair, helping you regain balance, clarity, and a profound reconnection with your true self.
Hypnojourneying is not limited to upper world. This state may lead to other worlds or other realms.
SHAMANIC INTUITIVE COACHING
Shamanic Intuitive Coaching helps you create a clear vision of what you need and where you journey may lead in this world. Drawing on ancient spiritual principles and intuitive insight, these sessions support deep personal healing and transformation. Rooted in my own direct experiences in the spiritual realms, I use my intuitive abilities to guide clients through, energetic imbalances, emotional patterns and spiritual disconnection. This work helps you reconnect with your inner truth, receive guidance from higher source and restore clarity, balance and empowerment.
At its core, Shamanic Intuitive Coaching also helps individuals reclaim their sense of direction, see hardships through the lens of fate and destiny that shapes one's life. Through this path, many have gained tools to navigate the outer world with clarity and strength, faced changes with renewed perspective, and deepening their understanding of self and place in the greater web of life. Guided by tradition, the spirits and the rhythms of the land, this work offers steady for those walking the winding road of becoming
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