Friday, May 6, 2011

How to become a Shaman





“The ins and outs of navigating the Dream - The Non-ordinary Reality”
By John Conway


*I have put this kit together as a gift. If you find it useful then great, if you don’t, great and if you think, “This guy is totally off his nut,” great. Take all of what you read with a grain of salt. It is my hope to create a playground where all of us know the secrets, and a place where no one person holds all the power!

A Practical Guide for Living in an Impractical Society

The Art of Dream Walking “The Walker between Worlds”

1. Shift your thinking from Skepticism to Discernment. Skepticism tends to close down the processes of open mindedness. It almost already suggests that, “I don’t believe it and you have to convince me.” Where as Discernment tends to leave the mind open towards new things. “I’m willing to listen and see.” Please compare these two Dictionary definitions to see what I am suggesting.

Skepticism :
An attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object or thing or a doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain b : the method of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticism characteristic of SKEPTICS
Discernment :
The quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure : skill in discerning - an act of discerning synonyms, DISCERNMENT, PRECONCEPTION, PENETRATION, INSIGHT, ACUMEN mean a power to see what is not evident to the average mind. DISCERNMENT stresses accuracy (as in reading character or motives or appreciating art) . DISCRIMINATION stresses the power to distinguish and select what is true or appropriate or excellent . PRECONCEPTION implies quick and often sympathetic discernment (as of shades of feeling) . PENETRATION implies a searching mind that goes beyond what is obvious or superficial . INSIGHT suggests depth of discernment coupled with understanding sympathy . ACUMEN implies characteristic penetration combined with keen practical judgment.

2. Have a belief structure that includes a power greater than your self.
Pick your deity (God).
Believing in a power greater than ourselves, helps to cope with grief, fear and the unknown.
Meditate and or Pray.
Support the spirit/soul/your heart.

3. Create a Sanctuary and “good healthy personal
boundaries.” Clear your living space using sage and sweet grass. Secure your living space from outside influences with: Tummith-A red find dust from a really big old cedar stump. Gently sprinkle it around all the door and window openings to the outside world, as well as the 4 corners of your living space.

13. stones-Place 12 stones in a circle around your living space. Pray while you do it. Place the thirteenth one in the center of your home.
Dried rose sticks place in the 4 corners of your living space.
Ivy place growing or dried ivy in the 4 corners of your living space.
Grandfather’s Beard place in the 4 corners of your living space.
Sea Salt is good too.

4. To be able to soar large distances in the non-ordinary reality/the dream align with the Eagle or Hawk or Owl etc.
She/he knows how to go to incredible heights and always know where home is.
The Bird will always keep you connected to your heart and still allow you to travel into the depths of the dream. It will help your spirit to soar without confusion and or fear.

5. Look for the ally of all Dream Walkers, the Wolf.
She/he knows the dream and will seek a pack. She/he will keep you safe while you explore the Dream and life.
Use your imagination to seek the alley. The imagination is the key to opening the doorway to the dream.
When you bond with the wolf she/he will champion your heart, as you will theirs.

6. Seek the “Big Cat,” the knower of the all hidden & buried Secrets.
She/he knows the forbidden places, the dangerous places that only the cat can go to without being seen.
When you walk with the big Cats they will keep you from harm as you hunt for the lost secrets.

7. The non-ordinary reality/the dream and reality are not separate they are constantly over lapping this will help you to be able to see more.
Life is not black and white, this or that.
Allow and be open to multiple realities being intertwined.

8. Let go of the human experience/spirit living only one life time and work & try to embrace the possibility of being four billion years old. This will help you understand the non-ordinary reality/the dream better.
Move away from thinking you only have this life time of knowledge and explore the possibility of knowing more.
We’ve had more than 10 past lives, we’ve had millions
of them. If you want to see them then find the one you’re most afraid of and explore it. As soon as you’ve done this the rest will follow.

9. Look at your Pain. Stop blame.
Take responsibility for your life.
Embrace life’s challenges & see them as opportunities.
Look into who you are and see the world around you.

10. Action alleviates worry.
If you’re worried, take steps to do something about it. This phenomena just doesn’t go away, it will be back.
”If you don’t use your medicine, it will make you sick.” Aunty Nora
Just take the first step. You can’t run before you learn to walk.
Break it down, and then piece it together.
Find a way. There is always a way.

11. Walk, Run, Hike, Bike, do Yoga. Do anything active.
Breath + relaxation + joy = opportunity

12. Eat Well-Think Well.
Put good nutritious food into your body.

13. Let go of the addictions.
Sugar Coffee Cigarettes Alcohol Drugs Work Sex Relationship and Exercise

14. SEEK HELP
Be discerning. A good therapist is as hard to find as a good mechanic (even harder).

15. Create Healthy Relationships.
Learn to trust loving yourself before loving someone else.
Live with yourself before you enter into an intimate relationship with someone else.
Surround yourself with people who support your dreams & belief system.
Create a family/tribe/band/pack of people of like minds.

16. Read, Watch & Talk & Listen.
Continually be open to new ideas, young & old

17. Look for those with SIGHT, not the Archetype.
Wisdom comes from all things and all people.
Look to the children, they’re closet to the mystery and creative spontaneity.
Look for the smiley ones.

18. Be discerning & objective of what you see.
In life.
In dreams or the non-ordinary reality.
In relationships.
With all incoming information.

19. Teach Yourself.
Believe that you “Can Know Everything” and every time you catch yourself saying “I don’t Know,” ask yourself, “What if I did Know?”
Knowledge + remembering + repetition (look closely at the details for clues) = Sight.
There is no such thing as an accident everything happens for a reason and this is called synchronicity.

20. Follow your Intuition.
Listen to your Heart.
Believe in yourself.
Guide yourself.

21. Explore all cultures, all faiths, and all beliefs.
Create your own form of Eclectic Humanism.

22. Become a Leader
Lead yourself.
Role Model.
Walk your talk.

23. Be an Individual.
Step away from group mentality.
Be aware of the world around you and filter the media.
Live simply, be comfortable and not over extended.

24. Volunteer.
Give of yourself without desiring anything in return.

25. Embrace Money.
Money is energy that allows you to do more and help more.
Change the face of dysfunctional economic king pins.

25. Be Powerful Be Gentle.
Effect Society Positively.

26. Practice Random Acts of Kindness.

27. If it doesn’t Heal it just ain’t no big Deal.

28. Laugh & Play.
Splash in puddles.
Do finger paints.
Do things you always wanted to do. Make a list of 101 things you’d love to do before you die and DO THEM!

29. EVERYTHING IN MODERATION EVEN MODERATION.

30. Persist even if you don’t see results at first. Intuition requires training and reassurance. The more you use it, the clearer gets. The rewards out weigh the efforts.
Quote from Life Coach- Kristeen Verge


*Special Note:

When you are feeling physically heavy, melancholy or sad it is good to do what the co-salish peoples have been doing for centuries which is to go and bath spiritually.

Get two cedar branches if you can get them, one for each hand.
Go alone, or with one other quiet person who believes in what you’re doing.
Go find a fresh running river as pure of water as you can find.
It’s good to find a water fall and bath at the bottom of it, in the pool or even if you can in the water fall itself.
Pray on the way up to the spot you have found remember if your heart likes it, it’s spiritual.
Step into the water (don’t dive in) and drop your head underwater four times in the four directions, praying all the while you’re doing this. At the same time slap your back with the cedar bows.
Important to keep in mind that the water will be really cold/freezing, so do your best, if you can only get your head under once the first time I’m sure creator will let it go.
When you step out get dressed and pray in silence for at least 15 minutes. Take the experience in. Embrace it, pray and give thanks.


The next sections include a list of some of the beings that I‘ve seen in my Real and Non-ordinary Reality/The Dream. You may have seen variations of these beings, depending on your belief system and cultural back ground. However, I strongly suspect you will find strong parallels in sightings. If you’ve seen something I haven’t, let me know.

I have included both positive and negative beings. It is my desire to know all that’s out there. I find it helps me to understand and create a fuller picture, a healthier perspective. I hope it will do the same for you.


The Realm
(Benevolent & Helpful)

FROM THE DREAM:
Ghosts/wonderful Earth bound dead people
Keepers & Gifters: of the Staff & the Stone/Orb
Wise Old Dead People/Spirit Guides
The Tall People/The Ancients/Taltos
The Little Ones: the children of hope
Phoenix People/ Seers & Dreamers
The Children of the Sun/ Seers & Dreamers
The Children of the Feather
Thunderbirds/ Seers & Dreamers
Griffins/ Seers & Dreamers
Dragons/ Seers & Dreamers
Angels
Cachina’s/ Hopi Sky Gods
White Shawled Women
White Robed People with gold sashes
Dark Blue Robed People
Purple Robed People
Green Robed People
Brown Robed People
Orange Robed People
Red Robed People
Mormon looking People/ who come in three’s
Bird People
Thunder Birds
Sphinx People
Fairies/ Elves/ Gnomes/ Leprechauns
ALIENS:
White/ Blue/ Green
Translucent/ Butterfly People
Ancient Flying Dancer Spirits

WONDERFUL AND EARTH BOUND:
Animal Kingdom including: Sasquatches, owls, snakes, bats, and spiders etc.
Functional Smiling Medicine People: Voodoo, Witches, Red Blanket Men, Shamans Light Workers, Healers, Crystal Workers, etc.
Functional & Smiling: Priests, Pastors, Nuns, Monks, Yogi, Gurus,
Reki Masters, etc.
Smiling Healthy Human Beings with Hope: Special Needs People
Smiling Children

NASTY BITS OF BUISNESS
(Destructive/Malicious/Manipulative/Controlling)

FROM THE DREAM “Real Nasty”:
Black Robed Assassins/Templar Knights
Masked Assassins in Black with pistols/machine guns etc
Hounds: cross between dog and wolf with red eyes
Black Pterodactyls
Huge Dung Beetles
Dark Creatures/Black Rabbits, Black Spiders, Leeches etc.
Men in Bowler Hats
Demons with bad teeth
Ghouls taking shape of human beings
DYSFUNCTIONAL ALIENS:
Gray/ Black Aliens
Dwarf Workers
Lizard People
Centurions
Cat People
Dog People
Anglo Women with big baldheads wearing white gowns from the neck to floor.

Nasty bits of business earth bound:
Government/ Military/ Government Secret Services around the World
The Boys of Rome /Trilateral Commission/ World Health Organization
Black Undercover Ops. / Black Uniformed Military Personnel
Dysfunctional Non-Smiling/Nasty Medicine Throwing People: Voodoo, Red Blanket Men, Shamans, Light Workers, Healers, Crystal Workers,
Reiki Masters etc.
Dysfunctional Non-Smiling: Nasty Priests, Pastors, Nuns, Monks, Yogi’s,
Guru’s, etc.
Automatons: People in Emotional Pain who seem to have little or no hope.

*“I think that we should, at the most general level, be seeking out forms of authority and domination, and challenging their legitimacy.”
Noam Chomsky

Read and KNOW MORE
(Books & Mags)

Non-Fiction
THE WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR DREAM WALKER
A MUTANT MESSENGER DOWN UNDER DANCING WITH THE WHEEL
THE RELUCTANT MESSIAH MIRACLES
LAME DEER/VISION SEEKER FIRE IN THE HEAD
THE COURAGE TO HEAL (FEMALE) *ANIMAL SPEAK
THE NEGLECTED VICTIMS (MALE) THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN
THE MAGIC OF FINHORN MAGIC MYSTERY IN TIBET
BRINGERS OF THE DAWN COMMUNION LETTERS
EMBRACING THE BELOVED WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS
A COURSE IN MIRACLES POWER OF THE GIFT
FRUITFUL DARKNESS THE ANATOMY OF SPIRIT
THE BODACIOUS BOOK OF SUCCULENCE TRANSFORMATION SOUP
INDIGO CHILDREN SOPHIES WORLD
THE TAO OF POOH THE LITTLE MONEY BIBLE

LIFE LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOKS
TIBETAN BOOK OF THE LIVING AND DIEING
ANCIENT MAN/A HANDBOOK OF PUZZLING ARTIFACTS
SEPARATER REALITY-TEACHINGS OF DAUN JUAN


Fiction
*ISHMAEL *STORY OF B
THE ALCHEMIST THE WHEEL OF TIME SERIES
A WINTERS TALE PRINCE UMBRA
A WRINKLE IN TIME DUNE SERIES
HARRY POTTER SERIES LORD OF THE RINGS
TALTOS WEAVE WORLD
OTHERLAND SERIES *TAILSMAN
DARKTOWER/GUNSLINGER SERIES LIGHTING


Magazines

SHAMANS DRUM UFO BC
SHARED VISION THE UTNE READER

Watch and Know More
(Movies & Vids & Web Sights)

Movies
PAY IT FORWARD
POW WOW HIGHWAY LITTLE BIG MAN
HIGHLANDER FAIRY’S
BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET FALLEN
THE FIFTH ELEMENT COCOON
STIGMATA MATRIX
EMERALD FOREST BRAZIL
BLADE RUNNER STAR MAN
STAR GATE PROPHECY
TIME BANDITS THE NAKED LUNCH
DANCE WITH THE WOLVES DARK CITY
THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR 2001 SPACE ODESSEY
THE ADVENTURE OF BUCKAROO BANZI WALK ABOUT

Videos
THE COSPIRACY THEORY HOPI PROCEPHIES
David Ikke Lee Brown
BURNING TIMES/WITCH HUNTS ALIEN KNOWLEDGE
National Film Board Robert Morning Sky

Web Sights
www.manari.ca Dorothy Izatt- Amazing seer
www.ufobc.ca Background on UFO activity
www.corpcirclequest.com Corp circle information
www.remote-viewing.com scientific perspective of “Dream Walking”
wolfs_moon.tripod.com Animal Totems
www.davidicke.com Conspiracy Theorist
www.freedomdomain.com Conspiracy Theories
www.paperships.com Scared tobacco (Kinnick Kinnick)

paranormal.about.com/cs/ancientanomalies- scientific documentation of artifacts that have been kept secret from the general public.

www.lasvegasmercury.com/2002/MERC-Nov-21-thu-2002/20095845.html
The most wild, out there sightings of paranormal activities it is worth the read.

Learn about Colors

Colors Positive Qualities Negative Qualities

Black protection, birth, magic secretiveness, sacrifice
Blue happiness, calm, truth depression, loneliness
Brown grounded, new growth lack of discrimination
Green growth, healing, abundance uncertain, miserly, greed
Grey initiation, imagination imbalance, secretiveness
Orange warmth, joy, creativity pride, agitation, worry
Red sex, passion, strength anger, aggression, impulse
Violet alchemy, humility, spirit obsession, misunderstood
White purity, sharing, truth scattered, overextended
Yellow communication, optimism needing, clarification
Gold inspiration overcritical


Learn about Numbers


Nos. Positive Affects Negative Effects

1 beginnings, originality, leader arrogance, dominance
2 feminine, dreams, cooperation sensitivity, meddling
3 creativity, birth, mystical gossipy, moody
4 foundations, patience, builder stubborn, rigid
5 versatile, change, activity scattered, overindulgent
6 home, service, family jealous, worrisome
7 wisdom, seeker, truth faithless, critical
8 power, money, infinity careless, greedy, authoritarian
9 healing, understanding gullible, hypersensitive

(All double digit numbers can be reduced to one of these nine by adding the two digits together. For example: 23 = 2+3 = 5)

Learn about Directions


Directions Characteristics and Energies of the Four Directions

East Healing, creativity, illumination, divination and intuition,new birth and sunshine, new leanings, strength of will communication, Expression of new.

West Vision, dreams, quests and journeys, emotions, imagination, creative arts, the feminine, higher compassion, inner spiritual renewal, goals.

South Purification, faith, strength, awakening inner child, over coming obstacles, playfulness, change, protection, self sufficiency, trust, resurrection.

North Teaching, abundance, balance, sacred wisdom and knowledge, gentleness, thankfulness, drawing forth inner treasures, Empathic intuition, trust, alchemy.

*For a more detailed introspective on Colors, Numbers, and Directions I highly recommend referring to:

“Animal Speak”
The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small by Ted Andrews. (c)