Hearing Voices in your Head “Are you thinking you’re crazy?” Its Called Channeling

Hearing Voices in your Head

“Are you thinking you’re crazy?”

First off, do any of the voices want to do you or anyone around you bodily harm? If you have voices that do want have you commit violence, then I suggest seeking help from a mental health agency near you immediately!

What to do if you hear voices in your head?

If you have voices that give you information that you couldn’t possibly know about, then there is something you can do to focus this gift. These qualities have been around for centuries and are incredible Psychic/Clairvoyant/Empathic gifts of a trance channel, shamans, and seers.

If you do have this going on, then you have strong medicine but it’s not an easy thing to live with. Our society has long forgotten what it knows around medicine as powerful as this, two hundred years ago, on this continent your aboriginal community in North America would be treating you with great respect and reverence. In Europe, it would have been well over 9 hundred years ago.

Here is what to do:

To help yourself to be able to live with your feet in both worlds, help other people and utilize the power of those Spirit Beings/Spirit Guide or as I call them Wise Old Dead Elders/Spirit Guides, who are trying to talk to you:

Know that being a little crazy is a good thing. Let me explain this: A person I recently met said “Being called crazy is the greatest compliment you could possibly receive because it means that people have run out of a context or a category to slot you into that’s with their spectrum of understanding.” Please keep in mind that they say this to all innovators i.e.: Henry Ford was called crazy when he told people he was going to build a machine that ran on fuel that you could ride in, instead of the horse. Imagine what people thought of Edison, or Einstein who had his own method of math, and what about Edgar Cayce the famous medical intuitive and the list goes on and on.

Don’t be telling anyone you can’t trust because they will probably try to get you institutionalized to feel better about themselves.

Find a group of people you can trust and share your experiences with. It helps to empower you with positive reframe of your gift. Instead of thinking you’re mentally sick you’ll begin to feel you’re gifted and special.

Check out your diet. If you have a blood sugar problem and its low this can make you a bit crazy. A good diet of proteins and greens will help you to balance your body and your mental health. Don’t kid yourself that the two are not so closely related, they are!

Stay away from white sugar, caffeine, and hallucinogens and become clear. Look at your emotional pain and seek help to deal with it.  The more you know yourself the more you know what’s going on inside of you and who’s who, how to tell the difference between them and you and how they can help you in helping others.

If you’ve done all that then hear is the next step but it requires using your imagination to be able to “Walk between Worlds” to enter the Non-Ordinary

Reality/the Dreamtime.

Take 4 deep breaths. Slow inhale for 4 seconds, holds for 7 seconds, and then exhale for 8 seconds.

I want you to find a clearing in the center of a forest of a grove of trees. This clearing should be at least 40 yards in diameter. In the center of this clearing you will find 13 big boulders (big enough to sit on) and in the center of that, you will find a fire ready to be lit.

Go to this place, go to the circle, go to the fire and lit the fire. Walk to the North and stand in front of the stone, facing the fire. Ask for 12 people from all the worlds from all realms to come and support you in your spirit journey. Look around and see if they are Wise Old Dead Elders/Spirit Guides standing in front of the stones facing the fire Already.

Sit down and then ask everyone do the same. If there are any of the twelve that remain standing, then ask these folks to leave the circle and if they make a great fuss then again ask them to sit. If they do not but try to insist they ought to be a part of the circle, then tell them that the only way you let them stay is under your conditions and that one condition is to sit down as the rest are doing. None of the others sitting will say anything they’ll just witness and stay silent although they want to see this occur, “it is up to you to create the boundaries.”

The ones standing may even jump up and down and do silly things, if they do this then you know 100% that their intentions in your circle would be self-serving for them. Stand your ground and patiently ask them to leave, if they don’t then Wolf howl into the air three times (inside you head). This will call your pack of wolves that you run with, and they will come. You will find that they will leave before the wolves show up.

When they have left, and disappear back into the forest, call out to the forest for someone to replace the Spirit Guides or beings that have left. You will find some more Spirit Guides will come out of the forest and walk towards you. Not to worry the wolves will not frighten these beings, in fact, they may even pet them in a greeting as they go by. You will find that everyone now will sit down without a problem.

At this point it would be good to tell everyone in your circle that you have asked everyone here to help you in your walk in the Ordinary Reality and the Non-Ordinary Reality/the Dreamtime and then thank and bless them for being a part of their choice to support you.

Say, “I need a doorkeeper to sit on my right and someone to be on my left who will support me and help me to be strong and find clarity of mind to do the work of bringing through in channeling.”

You have now established good healthy boundaries that everyone in your circle will respect. The next thing to do is to tell them, “Please be gentle with me, I’m new at this, sometimes you scare me without knowing it and I need to go slowly. I will listen but please talk to me one at a time, slowly with informational sound bites that I can cope with.”

Also, “If you can also share with me through other forms of communication such as; billboards, logos, television programs, movies, and interactions with other people that too would be very helpful and sometimes an easier way for me to take in the information.”

I would work to allow them to share with you in a good way so that you can share with others.

I have been living with voices inside of my head since I was 10. They have not ever been disrespectful or harmful and mostly I find that my Wise Old Dead Elders just want to help.

I started bringing people through to talk at the age of 17 and then was taught to be a Trance Medium/ a Channel, at the age of thirty. I was taught an old English Spiritualist way which means that I sat in a circle with six other people for a year before, doing my own circles.

I have intergraded the whole process fully into my life and live with it in a Soul Mately healthy balanced way. I am of course crazy in a really good way and when people ask me if I think that I have multiple personalities I ask them first if they are worried about it in themselves (usually, it's about them not about you). And then I say: “No,” I say “but really it doesn’t matter what it is, it helps me and then I help people with information that I can’t possibly know.”

Please also remember to be kind to yourself. We live in a society that is absolute 98% in emotional pain and they are incredibly neurotic about being different from everyone else. Mostly our modern society doesn’t want to rock the boat and they just want to be mediocre aka Normal. So, if you find anyone name calling at you, smile the big smile and move quietly away and find people who support your reality, it’s a far better place than being like the rest of society that shutting its self-down.

A few stories of hearing voices in my head. This is my first encounter with Mau Ching,

The Boat

I was thirty when I had my first interaction with Mau Ching in the Dreamtime.

I was in this workshop and we were told to go to a sacred place in our imagination, in a meditation. I had seen this picture of Lake Lovely Water (an incredible beautiful Medicine lake up here on the West Coast) so I went there. And when we got there, we were told someone would be waiting for us by a boat on shore.

I did this and when I walk down the hill to the lake this little Korean fellow was waiting for me in a small modern row boat. This wizen old Asian guy carried a long pole and a bamboo hat that nearly hid most of his smiley face. He steps into the bow of the boat and instructs me to paddle out to the center of the lake. This fellow who was not so very big of stature was Mau Ching.

When we got to the center of the lake we were to ask whoever was with us, to ask them an important question.

“What about my Acting Career?” Was my question.

Then Mau Ching’s staff turned into a fishing pole and he stood there fishing. He smiled at me in anticipation as I looked on in confounded awe and confusion. Then he ran to the stern of the boat and fished from there. Then he fished while standing on one leg, then he fished facing, north, then the boat rotated to the south, then he was fishing with his feet dangling in the water and then he is fishing while standing on his head.

“Hey” I yell “What are you doing, that’s not how you fish!”

Mau Ching stops smiles at from underneath his hat bows and says:

“Ah, many ways to fish, smarty pantsa?”

And that was my answer to my question. Which meant nothing at the time but now I absolutely understand what he was talking about years later. I gave up my career in acting and as soon as I did that I became a storyteller, clown, and children’s entertainer. 

Spirit Climbing

The next time I met with Mau Ching in the middle of the Lake Lovely Water I had wonder if I could do what was expected of me. I mean the sheer magnitude of responsibility of the task that I was beginning to grasp, seem daunting and insurmountable.

I was in the middle of the lake and Mau Ching was rowing the boat, and I thought to myself, “Oh no, something is up.” He says nothing until we stop at the edge of a huge cliff that reaches high up to the peak of one of the mountains around Lake Lovely Water.

“Climb Mountain, smarty pantsa.”

“But, but you haven’t even heard my question yet.”

”Climb mountain!”

So, I don’t argue or say anything I just climb the mountain and when I about to reach the top, I hear my mother's voice that says, “Careful you might fall.” And in the moment, I lose my footing, I begin to fall but in the last crucial moment I save myself, pulling myself up onto the peak and who should be up there waiting for me? Mau Ching.

“Oh, you climb pretty good.”

“Why thanks.”

“But what if you fall smarty pantsa?”

“I won’t because I can do it.”

”But what if you did fall!”

”I’d just get up again and do it again, and again until I reached the top because that’s who I am.”

”Right smarty pantsa.

Then Mau Ching points to a mountain not so far off in the distance that is higher.

“Can you climb that mountain smarty pants.”

“Yes”

“Why smarty pantsa?”

“Because once you’ve climbed one mountain you can climb the rest by applying the same principles. It doesn’t matter how high a mountain is nothing is insurmountable.”

“Right smarty pantsa?”

Then he points again towards the horizon and says, “What do you see beyond that mountain?”

“Another mountain?”

“Right, bigger or smaller?”

“Bigger?”

“Can you climb that mountain smarty pants?”

“Of course.”

“Right smarty pantsa. And what do you see past that mountain?”

“Another mountain?”

“No!”

“No?”

“No, nothing left but small mountains! You climb too many high mountains; you get rest from climbing big mountains.” And then as always, he laughed uncontrollably and I just shook my head and smiled at him.

Mau Ching has taught me a lot of things: the ancient art of Chi Wa and how to be a medical intuitive. Chi Wa is an ancient Korean Mystic Healing Modality that uses pressure points in people hands to activate meridians in their bodies creating a powerful release to lift them into a state of accelerated knowing, a lifting and a letting go that can only be equated to flying.

The one special thing that I’ve learned from my Wise Old Dead friend who, (was on the earth approximately 600 years ago,) is a sense of humor and not to take myself so seriously.

Duende (c)

Accidentally Becoming A Sliver Back Grizzly

The Sliver Back Grizzly

“Go see Aunty Betty, she has the bear.” Uncle Jimmy Jimmy said in his off-handed way. So, I went to visit Aunty Betty, she just smiled at me and asked me some questions but for the most part didn’t tell me much but native folks seldom do. You got to figure it out. A friend had said to me that he wished he could come and meet and talk to my native friends and listen to what they had to say. I turned to him and explained that in the 25 years that I have been with native elders that what they told me I could put in a small cup but what they didn’t say I could fill books and then libraries with those books. Aunty Betty looked at me and said: “You very intelligent.” That what she said that day I went visit her.

Aunty Betty once said “If you see a bear, pick up two stones and bash them together. It will scare the bear.” I laughed and asked her if she ever tried it. She said, “No.” Then I giggled and said, “That’s a great thing to tell a white guy then,” We both broke up laughing.

Years later I had gone to the hospital to visit Aunty Betty she was dying, she knew it and so did I, although we didn’t talk about it. “Come,” she said, “help me with your hands.” So, I did as I had done in the past and laid my hands, palms up under hers but this time she insisted that she would be giving the gift this day. We sat together palms touching and I prayed to the creator.  What Aunty Betty was doing? I wasn’t too sure, it just felt good to be there with my friend, sharing. She died a days later.

Just before her funeral, I saw this huge “Silver Back Grizzly Bear,” behind me playing with my Totem Animal the Cobalt Grizzly. I thought who is this now? And I phoned Si’Taxulwood and told her what was happening. “It’s Aunty Betty’s Medicine,” she said. I had suspected it was and Si’Taxulwood and I talked. She thought that Aunty Betty had given the “Silver Back Grizzly,” to me so I could give it to her sister Aunty Smitty.

After the funeral, some weeks later I paid a visit to Aunty Smitty and shared the same way with Aunty Betty and I did that day (placing my hands over her hands) and I gave Aunty Smitty the Silver Back Grizzly. I had transfer Aunty Betty’s medicine and now I felt good.

Some six months later Aunty Smitty became very ill and I thought, “oh my god I’m sure it’s the bear, it’s too strong.” I went to see Aunty Smitty at her home and talked to her and asked her if the bear was too much. She agreed it was and so I took the gift back. Aunty Smitty soon got better but did end up getting sick and dying 6 months later. 

Now I was with the Silver Back Grizzly again and felt for sure that I should pass it on like Si’Taxulwood suggested. I thought I would give it to her instead so I stepped into the “Valley of the Grizzlies” (In the Non-Ordinary Reality/Dreamtime) leaving my old friend the Silver Back Grizzly there to be with her clan. I told Si’Taxulwood what I had done and that she could meet Aunty Betty’s Sliver Back Grizzly and she would be waiting. Everything was quiet, I felt finally settled about passing the medicine on. I was honored to be able to be a part of the ceremony, to be able to share in that way.

I was talking to Uncle Jimmy Jimmy years later and he said to me, “If you see a bear on the path, pick up two stones and bash them together. It will scare the bear.” I laughed and asked him if he ever tried it? He said, “No.” Then I said what I had said to Aunty Betty, “That’s a great thing to tell a white guy”,” He found this very funny and we both broke up laughing.  Deja vu! I started to suspect that something was up but I didn’t know what.

Two years later I’m sitting out back of my house beside the fire on a Soul Mate summer night talking to my cousin about “woo-woo,” stuff (Dreamtime and Native Medicine) when he asks me if I can see his bear. “Yah,” I say, “It’s a great big Kodiak. Can you see mine?” I ask. “Sure, it’s a huge Silver Back Grizzly.”

So, at this point I freak. “Oh no, it’s not, it’s a Cobalt Grizzly.” He stares at me again, “No it’s definitely a Silver Back Grizzly.” “It can’t be. Are you sure?” “Sure, I’m sure,” he says “And she’s big.”

 “Well,” I said, “…that just can’t be because I’d lead the old mother Sliver Back into the Valley of the Grizzlies where she would hook up with Si’Taxulwood, two years ago!” Obviously, that didn’t happen and now here I was shocked, floored and dumbfounded, why I would be sitting with Aunty Betty’s Medicine?

I panicked and immediately phoned my mother (who is extremely psychic/clairvoyant/empathic) and asked her impressions of my dilemma.  She felt that the old mother Sliver Back Grizzly was given to me because I had a very kind heart, clear head and no desire for power. And she said what better way to hide something that everyone wanted but to give it to someone that no one would suspect it to go too. Then she said, “You know dear maybe you are keeping it for someone else, like the children.”

I went about trying to understand what I had been given, why and what was I to do to help the old mother Sliver Back (aka Aunty Betty) give her medicine to her people. I checked with my mom again and she seemed to think that I would take the medicine into the Non-Ordinary Reality/the Dreamtime and gift it back that way to the Co-Salish peoples. She thought that maybe Aunty Betty and Uncle Jimmy Jimmy knew the medicine would have to shift in order to keep up with the changing times in order for their peoples to survive.

Uncle Jimmy Jimmy and Aunty Betty had planned the whole thing I was sure of it and I was being Soul Mately manipulated in the process. “I was okay with that.” I phoned Aunty Gwen just to check in because I didn’t want to be “whitey stepping in political doo-doo,” if you know what I mean.  I explained the Dreamtime to her and what had happened and what I tried to do, how the old mother Sliver Back Grizzly had come back and what my mother said. Aunty Gwen said, “Aunty Betty gave it to you, she meant for you to have it for whatever reason. I think your mom is right, she’s a very wise lady.”

I sat for months after that with a new dilemma, “How do I get the bear to move?” She just sat there beside me watching me, waiting for something and I didn’t know what. Then one night I was sharing my Soul Mate Si’Taxulwood stories, wise things she’d told me and I told my friend the, “If you see a bear on the path get two rocks and bang them together…” story and how Uncle Jimmy Jimmy had said the same thing and…then it dawned on me exactly what the two of them were on about. They weren’t talking about a living bear, they were talking about a “Spirit Bear,” about a “Silver Back Grizzly Bear,” that they knew I would meet on the “path,” not the physical path but the spiritual path of life. They were speaking metaphorically. I know what you might be thinking at this point, “Well duh Sherlock nothing like picking up on the obvious!” HAHA! And I thought I was “Intelligent.”

Immediately I went to the front of the house and found two rocks that were of medium size, (the ones that felt good with my heart) said a small prayer and bashed them together. The Bear moved!

And I don’t know why I didn’t think about it before I bashed the rocks together but if the bear moved…so would I. Another part of the whole thing I’d failed to consider before I did the deed. Well of course as soon as I did the scaring of the bear, the bashing of the rocks together, my whole life changed and I became more out there and public than I had ever been in the past. And still, the old mother Sliver Back Grizzly keeps us moving.

Now the only thing about being with the old mother is that the medicine is so strong that I have to make sure I’m using it all the time or I will be in serious trouble. Aunty Betty once said to me, “If you don’t use your medicine it will make you sick.” I can hear her saying it to me as if she was standing over my shoulder right now… maybe she is. I hope so I miss her dearly.

It took 5 years to realize that the Sliver Back Grizzly had taken me deep, deep into the Dreamtime. To the point that I may not have come back. Be very careful, very few people, native or otherwise do not survive this. Make sure you have supports in place to help keep you strong. My recommendation is…DON’T do it!!

Duende (c)

Animals They Know YOU!!

I DO NOT RECOMMEND DOING THIS! I WOULDN'T DO THIS!! DON'T DO THIS IT MAY LOOK PRETTY NEAT BUT BEARS ARE WONDERFUL WILD ANIMALS AND you NEED TO BE CAUTIOUS. WHAT HAPPENS IS THE BEARS STOP BEING CAUTIOUS OF HUMANS AND ONCE THEY DO THAT, THEY RUN A VERY HIGH RISK OF GETTING KILLED! HAVE AND BE RESPECTFUL, YOU ARE IN THERE FOREST, AND ON THEIR LAND.

I was visiting my Elder Friend Aunty Dora (she was 80 something at the time and West Coast First Nations) had said to me over tea, "How do you feel about the Bush (Slang for: Forest) ?" I'd remembered the Wizard of Oz and quoted the Tin Man when ask the same questions "Oh Aunty, Lions, and Tigers and Bears oh my!!" She laughed at me, "Oh you don't need to worry about the animals, they know you." I smiled back her and nodded the whole time thinking, Wow, nice thing to tell a white guy. Hahaha! Seriously if Aunty Dora says it, well it must be true. She was that strong but I wasn't going to test that theory! No way. I'll listen but I've lived by the Bush my whole life and have the greatest respect for Wildlife. Thats exactly what these beautiful creatures are WILD! and I'm domesticated rural human, my experience is always always be cautious when going into the Bush, the forest the back country...ALWAYS. No matter what a 80 wonderfully wise old Native Elder Tells you. I thought to myself after Aunty Dora told me this, Well I don't have to worried I won't have to test this because I'm never in a place where that will happen.

Years later after Aunty Dora had died, I was way way up in the Back Country camping with a girl friend at the time. We'd walked down this logging road, in the middle of a clear cut (ugly mess) headed to a glacier fed river we thought we'd like to have a wee afternoon dip in. It was hot and in the middle of summer and in the middle of the afternoon. So experience suggest that most wild animals do not move around at that time they usually wait till dusk or dawn, that's when you are most likely to see Wildness.

We'd finished our swim and where quite happily walking back, hand in hand, and chatting and laughing, generally focus on ourselves and not paying attention until..we rounded the corner and coming towards us was this 3 year old Brown Bear. Now any Bear is a scare especially one in the way to were you want to go, some 20 yards down the logging road. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw us and so did we. There we both were and the Bear and I bet he was as terrified as we where. Human encounters do end well for Wildness. I think they tell eachother,  "If you encounter a human, run the other way!" We all just stood there looking at eachother not knowing what to do and then I heard Aunty Dora voice in my head, "Don't worry the animals they know you." And the Bear turns its head and his ears perk up, as if he had her too. I instantly calmed down as the Bear lifted it's paw to move, I suspect towards us I said, "Come on my friend, you heard the lady, you know me, off you go." And he did, to my great surprise! My girlfriend was very impressed, "OMG, How'd you do that!" I laughed "Oh that, well my friend Native Elder friend Aunty Dora had told me that "The Animals they knew me and I shouldn't have a need to be afraid."

This hasn't been the first Wildness encounter I've had. I've encountered Dolphins, Seals, A Huge Ass American Buffalo, Coyotes, Raven's, Crows and more Bears (I live right next to the Wilderness so Bears are very common) and they seem to know me. It's been extraordinary but I'm still very cautious and do not like to put what Aunty Dora to the test. I think its healthier that way but If I ever need help I'm sure I'll call for my friends.

Duende (c)

Talking Stick, Sword, Didgeridoo aka Medicine Tools

This is my talking stick. When I asked an artist friend of mine to make it for me this is not what I wanted really. I wanted a small totem pole with a bird and rune symbols on it and I'll tell you why. Living out on the West Coast I'd had a revaluation about how the old shanam's (West Coast for Shaman) went deep into the dream and wondered how they got back. It's very difficult when you are traveling way way out doing inter-dimensional dream traveling to get home by way of an address but if one where to have a totem pole (all long houses had totem poles in front of them, and if everyone touches it over a long period of time then it would act as a beckon. The totem pole would be so bright from ancestral energy, you'd be able to see it from across the universe. Which is why I wanted a smaller version of my own one. 

Well that's not what occurred, haha! The joke was on me. My "Anglo" Artist friend went away and came back with this carving of a "Talking Stick."* Coyote Medicine is like that, it's the trickster and in  this case I'd been tricked.

I was napping on the couch in the living room of  my one bedroom apartment and had left my talking stick in my bedroom. It was 7pm when I woke from my nap and there floating straight up, not 3 feet from me was my talking stick. I inhaled with a start and she was gone. I immediately got up and ran to my bedroom to check on her and there she was sleeping quietly.

* A "talking stick" is used to practice listening and communicating. In many Native American tribes, people used a "talking stick" to make sure that each person had a turn to share his or her ideas and opinions with the rest of the group. The person holding the stick had the right to speak. 

Native American Legend : Traditional Talking Stick. - FirstPeople.us

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The two-handed claymore was a large sword used in the late Medieval and early modern periods. It was used in the constant clan warfare and border fights with the English from circa 1400 to 1700.

Hilt type: Two-handed cruciform, with pommel

Used by: Highland Scots

Type: Sword

Blade type: Double-edged

I'd found this beauty in my back right down outta my spinal column. (Everyone has a sword in there back with two snake/serpent wrapped around it.) Of course the sword coming outta my back is an energetic one but what I do is go and find a real one (this is a replica).  It helps to "Pull the "Dream" which is when you see something in the dream and you get what you saw there and have it here. Of course its not the exact same one but its enough to pull what you saw in the dream and bring it here, this is called "Pulling The Dream," and low and behold the dream object is now in this reality with all its power. Once you start doing this on a regular basis the spirit's start to sit up and notice. It used to be done a long long time ago so when it happens now they are a wee bit shocked. I utilize my sword in the dream (seldom in this real time reality except for "Fire Rituals.") and when I do use it in the dream I use it more as a HEALING element than a weapon (fighting nasty business for me is a big nono, it just adds to the dysfunction and you get to wrapped up into a war that's been happening since the beginning of time. Much better to heal your foe). It mostly like a "Cadecus"* aka: A surgeons tool.

*The Rod of Asclepius symbol is often confused with the Caduceus, symbol of commerce associated with the Greek god Hermes. ... In the Roman adaptation of the Greek pantheon, Hermes was identified with the Roman god Mercury

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an Australian Aboriginal wind instrument in the form of a long wooden tube, traditionally made from a hollow branch, which is blown to produce a deep, resonant sound, varied by rhythmic accents of timbre and volume

This is a Didgeridoo that's made outta PVC and was excellently designed for rain forest county. I love it
It's light and I can take it into the back country without worrying about weight and the sound does not

get effected by the damp weather. Plus it is soooo not PCish.
The sound out of her is so amazing. I used to play horns when
I was younger so making her sing is no problem and then I went
on youtube to learn how to "Circular Breathe".  I need more practice
but mostly I am able to do it and being mostly successful.

I love instruments like this one and my drums because they open
up the heart when you play. It has to do with breathing a lot and
the tone and vibration. Some days when I'm struggling I'll pull her
out and play away and in no time my whole body is vibrating. I
Highly recommend it as a personal healing tool.


















Duende (c)

Native/Irish Healing Drums

These are my Medicine Drums that I have for my personnel use, healing circles, ceremonies and workshops that I'll run.




This my GrandMother Nora Drum. She is 26in across, which is an very big drum with huge sound. I made her with a carpenter friend who builds wooden kayaks professionally. In order to make sure she doesn't bow like a penny we had to make the whoop with the wood going in opposite directions.  The Celtic Ancient Irish symbol on the front is a called a "Triskele" and drums this size traditionally through all cultures where usually given to storytellers (which I am). I didn't just decide to get a super huge drum that I could wow people in healing circles, no she came to me in a dream.

The Drum Sleeping Dream: I went into a bungalow house and as soon as I walked through the door I could hear drumming coming from the back of the house. When I got to the back door I opened it and stepped through into a huge tent. There were two Native American Elders standing on the other side looking at my smaller drum I once had. They look up at me without surprise, picking up my drum one of them said, "Is this your drum?" I answered quickly even though I was confused on how they got it, "Yes." The Elder held it up and then said to me, "No, this your drum!" He took his very large hands and place them on either end of the drum and pulled it apart to make my once 13inch drum into the 26inch drum you now see before you. I put the Celtic symbol to because I was looking for a way to let people know where I was from, and I wasn't a native "Wannabe". I was getting a lot of flack for having her, the symbol shuts people up, and its pretty cool looking.



This is a Kwakiut Art/Symbol of a thunder bird created and painted by a brilliant friend of mine from England. She knew I resonated strongly with the Thunder Bird and how it shown up in my dreams, and real life on the land at an old youth hostel called, "Fiddle Head Farm." I was walking out of the cook house were I was working as a line cook and headed to visit my friends at the bunk house. It was dusk and as I step off the porch I looked ahead to see this Thunder Bird (real time, no drugs) standing beside the bunk house. She towered over it, and must have been at least 20 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter. She was huge, and beautiful, wow and her energy was so wonderfully intense, she was just brilliant. I'd wondered if I was seeing things and just as I thought that thought she moved her head up and down, so I couldn't disregard her as an imagining, or a trick of light. She was extraordinary and looked exactly like the painting on my drum. I told this story to my friend so and she made me this drum. Wow!!



This is my wee drum that was a gift from a friend. I take her when I want to fly under the radar and be small. She attracts less attention and sometimes that's way better when doing my healing work. She is also way easier to take into the forest and I can pack her up and in and out with little effort.

Medicine Drums are awesome at healing the body, mind and soul. You play them for approximately 20min minimum and when you stop the vibrating of you being is incredible. I find that drumming and singing really opens up everything block in your body and helps it to let go. Good luck trying to hold on to all those past hurts, the rhythms and vibrations just move everything out of you. Highly recommend you get a drum. Wow!

Duende (c)

Feather Medicine Bundle

This is my Case I use to carry all my delicate feathers in. I found it in the thrift store for 2$ and its really a clothes folding kit with a hard piece of plastic which works great to keep everything tight and undamaged. Side Note: I also occasionally put a cloth in it with Peppermint Essential Oil, it keeps the Moth and other feather eaters away.









These are Raven Feathers (died of natural causes) which a Metis friend gave to me. I didn't want to carry big Eagle Wings because then are more Native American Medicine  again I'm from the "Lost White Aboriginal Tribe" and I'm "Co-Palish" (I live on the coast and I'm Pale: every race has a PC name except whitey. I think its high time we gave us one. Don't you?  think reverse prejudice is super uncool) so I wanted a Feather Medicine that related more to me and the Raven, the trickster does that.

Mischievous and curious, the Raven is the cultural focus of the Native Northwest Coast People. He symbolizes creation, knowledge, prestige as well as the complexity of nature and the subtlety of truth. He also symbolizes the unknown and is there to show that every person sees the world in a different way as another. The Raven was often called upon to clarify truths in visions, as the wise elders knew that what the eye sees is not always the truth. Many of the original peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast refer to him as a god, and it is believed by some that messages from the creator of the cosmos are buried in the wings of the Raven only to be released to the families most deserving of his knowledge. The Raven is a long distance healer and is known as the “keeper of secrets,” he helps us in our lives by exposing the truth of keeping secrets that could potentially harm us, in doing so he helps us back to good health. The Raven was only ever feared if misused. info@spiritsofthewestcoast.com

I mostly use the tail feathers for fanning when I am working when smudging people. The Wings I use as fans when people are struggling, crying (big time) and want help letting go of their pain. I'll brush them off with both in each hands, sometimes I will sing too if the person or persons are having a hard time. Also blessing water and having a bowl on hand (close by) I will dip the wings into the water and splash them on people to bring them back, (if they are having difficulties) from a very deep Dream Journey Meditation.



From Left to right.
a.) Sweet Grass I keep in my Feather Medicine Bundle to keep the first sweet with good clean energy.
b.) Is a White Eagle Tail Feather which I found on sidewalk beside a condo near the ocean where I live. (If they fall from the sky then I pick them up and thank creator for the gift.) I use this feather for talking circles and who ever holds it talks, everyone else listens.
c.) Another Eagle Feather (from the wing) Again I found this feather on the road, in a small stream of water. It looked like a stick until I picked it up. I use it very much in the same way as I do the white one expect I'll also use it for cutting (spirit attachments who are hanging on in a negative way, or other attachments to a clients ethereal body).
d.) A Hawk Feather, which I found on the side of the road(she had been hit by a car unfortunately) and I gathered as many good feathers as I possibly could. I rarely us this one but I have it just in case. Hawk are mostly about messages from Creator so I might use this one to help someone with a problem they're having about themselves or another.


These are Great Grey Owl Wings, (died of natural causes) given to me by a Co-Palish friend(he works as a garden and found her on the front porch of a clients house). Owl Medicine is very powerful and if you're a novice I recommended not using this type of medicine right away, its very intense and can help you into "Ego Deathing" (letting go of preconceived of who and what you are, this is an intense and painfull process which will have you struggle with yourself for months at a time. (c)

Owl Medicine Meaning.
In ancient Egyptian, Celtic n Hindu cultures the symbolic meaning of #owl revolved around guardianship of the underworlds, a protector of the dead, ruler of the night, seer of souls, and keeper of spirits who had passed from one plane to another. The owl accompanied a spirit to the underworld, freeing the soul from the physical world into the realm of spirit. This could also be applied to a death of oneself spiritual, of ones self as self knows self in the moment of illumination of truth of self! http://www.earthandskyconnection.com/owl-medicine/

I 've used the Owl Wings when i suspect someone is in there head and I'll brush them off with these beautiful  healing elements. Again I put one in the left hand and one in the right. I also may chant and sing depending on how deep the healing calls me. 

My Medicine Bundle 2

This is my 2nd Medicine Bag (I use old doctors bag because it appeals to my sense of humor, I call myself a "Doctor on Call", well to myself, not out loud Lol). I found him in a thrift store near where I live. I think I paid 5$ for it. He's perfect and carries the rest of my Medicine stuff. I love finding and re-purposing bags and objects, to have them live again and the more I love them the more love there is in them. Remember LOVE = Powerfilled Medicine.







These are all the objects that I will use in my workshops or circles that I will run from time to time.
a.) A candle is always great to have when running an event. It brings light to the process and also helps to clear the room of negative energy. Found the candle in the thrift store for 1$. It sits on rabbit fur. Lovely soft and rabbits are playfull and its important to me to remind people (if not directly but also subliminally how important that is to have when doing the work)
b.) Kaleidoscope. Bought at my local toy store (brand new 10$ aargh but still worth it). As a rule I don't like to buy brand new however I had to find something that would describe multipule dimensions, I give this to the group and instantly people begin to realize how the universe works.
c.) Golden Dragon. Given to me by someone wonderful in a circle I went too. It is a Chinese New Year dragon (plastic) from Canadian Airlines I imagine but this dragon is a strong symbol for me and so I keep her in a box. Dragon's are great tools for Mystic's, helping to navigate the other worlds, and also huge protectors when traveling way way out into the dream.
d.) These are Moxibustion Sticks, used in Chinese Medicine. Got them from a local Chinese Herb/Corner Store hear on the coast(forgotten how much they cost). "Moxa promotes circulation of the Qi & Blood. Moxa is warming and moving. It helps to promote movement of blood and Qi so it is particularly good for pain (emotional and physical). It is not uncommon for people receiving moxibusiton to report a sudden flooding of warmth that quickly radiates radiates up the path way that  signals the flow of Qi has been freed." (this is not my field of expertise so I looked up this definition). Please read up on this before using it.
e.)Quartz Crystals giving to me by friends over the years. "Quartz is a universal stone, a pure and powerful energy stone. It stimulates brain function, making you feel more aware, active and alert in all levels of consciousness. A classic crystal for transmitting storing and amplifying positive energy"
(this is not my field of expertise so I looked up this definition).


f.) Conch Shell. I found this in Hawaii and bought him for 20$. He is a great element to have when working. One end is sawed off so you can put it to your lips and make incredibly loud sounds. Its perfect for when you're out in the forest or if you want to signal an end to ceremony. I used to play horned instruments (Mellophone and Tuba). it's Hard, you have to practice before it makes a sound.
I google this to offer clarity: "The conch shell's spiral form and relation to water cause it to represent the beginning of existence. It creates the primordial sound of "Om".  It was this sound that was chanted by Creator before Manifesting the cosmos. It represents creation and the truth behind it."
www.speakingtree.in

g.) Jade Bear. (A gift) Bear Medicine is huge with me so I always like to bring her along to hold space and protect and nourish the neophytes that I'm working with.
h.) Bear and The Universe. Made and given to me by my 7 year old daughter at the time. Power, strength in the unknown.
i.)Bird Bones. Lite as a feather. To offer lightness and help to keep it from getting to heavy when running a healing circle, ceremony, or workshop.
j.) Loon Whistle. I specifically bought this for my work. She is great to blow when people at the end of a "Dream Journey" and need a gentle prod to bring them back into this world. Works great and every one comes back with smiles on there faces.
k.) Geode or Thunder Stone. I bring her along to remind me of my "Thunder Bird Medicine". "A powerful healing stone, which absorbs and disperses negativity from the aura and never has to be cleared. Works quickly and raises the citrine's properties of clearing away blockages and healing." (Not my field of expertise so I wanted to give you a clearing more precise definition)
l.) A Green Orb. A Gift. For me it reminds me of the Mother Earth/Gaia and keeps her close, and everyone, including me, grounded. I do a character called the Green Man, it also keeps that element close and in my thoughts
m.) Deer Hoof. I found in a thrift store for 2$. Deer's are the most gentle and gentleness is probably for me, one of the strongest  Medicine Powers to have. A Story: My nephew was 3 at the time and I said to him, "Mathew?" He smiled up at me, "Yes Uncle Gong(that was he called me)." I laughed out loud, "Do you want to be the strongest man in the whole wide world?" Mathew looked at me very surprised, and preparing to listen with all his worth and delight, "Yes, Uncle Gong, Yes!" I smile gently at him and answered, "Be Gentle Mathew, Be Gentle." (c)

"When you have the deer as spirit animal, you are highly sensitive and have a strong intuition. By affinity with this animal, you have the power to deal with challenges with grace. You master the art of being both determined and gentle in your approach. The deer totem wisdom imparts those with a special connection with this animal with the ability to be vigilant, move quickly, and trust their instincts to get out the trickiest situations." http://www.spiritanimal.info/deer-spirit-animal/