Learning to Dance

And we are back in reality! Well of sorts anyway… not long returned from the Society of Shamanic Practitioners UK annual conference at Gaunt’s House Wimborne in Dorset.

We rose very early on the Thursday morning and travelled down from our home in Lanarkshire, it was a very peaceful and uneventful 7 hours. We had time to reflect and to gear ourselves up for the next 3 days and 4 nights of being manically Shamanically motivated.

When I say manic I mean it, there is a lot stuffed into this programme, from workshops on Mexican healing techniques of the Curanderismo to the unique and one time only event of the Ghost Dance.

The place was jumping with energy – and I mean energy, photographs contain a multitude of orbs the Ancestors were being honoured and they turned up in their hundreds to be so!

The most wonderful thing about this conference is the diversity of its delegates. So many people with so many different levels of experience and knowledge and as Leo Rutherford said, it gives an opportunity for the teachers to learn from the students.
Valuable as that is the camaraderie is second to none. For some it is the only time that they are in contact with others for the rest it can be the only physical contact as in these modern times most things are done by modem and micro chip.

So there is a bonding that goes on and yes it can be likened to a family that comes together for a once yearly festival, and that is such a good thing because we are just that – a family.

This family that comes together is but a branch of the clan that is part of the village that makes up our world and we are in a world of connections. The story of our family grows each time as we learn to dance together.

Connections need to be strengthened and maintained just like anything else worth doing it takes time and effort.

Beatles quote, ‘And in the end – the love you take, is equal to the love you make.’

Symbiosis. We are pack, we are clan, and we are family. Energetically we can feel the connections in the ether and we know how and when to get in touch. Easier now with email and particularly with the blog era having arrived; communication has never been easier and harder at the same time.

There is still the need for the physical connection – the shaking of hands, the kiss on the cheek the bear hug that says ‘It is so good to see you / be here with you now.

Memories are the sutures that glue us together, our stories, and experiences shared mend and heal wounds.

Remember then, all the experiences and leave behind the pain of growing. Celebrate that all our ancestors, from the two legged to the four and eight and more, of the winged ones, the standing ones and the stone ones have stories to tell.

If we would but listen to them, we could learn to dance the lesson and dance into our destiny - the one that waits for us.

Until we dance again around a fire…

To all my relations

Ho!

Eyes to see in the Dark


The Tungus tribe of Northern Siberia coined
The word ‘Shaman’ to mean a healer, or one with
Eyes to see in the dark. It’s quite a talent, to see in
Dark for there are many different kinds of darkness.
There is the darkness of depression, low energy and
Low self esteem. The darkness of apathy, life is passing
By and all you can say is ‘so what’.

There are many different ways to be healed, there are no
Instant cures. Shamanic healing will take you to
find allies and give you resources to enable you to
find the passion that you once had; giving you a way to
Say goodbye to the past while still honouring it’s
part in your life’s journey, and your life is a journey, how you proceed with it will depend on you and the choices you make along the way.

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if…? There are many theories on this subject and it is now no longer in the realm of the impossible and not even in the improbable it now lies in the possible. Quantum physics is daily pushing the boundaries of what we suspect to the edge and beyond of what we know. For some, these have been revelations, for others merely justifications of long held beliefs now becoming fact.
Not just anecdotally but specifically and proven by eminent scientists, the quantum worlds are waiting for us to jump right in and find out how many ways there are to calculate the probabilities of what is in the box.
Otto Schroedinger could explain that one better than I.

More than 50,000 years ago, there were people who didn’t know what a box was, so they didn’t put themselves or situations in one. They saw everything as a new possibility, a new challenge and they went out to meet that challenge with a specific outcome in mind. How do I know this? Cave paintings and artefacts found at archaeological digs prove the posit that positive thinking is nothing new, it is in fact something we have had to learn all over again. We kind of lost it somewhere in the era of industrial enlightenment.
The day they switched on a light bulb something inside of us switched off.
The dark is a verdant and amazing thing, light casts only shadow which is such a flimsy facsimile of the dark that we seek to control.

The shadows are places of confusion and there lie the monsters. There are no real edges, no markers in shadow; everything is ephemeral and constantly shifting with every small change of light. So, really, depression and apathy are shadows. In the most part for some reason we are taught at an early age to fear the dark – the creatures of the night are weird and wonderful, but usually deadly… at least to the others in their nocturnal world.

Things that live in the light fear things that live in the dark; if light is so wonderful why is the womb, the safest place you will ever be, not illuminated somehow?

Or is the dark of the womb the light of creation?