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Started by Michael C Mojica. Last reply by Boia Silesius Jan 14. 2 Replies 3 Likes
Please join me in exploring all aspects of Shamanism from all over the world. Although many forms of shamanism seem quite different they do tend to have similarities at the core of their beliefs. Consider the following list created by Michael Harner.
Core Shamanism
* A call to Heal: shamans (men & women) are called to be healers rather than choosing this path
* Shamans move in two worlds: ordinary & non-ordinary reality
* A shared conception of Non-ordinary Reality (NOR): the spirit world or "Otherworld"
* Accessing Non-Ordinary Reality through an altered state of consciousness
* Sacred objects: shamanic practice harnesses the sacred/healing energies of physical objects
* A responsibility to the community: to heal and to celebrate the sacredness of life.
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Started by Michael C Mojica. Last reply by Boia Silesius Jan 14. 2 Replies 3 Likes
Greetings all and Welcome! Thank you for joining me on this journey! Now moving forward please understand that I am no authority on this matter but would rather walk the path along side of you.…Continue
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Comment by Sara Hernandez on March 18, 2013 at 2:47pm HELLO EVERYONE!!! THANK YOU, I am honor to join all of you even though I do not consider myself a shaman I do practice lots of rituals as they do, when I do themthey work, with a good results for my clients. BLESSINGS TO ALL!!!!!
Comment by Gaele Valmai Maat on August 7, 2012 at 7:21pm Thanks, Hon! :)
Comment by Michael C Mojica on August 7, 2012 at 3:02pm Greetings there Gaele. =) Welcome.
Comment by Gaele Valmai Maat on August 7, 2012 at 11:42am Hi, Lee and Michael. I'm happy to meet you both. :)
Comment by Michael C Mojica on August 4, 2012 at 1:16pm Ahh Lee! Thank you for sharing that. Being a dog of sorts I like to sniff around and dig things up...Let me see what I can find...
-Mike
PART ONE My life has been like a Hollywood movie for the last two and half years. The compounding trauma’s I have experiences has broken me, but the extraordinary events that the universe somehow always move in to balance things are enough to confuse the ailing body & mind into thinking it might heal. I do not know how I fit into shamanism, having come from the middle of a South African city filled with crime and poverty where my craft had focussed itself mainly on sussing out & avoiding dangers. Things like avoiding work the one day after a warning feeling and discovering it was arm robbed the next day or turning off from a corner and discovering the next day that people got hijacked at that same place, around that same time. Those were the major ones, but there were plenty of minor ones, plenty of times I pulled my 1972 mini in just before it popped from overheating or I’d be moved to visit someone and return only to discover the gate was broken and a couple of cars in the parking lot had their wheels removed.
I definitely believe I have a guardian angel; I have just too much history to dismiss it comfortably. I have harnessed my sensitivities over time to feel and value warnings. I have gone through the years of lucid reflection that brings you to the development of astral projection, to sense areas of safety and danger and somehow along the way established a relationship with energy and the universe in calling home and employment at the right time that saved my arse. My husband & I were unfortunately also failing in our seven yearlong attempts to escape this dangerous country through the ancestral avenue, when a long standing Australian friend offered to help us. My knowledge of Australia had been pretty much Crocodile Dundee and didgeridoos at the time, along with lots of desert and a novel I read years ago about some woman who blistered her feet walking with some Aboriginals through it. I did not know what the country was like and my feelings gave me an impression that there was a nasty element (sorry Ozzies, no offence meant). I could remember “Home and away” as a child and it did not appeal to me at all at first. My immediate reaction was to validate my reason behind choosing England and not choose this option from an emotional desperateness, so I decided to visit England ‘astrally’.
London: I’ve had brief glimpses of it on when I could sneak on the internet at work when no one was watching. We were never in the position to actually have internet at home. It was easy to locate and suss that incredible eclecticism along with the pressures the country struggles with in the multi culture. It was a sleepless city and highly engaging, and to my surprise had pockets equally dangerous to the dangers we had in South Africa, but my biggest pull here was that everything worked. There were busses running on time, police on the roads & an infrastructure that worked better in the chaos. It didn’t really help me & I turned my sight to Australia.
What I experienced changed my mind,
PART TWO it was first of a series of experiences that is still continuing today that completely caught me off guard. It cast an incredible doubt on my experience being real as opposed to thinking something inside me snapped and brought up some unknown series of strange projections. My experiences (other than lucid experiences) had always been ‘real’ and did not at this stage of my development invade my astral experiences. Real as is cars and people, cities and roads, and the logical events between them.
When I projected to Australia I landed smack bang in the middle of a red dessert humming loudly under my feet, somehow telling me I had to walk until it was satisfied I had walked enough. I had a vague recall at the time, that there were something called song lines in Australia. Everything else seemed pretty normal: the desert was a desert and the sky was blue cloudless, but what stood out was that I didn’t feel the desert heat and I had walked for what felt like an eternity. I came to a bunch of really big strange round shaped rocks and was then told to stop. The sun was beginning to set and in my mind I realised that there is a time difference between Australia and South Africa. Men got up from behind the rocks, five of them to be exact. They came over each taking their turn to shake my hand with both their hands over mine to greet me. They seemed very happy to see me and told me that I must come and visit them once I’m in Australia. When I asked them their names they told me that they were the five brothers. When I asked them how they knew me they told me that they know “my type” very well and “liked it very much”.
It has been over two years since that event. My arrival here was very traumatic but between the scrambling for survival these experiences has progressed. I have in those moments of personal equanimity been able to begin to share some and have discovered that my experience with the “five brothers” fit the rock called the “Olga caves” but I haven’t been able to find much guidance or people that know of these things. It seems that it would be shamanic, given the nature of these encounters and that is why I have written it here and why I searched out a site that has a lot of Australians on it. Perhaps if I could share more of these things here, I could find those insights and people familiar with this strange world.
Comment by merriam goddard on March 5, 2012 at 12:14pm I live in Melbourne Australia, no I dont belong to a coven as yet, I hope to start one up once I've finished my studies, so for the time being I'm a solitary..
Comment by Victoria Helen Maroney on March 5, 2012 at 6:38am I've found Christopher to be an excellent teacher and the distance learning fits in with my life really well.
Where are you Miriam? I live on the Isle of Man :o) It's a very beautiful and spiritually uplifting place to be. Do you belong to a coven?
Comment by merriam goddard on March 4, 2012 at 8:41pm hello Victoria..I've read Christophers books The Temple of the High Witch and The Witches Shield..I studied the Kabbalah a few years ago and The Temple of the Hight Witch has expanded on what I learnt in class..
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