ROOTS OF SHAMANIC CONSCIOUSNESS

MEDICINE WHEEL     serves to organize the energies of spirit

VORTEXES     energies of spirit alive in the earth

ALTAR     holds and generates energies of spirit

SMUDGE     cleanses energies of spirit in people and spaces

       

SACRED CYCLES     reflect energies of spirit in the natural cycles of celestial     

     bodies, the seasons, and the psyche

          

ELIXIRS     vibrational essences for healing and manipulating physical and psychic

states

CRYSTALS     generate and transmit energies and thoughtforms

DRUM      vibrational conductor of Shamanic energies to the environment

         

POWER     a force in the Universe which comes to guide the Shaman

SPIRITS      entities either deceased or never incarnate; the vibrational essence of each

     individuated aspect of Universal Consciousness

  

DEVAS     spirit essences of things of nature  

 

JOURNEY    Shamanic technique of traveling in the Otherworld  

STALKING     Shamanic technique for merging with energies of the world; for studying                                                        and creating the Sacred Self    

DREAMING    Shamanic technique for gaining power in dreams; merging with the

language of the Allies 

ALLIES     Spirit Guides who have the power to take the Shaman into the Nagual  

VISION     the language the Universe uses to communicate with the Shaman

SEEING     using the extra-sensory perception of the Shaman to capture images of spirit in action

WARRIOR     accepting and training for the agonies of breaking through to new levels of consciousness

MEDICINE ENERGIES     generated by the Shaman from a combination of all of the

above; the waters of the Shaman’s ocean; the essence of the Shaman’s world       

NAGUAL     not a part of the Tonal; not a part of Universal Consciousness

TONAL     the knowable universe

 Q’UAMANEC     the Shaman’s transformed energy field