Shamanic Awakening by Sandra Corcoran

Author:Sandra Corcoran
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality/Shamanism
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2014-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

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A Cloudy Observation

As I continued working with Grandmother Twylah and my Andean teachers, I also traveled with Mary around the United States conducting workshops on the Andean mystical tradition and offering STAR Process soul retrievals. In 1995 we had begun to train other psychotherapists, nurses, and bodyworkers in a three-year program so that they would feel confident using the STAR Process in their private practices. After six years of working together, Mary and I went on our first sojourn to Mexico in 1998, as a graduation journey for the dedicated group of therapists and healers we had trained. We introduced them to two teachers in particular, both from Mexico: Yaqui deer dancer*35 Gilberto Siqueiros and Vincenté Alfonso Rameriz Garcia of the Santería tradition. We worked with Vincenté only when we were in Veracruz; Gilberto was with us throughout the entire trip, sharing his teachings and serving as an interpreter. Mary and I taught energetic techniques to connect with the feminine and masculine sides of the self and practices to further align our filaments with the cosmos. Much of this work was done at the spectacular sacred site of Teotihuacán, outside Mexico City, and the beautifully constructed mystical site of Palenque in the jungle of Chiapas.

At Veracruz, Vincenté conducted two rituals from the Santeria tradition. Santeria is a belief system that merged the Yoruba religion, which was brought to Cuban sugar plantations by African slaves, with Roman Catholic and Native Indian traditions. In the Yoruba philosophy, the destiny of all humans is to become one with the divine creator or Source of all energy. They believe our thoughts and actions on the physical plane affect the life-force of all living beings, including the Earth herself, by imprinting either ordered energy or disordered energy. As we refine our spiritual consciousness in this physical plane, transcendence becomes more possible. Thus, the Yoruba religion espouses the view that spiritual transcendence is only possible through cycles of existence in a physical body.

The first sacred ritual Vincenté led was one he did for many people seeking personal and family healing or to gather information concerning their future. He warned us it involved the sacrifice of a chicken to divine information in its entrails, a practice he said most Westerners found upsetting. That definitely proved true for our group. Although he was doing the ritual to cleanse the group’s energy as we started our journey, the jury is still out on whether it ever accomplished that. I think it did more to traumatize the group than to cleanse us. Another ritual he used to divine information about an individual entailed running a fresh egg from head to toe through a person’s energy field. He then cracked the egg into a glass of water and interpreted the signs he saw in the yolk according to its size, color, and how it floated in the water.

When Vincenté did the ritual for me, the egg had a double yoke, which he found of great interest. Through one of our interpreters,

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