Change Your Story, Change Your Life by Carl Greer PhD PsyD

Author:Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Findhorn Press

CHAPTER SEVEN

Taking Shamanic Journeys

When you decide to begin a shamanic journey, set an intention for it. Where would you like to go? What would you like to learn or gain? Certain realms are more helpful than others for accessing particular insights and energies, as you will see. One man who began a practice of journeying had this insight about setting an intention before journeying:

The intention attracts the experiences and information that come to me in the process of journeying. I can see clearly that more practice with the method will increase the ease I have in doing it. To see what is being offered requires that I am open to receiving the input. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, a new idea or image appears to me containing information that I can consider. My challenge is how to be strategic and intentional in my inner work in order to access other information when it might be valuable.

During your journeying experience, it’s important to be open to the unexpected, regardless of your original intention. The man who learned about setting intention encountered a figure that he was not expecting:

On a journey to the upper world, I suddenly found myself above the clouds. I looked around for other people and encountered a figure approaching from the distance wearing a brown robe (like Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars). As he approached, I asked if he was my teacher. He drew nearer, and I saw Jesus’s face under the hood of the robe. Without words exchanged between us, I knew that he was there to teach me as I needed. After the journey was completed, a friend remarked that it seemed strange that a Jewish person should have Jesus appear as a teacher, but I had no problem viewing him that way.

Upon deeper reflection, you may find that what you encounter is far more valuable than you first realized. What seems odd or random might turn out to be a very important symbol or figure in terms of the insights it has to offer you.

As a journeyer, you can travel to many transpersonal realms, including to the place before creation, to the matrix, and to the lower and upper worlds that shamans have described. Each realm you travel to has energies and information that can affect the body, mind, and soul. Journeys to the place before creation can connect you to the primordial energy of the universe, where anything is possible. Journeys to the matrix connect you to the consciousness of all things that have ever been or will be.

When you journey to the lower world, the realm of your past as well as of your as-yet-unexpressed potentials, you can see how energies from your past or your ancestors’ pasts live within you today. Such a journey may free you from your wounds and genetic and karmic predispositions. It can also provide you with resources and energy for more fully living in the present. A journey to the upper realm, the place of your

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