The Sword of Michael by Marcus Wynne

Author:Marcus Wynne [Wynne, Marcus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2014-11-04T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Okay . . . so we’re in this flying saucer . . .

That sounds strange.

Let me back up and start again.

A shamanic practitioner, by definition, must be able to grasp and participate in at least two different realities—at the same time. Someone much smarter than me, in the ordinary reality, said that the sign of true genius is to embrace simultaneously two different and opposing perspectives. Someone else said that’s the sign of true mental illness and psychosis.

So you make your choice and you live with it.

Me, I hew to the shamanic view. I was Chosen for this Path. I had to learn how to embrace at least two realities at the same time.

Or I would have gone mad.

That happens to neophyte shamans or apprentices or people Called within a society that doesn’t know what to do with shamanic initiation except to define it as illness and try to legislate or medicate it out of existence. Like our society—rife with sorcery and curses, controlled by people who deny that—despite the overwhelming evidence from traditions much older and deeper than our own that show us the way.

So there’s what Michael Harner calls “ordinary reality.” That’s the world where we have to pay our bills and our child support and alimony, stop at red lights, talk over the fence with our neighbors, watch mindless TV, be a good citizen and neighbor.

And then there’s “nonordinary reality.” That’s the reality the great indigenous cultures all over the world define as the reality that surrounds and permeates us, the reality that is just a dream—or journey—away. The Other Realms, the Realms of the Upper, Middle and Lower Worlds, the Realms of powerful spirits, malevolent and benevolent ones, the world of magic and insight, of healing and sorcery, the Realms where shamans—good, evil, competent, incompetent, student-apprentices, masters (though they dislike that term)—traveled to gather information and power to further their agendas or the agendas of the Great Powers or to do healing or divination or other work on behalf of others.

If you like the duality of that model, then “nonordinary” reality is where you might put phenomenon like flying saucers, the Cabal’s military involvement, time travel, age regression and other topics most often found on conspiracy theory websites or the “New Age” section of the bookstore.

But like anything else, you have to practice discernment to filter out what the truth is. In the Middle World especially, there are sorcerers—often called politicians, reporters, media people—who manipulate perception to deceive and distort and muddle. The advertising industry was one “beneficiary” of the expertise in propaganda developed during the Third Reich by the visionary Joseph Goebbels in the service of Adolf Hitler—the Big Lie.

Remember what I said about the Father of Lies?

I was privy to a discussion, at a teaching, by one of the best shamans in the country, a brilliant, beautiful, and gifted teacher and practitioner, and the leading exponent of “compassionate depossession”—utilizing the Light in a gentle fashion, more in alignment with the belief of the Tibetan Buddhist than, say, traditional Christianity, to do releasement for the suffering being (i.

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