Who Can Make You happy?

I am going to teach you something that your mother never taught you. She taught you, as a child, that you were somehow responsible for making her happy. She used her happiness level to manipulate you into doing what she wanted you to do. She put you responsible for making her happy. She said if you do this and this and don’t do that I will be happy with you and love you. In this way she taught you that other people can make you feel happy or sad etc. But this was a tactic she used artificially to make you obedient to her, both to keep you safe from danger and also to benefit her life directly. Can you look back on your childhood, on just about everyone’s childhood and see that parents do use this idea of making mommy and daddy happy to control their children?


You choose if you are going to feel happy or sad. Or angry or frustrated or depressed or excited. Nobody on this planet can MAKE you feel sad or happy. You choose how you are going to feel at any given moment.

These are mental logical facts I am telling you here that apply to everyone.

You cannot make me happy if I don’t choose to be happy.

You can try to make me happy by making funny faces or telling jokes or giving me things but until I decide to be happy? Nobody can make me happy.

 You cannot make anybody feel a certain way.

 You are not in charge of how I choose to feel.

 That is my free will right to feel good or bad or upset or mad.

 You cannot change that.

 Neither can anyone make you feel angry or upset or happy or free.

You choose for yourself how you are going to feel from moment to moment.

I am showing you that you are in charge of you. Right now. Today.

YOU are in control of your own thoughts and feelings, nobody else.

Take the Shaman Apprenticeship 101 Course and learn more things that your mother never told you about being happy.

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True Shamans Never Use Any Drugs or Alcohol

Stories like this are just appalling. Please learn from this tragic death that there is no True Shamanism in ayahuasca or any drug.

Petaluma man's son died in Peru trying 'to further open his mind'

By GUY KOVNER
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Published: Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 1:11 p.m.

Last Modified: Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 1:11 p.m.

Kyle Josef Nolan and his parents knew exactly why the 18-year-old Sebastopol man traveled to a retreat center in the Peruvian jungle: to participate in an “ayahuasca ritual,” ingesting a psychoactive concoction used by Amazonian people for centuries and popular with westerners, including the musician Sting.

Kyle Nolan.

But the 10-day program at the Shimbre Shamanic Center went tragically wrong, and the operator, a shaman named Jose Manuel Pineda Vargas, attempted to cover up Nolan's death and lied to his mother when she first arrived in Peru, according to Sean Nolan of Petaluma, Kyle's father.

Peruvian National Police said they arrested Pineda, 58, who called himself “Master Mancoluto,” and two men who allegedly helped bury Nolan's body on the shamanic center's property outside the city of Puerto Maldonado in southeastern Peru near the Bolivian border.

A YouTube video depicts Pineda leading authorities to the spot where Nolan's body was unearthed.

Ingeborg Oswald of Sebastopol, Nolan's mother, and his sister, Marion Nolan, were in Peru Friday waiting to bring Nolan's body home and also obtain official reports on his death, Sean Nolan said.

“This is what he wanted to do,” Sean Nolan said. “This was not to be a vacation for him, but rather an experience to further open his mind.”

Nolan, a 2011 graduate from Analy High School, had taken a year off from school and worked odd jobs to save money for the trip to Peru and the shamanic retreat, where ayahuasca is the “centerpiece” of a 10-day program, Sean Nolan said.

“It does have inherent risks,” he said.

Sean Nolan said he was concerned about his son's use of ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew widely used by indigenous Amazonian people that contains dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic substance that is illegal in the United States.

My own death experience

Aho

This is really personal so please respect this but, I was recently asked by one of my clients  who is in the last stages of Lou Gehrig's disease and can no longer control any part of his body except his eyes and his mind, if I could tell him about my own death experience.

 I wanted to share this with you too.

 I was rushed to  the hospital late on a Sunday night in a little tiny rural community hospital that had no surgeons in the hospital at the time with a ruptured fallopian tube from an ectopic pregnancy. I did not even know I was pregnant. But sometimes the embryo gets caught in the fallopian tube and continues to develop there and grows too big there and makes the fallopian tube full of rich nutrients and blood supply burst, causing internal bleeding and death without immediate surgery.

I went to visit some friends in the country that day and was having a great time when I suddenly started to feel very sick. I asked if I could lie down somewhere and they took me to a bedroom with an adjoining bathroom. I laid down but the room began to spin and I felt queasy and began throwing up and a headache and diarrhea and just everything  was blowing out of me everywhere and I was passing out on the bathroom floor and I could barely get the attention of my friends in the other room before I passed out completely. This all happened in just two hours. They put me in their car and drove me to the hospital which was a bad choice as the EMTs could have done more for me and probably would have saved my life. I learned to always call an ambulance and never try to take someone to the hospital yourself . By the time they got me to the hospital the emergency doctors were trying to rouse me and they have put the pants of life on me, which are compression sleeves on your legs and lower torso  to cut of the flow of blood to the lower body because you are bleeding out, trying to keep what blood you have left in the upper body to the brain and heart. They were able to wake me up long enough for me to see I was in a hospital. I could feel them hovering around me and then I noticed I was looking down at myself lying on a gurney with 5 people hovering around that body there. I felt perfectly OK! IN fact I was not panicked or in pain or in any way upset at all. It felt good to be released from that body and so I was just watching what was going on as if I was astral travelling.

Then I started to see my whole life playing out, close to my eyes as if a holographic movie was playing. Not inside me but not far outside me either. And it was moving very fast through every incident of my life from the present moment backwards through every event and situation I had ever experienced. But instead of just being memories, I was revisiting actual sections of my past and hearing what people were thinking and seeing what other people were doing and saying who where not even present in that situation. So it was like a bunch of holograms piled on top of each other showing me not only my experience in that situation but my mother’s experience and thoughts and my fathers experience and thoughts and even strangers who were influenced by that experience and their actions words and thoughts. It was very detailed and very in depth. And so as I watched the past event where I wanted to take my 3 year old on a camping trip to Colorado, I saw my mother getting all upset as she did. But I also could hear her thinking that I was moving to Colorado and she didn’t’ want me to take her grandchild away. AT the time, she tried to get custody of my child because she really believed I was moving to Colorado. Of course she did not get custody but I did not know that that time that she felt I was moving away. I did not realize what had made her so upset until this  moment as I watched this event play out.  In fact, in all the events that I saw play out in this holographic experience I could see how my actions effected other people. I could see how my words choices and actions effected other people in good ways or on bad ways. I could see  where I had hurt my dad by disconnecting with him when I was 21. I could see where my ex husband really did hate my guts and wanted me dead. I could see the why of everything that happened. And when I saw how I had hurt my dad I just wanted to reach out to him in this moment ask his forgiveness. And when I saw how much my ex husband hated me and wanted to kill me I could in this moment completely forgive myself for divorcing him. Suddenly everything made sense. And I was able to forgive those people who had hurt me in my life because I could see now the reason why they did what they did to me. I could see how my sister was an emotional wreck at the time I asked her to give me a place to stay and she refused. Everything just made perfect sense! It was a relief to finally understand why my mother shunned me for getting that divorce. And I forgave her for making my life so incredibly hard at that time and not supporting me. And I also asked for forgiveness from everyone who I had harmed  in my life as I saw that in these holograms being played out. . So this whole review of all the events in my life became a simple natural opportunity to ask for and receive forgiveness. To forgive those who had harmed me as I was there seeing all the reasons why things had occurred the way they did. It was very cathartic! And beautiful too!

And then I saw that white Light that everybody talks about that leads us to the next state of being in our eternal adventure. And I could feel my grandparents there welcoming me ready to hug me and so many others who I have known in this lifetime seemed to be just hidden in that brilliant white Light and I wanted to go there very much. There was nothing to prevent me from going there and I was just about to go there when I found myself lying in a bed in a room in a hospital. Not the hospital my physical body was in but some other room that seemed like a hospital to me. And here sitting in a chair by my bed was Jesus. And in the other chair was Mary. Remember I was raised Catholic so this makes sense. I think if I were Buddhist I would have seen Buddha sitting in that chair.
And I was happy to see Jesus and Mary and they smiled at me and Jesus took my hand and it felt so wonderful and beautiful and I was so happy.
And Jesus asked me if I was ready to come home. And the first thing without hesitation was YES!

But then I remembered my daughter. She was only 3 years old at the time. And I began to think about who is going to raise her? My parents were too old. Her father was a creep, there was no one to raise her up. And I had made a solemn vow to God that if he would give me a child I would do my best to raise her up to be a beautiful daughter of God. And so I looked at  Jesus sitting there and said, you know, you gave me the gift of my daughter and I made a promise to you to raise her to adulthood. I think I would like to keep my promise to you and to her. And Jesus looked at me and his face saddened and he had sorrow in his eyes and he Said. “ Its not going to be easy, you know.” And I said , I know. And Mary smiled a smile of encouragement at me and Jesus touched my third eye and suddenly I was in horrendous pain!- the worst pain of my life as waves of electric shock coursed through my body. And I came to as they were applying the paddles of life to shock my heart back into beating again.
They saw I was alive once more, I had regained consciousness, and they began to quickly wheel me into surgery.

Later I learned that I was in the ER being worked on for 49 minutes which was how long it took the surgeon to make it to the hospital from his home and I was dead for 4 minutes and they had to give me 8 quarts of blood which is an entire full body transfusion. Yes it did change my life from that point.

Well I have raised my daughter into a wonderful woman who now is married and has one daughter of her own and is expecting her second daughter in October. She is beautiful and smart and everything that I would have wished for.

I feel I have accomplished my mission in this world and I am looking forward to going into that Light that is so beautiful and made me so so happy when I first saw it 3 decades ago.
IN the meantime I try to be an example of someone who understands the purpose of the universe and lives within the guiding principles that Creator used to create this physical place and I spend my days gaining new perceptions of Creator.
There is nothing unpleasant or untoward or difficult about crossing over into our true intrinsic state of being One in Creator.. We do not lose our personalities at all.

 I feel that it is simply transitioning from one state of being into a another state of being.

 I was not less than I am now. I was simply  with body or without body. And in my case when I was released from that body that was suffering, it was a pleasant experience indeed!

WE go on forever! WE are eternal spiritual beings. We were given this body to use as a vehicle to get to know Creator more intimately. We were given this body with inner and outer senses to perceive Creator in every tree , every blade of grass, everything that Creator created with His own Essence is here in this world for us to perceive Creator in! that is it! There is no other purpose other than to get to know God! When we leave here we leave behind these physical senses so we can no longer perceive God in this world in this way. That is why the body is such a valuable and precious tool. But it is only a tool for this life experience and it is not needed for the rest of our eternal lives. We continue to perceive Creator but not in this physical way in this physical world.

You will never lose your memories or your connections with the people you love. You will never lose anything but your physical body and the ability to perceive with physical senses in this physical world. But this physical world is just a tiny speck in the universe of God. There is so much more to do when  you leave this body. Its an eternal adventure of Love and Light and Peace and JOY!

I hope what I experienced helps you to understand that you are not judged, you are not condemned no matter what your life adventure was like for you. There are no pearly gates, no judgments whatsoever involved. You are already the son of God! You don’t have to qualify for what is already your birthright! Learn to recognize yourself as the son of God and all is well.


My teaching here for you:

"When you wake up every morning, are you aware straightaway how privileged you are? You have arms, legs, hands, a mouth, ears, eyes… Suppose you woke up one morning to find you could no longer see or hear or move a limb… That can happen – or you might not wake up at all!… But every morning you wake up with all your faculties, and you are not even aware of it; you are not grateful. Treasures and extraordinary possibilities are yours, but because you are short of money or have not had the success you had hoped for, you are forever complaining, rebelling and making yourself unhappy. If you think about it a little, you will realize the extent of your ingratitude and lack of intelligence.
Learn to give thanks every day. The moment you wake up in the morning and realize that you are there in one piece, with all your faculties, ready to begin a new day, give thanks and you will feel happy. "

Feel free to contact me here www.shamanelder.com


Aho
Shaman Elder Maggie

Hvae you ever had a true Shaman work miracles for you?

What would it be like to have a true traditional indigenous Shaman offering to work for your own desires and intentions using her own skills developed over 55 years of walking the traditional path as taught to her by her own Shaman Grandmother? Would you value that? Would you like that Shaman to help you with your needs and desires? Would you like to even study with her and learn how she makes those  miracles happen for 1,000's of people around the world each year? If you would like that Shaman to work for you, just send an email to shaman@ShamanElder.com and tell her what you want. www.shamanelder.com

Groping in the Dark

How many people say they are seeking the Light! And no doubt they are sincere; they have understood that it is better to be in the Light than in darkness. But they want a light that demands no effort, and they never pause to do any in-depth work. They go from one book to another, from one spiritual teacher to another – that is what they call seeking the Light.

And now that new spiritual movements are continually appearing and there are attempts to revive the initiations of the past with new ‘initiations’ joining them, people will continue to shop around. Yes, they wander around, drift about, always missing what could help them. And so, in spite of seeking the Light, they arrive at the end of their life still groping in the dark.

My shaman grandmother taught that it is better to pick one path and follow it diligently to its end no matter what. All spiritual paths lead to the same destination.

I am offering you the opportunity to learn about the path that my shaman grandmother traveled and that I have traveled for over 55 years. 

 I am thrilled to let you know that we now have available an Introduction to Traditional Shamanism course for those who do not want to commit to an apprenticeship but want to understand what Traditional Shamanism is and learn a few of the tools and skills that my ancestors practiced and my own Shaman Grandmother taught to me. Each lesson consists of a short teaching and a skill to practice. You can read more about it here www.shamanelder.com

Stressed Worried? A solution is here now.

As a Traditional Shaman, the role of Shaman Maggie is the same as all Shamans of ancient times; to protect people, to nurture people, to bring healing to people, to spiritually feed people, to support people, to defend people. And in these chaotic times of 2012 we are all beginning to see the effects of what has been predicted for 2012 through the ages.  Shaman Maggie is not a prophet but is here to help people and guide people and keep people safe during this year as the winds of chaos are stirring and rising and in what will eventually become a storm of chaos and hazards. 

She recognizes her responsibility to the people of this earth and is providing a shelter from the storm for anyone who wants that kind of powerful traditional shamanic protection and defense that she has spent 55 years learning to master as her own family elders have taught her to do. She feels that this is her mission, why she is alive at this time in history, to help each person find safety and protection and to learn how to manage their lives individually to sail through this stormy year of global change and uncertainly in safety.  She stated,” Any True Shaman responds to the needs of the people in all ways, financially, emotionally, spiritually. My job is to offer healing and protection to all who are feeling the stress and anxiety now blowing into the world like a giant wind storm. It’s not a question of whether the predictors were right about  2012; it’s about how well will you survive the storm.”

Shaman Elder Maggie is offering free email correspondence and guidance to anyone who would like her help to overcome fear, worry, frustration and would like to take advantage of the kind of protection that the Shamans who taught her could bring to their own communities. She is establishing a community for you energetically, an actual energetic place where you can feel safe and find some peace from the howling winds that you are feeling in your life right now. She offers this for FREE. You can receive her blessings and positive influence in your personal life right now by going to   www.shamanelder.com/abundance.html http://www.shamanelder.com/abundance.html

What Can A Traditional Shaman Do For You?

What Can  a Traditional Shaman Do For You?

In ancient times, a traditional shaman was hired by a tribe or community to help restore health, to ward off evil, to defend the people from attack by enemies, to bring good weather, to birth or bury and in general to keep that tribe or community in line with abundance and prosperity in every way. If the Shaman did a good job and was successful at this, the tribe would reward that Shaman with the best dwelling, the best clothes, the best food, a high ranking of honor and more. If the Shaman that was hired did not do all this very well, he was thrown out of the community and had no food, no dwelling, no honor and certainly would not find work with any other tribe or community either.  So nobody would dare pretend to be a Shaman. It was a difficult and risky job and only a very few were able to withstand the years of apprenticeship with elder Shamans to learn how to do these things successfully. In fact it was not even a job that anyone wanted to have. The odds of being killed if you could not bring peace and healing and good weather were very high indeed. When a whole community depends on you to keep them healthy and then someone gets sick, your life would be on the line. Young people today should realize that calling yourself a Shaman means you are able to do these things for a community and is not just a comic book title with no responsibility at all.  Shamanism is not faith healing.  Shamanism is not just about journeying either. 

Shaman Elder Maggie has spent 58 years learning how to bring healing, good weather, abundance and protection to people. But today, communities no longer hire Shamans. So Shaman Elder Maggie has to work for individuals hoping to find her own livelihood and sustenance from her successful work on their behalf case by case, much like an independent contractor or counselor would. So what are some of the things that Shaman Elder Maggie can do for a person? 

- teach you how to remove fear based thinking and come into alignment with your higher self.

- show you how to find your purpose.

- bring you all kinds of abundance as long as your intentions are in alignment with Creators intentions for you. 

- teach you impeccability.

- align the forces of your reality to bring you health. ( Sometimes this requires a dialogue to produce.)

- create a strong connection for you between you and your Source. 

- help you enjoy your job, or if you are looking for work she can help you behind the scenes to find a job that you will love. 

- help you in your relationships with those people in your life. 

Here is what some people have written about the help they got from Shaman Elder Maggie:

“You are in some way, connecting me to something deep within myself, a stirring passion, need, or just maybe my power, but I feel it is more than that. Anyhow, I am deeply grateful, I am starting to open my eyes.”

“I am grateful for you and all the work we have done together.   I am grateful I can see, grateful I now know I am deserving of only loving happy helpful vibrant energies in my life.  Worry is removed and replace with the peace of knowing WHO I AM!”

“Thank you for all that you do behind the scenes to provide healing to me.  My life has improved dramatically- even from 2 months ago.”

“I must say that following your course in the past few months has been life-changing for me.  For the first time since my twenties I don't have constant anxiety, I am off my medication and I am balancing myself - this is truly wonderful.  Thank you!”

“I must tell you, when my brother was fighting cancer I wrote to you and asked if you could help him and you said yes and you sent him a medicine bag.  He has carried the medicine bag with him everyday since he received it and he has been cancer free ever since.”

“I am thankful to you the guides and Creator for turning my life around completely from hard to easy.  I will practice making my life easier for the rest of my life!”

“I just found out I got the job! I start Monday. I cannot tell you how life can change in an instant when you are happy and love yourself! It pays 2 dollars more an hour! Thank you.”

“My doctor was completely amazed today.  I went for my yearly physical.  I told him I'm off all my meds.  My blood pressure is 120/80, and I'm not a nervous wreck anymore.  He kept asking me, "Are you SURE you're not on any meds.  You seem much calmer now -- more in control."  That's because of you. “

You can tell a good Shaman by what his or her clients have to say about them. Their deeds tell the truth.

 

How does Shaman Maggie do these things for people? Primarily through her courses as she teaches each student individually and they get that chance to really work with her to benefit their lives. The courses provide unlimited dialogue by email and through these emails the student shares his or her life with Shaman Maggie who then works behind the scenes shamanically for their benefit. Also she offers counseling by phone call and that too is a way to discuss problems and issues that Shaman Maggie can then work to improve for that person. Shaman Maggie also offers free email counseling to anyone at all. 

Shaman Elder Maggie is a Traditional Shaman seriously dedicated to the energetic upliftment of the world and feels that this happens one person at a time. She is in love with humanity and does this not for herself but for your sake. She wants to see you standing fully in your own power, enjoying this adventure called life. You can hire her to work for you and your life and she can produce those achievements for you as the old Shamans did.

You can learn how to contact her or sign up for her counseling or courses at www.shamanelder.com

Hope Is Not Enough: 2012 Predictions

When its the middle of the night , and the wind is screaming through the rigging at 45 knots, and the boat is keeled over 30 degrees, and the seas are running high against you, and water is breaking on deck, and you are all alone... and there is white water and black death on the lee shore... and everything is confusion, and noise, and icy fear that approaches absolute terror... and you feel that the possibility of death is no longer remote, but very real...., and very near....

Then, you have best know what you are doing,

Hope, will not take you off that boat.

Please receive my blessings for your life at this time when the changes of 2012 are starting to make your life speed up and you find yourself so busy that you are not taking time to take care of yourself and control your life very well anymore. Here we see the first signs of the prophecies of 2012 coming true!  I can teach you how to master your ship in this time of high winds and future storms so you can safely sail to your dreams and achievements without sinking your boat. The times- they are a changing! Let me help you prepare as my ancestors and elders, the Traditional Shamans knew how to do, as I know how to do.  Aho _ I speak my truth.

"What I do, I do for you, not for myself. I am already dead."

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The 2012 Prophecies are Manifesting Now

Have you noticed how things are speeding up in everyone’s lives now? This is all part of the prophecies about 2012. This speeding up, what I call “a wind” is beginning to blow more and more and people are finding themselves very busy and almost overwhelmed with too much to do and not enough time to do it. This trend can be seen everywhere on the planet right now and it has been steadily and slowly increasing since the beginning of the new year.

I want to teach people how to handle it without being harmed. So think of yourself on a big ship as captain of that 18 sail ship. And out on the sea you notice the winds are picking up. I think by the end of the year it might even be a gale wind. So as a sailor you know that in order to keep your boat from capsizing you have to let down some of your sails. You don’t need all 18 sails to sail the ship. In fact you might travel faster in this heavy wind by using only a few sails that you can get good control over and be able to steer your ship effectively instead of trying to wrangle all your sails and not being able to really control the boat at all.

So now is the time to begin taking down some of those sails so you can take advantage of this wind and go very fast and easily to your destination. The wind itself is not a bad thing. But if you have up too many sails it can overwhelm you and sink your boat.

What are your sails in this allegory? They are your commitments, those things you are invested in that you have to do every day or accomplish on a routine basis. They are the achievements that you own, your obligations, your dreams, the things you invest your time and energy into each day. So what we are saying here is that you have to let go of some of those tasks and obligations you own. You have to take down the sails you carry for other people and simplify your ship down to just a few sails that you can control and manage and sail with easily. If you do this you will make fast progress in your life towards those goals. So it can be a good thing. But most people have up too many sails right now. And you know it. You might feel over booked, over burdened, over obligated- even to yourself. Try to figure out what you don’t need to be giving your time and energy to right now and let those sails down . You can put them back up later when the winds have died down.

I hope this teaching helps you to find your power and be able to control your ship better. Please ask me any questions you might have about this wind that is steadily increasing for all of us as part of the 2012 world change that is taking place right now.

Aho
Shaman Elder Maggie

I have just created a new course I think would be perfect for you! It is called an Introduction to Traditional Shamanism. It has 6 lessons delivered by email, one each week, with a short teaching and an exercise to practice like the bubble of protection in lesson one. The cost is just $45. And includes a half hour phone call with me! You can read about it and see what each lesson contains here, www.shamanelder.com
Everyone can benefit from learning some ancient tools and skills that my elders used to heal themselves and others. I want to share some with you in this easy Intro course.
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Material Life or Spiritual LIfe, Whats the difference??

"Humans are alive, of course, but they are not living: most of the time, all you can say is that they are keeping busy. They don’t realize that the numerous activities in which their days are spent cause them to forget to live.
To live is to breathe, to take in food, to walk, sleep, move, speak, and so on. But who will admit there is anything to be learned from such activities, anything they had never thought of? Who is willing to say, ‘It’s true: I breathe, I eat, I walk, I use my hands… but how do I do these things? Is there anything there I could do better if I were more aware? For, every moment of the day, divine life itself is being expressed through me.’"
Learn more in this online ecourse with unlimited mentoring by Shaman Elder Maggie