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.’"
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How My Ancestors Practiced Shamanism

Lets look at how my ancestors practiced Shamanism. In my tradition, in the ancient days, the Shaman was actually hired by a tribe. He was a free agent and could go from group to group as needed. He often worked with many isolated groups of people within a 500 mile or more range geographically. They would send runners to fetch him when something was needed in the group. He would live with one group for months or years at a time. The tribes would pay him for his services by giving him food and shelter and clothes and other amenities and he would have as much as the chief of the group had because he was so valuable to that group as doctor, priest, counselor, weatherman, midwife, surgeon, forecaster, peacekeeper and so much more. But if he did not produce… If he could not do what he promised, (“ it is what you do that defines you”; fourth truth in traditional shamanism) they would throw him out with nothing, not even his clothes! And odds were that the next group were not going to take in a frozen starving shaman either!

This prevented just anybody from saying that they were a shaman. In fact, people were afraid to even think of pretending to be a shaman because if they could not do what they said, they were likely to die or be killed. The very fact that my Shaman grandmother was able to teach me the ways of my ancestors should prove to you that my ancestors were very powerful Shamans!

Today, lots of people call themselves shamans because there is no consequence to lying. In fact, more than 70% of the earth’s population now believe it is ok to lie to anyone about anything at anytime. So people pay “wanna be” shamans who can do nothing and only talk a big talk, lie.  I wish we could go back to the old ways of “do what you say you do”. When we can all live up to that truth and do what we define ourselves to be, the world will be a better, more honest place. 

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Those Who Don't Walk Get Eaten.

What kinds of goals do people have today? Perhaps to have a family or a career or a car and house with all the modern conveniences. For a lot of people, that is enough. They say they are satisfied with this mediocre existence. They don't enhance their lives with anything other than physical pleasures, with anything more essential, more powerful. They simply stagnate.

When will people realize the dangers that they put themselves in with they live their lives unaware of what else is here beyond just the physical? There are all kinds of physical and psychological dangers lying in wait, looking for ways to sneak in and bite into people and eat away at them.  Have you ever felt there were other things beyond the physical threatening your life? I bet you have! And what have you done to learn about those dangers?

How sad that people do not realize that here is a whole other 95% here that cannot be perceived with one's outer senses but that very much does effect therm physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. This is what I teach you about in the course I offer as I learned it from my own Shaman teachers in my own family. Do not let yourself be put to sleep and chloroformed by petty entertainments. The time is coming when the need to survive and negotiate through the dangers will be more important to you than a house or car. Will you be ready for that?
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The Current you Are Not Using

There is a current in this river of life, placed there by Creator and if we allow ourselves to find that flow and go with that flow all good things can be ours.

It is you and your thoughts who deny that current and try to fight with that current and that causes you pain and trouble. 

Your  thought, your ignorant blind belief, that Creator would not care for you enough to put that current into your life,

that is the thought that is causing you harm.

And the opposite of that is the thirst,

the striving,

the desire 

to get yourself into that current.

I know you have felt this current of Creator’s  at times in your life.

 It is there and you know it. 

So why don’t you pursue it?

You know what it feels like when you are in it.

Get to that place again and let that current carry you along into the future.

But you will not be able to observe it at all 

if you are obsessively caught in

the web of your thoughts.

Shaman Elder Maggie

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I have been teaching Traditional Shamanism for over ten years now and have been counseling people for over 35 years now. I have been walking this path as taught to me by my own Shaman Grandmother for over 55 years now. I think you can tell that I can show you things here that will definitely benefit your life.  Its a win-win for you. But time is running out to begin.

What I Teach- The Path of Traditional Shamanism

The path of traditional shamanism is not for those who simply wish to be psychic and channel spirits. The path of Traditional shamanism will blind those who value their egos, destroy those who are faint of heart, and taint the souls of those who learn these tools and skills for selfish gains. So know this, everyone who takes up a walk on this path will not ever be able to turn back. Once wisdom is unfolded it changes your life forever. Once you step on this path you either ascend or descend. Only a person who takes himself seriously can control himself. This course is only the beginning of a lifetime of work, some call The Great Work or Walking upon the Tao. This is the path of the adept, the student on his way to enlightenment. I am not out to mislead anyone into believing my way or my beliefs. I am teaching you in as easy a way as I can, things that I was taught by my teachers and my elders, thing have not been taught to anyone else on this planet, things handed down in secrecy only by word of mouth through twenty generations. Things so powerful that they can kill or raise from the dead. I teach you by setting up a specific shamanic experience for you and then you can decide to take this tool or skill and work hard to perfect it within yourself, or not. But beware that these tools and skills are powerful and dangerous and if you do not follow the instructions to the letter or try to twist or distort the tools and skills in any way they will back fire and cause a myriad of pain and confusion and hurt for you and others. So I ask you to be responsible as a student here and to follow the instructions and to do the practices exactly as they are laid out for you clearly in each lesson. Do not progress to the next lessons until we have mastered the previous one. None of these tools are meant to be practiced on your own. It is too easy to get yourself hurt if you just read and try the lesson without mentorship.

We are all shining stars, unique in ourselves. There is infinite space for all things to exists, it is only us, who need to see that which is here to see that you have not seen before.

All things come from the elements, be it in their purest state or combinations thereof. To my ancestors there are four elements, fire earth air and water. These four, make up all physically manifested creations. It is through coming to know them and seeing their essence as the very Essence of Creator, that we come to know and see their symbolic and archetypical formation of thought that empower us to use their virtues and abolish their vices within us. We are unique in that we have the ability and the will to use all created energies conceivable to man and as we evolve further and open up our minds and hearts more and more we will come to be opened up to even more energies. One of the many beliefs of my ancestors in regards to why more subtle energies are not readily available to the common person is that those energies would come to be abused, and in that, create an imbalance in the etheric planes which would unleash unforeseeable karmic repercussions. And I believe that is exactly what we are seeing in the world today.

One of the first veils laid over our minds is that of the flesh, which traps us into believing that we are only the flesh, only some chemicals mixing together creating all that we know as life. The veil is that we take this as the whole truth, and not just part of the truth. All that is needed to push past this veil is to push our conscious perspective just one more inch and in that inch we will start to see the other side of the stick, by honing our inner senses. It is true that it is not easy, in fact if it were easy, most would have already come to do it. Our present day society not only blocks us from this ability but even kills those who teach it.

But you can learn to walk this path even as you continue with your daily life. You can hold a 40 hour job and do the chores and raise the kids and walk the dogs and also walk this path transforming yourself into a better person, slowly starting to control your life, and then coming into control of your surroundings. You will start to relax, your time will be more yours for enjoyment, you will no longer be haunted by thoughts of work when you are not at work nor of home when you are not at home. You will find yourself more and more present to the now moment. You will find the light and joy in your job no matter what you do and you will leave behind the thoughts of those things you never did enjoy. You will become more conscious of yourself and breathe easier and feel that you have finally become captain of your ship. It will not be easy at first, to work and practice to gain mastery of these ancient tools and skills. Yet in doing these exercises and practices you will come to understand, and then believe from your own personal experience, that my ancestors have spoken of throughout the centuries.

You will come to stand in your power through the proper use of your will, you will burn with the fires any impurities that hold you down. Bu using your emotions you will dream the dreams, flying upon the astral waters of life. By your intellect, and your thoughts, you can soar higher than any bird, and with your strength and patience, you can be as the mountains, which stand the tests of time. By coming to know yourself on this path, you can do many things unbelievable to the common person, and in that I hope you will change the world for the better.

Divinity lies within you and it only takes a moment to realize this, and be enlightened. By building your foundations with the elements, by purifying yourself of non benefitting beliefs and ego centered action, and by planting the seeds of ancients truths as experienced by you in this course you will build that temple within you and while you work to transcend each plane you will eventually reach enlightenment. That if anything else, is what I desire for you. Anything less, is pointless.

At first it is hard to walk this path for in most cases we desire the outcome without having to actually work for it. There is also the problem of wanting to reach past our present levels trying to grasp the energies above us, without having conquered the ones we presently have. It is in not having mastered our present energies and learning who to work with them in a balanced way in our lives, that often times gets us in trouble. It is blind ignorance to step into something without at least having prepared for it.  If our temples are built on sandy ground, a day will come when it will sink out from under us. Yet if we build our foundations upon rock, and abolish all rot within, there will never be a fear of it falling down around us. For no adversity, nor evil, can attach itself to something which has nothing for evil to grow from.

Too many students have failed to see their mistakes, until it was almost too late, and then in their despair they had to go through unneeded misery to correct mistakes, that otherwise could have been avoided. Your path has to be perfection , no less, yet so very much more. If you take this course seriously, and do the work honestly and work with your mentor daily, you are guaranteed that you will be glad you did. Know this, with the knowledge of the Self, comes the knowledge of the World. So we will question your beliefs, your traditions, your view points and analyze yourself because maybe those things you hold on to so dearly are not even applicable to your present state of being at all. You already know that it is truly hard to say who you are or what you should believe in, when everything is constantly changing.  Experience everything but get attached to nothing.

This course is the simplest format I can create for you, in an otherwise complex and confusing work that has not been written down by anyone before. I have been faithful to the letter with the teachings of my Shaman Grandmother and her elders and our family lineage. Do not look for these teachings in any other work that is being taught today. Do  not try to combine them with other teachings in any way. No one outside of our own family has had the privilege of learning this path till now. Stop searching for other examples in other teachings. And please know that I recognize myself as a servant, not a master of Humanity, while I am the master and not the servant of my own body. For although the student is to be humble in life, they need to be strong willed and ruthless upon their path, for there is no room for weaknesses , nor feebleness, on entering into this dojo, this school, this path. If at any time I find that you are not strong enough to hold up your shield and practice with your classmates I will pause your studies immediately. If you cannot keep up then you become a detriment to all.  I am sure you can see this is true. You have an obligation here to study hard and master each lesson and work with your mentor very closely.

Each of us has a purpose. What that purpose is, only the Self can know. Sometimes it takes having to go through many trials in order that we might come to see our path, and in that, gaining strength to walk it. This is my path, hard, dry , scary, lonely but beautiful. I learned what it would take for me to become an adept, as well as what could happen if I were to stray from the Light. I tell you these things not so you will repeat them, but so that you might come to see what I have gone through. For it might give you comfort and guidance do always do the right thing.

“For no darkness nor sickness may enter unto one’s soul as long as the Light shines within thee. “

Now beware, for one of the hardest things in the way of this path is the rooting out of all non benefitting beliefs, thoughts emotions dreams and memories. There will be times of great loneliness and feelings of despair, always remember, to ground yourself in whatever way you can. For we are all in transition, when in learning how to hold still, those things that have always moved you into action will come to move away on their own. Analyze yourself, your thoughts and feelings and dreams. See what each thought or feeling is worth, come to know its roots.  You might come to be disgusted by your thoughts over time, do not judge, just learn the roots of your thoughts and let them go. In time it will become easy and you will find that you can hold on to one thought for as long as you desire. From there you can move into no thought. Do you realize that you fool yourself into believing  you have no control over your thoughts? That is a lie! And you are to become balanced in mind body and spirit. Then when you slowly come out of this pit that you have dug for yourself, you will come to see the flowers growing within. We are not born evil , bad, nor sick in the soul, for it is in our programming that we come to believe it is true. We are good loving beings; we only need to deprogram ourselves to realize it. We are who we are.

Without a strong healthy body the mind cannot be healthy and strong. You can tell how another is by the fruits of their labors. If someone is constantly sick or disturbed in some way, there is something inside that is likewise disturbed and sick. As within so without.  If you have dis-ease in you, we must do the remedial work to remove that dis-ease so that you can train in this warriorship to hold up the Light of Creator in this world of darkness.  Do you understand?

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Become A Lake

Be A Lake  (Source Unknown)

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.
"How does it taste?" the Masterasked.
"Awful," spat the apprentice

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake.

The two walked in silence to the nearby lake
and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake,
the old man said, "Now drink from the lake

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked,
"How does it taste?"
"Good!" remarked the apprentice.
"Do you taste the salt?"  asked the Master.
"No," said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said,

"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less.
The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same.

But the amount we taste the 'pain'
depends on the container we put it into.

So when you are in pain, the
only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things .....

Stop being a glass.

                                          Become a lake!

Day 103 Who Is Shaman Maggie?

Her life is the very course of nature: her death, the transformation of things. In quietude she coils up with the yin, in movement, she opens up with the yang. Her vital spirits are imbued with an endless peace, she does not lose herself in things and yet the world spontaneously submits to her. By non being this sage responds to things and necessarily penetrates into the laws of existence, by her emptiness she receives the plenitude and necessarily fathoms its rules. Nothing is distant from her, nothing is close to her.

She is close to Tao and touches Te, she is not enticed by good fortune, nor does she hasten into misfortune, her hun and p’o remain  in their dwelling places and her vital spirits hold on to the root. Life and death make no difference to her, that is why she is called supremely spiritual ( shen).

She is full as if empty. She knows Grand simplicity and without ado returns to the potential not yet manifested. She incorporates the Root, Embraces the divine and frolics between heaven and earth as a child. Radiant she roams beyond the dust and impurities, and goes higher and yon in aimless wandering. Immense and vast. Clever deceits do not dwell in her heart. Also, life and death are of equal greatness and so she does not distinguish between them. Although Heaven and Earth protect and nourish her, she is not held in the embrace. She experiences Non-failure and does not get mixed up with things. She perceives the disorder of things, but remains steadfast in her Origin.

Her heart and will are concentrated within, penetrating and universal, she is paired with the One. Without learning, she knows. Without looking, she sees, without acting, she achieves, without any effort she discerns. She responds impulsively, she moves when solicited, without willing, she goes as a light shines or like a lightning flash.

Life and death are for her all a part of the same transformation, the ten thousand things are only a single entity. Her essence united with the Root of Great Purity, she takes her pleasure within the confines of the obscure Empire. She does not rush her spirit.. She reverses the end and the beginning and ignores her limitations.

 She rests in a place without corners or bends, she wanders and takes pleasure in a land without trace or form. She is there, but without appearance. She dwells, but in no places, moving she has no form, motionless she has no body.

Beginning and end form a circle and no one can know its ruling principle. That is why the her vital spirits are able to rise up to the Tao -  the place where she takes her leisure.

This is Shaman Maggie.

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Day 99: Your Healing

You have no idea of the healing that is being conducted through me by God to you and your family. You have no full concept that I have come to this world to this lifetime to bring miracles into the world for you and your family right now as I was trained all my life to do. You have no concept that I deliberately intended to bring God’s miracles to you at this time in the universe of all the eons of time that I could choose to be here. I will continue to do so. For you – because I love you. Just ask me.
Aho
Shaman Elder Maggie

Day 92 Where Are You?

Do you have a memory of a better place or time? Do you really think there was a better time than this time or a better place than this place?

No time is better than now. No place is better than here. You can dream of times and places from long ago and imagine that they're better. They're only better in your imagination. You forget what you want to forget and remember what you want to remember. It was never that good. It was never that bad. It was like now, good and bad, depending on how you want to imagine it.

This time and place has infinite depth, because your imagination has infinite depth. What exists is like raw material for your imagination. You fill in the blanks. You paint the picture of your experience whatever colors you like. You choose good or bad according to your needs. Sometimes you need a bad experience to make you feel good. Sometimes you need emptiness to have something to fill. You may need dreams to entertain yourself. You may need pathos to liberate your dreams.

What does it matter in a dream? Good or bad, the dream ends. When the dream ends you are liberated from it. The good or bad judgments end. Nothing will come from it. Nothing will remain. It disappears forever because it never existed. It leaves no reverberations.

Morning comes and a new day begins, again and again. You'll wake up when you want to wake up. You'll never fall asleep again, if that's what you want. You're free to awaken or sleep as you like.

When you dream, you're still real. You continue. Life continues. God continues. The world turns, regardless of your attention. The collective dream continues. You can join it or leave it, as you like.

It takes courage to wake up while others sleep. To be the only one awake can feel like a terrible responsibility. It's not. The dreamer is cared for, always. You don't have to do anything. Everyone is safe.

You don't need to tiptoe through the dreams of others. They'll fit you into their dream stories as they like. You're not responsible for their choices. You can be a hero and a villain at the same time. You can be a star, or you can slip by unnoticed.

You're not alone. You're surrounded by dreams and dreamers. The dreams interweave. The dreamers dance. The dream will end when it ends. Then you'll see it for what it is, nothing at all.

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Day 86 Rescuing People

We were taught by our parents that we have to do things for other people in order to achieve some kind of self esteem for ourselves. Even if it was to get a beer for dad from the fridge or clean up the dog poop or wash the dishes so mom could sit down and watch TV we were trained from day one to do things for others. If we did good we were rewarded with feelings of love. So we grew up thinking that love was s conditional thing, a barter chip. If you do this I will love you and approve of you. But if you don’t then you are a pile of dog poop and I will withhold my love from you and tell you that you are worthless. Wow! This is what we do to kids! I heard recently that kids hear 300 negative comments about themselves and only 60 positive comments about themselves each day. So we grow up completely out of self esteem and the only way we know to get it is by helping others. But mom and dad are out the picture now. We may have a boyfriend or wife or husband or children now and we do things to help them. Often things they don’t want done! But we also try to help them out of problems or troubles or situations that may cause them suffering.

The fact is that everybody hates change. They don’t’ want to change anything in their lives and then something comes up that no longer benefits them and they know they need to change that thing but they don’t want to change so they start whining and complaining and tell us that they hurt and are suffering and we think it would be good to help them and do something to help them get out of their pain. The truth is they have set into motion the wheels that will cause change to happen in their lives. They have begun the machine that will push them up against the wall and force them to make that change they need to make that will benefit their lives but that they don’t want to make. WE set this machine in motion by our own intention! Its how people get to the point of being able to make a change in their lives. But you see this person suffering and being squeezed and yelling loudly about it and you (or anyone) marches right in there and rescues them from the very machine that was set in motion to benefit their lives! And you keep going in and rescuing them over and over and over, preventing them really from having to make the change that they even know they need to make! Wow!

If you have any friends with teenage kids you can see this machine in action very plainly. The point I am trying to show you here is that we should not rescue people from the very machines they created to force themselves to make a beneficial change in their lives! If people liked change, if people could embrace change, no one would create these machines. But since people hate change, this is what they do. Please don’t try to rescue them from their own machines. Its far kinder to let them go through this experience they chose for themselves and make the change and get on with life. I am sure you can look at your own history and see how many times you created such a machine to force  you to do something you didn’t want to do.

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