Day 41 What Causes Addictions?

I will give you what I find the answer this through working with people with addictions. We choose addictions because we are being controlled by outside forces and feel that we are no longer fully within our power. We want to be in control of ourselves. When we fully feel we are within our own power, we can live without addictions. But when we feel controlled by someone else, be that a spouse, a boss, a life situation, a norm given to us by society, well, from any place, we choose to smoke or drink or some other behavior that we do control, or at least feel we control. It is a bad way for us to regain some control over our own lives. No one is going to tell you that you can't have some coffee. You have freedom in coffee, you use it whenever you decide to use it, you have freedom of control over your coffee use, it is something you decide to do for yourself.

This might be a hard concept to grasp because it is quite hidden and we don’t like to look at control issues at all. And it seems like an addiction is not something you are controlling, and certainly not a good way to regain control over your own life. But that is what an addiction is. Sometimes as with alcohol, it is to escape from that outside control, to take control of yourself by drinking and hiding out from the control of others. It does not matter if one is really under the control of some outside force or not. It only matters if one feels as though he or she is under the control of some outside force.

Some people willingly give control away. They are not troubled by it. But some people feel robbed of themselves when under the control of outside forces. Their attempt to regain some kind of control over their own lives is to begin a habit that they fully control, often an addictive habit.

So are these people just an addictive personality type? I don't think so. These people are just more sensitive to their own sense of freedom and choose not to be controlled by outside forces. Yet they are controlled. How to break the habit? Find out what is controlling you and get away from it.

Aho

Shaman Elder Maggie www.shamanelder.com

Day 40 Is There A Difference Between an Exorcism and A Soul Retrieval

Shall I tell you how many people who have tried and failed at exorcism come to me for help? Oh my goodness, if it is ever a choice between exorcism or soul retrieval, go for soul retrieval if you can find a reputable shaman willing to do it. And there will be a lot of diagnosis before a soul retrieval is done. The good shaman wants to be sure that this soul retrieval will be the answer. I ask my clients a whole ton of questions about them, about their symptoms physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I look for other causes of their symptoms besides soul loss. I consult Creator and my guides and the client's guides. I don't think the priest who does an exorcism is even able to consult with Creator on a one to one basis before he treats his client. I think if he did consult Creator, Creator would teach him to phone up a true shaman! LOL!

So there is no spiritual difference between a soul retrieval and an exorcism. The big difference is the priest makes the being come into this reality through the poor client's body and the shaman risks his or her own life to go to where the being lives and encounter it and heal it there.

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Day 39 How Can I Manifest More Quickly?

Can I tell you the difference between slowly and quickly?

There are actually two things that determine the rate of manifestation. One is whether you have any unconscious blocks holding back what you want to manifest. They are usually non benefitting beliefs that you have ahd for a long time and aren't even aware that they are there anymore. so if you can find them and replace them with benefitting beliefs, things will be able to manifest more quickly.

Second is impeccability. The more impeccable you are with yourself, the faster things manifest. Impeccability means doing your very best each day, each hour, each minute. It does not mean being perfect. No human being is perfect. But getting straight with your life, doing what you need to do as best you can all the time, not being lazy, not procrastinating, being honest with yourself and others.

So keep walking and working with beliefs. Some of my students are now finding that they are manifesting their wishes almost instantly and to their dismay if their wish is for something bad, it manifests just as quickly as a wish for something good. Energy is energy and cares not what you decide to manifest. So the old slogan, be careful what you wish for, you just may get it, is so very true.

Watch your thoughts. Think deliberately. What you think is what will manifest quicker and quicker as you go along in the course I teach at www.shamanelder.com

Aho!

Shaman Elder Maggie

Day 38: What is Shamanic Trance?

Now we are into semantics. Everyone has 50 words for the spiritual world. There is always a miscommunication when it comes to words because what is truly real on the spiritual plane is not easily expressed in English. Did you know that there are 5 spiritual languages as well? Perhaps you have heard someone speaking in tongues one of these spiritual languages. I am sure that they more accurately describe things like possession and channeling than we can in English.

In Shamanic terms: Trance might be the state a shaman enters when he is doing an Inner World journey or connecting to a totem animal. Shamans in South America have an apprentice or helper who sits by his body when he is in trance so that no one mistakes him for being dead and buries him. Good idea! Shamans have been known to stay in this state for weeks.

I know of a Shaman who journeyed to do a healing for a client and while in the Inner Worlds he was distracted, lost his intent and got lost as can happen, inner world beings try to pull you off your intent so they can get you lost and steal your light, chi, energy, grace. He could not find his way back and his body died.

True Shamanic Journeying is not just astral projection or visualization at all. There are only about 50 shamans left in the world today who can truly do a shamanic journey and we are all old and dying out and have spent our whole lives learning how to do this.  That makes sense, too, that it would take a lifetime of practice and study to learn how to do a true traditional shamanic journey.

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Day 37 The Raven from My Shaman Grandmother’s Perspective.

The Raven from My Shaman Grandmother’s Perspective.

In my Shaman Grandmother’s tradition the Raven was not a welcome being. The raven was a carrier of death and bad news, a feeder on carrion and feces and so weak that even a mouse coud defeat it. My ancestors felt it was brought here by Creator to be a disrupter, a bringer of chaos, to keep us on our toes and to teach us awareness and make us take our guard. In Siberia there is a place where it is said that the Great Raven, his wife Miti and his family lived and you can see black rocks on the cliffs called the house and pots and pans.

If you think about the raven in the forests of Siberia, my people would take the reindeer into the forests in the winter time to stay out of the cold winds and to hide the reindeer from predators like wolves and hunters. But those pesky ravens might come and alert the wolves to the presence of the reindeer and the  people in the forest. It is not a far leap to then understand why the ancient peoples felt the raven was not a friendly thing. In my grandmothers traditions everything is sentient, living, thinking, feeling and not necessarily only what it looks like on the outside. So every time a raven appeared by the herd of reindeer, so too did the wolf show up and the hunters showed up and all hell broke loose. There was a saying that if a raven flew into your yurt, you might as well just slaughter your whole herd! 

My point is that when we look at ancient legends or superstitions or beliefs we have to try to place our feet into their circumstances, into their way of life and see why they might have believed that to be true. I think if you had grown up as a reindeer herder and spent the winter huddled in a Siberian forest with reindeer as your only means of warmth or food or clothing you might not like the raven so much either! 

The Shaman would sometimes go far away from the tribe and leave prayers and offerings of grain after building a wooden kind of scarecrow man hoping to relegate the raven to that area away from the tribe. So actions were taken by the Shaman to keep the raven from visiting the tribe. I wonder if that is where we got the idea of a scarecrow for keeping the birds away from our fields!

Aho

Shaman Elder Maggie

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Day 36 A student asked me the other day “So why am i tired so much, then? “

You are tired so much for 3 reasons.

1.    1.  Your life is too full of things to do each day. You try to pack more stuff into your to do list than you are capable of doing. Know your limitations and throw out some of the stuff on your to do list. Simplify your life and make sure to create some room for spiritual work and spiritual growth each day. This lifetime is a really short hiccup in the length of your eternal life. Don’t forget that you are an eternal spiritual being having a physical life experience. This life experience is just a vacation for that non manifest self that you will always be so lets make this little vacation a benefit to your eternal self.

2.     You give your energy, your life force, your chi away too easily. You think you are benefitting others by giving them the very life force that Creator gave you to be able to live out a long healthy life here. You are killing yourself by giving away the chi that you need to live on. Everybody was given enough chi to live on. You do not need to give people your chi.

3.     You do not receive fully from Creator. You only let in a little of Creator’s love and Light and blessings and nourishment and then you cut your Source off.

Now you know why you are tired. What are you going to do about it. Answer me that at shaman@shamanelder.com

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Aho

Shaman Elder Maggie

Day 35 What about Ouija Boards

 What about Ouija Boards

An Excerpt from “The Shaman Speaks” by Shaman Elder Maggie

All that we see here is only 5% of the total energies around us; the slowest vibrating energies are the ones we can see with our eyes. These beings live in the other 95% we aren't normally aware of. And that 95% is the part that you are contacting with a Ouija Board.

I think it is important to be aware of this scientific fact, to use your own abilities to become aware of all the energies around you and to know that there are high vibration energetic beings who wish to help you and lower vibration energetic beings who care nothing about you, and even lower vibration energetic beings who wish to deplete your energy. This 95% is very much unknown to us in general and needs to be recognized, studied and respected just as we recognize, study and respect those things we see in our physical world. How very limiting of us to assume that what we see is all there is!

We have so much science now to back this up. We know how the moon affects even our emotions! We can't "see" that energy but we all agree it is there. What else is out there affecting us? From a Shaman's point of view, there is so much more here than just what I see with my eyes. Be aware of it, learn about it safely and carefully. I teach about it so people don't go running in headlong like a lemming leaping off a cliff. It is a fascinating study, not taught in too many places yet, but needs to be approached with awareness of the inherent dangers as there are inherent dangers in this physical world all around us. A Ouija Board is an open invitation to the astral world. I don’t recommend their use whatsoever. There are better, safer ways to travel the astral world.

Shaman Elder Maggie

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