The Best Friend You will EVER Have!

 "People usually seek to have friends who are
pleasant and who pander to their tastes and
instincts.

 But those who tell them how to make
progress, how to surpass themselves – oh my
goodness, they are to be avoided!

 And yet, there is no greater friend than a
spiritual Teacher, for she represents the
head, which knows which direction to go in.

Of course, the head does not simply provide
pleasant feelings, but from time to time when
the Student is suffocating or drowning-- when
they no longer know what is happening to
them-- they at last decide to turn to the
spiritual Teacher to get their breath back
and find their way again…

 The sad thing is that it does not last, and
they go back to sloshing around in swamps.


So what is the Teacher to do? She has
provided arguments and methods, and if the
students do not take them up, life will have
to teach them.

And life will show no consideration; it will
bludgeon them!

This thought saddens the Teacher, of course,
but what can she do? She knows only that she
is her students’ best friend in life or in
death, a friend such as they will find
nowhere else. Once they understand her,
nothing and no one will be able to stop their
progress towards Light and Freedom with this
faith in their Teacher.

Someone recently told me that they wanted to take my course but didn't have the funds. I offer payments for the Shaman Apprenticeship 101 Course at whatever you can afford. So there is nothing that prevents me from being dedicated to your spiritual growth. The question is, are you dedicated to your spiritual grwoth?

Email me here.

Faith is a centered act of the total
personality, of being grasped by the power of ultimate concern with ultimate reality.

See my youtube video
 How to Become A Shaman.
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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?

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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