– Shamanism

This is the continuation of the article published last weekend.

In the initiatory shamanism of temple-building Nations, and also in the hard-core shamanism of nomadic nations, there is always what is known as the lineage of power, or the lineage of wisdom transmission. Those whom tradition, observation or events have designated as heirs to the community’s ancestral shamanism receive from their elders, after a period of training, the power to serve their community with those skills unique to shamanism. It’s the same in Buddhism and among the yogis of India and Tibet, the Taoists of China, the Shintoists of Japan, etc. The knowledge, power and wisdom handed down uninterruptedly for millennia by successive generations of great masters, pour into the aspirant and apprentice like an old vase of pure water pouring into a new one.

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As plants are growing at their peak in these days leading up to the summer solstice, and my domain is bursting with vitality and lush greenery, I’m noticing plants growing without my having sown them.

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Native teachings and traditions all over the world are rooted in the community. The community is an extension of the fundamental cell of human life, the family. The family entity gives life, and supports the birth, growth, education and continuity of community life. From community emerges the complementarity of human and physical resources (education, healing, food, clothing and shelter) necessary for human life in the midst of nature.

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I’ve been following the shamanic path since childhood. But the real progress and understanding of this path came when I found Native American elders and traditional teachers in my twenties. Despite destruction and persecution, misery and disease, repression and racism, the keepers of tradition knew how to transmit the essence of the path of spirituality united with the world, stemming from the nature that surrounds us. This spirituality, common to all indigenous peoples on every continent, is called shamanism.

No other nation on this planet has experienced as many attempts to wipe them off the world map and remove them from their lands and traditions as the native peoples of North America. Although they have survived this all-out genocide, it has nevertheless left gaps in their teaching, with parts of their tradition forgotten and lost. I had to keep searching to fill these gaps, and I found the answers. These answers I found in the ancient traditions of other peoples who have managed to preserve ancient texts and teachings that are thousands of years old. The ones that have helped me most are those of the yogis of India, Chinese Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism and Japanese martial arts.

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We have 7 animal totems: one in front of us, one behind us, on each side, above, below and within. Once you’ve determined that an animal is a totem, you look in your inner vision or feeling to see where it goes.

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Here’s a continuation of last week’s article on Totem Animals:

All animals are bearers of specific teachings. The eagle, for example, is the messenger for Great Spirit, a vector of connection with the Divine. It represents the possibility of balancing our lives between the spiritual and material worlds.

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Every person has allies, in each of the kingdoms present on the planet: mineral, plant, animal and human. We’re talking here about the spirit of a living being, in the sense given to it by Plato when he spoke of the archetypes, i.e. the luminous thought-form that constitutes the essence of a being. In the indigenous world view, there are several dimensions and worlds, but in particular Ungawi, the world of ideal form.

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