Basic
Healing includes botanical and pharmaceutical /
pharmacological knowledge and application, as well as
manual therapies. Just because visceral
manipulation or pharmacology is science based, it is as
worthy of inclusion in a shaman's repertoire as the
ability to journey.
Journeys
may be undertaken on behalf of a client, typically with
a power animal or guide of that person acting on their
behalf with the journeyer. The reasons for these
journeys are varied massively but none require more than
observational or casual interaction with the energies of
others. More experienced shaman may also act as a
guide for the early journeys of others or joint journeys
of whole groups.
Clearing and Cleansing is the application of
recognition and intent within a scalar purpose.
Time to simplify?.. Say a teenager has been continually
miserable and resentful in the same physical place for a
while, a stagnation of intent and energy will build in
that area, soon able to produce a mood that continues
the production of that energy, building towards higher
energetic existence. A clearing is conducted to
return that energy into mobility and movement, something
its basic potential is driven towards. The intent
is not one of hostility, but freeing. Drumming,
rattles, symbols, incense and smudging are all common
methods used in focussing intent to mobilise stagnant
energy.
Counselling
in shamanic terms is bringing back and helping interpret
information from journeys made for a client. In no
way does this infer psychological training nor does it
negate the need for such skills; rather the counsel of
the shaman is one of metaphor and self discovery through
unbiased journeying and the skills of observation and
reporting of those experiences.
