I am here to help those who feel the calling. In the old days we had communities, tribes, and we grew up with a Traditional Shaman right in our village. It was like having an uncle, an aunt that was respected and called upon whenever you needed help of any kind. You learned the ways from this wonderful person that you loved and venerated like an elderly relative! How lucky we were to have this gift!

But today we don't have this anymore. There is no one who can teach us the ways. When we get sick now, we feel isolated and alone, afraid to go to the doctor who doesn't even know us at all. It is really quite sad. And for God we turn to churches who's ways have been denigrated and warped from their original purpose by man's greed and penchant for fame. We can't find healing. We can't find God. And then we grow up with frightened parents who might have told us that Shamans are bad and any kind of spirituality is not good for us.

Remember when you were little and all the great dreams you had and the imaginary friends you had and the visitors who came to you that no one else could see? And remember how they were all gone around the time you started school and had to fit in society's mold? Yes being a Shaman is walking with one foot in this world and one foot in the Inner Worlds. Yes it is precarious and may look at times like some kind of mental illness. That is what your parents saw and what they tried to protect you from. Everyone knows that if you go off your rocker in today's world, your fate is not going to be pretty. Of course your parents would discourage you from doing anything to look the least bit out of line with the norm. They love you!

 Over 95% of you who are incarnated on this planet at this time have chosen to be a healer. Your choice to be a healer, was made lifetimes ago. You were initiated by elders in your past. You made an oath to be a healer, possibly a Shaman and to help heal yourself and others. And that oath, that promise was made between worlds, not just for that lifetime. It continues through eternity. You wanted it that way.

And so we come from one lifetime into the next, very much like a bodhisattva. Are you familiar with a bodhisattva? This is a soul who dedicates his or her life to helping others, to put it too simply. And so you come into each lifetime to help heal but you come without the brain knowledge you had in the previous life. No one, not even Jesus, came into this world with full recall of the past. As an aside, this is the way they try to find the reincarnation of the Buddha. You may know this. They present the little boys with tools and artifacts of the previous Buddha to see if they can recall any of these tools as their own. But even these reincarnations of Buddha himself do not come into this lifetime with full recall of their abilities and skills.

Unfortunate!

So we have to re-member in each lifetime what gifts we bring with us from lifetime to lifetime to help heal ourselves and others. Often our lives are a series of very rocky experiences. We tend to take the fast train to remembering, the one with shaky times, and abrupt lessons, hard experiences that shake our lives. I bet you have this kind of life. I know I have and most of my students would agree. We are trying to catch up, to remember quickly, to have enough experiences to unlock the doors so we can practice what we know in our hearts in this lifetime before we die. In Carlos Castanedas' books, Don Juan talks about the four enemies of a Shaman. He says that by the time a person remembers his old ways to heal, he is too old to practice them. In this society, many do not even remember their old ways to heal at all.

And worse yet, we have no one here to help us remember. How wonderful it is to find a practicing traditionally trained indigenous Shaman here who can say, "Yes, you have this gift and this gift and this is how to use them!" Or, "Here is your place that you built to work from, your cave, your laboratory and here are all the tools you left in this place for yourself. Get busy and explore them, remember them and get to work!"

And I know there are many people, hundreds of thousands, in this world who have made their choice and said their oath between lifetimes to practice loving kindness and give healing to the world. The Shamans, the Bodhisattvas, the Healers. And I know they have no where to turn to get their memories back, to be given the tools, and reminded of the skills and shown the places they have already created to be healers.

I really feel their wandering, their uncertainty, their frustration at the dim knowledge they know they have but can't seem to access. And it is this lack of help, this lack of a place to regroup and remember that is causing Shamanism to die. With so few true Shamans left in the world, who is here to help you remember your own calling? To find it on your own without help is almost impossible, extremely grueling, rough and can be warped and choked out by the natural human tendency to seek money or fame.

I am called to be a light for those seeking to remember their own promise to heal, their own gifts, skills and abilities. I am not here to teach you new things, but to help you remember old things you already know. I can help you connect with your own teachers, your elders who are always with you, who love you and want to help you remember. I am a torch that lights your way, a friend who takes your hand and walks with you down this path that society says is dangerous and scary. This path leads you home. Most are afraid of it because they were taught to be afraid and they did not make the choice to be a healer as you have. But for you it leads to home, that place that gives you fulfillment, peace, joy and the ability to do a job well done as you chose to do. You will recognize it from the start of our journey together. And when this course is over you will ask for more. The course does not slake your thirst but it gives you the will to reach out and truly accept you are, a powerful healer. You do not have to become a Shaman to take this course. You only have to want to remember your skills to heal.

Welcome to this opportunity to walk and talk with a practicing Shaman for the 16 weeks of this course. We will become fast friends and good associates. My life is committed to teaching. It is my full time job.

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