10 Pointers that you might be a Shaman

I feel grateful to the shamans who saw themselves in me and helped me understand why I have always felt like I don’t belong in mainstream medicine. The intention of this article is to Respectfully Honor the Shamanic tradition.

As modern culture doesn’t have a role for the Shamanic archetype, many people who grow up outside indigenous villages are shamans and don’t know it. Many are drawn to mainstream healing professions, such as medicine, psychology, or life coaching. But some wind up in professions where they may feel like they don’t fit. Even those who enter the healing professions may come to feel out of place, because the systems of Western medicine and psychology leave little room for a shaman to practice his or her natural healing art. But many will wind up in various forms of sacred activism, healing the planet, for example, rather than only healing people.  The shamanic calling is more expansive than healing individuals.

Are you a shaman and you don’t know it? Reflect on these 10 points that may rock your world

(origially shared by Milton Foster)

1. You sense that you’re meant to participate in the global shift in consciousness that is currently underway.

We can all feel it, this impending shift that New Agers have talked about for decades. But those with the shamanic archetype don’t just feel it, they feel it pulling them, like a magnet, towards leadership positions that help facilitate this transformation of human consciousness and evolution of the species.

2. You’ve been through a difficult initiation, which has prepared you for this leadership role.

In indigenous cultures, the village knew who the shaman was because he or she was struck by lightning and survived. In modern culture, you may not literally be struck by lightning, but you may have survived some other life or heart-threatening ordeal. You may have experienced childhood abuse, sexual violence, a near-death experience, or some other trauma that put you through the crucible and forged you into the healing earth shaman you are.

3. You are an introvert.

Shamans are multi-dimensional beings who dance between the realms of the seen and unseen worlds, so if you’re of the shamanic archetype, you may have a hard time navigating the 3D realms of this dimension, which may cause you to withdraw into yourself so you can visit the realms of consciousness where you feel most at home.

4. You feel most at home in nature.

The shamans of a culture are the bridges between nature and humans, serving as translators between the mountains, oceans, rivers, animals, and people. You may sense that nature is talking to you or that you get your most tuned in downloads when you are surrounded by the natural world.

5. You’re very sensitive.

You may feels things others don’t feel, see things others don’t see, hear things others don’t hear, smell things others don’t smell, and sense things others don’t sense. This may make it hard for you to be out in public, where you may feel accosted by over-stimulation of your senses. If you embody the shamanic archetype, it’s likely that you’re the kind of person others may feel is “too sensitive.” But this sensitivity is a blessing. It’s part of your gift.

6. You feel a sort of spiritual calling to ease the suffering of people, animals, and nature.

Many health care providers are called to medicine the way priests are called to the priesthood. But you don’t have to be a health care provider to have the shamanic archetype. It may transmute itself into healing service to animals, sacred activist causes, or conservation of Mother Earth.

7. Physical ailments that fall under the category of “shaman sickness.”

In the indigenous cultures, shamans who have been called to service but haven’t yet said “yes” to the call often wind up struck with physical ailments. In modern culture, these shamanic sicknesses may fall into difficult to treat categories like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme disease, chronic pain disorders, and autoimmune disorders. Acceptance of the call to shamanic service often resolves the symptoms of shaman sickness. If you’re suffering from one of these illnesses, ask yourself, “Am I a shaman who hasn’t said yes to my calling yet?”

8. You tend to have vivid dreams.

The unseen realm may be communicating with you through your dreams, so try analyzing your dreams. Pay particular attention to any animal totems that may appear in your dreams. Google search the animal and “spirit totem” and see if you can find any messages from the animals in your dreams. Or try a Jungian analysis, like the one described here.

9. You may discover unusual spiritual superpowers, or what the yogis call “siddhis.”

You might be psychic. You might get healing visions like the one in my previous post about the meeting of Western medicine and Shamanism. You might realize that you can heal people with your hands or that you can telepathically communicate with animals, people, or even inanimate objects.

10. You’ve always felt like you don’t quite belong anywhere, because you are a worldbridger.

Shamans tend to live on the outskirts of the village for a reason. They are not like the others – and this is a blessing! If you feel you do not fit into a particular environment, this is a nudge to embrace a calling.

Beauty

Notice the beauty we see in the external inspires us to recognize inner light. Radiant inner beauty arises from soul growth or expansion of consciousness through experiences and timelines. We share love, hugs , insight through the ethers and generations. As one is more and more meditative, peaceful, a deep unity with existence happens. One aligns with the rhythm or heartbeat of natue and the universe. Our heartbeat, aligned with the universal, awakens authentic humanity. At a pivotal moment, the divine reveals itself.

Tune into Harmonic Resonance

Notice deep in DNA, it is known that to go against the harmonic resonance of the universe is a path to self- destruction. Unconscious and conscious paths exist to self- destruct. Through the ages, we may think we have met strangers on different paths. Yet, if we do not don’t know ourself, we get deja-vus or feel we have met others, even enlightened masters before. Enlightenment is true nature. Where one loves deeply enough, all experiences, which are momentary, even the shadows, the reflections, are revived because the energetic taste is the same. Only the filters change or dissolve to reveal what is and never changes.

Redefining true responsibility

Many views exist on responsibility. Some feel taking it is key, others prefer to avoid related discomfort, pain. A part of you would argue taking responsibility is like taking control of life. Yet what is really under our control?

Society distorts things. We are taught being responsible is doing what we are told by our elders (parents, teachers, mentors), and being irresponsible is acting from our perception of individual needs. The mistaken fear often adopted is if we act spontaneously, this will be like avoiding social, family and cultural responsibilities on our shoulders. In fact, this is a huge misunderstanding or way our minds are manipulated away from truth.

In truth, response is possible only if you are spontaneous, act in the moment, now. Response means that your attention, awareness, consciousness, is fully present. Come what may,  respond with your whole being. It is not a question of being in tune with anyone else, some holy scripture, or some imagined personality. It simply means to be in tune with the present moment.

This ability to respond in the here and now, based on feelings at present is responsibility, another term that silently refers to meditation.  This is a forgotten secret. Remembering and putting this into practice changes how you relate to yourself and the world.

See through lens of sacred geometry

otice much misinformation and confusion arises in use of language and adopted meanings. Sacred geometry has been my core reality since childhood. I tune into everything as geometry first, decode energies into a human realm of perception.

In practice, the terms dimensions and realms are not the same. Sacred geometry serves as a tool to reveal dimensions are different points of view of the same reality. Math is the universal language. One view is nine dimensions frame our existence (1-9). To exist, a single dimension (point) must express itself into another. This creates polarity, or the second dimension. As these two points move, they create a third dimension, or an axis. These three points of view are energy in motion around each other which creates the fourth (time). This fourth dimension begins to generate energy and light, known as the fifth. Then, this 5 D shape can change it position which creates the sixth dimension. This said, the sixth dimension can move through and manifest itself as the seventh dimensional reality. The infinite motion of these changes is captured in the toroid or eighth dimension. Everything comes full circle to divine wholeness. This takes shape as the nineth where all universal laws and the conditions in each universe are clear. The cube precipitates the formation of the platonic solids that generate everything that exists in our dimensional reality. The merkabah is the light body vehicle and it is key to understanding how to move from between dimensions.

So, to tune into things from point of view of geometry helps us to realize that we are not actually moving from 3D to 5D. Rather, we embody all dimensions simultaneously already. It may be said awakening is about growing aware of our conditioned emotional processing of information, realizing we have options. As we tune into the vibrational nature of things, we can recognize disharmony, shift focus and connections to amplify a different or more all-encompassing view. We exist to recall what it is to be our true self, and experience a spectrum of energy.

As Mrs. Whatsit explains in the film trailer of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: "The fifth dimension’s a tesseract. You add that to the other four dimensions and you can travel through space without having to go the long way around. In other words, to put into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” A tesseract is an interstellar shortcut, more or less." Seeing as energy and geometry alters time.