Ok so I was at the park with my sister and our 2 dogs. We were just connecting with nature and looking around. I had meditated for a 3 min timespan before that and I just felt very in tune with nature and so grateful to be there. It was about 2 hours into us being there that we saw a little crowd of 8 or 9 crows. Then we see a blue jay and it flys from the tree to the ground about 6 feet away right in front of us, and then directly back into the tree. The blue jay then grabbed a lizard and ate, my little dog barked at apparently nothing and a few moments later the bluejay flew away with the lizard in its mouth. As it was flying away another bird flew towards it as if it was chasing the bluejay and I saw what I can best describe as a black cloud of dust. It is a perfectly blue, sunny day and the wind was blowing directly at us rather than from the side. Immediatly I freaked and asked my sister if she saw it and she had no idea what I was talking about. Can anyone tell me what this means? Especially if you have an indigenous background and your into that kind of thing because I read this book called Spirits of the Earth and its all about different native american tribes' ideologies and I personally really believe in that stuff because I know that earth is literally a living creature and we're all connected because of that reason. Anyways though, the book talked a lot about what different animals mean and the signs they deliver so yea. The cloud was an immediate indication that we had to leave so we did, but that was just crazy. So yea I just wanna know what you guys think. :))

If you want to repent and atone for wrongs that you have done, what are some ways to do this outside of just going to a Catholic priest? Do other schools of thought have an equivalent?

Woke up this AM with multiple phantom limbs that felt like arms. I was partially in a dimension where I was using the arms to scuttle around on glowing strings of energy. I’ve had flashes of additional body parts for months now. I am still fully in 3d but I can still feel the phantoms and this other place. Weirdest thing about it is that it does not feel weird….anyone have any ideas as to what is happening?

4 years ago I went to a psychic who briefly off topic mentioned to never take a blue colored drug, as it would be very dangerous. Fast forward 2023 my friend offers me bright blue delta 9 edible and I take it. I completely forgot about the psychics Warning since it was so long ago. When I took the edible I saw images of demons around me. And now I suffer from an over active mind and severe ocd which I never had before. My depression is severe and I’ve lost my entire personality, friends, beauty. I lost everything. It almost feels intentional that this happened to me I believe the psychic led me astray and somehow caused this. Can any one here help me navigate this?

My wife loves using rapè powder for meditation, for her it has become a daily thing. We both know there are plenty of negative side effects of tobacco on pregnancy, it’s pretty common knowledge not to smoke cigarettes while pregnant. However, are there any negative side effects to using rapè while pregnant? I can’t find any good results from google and was wondering if anyone had any input of experience.

edit: I appreciate all the input. Everything is pretty much exactly what we were thinking about it. And for clarity, she is not currently prego, we’re still working on that part! Thank you all, definitely gonna avoid it when the time comes

I recently purchased a home from the 1890s. I enjoy doing historical research in my downtime, and I have discovered 5 separate people that have passed away in my house. They all had natural deaths. I wanted to find photos of them to hang in the home with candles, to honor their part in the home's history. However, they have no living descendants and I was only able to find one photo of one person.

What are some ways that I can remember and honor them for their role in the history of my new home?

For the full moon in Scorpio (which is also my sign) I wrote down things I wanted to manifest. I also did some ancestor work and venerated the archangel Haniel. Last night I had a dream that my room was covereddddd in moths and there were two clusters of moths that were mating as well and I realized at some moment I must had left my window open.

Does anyone know what the spiritual representation of moths is?

Hi, I'm new to Shamanism. I've started going to a local drumming circle recently and I'm finding that helpful.

In reading a bit about Shamanism, I have noticed that a few indigenous cultures take drugs during Shamanic journeys. Im not someone who would be interested in taking drugs.

Are there any cultures who do not take drugs as part of their traditional practice?

Just wanted to share this painting I did on a shamanic drum based on an experience I had with ayahuasca.

I’ve been a practitioner in core shamanism for a while. Life’s gotten really bad for me in the past 5 years since starting this path. Marriage broke down, job insecurity and now a discrimination grievance at a job I’ve had for 18 months which breaks my soul but I have know one else to depend on and financial security has been really difficult due to immigration issues ongoing for 13 years. I had a neurodivergent diagnosis 18 months ago too (midlife) and trying to deal with the grief and shame and pain about a lifetime of misunderstanding and alienation is a whole other thing. No best mate / friend - I spent Christmas alone, despite 25 friends being at my 40th six months earlier. It’s literally just my 70 mum who would seriously miss me. I can’t seem to stay on the train tracks and keep the engine running. I seek support from therapists, spiritual mentors, teachers, keep trying to be guided by my allies, eat well, sleep, exercise… I’m crying daily… thinking about the pointlessness of my existence. A failure to launch with my varied skills despite knowing I have a lot of energy, love and experience (and excellence) to offer. I been unhappy before but only one in my life (21 years) really felt like leaving this life behind - until the last 14 months. ADHD meds helped for a while - then I tried 10 months off them… Back on them and the sadness about life doesn’t seem to change. Intuitively I know medications aren’t the answer…

You may look at a sculpture and see nothing but a stone or you may see a man. What you see is your description.

Little context: I'm a psychonaut and in several trips, specially, with ayahuasca, I get the idea I'm a shaman what you all know the song. One of five people that drank ayahuasca believe they're shamans. I'm not belittling their believes neither mine. I may or may not become from a linage of shamans as my visions show me but in any case. I get the recurring message that I have to dream. So I'm doing my homework: dreaming, journal, reality checks.

Second part of the context: I suffer child abuse from my brothers and I believe but I couldn't confirm from my father too. I don't recall nothing but I have certain physical feelings and like glimpses that I could had invented (given abuse is something that sometimes are invented without knowledge) so I don't discard its just an invention of my mind.

Back to the dreams: Sometimes some in some dreams, certain characters seems to be "autonomous", like they don't belong to my psychic. But in two opportunities, I have a very scary dreams. In one, I went lucid (this rarely happen completely, I'm just partially lucid), fly, visit a girl I love, become a jaguar, went to the jungle and eventually I decided to wake up. When I wake up, I was in my childhood room and in my bed was someone looking at me. I was so scary I started to call my mom (I forty years old and I rarely I'm scare).

Second dream, days ago. I become partially lucid and started to run to my home to get data of a house I visit in another dream (the connection between dreams was the partial lucidity). But during the way, I see a building and a voice ask me: do you remember something about about your dad's job? So I decided to enter and it was something like an empty train depot and in one wall I see a tv screen off, I saw my reflection and that triggered a common exercise during my reality checks: "show me the truth". My face become skeletical and next to me it was someone clenching to shoulder. I started to struggle with my right arm to remove it but it was to tight so I recurred to exorcism invoke Jesuschrist (sounds funny but is something I got from one of this ayahuasca trips and I used in another dream). That seems to remove it but not sure. I woke up and my shoulder was numb and I have pain in my ribs where this whatever was sinking their "claws".

Additional notes: my father didn't work in a train deposit, but works with old computers that were more analogical than digital. And I couldn't see the face neither I recognize the face in the first dream.

My hypothesis so far: 1) jungian shadow, 2) actual entity, 3) no idea.

Was gonna go to the gym to have a long overdue stability and strength training and shower and brush teeth. Then the hallucination came in, or some call it active imagination, or internal family system, or shadow work, or psychic episodes of psychosis. Or I call it going full schizo.

So enlightening and scary, so much came to me as I saw the parts/ altars come in as different characters...

Suddenly it all makes sense. But who am I? Who's the current character I identify with?

There's no way I'm taking any psychedelic anytime soon, my life on a daily basis even drinking fluoride tap water feels like friggin mega dose acid trip.

All the judgment, envy, jealousy, insecurity, resentment, anger, greed, all of them make sense when I allowed myself to go full schizo

Then I saw myself as butterfly, I let it go.

I am curious if anyone has any experiences or perspectives to offer in regards to working with Rabbit Spirit.

Are there tables of associations or qualities that are ascribed to Rabbit?

I would expect Swiftness, Alertness, etc?

What are some myths, stories and legends that relate to Rabbit?

I have been told so far that Rabbit is good luck. Others have said Rabbit is a trickster. I was advised against working with "Prey animals" by another.

Given their natural proclivities, I would assume Rabbit would be a fertility symbol of sorts as well.

What can y'all teach me about working with this energy?

Hello everyone, I have always been spiritually inclined but I am at a time of my life where I am really trying to access higher powers and new information to help me move through a tough, and transitional time in my life - so please excuse my lack of knowledge on shamanism but if you could help point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.

I remembered reading Marina Ambramovic’s book and her stories working with shamans to help heal her which lead me here.

Right now - My central nervous system is incredibly sensitised and trying to recalibrate after coming off my antidepressant really unsafely. Withdrawals are horrible and can be extremely disabling, lasting months to years. I am trying to reinstate my medication slowly to mitigate more damage, and then one day I can come for them safely and extremely slowly. But right now, I am scare for my health, my recovery, my future.

I have contacted a healer in the UK, it's not expensive, a small donation weekly while they work on your body energetically - but I am definitely interested in any other forms of spiritual treatment and practice I could undergo to help heal me along my journey.

Has anyone had any good experiences with energy work or healers to help a wounded nervous system?

Or does anyone have any ideas of other rituals I could access that could also help?

I feel like even if it didn't work for myself, I think the spiritual practice should be healing enough in itself to guide me through this hard time.

Thanks for listening and your time, sending love to everyone today x

(Also if this is the wrong forum to post this in please help direct me to others that are more suitable)

Howdy, folks. I'm getting more and more interested in studying Shamanism anthropologically and spiritually. I was just wondering if anyone knew what languages have most documented and studied Shamanism so I can read. I love languages and learning them becomes a lot easier when you have a particular niche usage for one. I speak Russian and know there's a fair bit written in Russian, due to Siberia and all. Just wondering if maybe there's another language like German that has a lot of niche info on the topic. I know the Germans were into the esoteric quite a bit from at least the Renaissance - Faust and all. I'm also thinking Turkish may be a good shout, with how many in Turkey are interested in their Shaman/Tengri roots.

hello! I really need help deciphering possible meanings behind and dream I had recently. I feel like this dream is very significant spiritually and I am seeking help from a shaman. Here is what I recall: In the dream, I was in my childhood backyard and I caught an owl. After holding the owl for a while I released it and it landed in the nearby trees. Another owl appeared and they began to fight with each other, shedding feathers all over my yard. I went to collect the feathers because I wanted them for some reason. In the dream I also saw a strange looking coyote and it was eating some sort of animal. Then I saw someone I know (male)who had passed away recently relaxing in a chair in my yard and he was glowing and shimmering. I also saw another person (female) who was shimmering and glowing. However I didn’t know who she was so I asked her. She said she knows someone I know. This is all I recall from the dream. For some reason it feels important but also the kind about it gives me an eerie feeling.

Hi! I’m new here. Back in 2017 we were having an impromptu girls weekend that included a heavily pregnant friend, so upon researching fun things that did not involve leaving the house or walking(urban area), we hired a tarot reader off of thumbtack. Also pregnant, I was reticent to hear anything at all in case it wasn’t amazing (preggos get it) and we just asked for a 12 mos forecast. And I’d visited the strip mall psychics plenty of times and just thought of it as entertainment. She turned out to be incredibly impactful and told me I had strong Native American heritage, and was a shaman and a medicine woman. I was intrigued but knew nothing of Native ancestry (figured it was possible but not something I had ever heard) and as a corporate worker new mom, was not in the head space to dig deeper. Years later through genetic testing I found out a significant Native American ancestry and upon a recent visit to the southwest began having clairvoyant dreams. This has brought me back to that reading. Any advice on how I might find a guide to discover if I have been gifted? How to hone any gifts to serve others?
Literally a suburban mom with no idea where to start.

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This is a prayer I often use before smoking.

"Thank you Earth Mother, Sky Father and Great Spirit for the gift of this Cannabis Flower.

May the Spirits of Earth and Air work blessings upon this herbal medicine,

As it is transformed by the flame and carried inward on the Divine Breath, may it still the waters of my mind and connect me to the spirit within"

I'm a Norse heathen and I do practice shamanism, and have for nearly a decade. The Nordic aspects are new, but I'm very devote to the faith.

But I've just gotten unbelievable persecution from the heathen community because I practice shamanism. I'm a seidrman. And I feel unbelievably lonely right now. I have no friends, I'm stuck in Texas. And now I'm being fucking PERSECUTED! When all I want to do is help and heal people and provide comfort to them.

I don't think people understand just how difficult shamanism is. I read as much chemistry and biology as I do Nordic Eddas. You would think that would be honored.

Dear humans,

Long story short , one year ago, I have used LSD 4 times in a single month and because of that I suffered a depersonalization/derealization which last 4-5 months. In the meantime, I went to therapy which helped me a lot. I have made peace with my traumatic chilhood and now I want to lift my brain fog, depression, anxiety and increase neuroplasticity.

Before the LSD ''fiesta'', I was a mushroom user and I had the most beautiful experiences and truths about myself. It helped me a lot, seeing behind the ego's, boosting my understanding and compassion. It changed me, it humbled me but I didn't act in relation to my soul which drove me again to depression.

Now, I really want to change my live. I want to make peace with my soul and then act accordingly.

I don't want to mess up, so, I'm asking you, what a shaman recommends before the experience?

(One thing for sure, I will clean up my house:))

Thank you from the bottom of my heart

I’ve just been to a shamanic healing session with a very powerful shaman. I had seen other spiritual healers before but nothing compares to the work this woman does. Anyway, during our energy healing (I was lying down and she worked on my energy with her hands) a lot happened. My body twitched a lot, I cried a lot, etc but one of the things that stuck out to me was when she had her hands on my stomach, she started burping a lot. Then it happened again when she had her hands on my feet. I’m assuming the burping happens as some form of release, from me to her and then out, but idk if I’m right about it. And now I’m really curious to know why that happens? No judgments at all, I burp all the time and have major stomach issues. I just feel very curious that she burped when touching my stomach, almost like my trapped emotions were released with her burping?

The other day I overheard someone on the internet talking about how there are two shamanic timelines: a positive and a negative one. He chooses to live in the positive timeline where science and technology are working to improve our lives and will eventually create a world of love and happiness.

While he doesn’t deny the existence of the negative timeline, he chooses to live in the positive one.

Pardon my ignorance on shamanism but it was the first I ever heard of it and now I’m interested in the practice as whole.

Could someone please explain what he was talking about? I hope I was able to explain it right.