This was bestowed on me once during a meditation session at a drum circle. Does this make any sense at all to anyone?

I have this woman in my life who is kind to me and has a gentle nature. Everything about her is sweet and peaceful.

However, when I have visions of her she’s this secret beast-spider who’s sucking the life force me and her husband.

Her husband is a very close friend of mine, and i know I have feelings of resentment towards her. I find she limits our friendship and is really controlling of him. I don’t particularly like her and I feel bad about it.

Is there a way to tell if this vision is based on my negative impression of her Vs. Something inherently true about her?

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As I’ve grown as a shaman over the past year, many of my experiences have involved giants. I was wondering if there are other shamans here that have had messages about giants. My medium for shamanism is mushrooms, and I’m particularly interested in hearing if you have a connection with mushrooms and giants, although I’d like to hear anything in regards to giants.

A negative energy attachment presented with most of the usual symptoms (reduced energy, focus, bloodflow, weight on chest, terrible dreams, but also the following):

• onset was a single repetitive phrase bombarding the person nonstop perceived as a psychic attach (after a period of lowered vibration) and they were barely unable to get out of bed
• in a haze, looked in the mirror and almost to recognize self, unable to see clearly, (began washing eye + other practices to reclaim)
• targeted throat, when eating and drinking, via negative profane phrases
• profane sexual nature, also targeted all conceivable fears
• targeted spiritual practices, beliefs, and items via dream
• seemed to target root chakra

After a month of this the person was able to expel the energy with great effort of their own accord.

This person traveled and encountered the same or similar energy.

• vision issues difficulty recognizing self and what they were doing until person repeled the attack on two additional occasions
• targeting attention while driving and 24/7
• strange creeking in chest, back, head, neck
• compulsion go bend neck and move shoulder blades
• attacked heart, person perceived multiple voices in head at high speed, spirit perceived in mouth

Present day

• it projects the persons awareness outwards towards other people
• still targets attention
• instead of words they are images
• disturbances when waking of sleeping (disturbing imaginations, inability to reclaim attention, sometimes words of voices)
• twitching fingers/unusual breath patterns
• it targeted mantras the person created to counter it
• voice/thoughts perceived in rising breath
• person sometimes woke hearing the internal ‘I’ saying something the person would never say consciously, things like ‘I give, I allow, or others mundane or profane things’
• at one point would perceive these thought streams but be unable to return to one’s body easily upon waking
• sometime perceived as foreign breathe as breathe rises, body rejects, too much breathe causes invasive thoughts and creeking
• persistent
• profane

Theoretical origin is latent subconscious, attachment that found opportunity to enter during low vibration, creeping entity that followed this person, or possible something that was at a new home.

Person felt an attempted intrusion at third eye with morbid thoughts. Next night low vibrational situation that may have presented opening (heard mind say ‘don’t sleep, vampire’). Next day attacked mentally.

Have you encountered anything like this? Particularly the bold?

Has anyone here had experience with Sun Opener (Heimia salicifolia)

So I've been working with the blue lotus flower for a little bit now and I think I have hit on some good stuff I'd love to hear about your experiences with it/ how to you prepare it yourself. I've been making a tea out of it myself.

I am new to shamanism, I hope you will excuse if my question is not perfectly worded.

As I have started exploring this path, I heard some people talking about embracing a playful or childlike approach as being important for connecting with (I am not sure of the right word here) nature or the world around us.

Is that the case?

I would love to hear your thoughts and get a bit of guidance here.

I am dealing with ancestral spirit attachment/possession and am in desperate need of advice. To give some background, I grew up in a very tumultuous home. Everything was semi normal until 2003 when my great grandmother passed away. When this happened, it was like a switch flipped and my home was filled with darkness. My mom became a hermit, never leaving her bedroom, full of anger and impatience. She and my dad started to hate each other. I struggled with depression. My siblings and I grew apart. My mom experienced instances of being pushed off of her bed, hearing voices sometimes when no one was home, major physical health problems. She started making comments to related family about having a plan to kill my father and wanting to turn to Satan since God had never done anything for her. We had all been going to Christian churches before this started.

Fast forward to July 2023 — I traveled back home to do hospice care (I am a nurse) for my grandmother. She passed away in her home peacefully. I came back home and started to have paranormal experiences. My cat began seeing entities in our home, growling, running away from something unseen by us. I began using my pendulum more and doing more tarot readings (I had been regularly doing this since 2020). When my wife and daughter traveled out of state to visit family July 2024, the first night I was alone in our home I was awoken in the middle of the night to knocking on my bedroom door and my white noise machine turned off. When using my pendulum, I started to have an entity speaking to me and taking over my body. I got a divorce as advised by who I thought was my spirit guides via my pendulum. I quit my job as advised by these “spirit guides.” I was physically attacked by these entities. They tried to break bones in my foot multiple times. They have sexually assaulted me multiple times. They have manipulated items in my home. Recently, I have learned from these entities (7 of them) that they are the spirits of deceased family members on my mom’s side of the family. None of them want to cross over and have all found each other through funerals of family members. They travel in a group. They wreaked havoc on my family for my entire childhood and then decided to all attach on to me when I traveled back to my home out of state after caring for my grandmother (she is in this group of entities now). Before telling me who they were, they started bringing up shameful instances from my childhood and telling me they wanted me to commit suicide. These are instances and memories that no other human would have known about. I know that these entities have been around my family since I was a small child. I spoke to my mom about my experience. Since July 2023, her life has completely turned around and the darkness in my childhood home has been lifted. Her head is clear. Her health is better than ever. She and my dad are happier than ever. This is because these familial spirits left their home and followed me to mine. Now these entities are threatening me constantly, threatening to hurt my daughter. They will control my body, making it to where I cannot urinate or have a bowel movement. They make inappropriate facial expressions for me and laugh when I don’t want to laugh. They send me mental images of them slitting my throat, slapping me in the face, killing me in different ways. They wake me up when I am sleeping by moving my body. They tell me that they will never leave and will end up having me kill myself eventually. They tell me there is no way for me to get rid of them. I tried turning to Christianity, pouring over the Bible, prayer, having multiple pastors pray over me, going to multiple church services each week. I gave up on this as the entities continued to say that Jesus Christ has no authority over them. The Catholic Church was no help.

Has anyone experienced anything like this personally or have any advice for me? Should I try to see a shamanic practitioner/psychopomp? I tried seeing one for compassionate depossession, but this did not work at all as these ancestral spirits do not want to leave. I need a more aggressive approach. They say over and over that they just want to torment me (for no reason) and will never give me what I want which is peace of mind and to be left alone. I want to add that I have no history of mental illness other than depression and have no personal intentions of committing suicide. I currently see a psychiatrist and therapist regularly. This is not a mental health related issue but rather a true spirit attachment/possession.

TLDR: Spirits of my ancestors that have passed away have been haunting and tormenting my family since my childhood. I moved out of state and was left alone. I returned home to care for a dying family member and all of these spirits followed me back home when I left. They are threatening me, physically harming me, and threatening my daughter. They continue to tell me there is no way I’ll ever rid myself of them and they will end up having me kill myself. Any advice?

I’ve known for a while now that hawk is a spirit animal/guide of some sort to me. Just now, I found an intact wing. The full wing. Obviously the remnant of something’s meal. I’ve tried googling but can’t find info to such a find and its meaning. I’m hoping someone here may have some inside for me. Thanks so much.

Using this seed has been unexpected, I have so much more to uncover, 2.5-3g per night works best for me on an empty stomach, I've noticed how I treat my day is how the night will treat me, treat people the way you want to be treated, might be a Bible thing but it's true in all cases in the end, using the seed as a way to see deeper into the nature of it, two months on and haven't been disappointed, it's truly a beautiful thing

I am planning on writing a short fantasy piece that includes a predominantly shamanic people. How would I do so respectfully? I know the Reddit has several sources, but I feel I should ask practitioners directly

Hello! A while ago I went to a shaman and he gave me a session to recover soul fragments and reconnect with my spirit animal. I went for medical problems that I couldn't solve and the truth is that I feel much better. The thing is that now that I know that there is a white wolf that protects me, I would like to know how can I connect/communicate with my spirit animal?

I would love to meet one and learn from them

Concisely, me and some family members and other people I don't know we were gathering in a place that looks like my current apartment because of strange thing happening outside "can't remember" a women wearing white entered the apartment having panic attack approaching everyone of us and everyone was running away from her accept me I approaches her and hugged her. Then that women put me on the floor on my stomach and sat on me and her neck extended from Behind me to meet my face; her face was upside down, then she said: three people did witchcraft on my mother and one of them is saudi and his name " hamdan bin hanbl" ( I don't know anyone with that name ) and this man had a problem with my father, he tried to trick my father.

I tried to ask the women if he is the one who tried to trick my father then why he is the one who seek the revenge? But everything disappeared in the apparent and I was alone and dark. I tried to turn on the lights but they didn't work either. There was quran sound recording playing coming from the kitchen that my brother put before they disappear from the apartment. And the recording about the parts of quran that talks about torturing and fear. End.

In a previous Ayahuasca ceremony, mama aya showed me that islam is rolled by the devil.

I appreciate your insights on this. Cheers☀️

I understand that any thing that triggers dopamine response should be avoided including drinking ice water. But for lust I think it has to do with raising ones energy beyond the ROOT chakra as an attempt to facilitate the connection with the spiritual world.

I don't know if the chakra system used in shamanism but I think they are interconnected. I appreciate the insights on this. Cheers☀️

Does anyone have any recommendations for books, videos or other useful resources specifically about death and death work.

Thanks in advance

My experiences with my loong spirit has given me quite some perspective...

From what I've gathered so far, spirits tend to undergo evolutions of astral(?) incarnations... perhaps in a similar sense to how souls have been noted by some to go through evolutions of incarnate form ~ so many lifetimes as this, as human, as that, maybe going to different planets, and so on and so forth.

Spirit, not having to worry about the limits of physical form, don't die, so they can exist in a form for a very long time. From what I gather from my loong spirit, the downside is that personality can be very rigid over long periods of time, resisting easy, sudden change, except through powerful catalysts.

As expressed through a dream that I come into, going into the loong's form at one point as it slept, I learned relevant, interesting aspects of its history that it recalled, probably due to my presence? I learned that the loong spirit guarded the river of the village I lived in during an incarnation long ago... centuries, from my understanding. It was happy and at peace, having no urge or impetus for change because everything remained more or less cyclically constant. I guess you can piece together how that might have an effect ~ no disease, no aging, no that can meaningfully harm a spirit.

But then, the village was overtaken by disease and disrepair at some point, with floods breaking out. So, that ended up being the impetus for my loong spirit to leave, feeling lost, abandoned, forlorn. It wandered for centuries, eventually exploring Taoist temples, listening to the thoughts of practitioners, learning about Taoism. More easy stagnation. From what I could gather, basically no practitioner noticed the loong, apart from one guy who dismissed it as a trick of the imagination.

So it wandered more at some point, having grown weary of the routine, eventually seeking out a sort of loong village where they basically mostly read poetry. Pretty boring and dull, but it was... something.

And then my soul, or intuition, or something, called out to it. It felt a powerful green energy in its chest, and came to find me, fascinated and enthralled by how perfectly our energies, vibrations, whatever it is that a spirit senses, was feeling from me. It felt compelled to observe me constantly, learning about me and how I interacted with my tiger spirit and how my tiger spirit, with unconditional love, treated me according to the whims and swings of my moods, desires, needs and so on. A rather powerful catalyst, it seems...

My tiger spirit's energy, I have noticed, feels much heavier and denser, though also much more defined and easier to visual, perhaps because this is its first astral incarnation since who knows how long. The loong spirit's energy feels much more dynamic, much lighter and gentle, perhaps because it is naturally attuned to dealing with astral energies. Both of them feel extremely feminine in nature, though Chinese mythology would have one believe that loong are exclusively male, curiously.

All of which makes me wonder quite a bit about the nature of the spirits and upper, middle and lower worlds that shamans journey to and fro.

I can directly feel the loong's energy, yet I have an incredibly difficult time defining something so unlike the norm that we physically incarnate spirits experience.

When one see scary images such as a big scary man coming out of the wall or something similar. Does that mean it is a subconscious emotions that are being processed or it is a harmful entity?

Also, does fire or candle light banish harmful entities from attacking the Ayahuasca user?

I appreciate the insights. Cheers☀️

I am feeling called to the woods for some healing and sacred medicine. I’m debating doing it alone, or bringing my wife. She’s very supportive of my journey and is tapping in to her own spiritual journey. I like to share these experiences with her because they have all been so healing. What are some pros and cons of going alone?

I woke up suddenly at 3:27 am today so I went to the washroom. All of a sudden I got goosebumps everywhere. Also, I feel the worst vibes and that someone's watching me. Can someone tell me what's going on? In dream I saw small light green snake enter through window nd got stuck nd my mom picked it throw away

If not here please lead me to a useful sub but this is a resident sub of mine so starting here.

I just found two flies in the corner of my bedroom in the span of an hour. My windows are entirely closed because the heat is on and I haven’t opened the front door in probably 24hs. I’m willing to ignore the mystique of how they entered but they feel clearly communicative of something & also not my first encounter with flies energetically in this way (that’s a funny sentence but it’s true!!)

Edit: both of them crawled onto my output hand and allowed me to take them outside without a single buzz

Please let me know your thoughts or direct me to a good place to discuss

I'm curious, since I know someone that has pretty solid synesthesia (sounds have shapes and colours, and letters and numbers having colours for them)

I do remember that as a child, all numbers had colours in my mind, so I did have synesthesia myself, but this mostly disappeared. All I experience is that sometimes when listening or talking to someone and i'm emotionally invested, i can see the words taking up shapes in my mind.

And i'm curious how other people's experiences are, with synesthesia, and how it has evolved...? I'm also wondering if and how I can uncover those perceptions I had in childhood ...

Every time I smoke myself I start yawning for extended periods of time like 5 minutes after I still yawn deeply. What does this mean in shamanism?

I meditate daily and wear gold neckless and evil eye 🧿+ rose quartz around my neck all the time. I appreciate the help

Edit: I meant to burn it as an incense and let the smoke go around my body. Forgive my English.

As far as I know the moon associated with the subconscious, so maybe that's the reason taking Ayahuasca at night facilities deeper connection. But I would like to know the real reason behind it. Thank you.

A bit over a year ago, two animal spirits came to me in a vision that were clearly there to protect and help me, as one was on my shoulder and the other around my ankle. The same thing happened to me earlier this year, but I have been scared to engage with them.

I think it will be an important step in connecting to my path, so I wish to. Should I give them offerings? The closest words I have to describe them are power animals, although that isn’t a concept in my heritage tradition. Any advice or perspectives would be appreciated

I went to a local event with energy healing, angelic reiki, shamanic reiki, past life healing, the works… everyone got a short session where 3 or more people worked on the person on the table. When it was my turn the main teacher said I had a deep entity attachment that has been there since childhood, causing lots of havoc. I cried a lot from feeling validated and hoping I’d finally get help on this plane. It got very intense and when it finally released I laughed a little.. teacher said it tried to attach to other people so she “took a hit” trying to redirect it away from everyone? Idk it was intense. I didn’t really receive any guidance for aftercare. I went home and found a soul retrieval meditation on YouTube. I’m still feeling that I have more work to do. I feel outcast and invisible still. It felt like the soul recovery work filled a space in my aura but that is starting to feel like crumbling clay. What do I do?

I also saw a post here about having a spider spirit guide, seen in hypnagogic states. I’m wondering if y’all know about what purpose a scarab would serve. TIA