Autumn Equinox 2012: Visualizing and Empowering Change

Most powerful and accessible energy awaits our utilizing at this time in history.

Here are a few links to stress the powerful forces at work: 1. About Solar Flare-ups, on the increase:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/05/160593797/wow-nasa-video-shows-mind-bogglingly-gorgeous-solar-eruption

And, 2. About major Earthquakes on the increase:
http://www.earth.webecs.co.uk/

Should we Fear?

Yes, but only to become better prepared!

Should we be aware of the bigger picture?

Yes, of course, and that bigger picture has to do with our being almost in the center of the Galactic Rift, which the Mayans predicted would happen 12/21/12. That event and its veracity receives lots of debate and speculation, some wild claims from many (perhaps me?) and stunted and short sighted belief systems from others (due to "sciences" attachment to facts based on only a recorded history that only goes back, at the most, 1000's of years).

The Mayan Calendar goes back 26 thousand years, plus a few hundred or so, and records cycles of planetary movements. They were our first astrophysicists.

Interesting that about 26 thousand years ago the first discovered means of communicating via symbols happened with the finding of cave paintings in Southern France http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html

It can and has been argued that this time period was about the time of the advent of Civilization (for better or worse).

Can it be that our passing through the Galactic Rift again might portend another impressive transition of Humanity into a New Age?

Stands to reason, at least by this seeker of knowledge.

My contention and practice is to consider that not only will the massive earth and solar events happen but Spiritual Events will also happen. The Energy from the Dark Hole and from Dark Matter will increase our higher chakra centers and invite "knowing-ness".

We are already aware of "Indigo Children", also referred to as "Homo-Gnosis" (not sure where I heard this term . . . interpretation would be "the human that knows". For a detailed list of current books check out Amazon's site Indigo Child books.

Enough of the preliminaries.

The 21st of September is our Equinox: daytime hours are equal to night-time hours. Throughout history it was a time of celebration.

For me it is a chance to take stock of the  next 3 months, leading to 12/21/12.

During this time I wish to meditate, pray, create ritual, visualize the World I believe to be "right" (in Balance and Harmony), to align different Karmic lives (past, present and future) with the desire to find a greater sense of Peace and Well-being. Truly the more we are at Peace in Trust and Love the more we generate such experiences around us: Witness the Wisdom of The Diamond Sutra and of The Law of Attraction.

My intention is to be, especially during this time, as clear and, dare I, pure as is humanely possible to have a greater effect via prayers and visualizations.

On the night of September 22nd, here in Eureka, I will be conducting with the able assistance of experienced shamanic journeyers a ritual to generate, align and direct through "clear intention" visualizations towards Balance and Harmony.

At this time we will "Surf the Zuvuza"; http://www.amazon.com/Surfers-Zuvuya-Tales-Interdimensional-Travel/dp/0939680556. That is, the Spiritual Energy manifested by the Galactic point and space in time we find ourselves.

Should be fun and might well be beneficial, if not collectively then certainly personally!

Love to All!

Ritual Healing Circles

Similar Circles are being held all around the World.

There is not just one Healing Circle format, but many. This is my take on creating, facilitating and manifesting a circle. I intend to continue to do so for at least the next 10 months, leading to December of 2012.

The events, in Eureka, CA. will be held at Sacred Palace, Bikram Yoga, 516 5th St. on the first Saturday of each month During Arts Alive, from 8:30 to 10:00 pm, or so. 

What follows is a general description of what one might experience at the Circles I facilitate.

It is important to acknowledge that there are no set agendas or formats. My belief and experience is that the trance state and intention setting that naturally occurs during Sacred Space will bring to the surface all of the guidance and energy needed.  Our ancestors, power animals, guides, angels and what-ever will be gathering around us to move through us for the event to manifest our intentions: Healing of Self, Family and Friends, Community and World!

Basically, and not necessarily in this orders what one can expect is:

1. Gathering of participants: The mother drum will beat out heart beat rhythms throughout the evening. Beaters will circulate throughout the evening as well.
2. Welcoming and Invocation: song, prayer, envisioning
3. Drumming, movement, dance: Shaking bones to let go of blocks
4. Centering, grounding and focus: Coming into Presence through Visualization, movement and stance.
5. letting “stuff” come to surface
6. Talking Circle
7. Intention formation
8. Voicing losses, requests for healing
9. Coming into Sacred Presence: Guided Visualization, activating chakras, and building community energy.
10. Healing Visualization
11. Releasing Energy for Healing through singing, chanting, ohm-ing, and movement
12. Closing Circle

Suggested Donations: 10 to 15$ per participant

       funds to go to Sacred Palace and to Facilitator

Circles begun by Scott L Sherman and open to active participation by any and all

web-sites and blogs where information re: Scott and his approaches to healing can be found on:

• scottlsherman.com
• shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com
• humboldtpsychotherapy.com

Scott is available for individual and relationship counseling

 at office

 at other locations

 via Skype or Gtalk (audio and video)

Contact: 707-445-1018

scott@scottlsherman.com

350 E Street, Ste 409, Eureka, CA 95501

Accepting Personal Integration

The Personal Integration Imperative

Personal integration is not a choice; just a matter of time. This lifetime; or the next!

To become “One” is our destiny as it was our destiny to evolve from single cell to human. This is so by reflection not only on the nature of our physical evolution but also on the nature of our cultural, spiritual and religious evolutions. 

There is a choice as to when and how we become personally integrated! 

The concept of personal integration (PI) has to do with healing our multiple soul fractionating traumatic events. Occasionally one is able to “shrug” off such events and remain present (integrated in the Now). More often we can grasp the idea, discover the process and run with the adventure of PI.

Traumas can be repetitively small, big or multiples of the two. They are always lessons.  We all acknowledge major traumas. Small, repetitive are more often in denial. Shaming, blaming, hurried grieving all contribute to repression. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is simply a label that spells out that the trauma has not been processed. It has not been enlivened in the body allowing for healing. 

We enter into the processing of trauma differently. We all have a number of valuable traits that allow us to get on with the business of become integrated. Some are verbal or auditory, others visual or kinesthetic. We can write, dance, sing, paint, meditate, etc., to our own PI end.

The more we become integrated the more resources we have available to deal with our day to day life; and the easier it becomes to Become.

The shamanic model of the Universe has it that our fragmented (unresolved grief work) soul parts are left behind, blown into another orbit or Universe, tucked away in some corner of our bodies and so forth. Different folks experience soul loss differently.

What is needed though is a format for healing. Not too much too fast and at least some on a regular basis. Either extreme creates more loss. The heap of fragmentation gets bigger and bigger, the personal pain grows and our dissociative experiences become greater.

So, we must delicately embrace PI. To do so is expedient and rewarding. To not do so . . . well we only have to look at the thoroughly corrupted and “out of touch” individuals that seem to be at the ends of the bell curve to realize the alternatives. More sickness of heart, mind, body and soul.

Three critically basic tools or skills are:

Deep, moderately slow and full breathing

Embracing Gratitude for All

Relaxing, relaxing, relaxing!

Breathing, being in Gratitude and relaxing promotes body awareness, memories and insights. Then the work of PI can proceed through our Higher Self connected to Source re-educating and re-parenting our more naive, wounded, stuck, primitive physical, emotional and spiritual selves. We are multiples of who we are until we experience PI. We increasingly become singular when we embrace the process! 

Embrace with love, full breath, gratitude and surrender.

Back to the Relationship Cauldron for Personal Growth

This short blog is just to acquaint people of my most recent venture (as a therapist/healer)! For some time I have been teaching/training clients in some basic relationship strengthening tools. The workshop I have designed will be a concentrated approach to teaching the skills. Sometimes one hour sessions leave a lot to be desired.So . . . here is what I am offering!

What I feel really good about is how when one does this work it becomes easier and easier to stay present when conflict occurs.

What a blessing!

Heh, what do you think? I created this in Windows Publisher 2003 and saved it in .gif. Works great. How come it took so long to figure this out?

Bless the Waters of Life!

When I woke up to the reality that blessing water changes it's molecular structure and that 70 to 80 percent of our bodies are composed of water the realization also came to me that the single most important act I, or anyone for that matter, can do is to go around blessing people: Blessing the Waters of Life. Blessing them with kind words, warm smiles, non-invasive or evasive hugs, or even just warm thoughts.

Some of you readers might remember the research of Masaru Emoto documenting in his book The Hidden Messages of Water (http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Messages-Water-Masaru-Emoto/dp/0743289803/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316527688&sr=1-1).

Dr Emoto shows the crystalline structure of water subjected to different forces, including blessings. The results are astonishing.

I remember from years ago hearing that a wonderfully healing act is to on awakening in the morning holding a glass of water towards the sun, blessing it and then drinking the water with relish. Often practicing this simple act always seems appropriate. I now add some lemon to alkalinize the water to bring my body into balance.

No wonder I and so many others go to waters for healing. The ocean, rivers, lakes are all so well visited. And our realization that where water flows there are negative ions present that bring feelings of well being. Where water flows freely it purifies. No wonder that my subject for the chakra guided meditation video my friend Tom Betune and I created was flowing water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgSrSOqFxdo.

I offer this short blog as a tribute to the healing waters of life!

Share, care and enjoy!

Collective PTSD: Unresolved Grieving

Stigmatizing, Shaming, Blaming, Hexing, Pathologizing: We are All experiencing PTSD.

In this blog I wish to focus again on the stigmatizing or hexing qualities of PTSD; for these are often so subtle that we miss experiencing the trauma.

I am so excited to be living in this time, in this day and age and in this country, state and local.

No matter how hard the "Powers that Be" attempt they will not be able to close the lid on the awarenesses of PTSD and how they negatively effect our beings. Who knows, maybe even they will "get a clue."

Be that as it may, one gift of wars has been to confront us with "Battle Fatigue," "Shell Shock" and now what we call "PTSD". All one and the same. From that newer distinction widely ascribed to after The Vietnam War (the Vietnamese refer to it as "The American War") it was our Civil Rights movements and Women's Liberation Movements that opened up the awareness that PTSD is very wide-spread and not just an adjunct of wars.

From these openings we now, therapists particularly, are more widely noting that most if not all psychological and even physiological disorders have to do with one form of trauma or another.

To bring imagery into this discussion please imagine what it feels like to be "boxed" into something. Is not stigmatizing, hexing or shaming or blaming a kind of being boxed in?


Let's look at the words of Bob Dylan


I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

No, and I ain't lookin' to fight with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I ain't lookin' to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up
Analyze you, categorize you
Finalize you or advertise you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to straight-face you
Race or chase you, track or trace you
Or disgrace you or displace you
Or define you or confine you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

A product of his and our age Dylan well stated how we can work, play and live with each other without toxically traumatizing one another.

Well enough said: how do we deal with being shamed, blamed, boxed, shaken, forsaken, etc.? We do what this whale has done! Check out this link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/14/humpback-whale-video_n_898859.html?ref=fb&src=sp. The scientists who released the whale thought it was giving them a dance of appreciation. There might have been some of that involved but from neuro-science we now would understand it more to be a "dance of liberation." 

Expression, expressiveness, dancing, shaking, visualizing, animating . . . getting the locked energy out of our bodies is how we heal PTSD. Perhaps that means more demonstrations, dance-ins, grieving rituals, etc. 

What do  you think?


I think: "All I really want to do is
             baby, be friends with you."

Filaments of Desire: Bondings of Personal Histories

From Quantum Physics we read of "string theory"; from shamanic traditions we read of filaments of interconnectedness between All. From my psychotherapy practice and personal take on reality I experience tugs and pulls on my very anatomy: My Energy Anatomy  (see Carolyn Myss work: Energy Anatomy and Self Diagnosis).

When we employ imagery and visualization (http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/04/holographic-awareness-as-portals-for.html with respect to our bonding and in some cases, bondage then we are increasingly able to manage these "filaments of desire" and transform them from unpleasant and controlling to healing and redeeming. From rigid ways of perceiving and treating our loved ones to enabling flexibility and movement.

I think of one client many years ago who had at an early adolescent age stolen his fathers silver coin collection and blown it at the arcades. His father was furious and in a rage beat his child and kicked him out of the home; at least as the client remembered. What brought this memory to the surface was this awful feeling in his solar plexus that came about whenever he became close to others (see blog entry regarding Relationship Cauldron: http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/04/relationship-cauldron-gift-of.html. As we explored this awful feeling and linked it along his filaments of memories it took him back to that experience with his dad. The feeling had been dealt with alcohol, relationship and other addictive disorders to the time.

Our approach was to work with the sensation in terms of what in ordinary reality might be responsible for such a powerful sensation in his gut. What he came up with was a big wire rope about 6" in diameter; pushing and pulling him through his life.

Re-envisioning this image he was able to come up with an energy beam that exchanged only positive information and reflected back to the sender any negative content.

My client experienced immediate physiological relief. That wasn't too surprising to me as such a reaction is fairly typical.

What was incredibly and wondrously surprising is that the very next day he received a phone call from his dad: The first one in maybe 30 years. They in subsequent days, weeks and months were able to re-conciliate.

There have been other similar experiences.

With these examples I am reminded of The Law of Attraction The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham and The Diamond Cutter The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your Life. With respect to both of these profound books and knowledge we are talking about how what we think, feel and believe creates our reality. They both extoll the virtues of visualizing desired outcomes.

And, all of this comes back to what I consider to be another Law: The Law of Gratitude for All. See my blog regarding this concept: http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/03/gratitude-is-elixir.html.

We are, indeed interconnected. The closer the relationship the stronger the link. The stronger the emotional memory the stronger the sensation, the stronger the link.

In relationship most people tend to remember the negative experiences far more deeply than the positive.
Perhaps that happens to link us to the memory such that we can do our soul retrieval work and reclaim and re-educate the wounded, neglected and forgotten memories. We are all evolving and our evolution is determined to keep us going back to the formative memories of survival. Instinctual survival.

And, above all else, Love. Love is more than an emotion. It is a latice work of filaments that intrinsically links us to All.

Thanks for visiting and considering.