Subverting the Dominant Paradigm

Well, at least bringing about Balance and Harmony so that that and other belief systems, ways of being, and deeply archetypal structures will be taken into consideration along with that of We Are One. And, that the more we envision and prevail in the same direction the more Magnificent we All Become.

In a nutshell, there it is. Working with local “village” models where All is paid attention too is the intention. Small groups based on shared belief systems and systematic shamanic interaction with The Elements and all that they represent, can meet according to some precepts that work, and come up with a shared vision. The more that do so the more do so. The more that do so the more Power is summoned and fed into that Villages Matrix. The Ripple goes on.

Obaining and Keeping Balance and Focus

Picture a top spinning. The kind we had as kids where you pump it and get it spinning really really fast. And, if you were lucky you had the kind that hummed and made lights flash. Wow! And then, tapping, it wobbled a bit but came back into balance and continued to spin ohm-ingly and brightly! 

Now there was focus! To get knocked around and come right back into twirling balanced power.

This is a wonderful metaphor for how we can and need to experience the trials and tribulations of our life and to not be thrown off. 

That top was generating a toroidal* energy field, using gravity and centrifugal force to propel itself around and around with great presence. It was creating an electro-magnetic force field. 

As humans we manifest strong presence through visualization, breath, emptying our minds and creating a clear intention, hooking that sense into Source and allowing our intention to manifest! By doing so we increase the scope and intensity of our electro-magnetic energy field . . . our Aura!

Using our minds to think out a clear intention and to visualize the outcome we desire, empowers our energy field to link to the “filaments of desire”; or, lay lines (think String Theory) and we then put into action manifestation of that which we intend.

Working smarter rather than harder!

Can it be that simple? 

Yes!

Whatever we experience, good, bad or indifferent, we “visualize” on an unconscious manner in our bellies, hearts and head. The energy fields within our bodies are always churning out holographic images; for the better part totally unknown to our conscious awareness. Unless we ask ourselves, “When I feel that (in my gut, heart or head) what would it look like if it were an object?” (We can all do this although many of us, particularly masculine driven have to work to do so.) We imagine or visualize shape, size, color, texture, temperature, weight, etc. 

Breathing, consciously doing so from our bellies and slowly and deeply, brings us back into the Now so that we are more fully able to visualize. Breath allows and enables us to empty our minds and to come into awareness of sensations, kinesthetic, visual, auditory, etc. Doing so with breath and gratitude we can “choose a better feeling or thought” and thereby a different holographic image!

To further empower our intentionality we can visualize a toroidal energy field in each of our brains, intensifying each of our Chakra’s and coming from our DanTien. This gets our own spinning energy field radiating even more magnificently the filaments radiating out into the Universe create incredible connections with that which we desire. 

Taking this a step further, we can not only imagine but experience the toroidal energy fields of our chakras and of our three brains coming into alignment with the forces of the Universe connecting to the hot molten mass of iron and nickel at the core of Earth. That connection is an incredibly rich source of both Spiritual and Material energies. And, we are in alignment with that force field. Each time one of our chakras are out of true then we weaken that force field. And if one of our brains is “out of our body” then the force field is incredibly weakened. And, this is what is happening with so many people on Earth. The out of body soul part then has a tendency to connect with other out of body soul parts. That union which is often fiercely strong can be hypothesized as “the problem with humanity on Earth”. This is a research question that can be answered. 

My truth is that I believe this to be so.

Coming back to Center, to Balance and Focus and to Alignment with the very Powerful Axis Mundi we become super charged. The clearer we are to Intentionality with the unity of our brains then the more “Juice” is accessible! 

It is from this place that we exquisitely manifest. With clear intention or muddy, we manifest. Allowing ourselves to be fully clear and empowered with breath, awareness and visualization we manifest. We do so also by default, as when our straying and dissociated soul parts wander about on Earth.

*Toroidal energy field is the energy created when objects spin from a core.” Google The Earth’s “Van Allen Belt” and the Human Toroidal Energy to get great images. 

Working with our Toroidal Energy Matrix

We each are composed of not only material or corporeal reality but also of "toroidal" energy realities. These are the donut shaped, apple shaped energy matrixes that compose all of creation. They have a center, as with the black hole in galaxies and they radiate energy from that hole up and down and around in circular fashion. Google "toroidal energy" and you will see representations of this kind of energy.

Important to us as living, breathing and co-creating beings is that this is energy that we can direct via our visualizations, breath and Trust and Love.

Our main toroidal matrix stems from our core, or dan tien, about 2 inches below our navel.

When we are not centered and balanced this energy does not flow freely as our core is bound up in one fashion or another; usually with fear and anxiety.

Breathing to our dan tien and visualizing the energy flowing up and down and around and around as with an apple shaped aura, with the seeds being the center, and we come back into balance.

Each chakra has its own energy field and correlates with:

• 1. root, having to do with belonging; connected in our place to Earth: Red
• 2. navel, having to do with creating: Orange
• 3. solar plexus, having to do with self esteem: Yellow or Gold
• 4. heart, having to do with love, compassion and courage: Verdant Green
• 5. throat, having to do with will power and truth speaking: Sky Blue
• 6. brow, having to do with self awareness: Indigo; and, 
• 7. crown, having to with our connection to the Cosmos: Heliotrope

These seven chakras can be considered to work together in three groups. Interesting enough these three groupings correspond with some wisdom from Africa: Knowledge is in the head, wisdom in the belly and when the two meet in the heart, truth is known. They also correspond with our three brains, our head brain, heart brain and belly brain. How does this work?

Belly brain, Wisdom, has to do with our first three chakras, the marriage of "belonging", "creating", "honoring". This center has to do with our "soul" work, of "why" we are here on Earth and here where we live, relate, work and play. Fundamentally it has to do with surviving.

Heart brain, Loving is composed of the marriage of "honoring", "loving" and "communicating". This center has to do with how with "how" we are here on Earth. Our job, as I see and understand it, is to move our Soul work in such a way as to experience more compassion, courage and Love. 

Brain brain, Knowledge is composed of our will and communication skills, our awareness of self and others and our connection to Source. If our first set of three has to do with "soul" then this set has to do with "spirit". Our connection to Source. 

We are the divining rod that connects Heaven to Earth. 

The most profound and exquisite way in which we do this is to envision each of these three marriages of chakras into separate and beautiful rainbow hued toroidal energy matrixes. Then to merge them  into one magnificent toroidal energy matrix coming from our dan tien. We then envision the energy moving through us from heaven to earth and from earth to  heaven. As it moves through us we come fully into alignment with our personal essence, our passion or purpose.

From this place and with clear intention what we ask for will be given!

  

What Path to Follow?

Whether a spiritual path, woodland path, personal growth, health, career or avocation path there are clear guidelines for maximum effectiveness.

In a nutshell the guidance is to follow your gut. What feels right!

Beyond that here are some guidelines:

Spirit, or Source, gives direction and will provide guidance.

“Ask, and you will receive!”

Look for omens and confirmation from the Universe (Carlos Castenada is credited in Teachings of Don Juan for this concept)

Find “What is working you”; and, or “Where or what is the ‘sweet spot’?’”

Once on a path does it feel good and resonate with you or “off” and an irritant?

To find Source is to empty oneself of ego, to meditate, find silence within. As Geshe Roach, et. al. write in The Diamond Cutter, practice “Circle Time” (10-15 minutes a day, one day a week, one week a year, or so) where “not thinking” or “emptiness is cultivated”. When one does so Spirit flows in!

Clear intentionality, or asking for something specific is instrumental in getting clear guidance. That question can simply be, “Guide me, I am lost!” Or, “I am concerned about my health, where should I turn”; or,  “Which health practice should I follow, yoga, tai chi, chi gong”; or, “Which Spiritual Path should I take, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Shamanism, etc.?” 

Of course, the “should” is not necessary and even the form of the question is not necessary. Spirit Knows! Hold an interest in terms of “What is Working You”. 

Angeles Arriens talks of how the Appalacians when they meet each other do not ask, “How are you?”, instead asking the more pertinent question, “What is working you?” What is going on in your life that causes you to focus and quest? In yoga my instructor Francis Warner (Health Sport, Eureka) puts it this way, “Where is the ‘Sweet Spot’?” In stretching and relaxing where does your body call your attention? Breathe into that space and relax into it. A release occurs and stretching, and relaxing comes easier. Meditation is enhanced. Silence is felt. Emptiness occurs.

Omens, the "Guru" appear. Holding an intention and paying attention to the “sweet spot” (which could be a relationship, occupational, health, financial, spiritual, etc.) issue will invite Spirit to give guidance. Keeping an open mind, and not, particularly actively looking for guidance, knowing it will occur (this requires Trust and Love) works very effectively. 

The teacher/teaching could be a thought, an insight, a gift, a media focus, a person (even an infant), an animal; what-ever grabs your attention. The World is full of guidance and information but only a few have to do with the “right” path for you. We are all inter-connected; All One. 

“Confirmation” occurs when you are pondering the omen and are given a second and even third indicator that the “way” you are contemplating or practicing is the one for you at this time. Spirit nudges us to move along the path towards Personal Integration and Higher Consciousness. Our, Life on Earth, Destiny, is to become At One in Consciousness!

And, one of the confirmations is; “Does it feel right?” When choosing a path do things and experiences seem easier? Is it joyful? Do you get results? Maybe not right away but are you given insights and guidance along the Path? If it doesn’t feel right, if it doesn’t resonate with you, even though your partner or social/peer group is following a path, find another.

We do “know” even though we often ignore our very best inner sense of rightness of being!

 

ATTITUDE! YA GOT SOME?

Lately I have been meditating and experiencing how powerful "attitude" is in our lives. Such a powerful energy, regardless of what the attitude might be!

The expression "cop an attitude" (www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=copping) I first heard in the 60's when working as a research assistant related to some training in the prison system. Inmates and staff used this expression to describe the event of some attitude or another grabbing ahold of some one. A powerful "mood" that moves one to say and do things that they would not ordinarily do.

How often I see this in my life and work. How often I experience a mood moving me and my experiencing of "copping an attitude".

Increasingly I perceive this phenomena to be central to our imbalances! To relationship issues, particularly. Jealousy, envy, fear, anxiety, anger, depression, desperation, panic; you name the emotion it can be "copped" and run away with the experience. Take over what is happening. No wonder that the Ancient Greeks thought of such experiences as the very Gods and Goddesses inhabiting our personas and running them. The emotions are not of our own, but of some energies outside of ourselves running through us! http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/personifications.html This link is worth looking at. Worth studying if some detail!

The wisdom of seeing such powerful emotions being of the very Gods and Goddesses is important.

Emotions need to be approached with caution, wisdom, reverence, respect and ritual! To not do so creates real mischief in our lives and loves! To do so allows us to channel and move such energy effectively and positively.

When in our interactions we are "moved" by such emotions it is easy to let them run-away with us. Our flash of anger towards a mates inconsideration, or, whatever, can easily lead to any number of disastrous actions or regretted words. The wisdom we are coming to is to not "indulge in such energies". They can easily take over and bring about a loss of realization of "just who is in charge".
Is it our true self, our higher self, a wounded soul part, or, one of the powerful emotions themselves?

Complex considerations and to give thought to these considerations can help us to come to some more resolved sense of balance. Can help us "choose a better thought, word or action".

The importance of time outs can not be understated! They are essential to reclaiming our sense of self in our daily interactions.

The essential task here is to come back into the now. It is almost (and possibly exactly so) that when we split off and cop an attitude we are opening pandoras box and allowing many extraneous influences to move through us and to consume us. Past wounds, previous belief systems, fears of the future, anxieties about what-ever call on the Gods and Goddesses and they come into us with relish. Then, it is not us that is on stage. Instead some other sense of extended historical self.

When we do come back to self, through mind-ful-ness and through cultivating awareness of self in "Now", then our better self, our higher self, guided by Source, comes to our truth. Then, and only then, can we approach the situation that ignited the attitude with due consideration.

So often I experience and observe "moods" move into Attitudes that can create great mischief and disturbance. They can also become passions that direct and channel our energies into great achievements. Still, it is worth coming back to Now, regularly for guidance and clarification of intent and intentionality. My last blog clarifies the importance of intent in our lives.

Cultivating mind-ful-ness allows and enables us to spot or become aware when an attitude takes over. Then we can more easily step out of the attitude and back into the now for the clarification and guidance so greatly desired and needed. This is the practice! This ability brings about healthy relationships and the greater manifestation of ones desires.





On Time Outs:  visit my blog of June, 2010.
http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/06/back-to-time-outs-learning-to-respond_959.html

On Truth Speaking: visit blog of July, 2010.
http://shamanicvisionpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-consideration-of-response.html)

INTENTIONALITY: CLEAR OR MUDDY ATTITUDE: TRUSTING OR FEARFUL?

When our intentions are clear and we walk in trust and love, our manifestations become cooperative with the Multi-verse. Spirit allows and cooperates in the unfolding of our reality.

When are intentions are muddy or we walk in anxiety and fear, then we get muddy results at best, and continue to manifest fearsome experiences!

Reading into these realities we can then see that each of us are somewhere along a continuum. On one end we are mastering the manifestation for what we intend, and on the other, just the opposite.

We can have clear intentions and walk in trust and love (The Grace Groove); or, we can have clear intentions and be in fear and anxiety (The Rut). And, we can have muddy intentions but still trust and be in a Grace Groove. There we will get mixed results. Or, we can have muddy intentions and be in The Rut where we will get little of what we desire and often lots of what we do not.

I like the analogy of driving in traffic. It is clear that my intention is to get somewhere, say work. I set off a little late and find I am experiencing some anxiety. Sure enough, a school bus stops in front of me and the “stop” sign goes out and I need to wait. Ok. But, still anxious when we get to a stop sign to turn onto another road there are three cars lined up. Anxiety increases. Then on 101 I get behind a fire truck convoy. Oh boy! 

Then, I realize: “Heh, I am creating these blocks.” Take a deep breath, blow it out and say to myself, “I will get to the office in plenty of time to prepare for my client!” Several positive thoughts later and, lo and behold, the convoy turns off and there is a big opening in the traffic. I hit every green light and “on time with some to spare”.

I love these experiences and find it easier to “shift gears” more readily as time goes on.

Guidelines for clear intentionality:

Watch your thoughts: words, beliefs, actions and attitudes.

Move from “trying”, “hoping”, and “wishing” to

“doing”, “experiencing”, and “having”.

In spiritual language these becomes prayers of ascension as opposed to prayers of wanting or needing. They convey Trust and Love.

We can experience or want! Want conveys and implies “not having” and accesses the profound sense of emptiness that so many of us experience and manifest.

Catch yourself thinking and believing negative thoughts and “change” these. 

Utilize the concept of “future probability”, e.g. “Every day in every way I am increasingly experiencing . . .” What is probable has so much more power than what is “possible”.

Chose a better thought, feeling or action!

Be kind anyway.

Practice Generosity.

We get what we give!

“The Love we get is equal to the Love we give!”

Practice Mindfulness:

Come back into Grace (Walking in Trust and Love) via breath and Gratitude.

Even when we are feeling really bad, there are wonderful gifts to be experienced.

Depression is a state of consciousness where we can move more actively through the grieving process! Giving thanks and breathing into the discomfort of the body, awakens it to the process of grieving!

Anger is a wonderful way to express via body movement, the bound up molecular sensations; to free them and release them!

Reducing the hold that depression or anger have on you frees ones ability to both form clear intentions and move into trust and love.

We as humans are so incredibly gifted! We have All of the resources we need to change a problematic Reality to a One rich in expressiveness towards healing self, other and Gaia, itself! 

NAMASTE

references: Here are a few of the many books elucidating on these realities!

Autobiography Of A Yogi, 1959, 8th Edition + PB reading Copy by Paramahansa Yogananda (1959)

Be Here Now by Ram Dass (Oct 12, 1971)

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (1982)

The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks (Dec 1, 2006)

The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life by Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally (Sep 1, 2009)

Start where you are and follow your interests. What speaks to you!

Where does the blame lie!

To Whose Feet Do We Lay The Blame!

If necessary, let us consider:

1. I have not, nor have so many other Americans been very pro-active to end the un-necessary violence from weapons.

2. Our Government Officials have been bought off!

3. The Gun Lobby and Military Industrial Lobby has bought them off!

4. Guns are big business:

   a. They make lots of money 

   b. Retirement funds invest in such companies

   c. Many public employees benefit from such funds

   d. Most don't seem to notice or care from where the funds come.

5. The American Culture is a Culture of Violence:

    a.Peacemaker was the name of a Colt Revolver that "Won the        

    West."

    b. America has more deaths by guns per capita than any other          

    country in the world.

    c. We have been at War in one region or another for most of our 

    political existence! Strong Military Industrial Lobby!

    d. Great profits have come from such wars. Weapon and

    munition companies, The Pentagon, etc. all lobby for more 

    money and power. Congressman and other politicians are 

    bought off!

    

6. We all like our creature comforts and seem to be lost in our

    bubbles of complacency: Until some "senseless" act of violence

    wakes us up!
    a. few requirements about who gets what kinds of guns
    b. many adults and teens leave guns laying around without
    adequate protection from mentally ill or children.

Or, is it "senseless"?

I am reminded of the old saying: "Do as I say and not as I do!" Although we all know that we will model ourselves after behavior more than words. And, when we are traumatized (PTSD) what we tend to do is repeat the circumstances of the trauma so we can figure out how we could have lost our purity and innocence.

When our leaders commit violent acts against innocent citizens of other countries what makes us think that our own citizens won't create violent acts agains innocents in our own country? 

As above, so below. This adage holds true in organizations of all sizes; from families to countries.

Conclusion: We are all culpable. 

The question is; who will bring about the needed change, Government, Lobbies, Corporations or The People?

You guessed it: The People! There is no other option.

    

On the Threshold into The Age of Aquarius!

WINTER SOLSTICE: 2012

ON THE THRESHOLD INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.

On the 21st our the sun will enter ( what ever that means) into the Sign of Aquarius. Every 26000 some years a new age occurs. We have been in the Piscean Age, with the Piscean attributes of divisiveness. So I discovered by attending to this youtube movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlfYHAV1i8w&list=LLH4_kSBHJBeZhiBob8lj0gA&feature=mh_lolz

And, the qualities of Aquarius? Namaste: The Divine Spark in me acknowledges the Divine Spark in you. No need for gurus, we are all divine and in this age we will be awakening to this Truth!

Very cool.

At 10:05, so the same video reports we will cross the equator of the Galactic Rift. And, that is the precise time in which we get the biggest blast from the Black Hole. What does this mean? Good question. The Mayan Elders I have watched, read, listened to say that this is when we (Gaia) get a tremendous down-loading of Spirituality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8y0MR8KiY8&feature=g-hist and only a few will retain the information for more than a few minutes.

Maybe, but, we have never experienced, in the history of modern man, such an event. Perhaps a great number of us are more prepared to accept the Truths that will coming to us. 

This is an Age where amazing Spiritual awarenesses are being shared. The Law of Attraction:http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/index.php,

The Diamond Cutter, wisdom of the Diamond Sutra as shared by Geshe Roach: https://www.google.com/search?q=diamond+cutter&aq=f&oq=diamond+cutter&aqs=chrome.0.57j5j0l2.2604&sugexp=chrome,mod=19&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&tbo=d&q=the+diamond+cutter+book&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDAx8HixKXfq6-gZlFTmWBUVJimKBtD8f2jbf6BVYFM0za5zd1EQBns5VTKwAAAA&sa=X&ei=ro3HUPTSC8ybjALcwYCwCg&ved=0CKUBEOkTMA8&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=9e5a97ecf0eac3e8&bpcl=39918873&biw=1187&bih=661,

The Course of Miracles: http://acim.org/

The list could go on.

You, my faithful readers, can probably name at least three different sources of enlightened information coming our way.

From my own studies I have been able to "choose a better thought", "be kind anyway", exercise "gratitude" and "generosity" more and more.

So, the judgmental nature of my socialization has diminished. Trained to "diagnose" I have even learned to not indulge in that form of professional power-tripping.

No need!

As one who writes this blog and for those who read it you will know that what I am experiencing more and more is the Field of Love. Fear and Anxiety are becoming mere signals to pay attention. We needn't harm ourselves and others by such indulgences as "addiction to adrenaline".

Far more fun to enjoy people as they are, even when they are offensive. Not to enjoy the offense but to understand that everyone has their story and compassionately attending to their story, to "see" them, lets them become less attached to their own destructive thoughts, beliefs and actions. Witnessing allows for easier change.

And now, 12/21/12 at 10:05am comes upon us.

So, why am I celebrating on the 22nd and not on the 21st.

Two reasons:

       First, I want to be at home and able to "receive" more freely.

       Second, I wish to celebrate on the 22nd our having "stepped over the threshold" and; into The Age         of Aquarius!

Well, what if? What if this all just a bunch of crap? Could be yet I experience, as a sociologist, therapist and person, that when individuals share in beliefs the beliefs tend to be actualized.

Heh, noticed lately how many people are sharing wonderfully happy, inspiring, organizing, sharing and caring via the internet?

It is happening, isn't it?

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.

Maxaman, Myth and The Power of Belief

As you might guess this entry is more about the "Power of Belief" than it will be about Maxaman. However, to report on what I experienced as the power and influence that the effigy of God or Holy Boy, Maxaman has on the collective consciousness of the Mayan population, perhaps particularly around Lake Atitlan, can be used to stress the point.

The point being, what we believe is less important than that we believe. In many ways this is just another example of The Law of Attraction.

One very profound aspect of the power of belief has to do with what it means to be human. We far too often underestimate the magnificence and wonder, the deliciousness of what it means to be human. To say that humans are awesome is a major understatement.

The intention of the Shaman who is the "carrier" and/or care-taker of Maxaman has to do with the ability to bring about significant change in reality by the strength and power of his belief. Having the effigy, Maxaman, and the cumulative history of the Mayan history and culture behind him greatly enhances the shaman Nicolas to visualize, believe and emote confidence in himself and the power of Maxaman. When the People believe congruent with the belief of the shaman and the beauty of the prayers and ritual then greatness happens.

The rituals I took part  in were beautiful, poignant with meaning and energy. I am reminded of Malidome Some's imperative that shrines must be so constructed as to bring wonder, fear and respect. Then they must be empowered with the strength of the conviction of the person or persons responsible. The Maxaman shrine was both beautiful and troubling. What was the meaning and significance of the candles of different colors, the effigy, the ties around the effigy, the several hats, the prone effigy of Maxaman behind the figure, and, behind that Jesus on the Cross, etc.

Saint with Ties

Maxaman Shrine

Interestingly, as the Christian belief system by way of the cross was behind Maxaman, Maxaman's influence appeared in one of the Churches we visited. The scarf's around the Church Saint (not sure if figure was male or female). And, we saw many examples of the blending of belief systems. A fail safe system? Just go along with the prevailing energy until it passes? Visual reminders of the power of Spirit and further strengthening belief?

Regardless, there was  a strong attendance and evidence of "belief." In doctor's offices clients are reassured by the certificates, diplomas, licenses and tools of the trade. The book, The Heroic Client, The Heroic Client: A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectiveness Through Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy content analysis of many numerous studies of psychotherapy outcomes considering, therapist modality, diagnosis and medications came to the following conclusions. There are only three aspects that can predict positive change. These are: 1. The clients motivation to change, 2. The therapist's belief in his/her own skills and effectiveness; and, 3. The clients belief in the therapist.

It all comes back to Belief!

And, when we consider the effectiveness of clear intention this can become even stronger. If my intention is strong and I believe my intention will be honored by The Universe, then the right healing modality and/or healer will come along.

How will I know? Dreams and synchronistic events lead the way; after the clear intention. The Tao of Psychology, by Jean Shinoda Bolen documents how this work. And then there is Carlos Constaneda's
works where he talks about "omens" and "confirmation from the Universe." The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.  (Not certain it was in this, first book of Constaneda's work but know it is concept, attributed to Don Juan.)

Considering all of the above; doesn't it seem reasonable to assume that we are meant to evolve and the more we believe in the process of evolving, healing, trust and love and the beauty of our own being the more that is not only posible but even probable!

In some ways it is: Believe, put out a clear image or intention of what it is you desire . . . and then get out of the way and let it evolve.

Mayan Wisdom: Reflections after visiting Mayandom

The last week of March and the first of April, 2011 my extended family and I, ten of us, traveled with four others to El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. Our guide, Carlos Vivar, a Mayan who grew up in the village closest to Tikal and that responsible for caring for the jungles around Tikal, very knowledgeable about the history of Mayadom, archaeological ruins, the culture modern and ancient, Mayan shamanism and so much more is my pick for a man of destiny. 

First Temple, Tikal

Carlos left his village against his families wishes to walk to Flores. It was on this walk that he first saw Tikal and at that time decided to study the world of the Mayans. In Flores, speaking only limited Spanish, he sat outside of a school until the instructor came to inquire what it was he wanted. "To learn Spanish." The teacher took him in to his classes, his home and his heart. Carlos rapidly learned Spanish and rudimentary English. 

He then went back to Tikal and worked for various tour groups as assistants to guides. After a short while he was knowledgeable and instructive of what tourists wanted to see in terms of plants, trees, wild-life and even the ruins, glyphs and history of the Mayans. He began to study English by freely or for donation guiding English speaking tourists through the ruins of Tikal.

Soon he was discovered and hired by a major touring group, Overseas Adventure Travels (OATs) to lead tours of Tikal. After only a few years he so impressed OATs that they invited him to high level studies and to lead tours throughout Mayadom. 

Carlos interpreting for Nicolas 

And so Carlo's story continues. 

Shaman Nicolas Empowering Holy Boy

Among other things Carlos comes from a long line of Shamans and is colleagues with some of Mayadom's leading shamans. He introduced us to Nicolas, shaman of Santiego de Atitlan and caretaker of the effigy representing God, Maxaman (Holy Boy, as he is spiritually regarded by the People*). We were fortunate to watch Nicolas lead several rituals, one involving a healing and empowering for myself. I was extremely honored and seem to have benefited strongly from the ritual.

Subsequent to this experience Carlos invited my wife, Joanne Witte and myself to attend the Mayan End of the Mayan Calendar event in Tikal, December 21st, 2012. We were both very honored and accepted the invitation to stay for the event with he and his family in his village.  He had informed us that already there were no accommodations anywhere else for many miles around. His statement, "All of Mayadom will be there."

From our travels and readings it is indicated that the Calendar records, accurately, 26 thousand years of Celestial events. The glyphs and scrolls of glyphs predicted the Spanish invasion and advised the people to not fight but that the Spanish would tire after finding no gold and leave. It took them several hundred years to do so.

One observation that really impressed me was how many small villages, while influenced strongly by modernization, still maintained the old costumes,

Women's Fabric at Market

customs and language. The people of Mayadom are very proud of who they are and not rapidly giving way to modernization. Perhaps they learned from their experience with the Spaniards. Perhaps the manuscripts and glyphs also tell of modernization coming . . . and going.

While there is no sense that "the world is going to end" with the advent of the new Mayan Calendar there is  definitely predictions of many upheavals in all ways. In general the belief is that the "eye" to the cosmos will be opened on 12/21/2012 and that a new age, an age of higher consciousness will come about. Interesting to me that this is congruent with "The Age of Aquarius."

I am not sure of exactly what is meant by the "eye" the cosmos but from what I glean on the 21st of December the sun rising will coincide with the rotation of our galaxy which will look like an eye. Apparently there is a spacious void that when the Milky Way rotates a certain way the void appears like an eye. It seems that the "photon beam" from beyond the Pleiades has a clear shot to earth at that time. This happened 26 thousand years ago and again 5125 years ago, perhaps in a lesser fashion. Unfortunately I do not remember when or how I read or heard about the above. For a more scientific explanation visit the following blog: http://mayanprophecy2012.blogspot.com/2009/07/galactic-alignment-2012-john-major.html In his blog the following description is elucidated: The Galactic Alignment of 2012 ... The Holy Cross of the Equinox Axis and the Milky Way Galaxy ... the Solstice Galaxy Alignment explained by John Major Jenkins ...

* Martin Prechtel, in Secrets of the Talking Jaguar writes of Holy Boy in his chapter White Metal, Yellow Metal: I Empty Out for Holy Boy.

From Fear and Anxiety to Trust and Love

Those who have visited this blog before know somewhat of what this entry is about. My great pleasure and joy in life is having learned to not spend much time in the "Pit of Fear"; instead moving from there into "The Field of Trust and Love."

Today this is most important as the news is full of fear and anxiety about the devastating tragedy in Japan and the ensuing nuclear fall-out that is possibly becoming a real threat to so much of life on Earth and of real concern to so many of us. There is lots of over-reaction to he news. Sensationalism. News casting . . . and we are the fish.

Use fear to motivate change.

Use it also to effectively pray and visualize the outcomes that can possibly come from this tragedy.

Move the realm to probably with active prayer, visualization and positive thinking (The Law of Attraction The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham).

To this end I offer this prayer:

The Blessing/Curse Prayer for World Leaders

Great Father Above and Mother Below with great gratitude for all the blessings you bestow we ask for your further support and guidance.

We want and need your support in our helping to heal the wounds of Your Creations.

We appeal to the Four Winds and Seven Seas, to our Ancestors to guide us and strengthen us in our resolve to help to bring about healing.

May the eyes of our leaders be opened to the pain and suffering of the mothers, fathers and children of all of life on earth.

May their ears hear the wailing and curses of those who have suffered wounding and injustices at the hands of the unmerciful.

May their hearts be opened and filled with compassion for those wronged.

May their bellies be filled with such anxt that they cannot but own their part in the imbalances and wrong doings.

May their minds and thoughts become clear with resolve to right the wrongs.

May their words and deeds be of retribution and reparation.

May they escape the jaws of the abyss.

May their good fortunes be shared by all; and, may they come to be known in their own time as great men and women who brought about The Great Healing of the Fabric of The Universe. 


And that dear Gods and Goddesses will be truly delicious for All to feast upon.

Peace and Healing