Shamanism
What it is, where it comes from, what it is for
Questions about shamanism itself: what it is and where it comes from, the shamanic realms, death and the dead, and our ancestors.
Orientation: what this is all about
What is Therapeutic Shamanism?
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- What is the difference between a shaman and a shamanic practitioner?
- Is Therapeutic Shamanism traditional shamanism?
- Why is Therapeutic Shamanism culturally neutral?
- Is Therapeutic Shamanism New Age?
- Why does Therapeutic Shamanism focus on the more-than-human?
- What role does direct experience play in Therapeutic Shamanism?
How is Therapeutic Shamanism different from traditional and Core Shamanism?
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Is Therapeutic Shamanism a religion or belief system?
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What is shamanism for today?
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The shamanic realms
What are the three shamanic realms?
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What is the middle-world?
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What is the under-world, and how is it different from the Lower-World?
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Death, dying and the dead
Time, ancestors and the multiverse
What are ancestral burdens and how are they passed down?
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- Can soul retrieval change the past?
- What are ancestral burdens?
- Are ancestral burdens the same as parts of self?
- What are family burdens?
- What are collective burdens?
- How do ancestral burdens get passed down?
- Do I need to trace my family tree to heal ancestral burdens?
- Are ancestral burdens always negative?
- Are ancestral burdens intrusions?
- Can I dialogue with an ancestral burden?
- Do I need permission from the ancestors to release an ancestral burden?
- Should ancestral burdens be given back to the ancestors?
- Can shamanic journeying help ancestral burdens?
- Are journeys into ancestral history literal?
- Can psychotherapy help with ancestral burdens?
- Can ancestral burdens show up in the body?
How do we recognise and work with ancestral burdens?
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What is the difference between an ancestor and an Ancestor?
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What does it mean to put down an ancestral burden without blaming our ancestors?
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- What are ancestors in Therapeutic Shamanism?
- Are ancestors automatically wise?
- Why should we not assume too quickly that something is ancestral?
- What are the signs of an ancestral burden?
- How can I identify ancestral burdens?
- What does it mean to put an ancestral burden down?
- Does releasing an ancestral burden mean blaming the ancestors?
