A FURTHER-STEPS COURSE:
EXPLORING THE SHAMANIC UPPER WORLD
Shamanic Spirituality, Mindfulness And Meditation Practices
Dates: April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27
Saturday, 4 pm start (UK time), 3.5 – 4 hours each
A FURTHER-STEPS COURSE:
EXPLORING THE SHAMANIC UPPER WORLD
Shamanic Spirituality, Mindfulness And Meditation Practices
Dates: April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27
Saturday, 4 pm start (UK time), 3.5 – 4 hours each
Bookings for this course are now closed
- Learn to journey to the shamanic Upper-World, and make sense of what you encounter there.
- Exploration of the different ‘tiers’ of the Upper-World and the different Beings you encounter there.
- Learning Upper-World healing and meditation practices.
- Exploring Upper-World teachings on things like perspective, compassion, detachment and ethics.
- Role of rituals and ceremonies in spiritual practices.
In this course
LEARN HOW TO DO TRUE UPPER-WORLD SHAMANIC JOURNEYS, AND WHAT HAPPENS IN THEM
- How to find true Upper-World Guides.
- Finding your Upper-World “Self” or “Spirit”.
- How the Upper-World can help you develop healthy perspective and detachment (whilst staying grounded too).
- Upper-World healing practices, including the use of shamanic artefacts, light, song and sound.
- Upper-World places of convalescence and healing.
- The “Council of Elders” and its role in the resolving of entanglements (often more effective than “cord-cutting” practices), unhealthy contracts, and “curses”.
- The difference between gods and goddesses on the one hand, and Gods and Goddesses on the other.
- Honouring both the Sacred Masculine and the Sacred Feminine.
EVERYTHING IS SACRED – RISING ROOTED
Shamanism is a very ancient spiritual practice. It is rooted in animism, an entirely non-hierarchical way of perceiving and experiencing the world, a spiritual round-table. By contrast, most modern-day spirituality is based on hierarchical thinking. Ideas of human supremacy, over other animals and the rest of the natural world, and notions of ascension – the idea that “up is good and down is bad.
These hierarchical concepts are so deeply rooted into our present-day cultures, that most people just accept them as truth. However, spiritual hierarchy is not a fact! Indeed, it is an idea that only arose fairly recently in human history. It is not how we lived, or practised spirituality, in indigenous cultures for tens of thousands of years. This makes animism quite different from other spiritual viewpoints. On this course, we will explore the animist perspective in depth. We will look at how (and why) we abandoned the original Earth-centred spirituality of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. We will explore how, in abandoning original indigenous animist thinking, “spirituality” became transformed and repurposed to serve the domestication and control of ourselves and the world around us. We will see how this has deeply broken our relationship with the natural world, and with the other-than-human worlds too.
NATURE OF SPIRIT AND MEDITATION PRACTICES
We will explore shamanism’s understanding of “Great Spirit”, “Father Sky”, and “Mother Earth”, and how their interaction gives birth to the shamanic realms. Doing this will help us understand the differences between the realms, and how they relate to various aspects of ourselves – our Spirit, our Soul, our Body, our ego, and our Witness or “Aware Self”.
We will also examine the role of meditation practices in shamanism. To do this we will look below the surface details of meditation practices, to get a deeper understanding of what meditation is and how it works, from both a shamanic and a psychotherapeutic point of view. In doing so, we will see how there are meditation practices for everyone, even for people who have tried meditating and think that it “doesn’t work” for them.
THE ROLE OF RITUALS AND CEREMONIES IN SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
As well as learning how to do shamanic Upper-World journeying, we will look at how rituals and ceremonies work and may be helpful, and how at other times they may get in the way. We will look at the issue of offerings and sacrifices in shamanism, and finish by looking at cultivating healthy practices such as cleansing and energy hygiene, grounding and embodiment, respectful relationship, loving kindness, and gratitude.
WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY
HOW DOES THE COURSE WORK?
LIVE ONLINE TRAINING
- Zoom Online Sessions With Founder of Therapeutic Shamanism, Paul Francis.
- Live Shamanic Journeying in Every Class.
- Study in the Comfort of Your Own Home.
SUPPORT BETWEEN SESSIONS
- Detailed Course Notes.
- Video Recording of Every Class.
- Submit Your Questions for the Next Session and Discuss with Peers.
- Learn at Your Own Pace.
YOUR SHAMANIC TRIBE
- Meet Like Minded People.
- Connect Between Sessions in Online Groups.
- Deepen the Connection in Break-Out Rooms During Sessions.