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I'm going to attempt the forum upgrade again soon, possibly tonight. One of the changes in the forum with the software upgrade is that your login name (what you put in the login box) and your display name (what your posts show "you" as) are going to be merged into the same thing, which is your login name. If you would like your login name changed as a result, please PM me. During the upgrade, the forum may be unavailable or show in maintenance mode. This will hopefully be temporary. -karl

Please join niteshad/Gary for an informal discussion on depression. We will be talking about any type of depression that people want to. There is a type of depression that can come with following this path and we will be talking about that too. The chat will be in the public channel: #shamanscave. https://www.shamanscave.com/irc/irc.html You can use the above link to join the chat. We hope to see you there, Lorrie

Greetings, Shamanscave and its forums have moved to a new hosting provider. Unfortunately, it took a few days longer than anticipated and you may notice if you posted recently your post is missing. I apologize for that, but rather than risk moving and over writing a database with current data we need to just pick up from here and move on. So if you had made a important post to the forums since 12-12-23 you might want to add it back. Don't worry, the last time we changed hosts was well over ten years ago, so doesn't happen every day. gary

We're sorry about the outage, there are still some lingering problems with the forum installation. We hope to have all the issue resolved soon, but in the meantime you still cannot post images. niteshad

We're sorry about the outage, there are still some lingering problems with the forum installation. We hope to have all the issue resolved soon, but in the meantime you still cannot post images. niteshad

My grandmother was born in 33 My mom was born in 55 I was born in 77...all born in the US. I didn't go looking for this, it has been very confusing to me because my Grandma didn't develop her gift, or maybe she did and I don't know, she does use a willow to find water... Here, it is seen as witchcraft. I couldn't be happier that I am not alone.

I'm impressed you can kind of understand (as a native English speaker) up to the middle english period, roughly.

I will begin by explaining my primary struggle: Sometimes (about once a week on average) I am overwhelmed by a solipsistic waking nightmare in which i am the only conscious entity and all the suffering in the world is my fault. It happens mostly in public places but sometimes it strikes at home. When i am hit with it I feel evil and pathetic. In it I am being given a choice. Accept the "knowing" that I am evil and punish myself or opt out of remembering my own lowliness and inherit a greater punishment. The idea behind it is that by sustaining my existence i am sustaining the horrors of this world. As an American i am dependent upon fossil fuels and plastic packaging…

A few years ago I was approached by 3 Sherman at a psychic and paranormal convention you kept telling me that I had an extremely strong energy radiating from me I have a girlfriend who are at once even told me as someone who practices Reiki she has a hard time being around me anyways I was also told I have a very negative male energy attached to me I stopped at a table to get a chakra cleanse and when this woman went to put her hand neat my head she gasped and pulled her hand and back and said she had never seen or felt something so powerful. immediately after she called her husband over who seemed equally as surprised. I asked what they kept looking at. He responded the …

I've already looked at another thread of a new guy, which had links mentioned to two pages on the contemporary shaman which I have read. But I guess this is more just a formal introduction, I've passed through the dark night of the soul, my state is non dual and unfortunately in the process have lost all sense of time and self. Have experimented with a few drugs only to simply stave off suicidal tendencies but not actually for any spiritual reasons. The life, the élan, of my existence is gone entirely. I'm in dire straits but not looking for, nor certainly expecting a quick fix. More so just guidance, I plead to be guided to some information on the subject, and pract…

Hi. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to ask about specifics from classes here, but i am going through my log from Spirals I and this came up. At first i was kind of frustrated because i couldn't conjure to mind specific moments when I had set out to do something but failed to complete it, despite the fact that i knew that i had More than plenty. I have quit and given up on sooo many endeavors. I could remember things but not the pivotal moment when i gave up on my intents because the window of experience/time regarding endeavors is so wide. I couldn't find that specific moment for any of them. finally i went with a more emotional approach. Just seeking the energy of …

I get psychosis about once every week and half to two weeks. I surmised at one point that if this is indeed a spiritual experience/spiritual attack that there must be a literal team of entitites feeding off my energy and manipulating my energy bodies and thoughts, each with their own specialty, towards the end of feeding on specific energy signatures that they manipulate into existence through messing around with my energy and mind. I figure that there are probably lower life form types (animalistic/insect like/ etc) and more intelligent beings as well who feed me mind games. Yesterday, tor pretty much the first time ever, as i started to feel the psychosis setting in, i …

Hello all I've been having a few questions on using allies and how the maker tradition tends to not use them because of the necessary payback that is involved. I'm going to be doing an Ayuascha ceremony soon, and am wondering about all of this. And when it comes to food as an ally, how are we giving back with that? I'm not sure I understand this concept very well, any input will absolutely help!

A few other questions, put up here in case no one wants to read this novel of mine (no hard feelings. It's just that there's not really anywhere I can express myself about this. I did hold back believe it or not -.- ) What sorts of entities go about possessing people? And why, respectively? Are there any possessions not considered a negative thing, i.e. more symbiotic? Multiple souls sharing a body? I doubt it, but if so, how can you tell the difference? If I do indeed have a demon, it wishes harm only on those who 'deserve' it, i.e. rapists, pedophiles, etc. Still hateful, predatory emotions, but very specific. It feels protective and guardian-like, …

"All beings are of the light. You have many guides working with you for your ascension." http://in5d.com/inner-earth-dracos-and-the-false-light-campaign/ "All humans are equal. Each contains a spark of divinity." http://humansarefree.com/2016/12/organic-portals-race-of-soulless-humans.html "Mother Earth is a benevolent force." http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/historia_humanidad72.htm "You create your own reality." http://montalk.net/matrix/128/the-trap-of-combative-dualism http://montalk.net/metaphys/68/true-reality-creation-part-i

Hello, I have been thinking thoughts that are not my own for about 5 years now. on the very rare occasion they are useful (telling me things i didn't know) but of most the times they are harassing or disturbing. I have been through much humiliation and physical pain in the last 5 years due to the "telepathic?" experience. I have believed my self to be a victim of gangstalking and can kinda relate to the truman show. can someone tell me how to gain a handle on when i communicate with these entities and how to have a more beneficial interaction with them. what are they good for practically?(i think they can help me examine others from afar or even up close) …

Good day. I just recently discovered something interesting and though it would be a good topic to get some insight on. So lately I was spending a lot of time meditating in nature. Near lakes, plain fields, and so on. The thing is at the end of my meditations or my silent walks home I would encounter some animals, cats, birds etc. And encountered animals would notice me only when I would notice them at last seconds of my meditation. For example I was walking home today from my meditation, barely awake I would say. And I got so close to pigeon standing on sideway, that when i noticed him he was one step away from me. I noticed same thing with spiders too, they would ge…

This one is on a video microscope: A Big World of Small Motions: http://youtu.be/fenV3W7hQtw Lorrie

Hello Everyone, I would like to mention that I am new to this forum and I feel privileged to be amongst so many knowledgeable people. Just wanted to understand about the hardships and problem one might face in a lifetime. Is it cyclic or its all about the decision we have taken in our lives. Or is it something related to karma, Last few month have been very tough and I have observed that the cycle continues with me no matter what and how I try to improve things around me. This has been life's journey so far. What should be done differently ? thanks Ash

I don't think so. I believe that what Christians think is that demons exist. I have faced them hundreds of times. My belief is that, and you must realize how hard it is for spirits to climb uphill to reach us through the door, that they must grasp at our most sensitive emotions to reach us. This emotion is fear. It is our most vulnerable point, and thus the most easily grasped from the other side of the door. I say that these "demons" are simply spirits misunderstood by the unitiated, grasping at the nearest threads of our soul that they can from the other side of the door. I do believe that many of their wide-spread beliefs hold weight. I often, especiall…

I've read some time ago on this forum, one of our nice teacher telling that when you're travelling geographically you're actually time travelling. Recently I've had to travel a lot by train doing approximately 75 miles in one hour and what I've felt I when I reached the destination, is that i travelled through time. It's something that puzzled me because logically i only changed my physical position and the two places are on the same time zone. And when I arrived to town B I really had the feeling I was in an other time than I was in town A just one hour ago. Einstein and his theory that if you travel at the speed of light you will age less rapidly, it's weird …

Ahoy there! I am Melissa (though I don't tend to go by my first name online). Rae is a common nickname for me. Whatever mish-mash of my username is fine, too, if that's easiest for folks. I'll skip the rambling intro (for now) and just jump in with a question! I know shamanism as a calling often leads folks to working as a healer in some capacity. It seems practical (inevitable?) to integrate the shamanic into whatever work one does professionally. For people who work in "real world" fields of health and wellness, it seems pretty obvious how the healing might carry over. But I am curious how this might manifest for a professional artist (like me)? I like the idea …

I have asked out sources, with little to no avail, so I figured I would ask here. A few weeks back now, I was asked to purify someone's house. During the ritual I was burning sage and moving the smoke about the area. Almost immediately, there where complaints from another of the household about the smell of burning metal. Which was an legitamet complaint. At this point, I was finished the job, I used tobacco, sage, cedar and sweet grass, in a clay pot with the bottom lined with quartz. Doing a small dance with a rattle, it seemed my little fire consumed all of its flresources quicker then I have seen. However the smell left and the negativity broke. I kn…

i know im a shaman for a few reasons i would like to hear others stories and i am hoping an experienced shaman can give me some guidence, so i can make the next step and so i can be ready for what happens next and make the right choices when the creator gives the next sign, the next test, and when the ancestors visit me again. i hope they do, those entities are so cool, and they help me with my creations. i want to share my story but id like to chat with a experienced shaman first for guidence, thank you

Hello fellow shamanic practitioners, I have been journeying for about a year and experienced something rather strange last night during a short journey. I embarked on the journey with a very well defined intention/question and about 2/3 of the way through, I felt as if my body was literally overtaken by the spirit of an eagle. It may be important to say that Eagle is my power animal, but I have never before felt like I actually was the eagle in any kind of physical sense. In my trance state, it literally felt like the spirit of an eagle pressed into me and I then experienced having a beak and my actual human head began making subtle involuntary movements and I felt…