Old traditions have many customs, rituals, ceremonies and colours. Each is somewhat dramatic in their own way, more and more unique with each shaman. Our Australian “Naturistic Shamanic Tradition” does not aim to copy any of these older customs, rather, it with clarity brings forth and shares the engine of what we know shamanism is…
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Shamanism: what you need to know about the fastest-growing ‘religion’ in England and Wales
republished – Alexander Alich, University of Birmingham Image thanks to Munkhbayar.B, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons According to the latest census, an unlikely “religion” is growing in popularity across England and Wales: shamanism. Just 650 people said they subscribed to the belief system in 2011, but that figure has increased more than tenfold over…
Japanese Shamanism and Medical Cures – Kho Nishimura – Psychiatrist
This paper presents a psychiatrist’s perspective of Japanese Shamanism and healing. It has some good examples included. The writer claims the first documented record of possession-style shamanism in Japan was in the 3rd century (page S60). Describes three different forms of shamanic trance: ecstatic, possession and dreamlike (pageS59) Suggests Shamanism and Modern Health can play…
Shamanism: Britian’s fastest growing religion
This article in the Economist claims that rising popularity may be fueled by climate change anxiety. “In the English and Welsh census of 2011 just 650 people said it was their religion. But its popularity is increasing. In the census of 2021, the results of which were released in November, that figure had increased to…
The library of you and changing the world.
If you start changing your life and work on getting your things moving forward, your whole group starts to move in different ways. It just takes one person. Significant changes may take many generations, but it just takes one person to identify and start moving and this frees others to do the same. So it’s…
The modern library of yourself – ready for any future
The Naturistic Shamanic Tradition is about understanding who you are, where you are, and expanding that library of yourself, not based on what everyone else has done before or what is out of date from previous generations, but your own unique up-to-date library. The more you know about yourself and your blackspots and how you…
Communing – the “Gift” – why we journey
“Communing” (Trance) in the Naturistic Shamanic Tradition journey experience. We see this as the experience of: Everything and nothing. The beginning and end of all things. It is the moment of complete knowledge and the abandonment of complete knowledge. The moment of complete experience and the abandonment of control over that complete experience. Communing (trance)…
Difficult lives.
For us, we see spirits in their purest forms as serving. So they turn up and serve. So if a difficult family in a complex and challenging community calls for spirits to take this conception, this life, this promise, this trauma, the spirit will come and do it. At that point of choice to serve,…
Healing in a relationship, partnership or marriage – Naturistic Shamanic Tradition.
Whatever is going on, everyone has a part. Sometimes it may not seem equal, but it is equal. Suppose one partner is allowing something to happen. In that case, there is a yearning for that to happen deep inside, and they can’t make that happen themselves. So, conscious or unconscious, they get involved in something…
Living Authentically
I want to be authentic & live my authentic self. —- Often when people want to be authentic, an outward expression of this, they find themselves judging themselves and others for being inauthentic. This conundrum suggests that they need to understand what being authentic is. Their personal work is to live that. If you are…