What is a Shaman?
The Shamanism of the East and West
When you begin to delve more deeply into the shamanic paths of various
native traditions, you begin to realize that each represents a focused
area of a much larger picture that overlaps the traditions of yoga,
eastern and western mysticism and spiritual traditions.
That larger picture is who we are as energetic beings, as beings of
spirit.
If you speak to native elders and healers, they are likely to resent the
word shaman, because the word largely misrepresents what it purports to
mean.
Our culture's early interaction with shamans historically associates them with particular healing traditions such as those found in Siberia and Mongolia. And so shaman is and has been associated with nature spirits and with channeling these kinds of forces on the one hand, and on the other hand, through ignorance it has been relegated to a kind of stagecraft, as a means of intercession with illness.
What is missing in this picture is the inner
state of the practitioner. As a culture, we over focus on the outer
clothes, and ignore the person inside. What is missing with this picture
is the understanding of what the shaman really is.
One working definition of the shaman is one who acts out of their deep
connection to spirit, their own inner knowing, their own deep stance in
what is, and what is perceived by being in the moment, rather than what
one has been taught to believe and see.
It is the ability to be in the present
moment, and thus more connected to spirit, that is the real tool of the
shaman. That tool has been honed through the shaman's own healing and
reestablishment in that inner connection. And it is in the present
moment, in reconnection to spirit that true healing takes place. This is
the secret behind fire ceremonies, rites and rituals that bring us
closer to that state.
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The art and practice of a shaman extends from being grounded in spirit.
For a shaman, all paths lead from spirit; all of the outer forms are expressions from within.
It is also the place of true healing.
Roman Oleh Yaworsky