A Mesa Carrier embodies love and acceptance and is one who develops a personal and intimate relationship with the unseen world for the purpose of being of service as a healer. This relationship is cultivated experientially through self-induced, altered states of consciousness, ritual ceremonies, refined energetic work, and awareness. Shamanism is not a religion. It is a spiritual practice, grounded in reverent awareness that the universe is animated, conscious, and energetically interdependent. Guiding Principles: * Everything the Mesa Carrier does has to be based on love and acceptance; first of one’s self and then of each other. * Everything is alive. Everything manifests a physical form from the same essence. The Mesa Carrier learns to attend this knowledge. * Everything is conscious and watches us. The world is mirrored within us. The Mesa Carrier learns to be a visionary observer. * Everything is interconnected. Everything responds to and is in an interdependent relationship to everything else. * The Mesa Carrier can be a mediator of these interconnections. * Everything transforms. Matter is the dense form of Spirit. Spirit is the subtle form of matter. * Everything is in vibrational flux. Mesa Carriers can be agents of change. * Everything responds to focused intention. Proper intention, purification, protection, and grounding of motive are indispensable for all heartfelt shamanic practice. The Mesa Carrier must know him or herself in order to help others. A hollow bone must know they are a hollow bone and how to stay hollow. * The Mesa Carrier’s task is to come into a right relationship and a reverent communion with the seen and unseen world, so as to mediate between worlds on behalf of themselves and others; they use themselves as hollow bones to channel energy, or they may just use this space for their own spiritual practice. -Taken from www.shamanic-path.com This is my mesa: So far I've done one mesa workshop, and a handful of healing circles. The workshop was such an amazing place, for the first time I felt like I was "home". The people I met there, even though I only spent a weekend with them, became my family. I'd say the most intense part of the workshop had to have been the spiritual sweat. We gathered inside of the lodge, it was completely dark, and then hot stones that were cooked into a fire were pushed in through the door, into the middle of the lodge. Crawling out of that place, I felt reborn, covered in slime and blind, unable to walk. I think it must be what a newborn goes through, to have all the memories of life, but to be completely helpless. Afterwards, we all laid on the ground under the trees, holding hands and laughing simply because it felt good to be alive.
wow sweety you have grown sand experienced much since we met you have changes so much and followed new pathses towards emnlightenment i remember my last sweat was intence, it fely like everything changed even the dirt i sat on felt more alove all are one All My Relations mitakuye oyasin
Excellent, excellent post! It's not often i read something about 'shamanism' (although this could be called many things) that i wholly agree with, yet i wholly agree with those guiding principles. And i liked this one particularly because it's not often said or believed: "Everything transforms. Matter is the dense form of Spirit. Spirit is the subtle form of matter." Yeah, great post!
I can't wait for my next mesa class, it's happening in January. I really enjoy the sweat lodge, your body feels great afterward, and sleep comes easy.
i dont have means to get there or i would love to go , i am studing lakota and white bufflo calf lady came to me and said that i am of the medince road and pipe carrier , i want to find a teacher to show me , i would love to go i pray that i can find a Medince man/ lady to teach me of the red road
Wow, that is THE best description of shamanism I've ever read! I'm am very happy for you. I only hope I can have an experience near that spiritual magnitude.
native american beleif if you kill a white buffalo then your tribe wont go hungry for a long time or was it forever?
well ... like i've said before, i'm not native american. As for my comment ... Ones teacher is within and to be whole is to know this. One can see reflections of that teacher in many forms in life ... but the teacher is within. It's you.
