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                                          Articles with a Shamanic Flavour

Connecting to our Ancestors

Many years ago on a Suffolk field I had an experience that eventually changed my life.......... an understanding dawned that I was the end product of hundreds of people whose remains had long since become part of the soil of this land.

Spirit Flight

"I am the Bennu, the soul of Ra, and the guide of the Gods in the Tuat:

Let it be so done unto me that I may enter in   like a hawk,  

And that I may come forth like Bennu, the Morning Star”     -Egyptian book of the Dead.      

"I read this inside the front cover of the menu in a city restaurant, a few days after my Croning in which I changed my name to my new Power Animal Sparrowhawk. It struck me how poignant those words were for my own journey of spirit right now."

Tarot-A Way of Inner Knowing

"During the Christian Epoch, many of the earlier skills and understandings were seen as a threat to the establishment of the new ways, and were forced into a sort of "underground" movement that fought to keep these skills from disappearing completely. Information began to be recorded in a sort of "code", that only the initiated could understand. Initiation itself became a way of making it secret and making sure that the person who was being given tuition was in fact, safe to communicate with."

In Search of My Lost Tribe

 "It has bothered me for some years. I have felt the need for a tribal root system, and envied the Koori (Australian Aboriginal) and Native American peoples, the Eskimo and the Maori. At least what is still left of it in some cases. But all these people have the potential to know who they are on a tribal level. All have a people to return to, a culture to reclaim. My heritage has been systematically dispersed by my own people."