CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM

It is now almost like a tradition to find a great antagonism and conflict between Christianity and Paganism, this is not surprising given that history is full of religious conflicts and since the Christian religions began to spread throughout Europe there were many persecutions on both sides.
Early Christians were persecuted by the then dominate religions such as that of he Romans, the Jews and so on. Later on once Christianity had become dominant there were great persecutions of non Christians. We can mention the crusades, the inquisition, the witch hunts and so on.

In recent times there has been a resurgence of the "old religions" under many banners, including Wicca, witchcraft, druidry, neo-paganism and many more and in these currents it is normal to find a resentment and even outright hostility toward anything remotely Christian.

If we look, however, beyond appearances we can see that within the ancient traditions that get called "pagan" there are many positive currents of light as illustrated by the legends of the Tuartha De Danan (the people of the Goddess Danu) or in the stories of the welsh bards like Taliesin.
Merlin is another example of a supposedly pagan figure who embodied divine elements and practiced shamanic magic whilst also being associated with esoteric or Gnostic Christianity.
Some would say that even figures such as these have been christianised and therefore tainted in some way but if we are more objective we can understand things differently.

In Britain and in Europe as a whole it is clear that there existed a Solar cult that studied the cosmos and all its movements, invoking the Solar Logos. The Celts in particular were a race that had their solar myths and Lugh of the Long Arm, leader and king of the Tuartha de Danan was a figure of light and wisdom, being a Solar Deity, a civilizer and saviour of his people, similar in many respects to Quetzalcoatl the great teacher of the peoples of ancient Mexico or to Krsna in the Hindu mythology.

At the same time within the Celtic traditions and myths there are negative currents. The Tuartha De Danan had to overcome a negative race of ¨Sea Demons¨called the Formorians that practiced sorcery and black magic, in order to install a kingdom of light and superior teaching in Ireland.
Eventually their teaching and wisdom stretched across all of Europe and the name of Lugh or Lu can be found in many place names around western and central Europe (eg Lucerne, Lundinium, Lyon)

In all these mythological stories we see what is the traditional battle between the Solar and Lunar currents.

The natural order of the Solar system is that the Sun rules all. The Sun is like the King around which the other planets revolve. Clearly the moon has a different role and on our planet she rules the waters, influences cycles of growth and germination etc. Everything has its role and purpose but when the lunar currents dominate there is an imbalance, for in this sense the Lunar domination affects the psychology of the people making them slaves to the unconscious, to the animal instinct and thus they act as if they were asleep, following illusions and impulses of which they don't have consciousness. This lunar influence, when it is imbalanced, leads mankind into acts of tremendous folly such as wars and senseless destruction of countries, races, cultures and even, as we now see, the planet itself.
When the Solar current is in its rightful place and in balance with the waters of life and the Lunar element, consciousness rules and the light of the spirit is evident in all. Mankind is capable of co-ordinating acts of great significance and beauty that instruct and help all beings.
The pre-Christian cultures of Europe had their moments of great wisdom and glory, as we have mentioned, but they also had their moments of decay and negativity. This was due to the entry of the lunar currents into the culture and the use of negative practices such as human sacrifice, orgies, sorcery etc. In Greek pagan tradition we can see very clearly the contrast between the original cult of Dionysius which was an ecstatic and inspirational tradition that used sacred plants, music, sexual and other elements in order to elevate the spirit and the later degeneration into orgies, drunken-ness and chaos.

When Christianity began to spread across Europe, initially it was a positive influence and it wasn't always in a state of conflict that the early "Gnostic Christians" met with their "Pagan" counterparts.
In the years just after Christ was crucified and resurrected Christians arrived in Ireland and met with Druids and Druidesses that were still working with the Solar initiatic traditions taught to the first Celts that arrived in Ireland by the Tuartha De Danan.

The Gnostic Christians of that time formed alliances with those Druids and thus was born an interchange that led to the expression of a Celtic Christianity that honoured both the sublime wisdom of Jesus Christ and the ancient teachings of the Celts with their shamanic rites performed at sacred wells and springs and in woodland groves where the Oak trees were venerated along with the magic of the mistletoe and many other elemental spirits of the forest. This was not strange to these people that received the light directly due to their esoteric knowledge.
In parts of County Clare in the west of Ireland there are still the remains of the caves and small churches where communities of early Celtic Christians lived close to nature.
It is interesting to note the old stories that say the Celtic Monks lived each with a female companion hidden away in the magical valleys of the rocky hills of The Burren in County Clare.

It is also worth reflecting that it is to many of those early Celtic-Gnostic Christian communities that we owe great thanks because they preserved intact and wrote down the stories of our Gaelic ancestors – a preservation of ancient Pre-Christian wisdom that has few parallels around the world, so those early Pagan-Christians were hardly folks that abused or showed disrespect to that which has gone before thus demonstrating that it is not the Christian teaching per se that has lead to all the wrong doing, prejudice, persecution and cruelty against “non-christians” but more the product of the inherent lack of balance and the psychological illness of mankind caught up in the never ending battle of the opposites, identified with one side or the other and thus in conflict… Christianity seems to have suffered much from this plague and perhaps when we look at the nature of some of the stories with the sudden conversions from being “sinners” to zealous missionaries (eg. Paul with his epithany on the road to Damascus) we can see certain underlying psychological traits that repeat themselves.
We were sinners and then we saw the light!!!! And now everyone must see the light we saw.
This is a typical reaction of our immature psychologies.. So maybe now has come the time for us to grow up a bit???


Even today we can still appreciate something of that celtic inspiration in the illuminated manuscripts such as The Book of Kells that tell the story of Christ with the beautiful art of the Celts.

The cross is not only christian for it appears in many traditions and esoterically symbolises the union of the Male and Female elements in harmony. With the cross as their symbol, the early christians that arrived in Ireland harmonised with the celtic cult of nature worship and showed the example of how in reality the old religions in essence are completely compatible with the Christic teaching.

The other side of the coin, however, was that later there arrived a cult that worshipped a dead man on a cross and lived in the darkness of religious fanaticism, persecuting all those that didn't bow before their dogmas, guilt ridden, self loathing, repressed psychologies etc. This was the Lunar Christianity that had imprisoned the light of Christ's message within the morbid minds of people that insisted on repressing that which they didn't know how to transform. These people even persecuted the Celtic Christians despite the fact that they believed in Christ. The tyrants of that dogmatic interpretation of Christ´s message couldn't feel comfortable with people that had real freedom. The Celtic Church was soon repressed and outlawed as the political power of the Roman Church was imposed upon the British people.

It is a historical fact that the dark version of Christianity manifested through the Catholic Religion and later the Lutherian and puritanical version called Protestantism. These became the dominant forms each claiming to have the final word on all that pertains to Christ and his teachings. This has confused many people and led also to resurgences in the old religions as an attempt to escape the psychological repression that has stifled so many lives.

In this respect the licentious and libertine aspects of “Lunar paganism” are like the opposite and give an outlet to the repressed desires. On one hand we have the puritanical repressive regime of fanatical Christianity and on the other the libertine currents of the "new age", "neo paganism" etc. that are only the alter ego of the repressed fanatics. The two are apparently in conflict but in reality they are both collaborating to keep people in ignorance. Many youths today reject the boring and grey image of Christianity, changing it for varieties of paganism, psychedelia or plain materialism.

They say that "If this is religion I don't want to know" and thus they are driven toward the currents of degeneration, materialism etc. Into the space left by their rejection of the traditional religions there
steps a large variety of gurus, cults, philosophies etc. that give licence to the repressed egos and justify many acts of degeneration as acts of liberation.

People such as the infamous "magician" Aleister Crowley were the forefathers of the modern degeneration and reaction to the stuffy and repressed atmosphere of christian society.
Later on figures such as Jim Morrison of the Doors embodied a return to what were perceived as "pagan" ways with his pseudo mysticism and his "Dionysian" poetry and revelry. For many young people in the 60's cultural icons like Jim Morrison gave a false idea of the Dionysian vibration with his abuse of LSD and other drugs with his constant allusions to literary figures and claims of being a shaman. (We say he was a pseudo shaman because Morrison was giving a stage version of so called Shamanism in the modern “American style” for the modern youth. Perhaps for some it led to a deeper exploration and served as a starting point but Morrison and others of his generation did not end up as wise men or woman they died painful deaths and showed themselves to be as confused as the rest of us.)


The rebirth of "paganism" however was and is more than these famous and theatrical anecdotes and so a wider revival has occurred making claims to be a "witch" or "wizard" fashionable and paganism was deemed once more to be acceptable.

Since then there has been an ever wider cultural explosion of literature and art that relates to the so called "pagan" experience.

For different people this can mean many things and each has his own subjective take on what is the "true paganism" but our wish is to be objective and look at these cultural changes with consciousness of the principles that define any current or "vibration." For this reason we say that we should learn to look beyond mere appearances and discern the values behind the manifestations.
In reality it doesn't matter if one calls oneself a Pagan or a Christian because neither in itself is a guarantee of spiritual transformation, what is important is the essence of your practice and the interior values.. it is not what you call yourself, it is what you are that counts.

What is clear is that in any tradition it is possible to find the Solar and Lunar currents.

The Solar current is that which seeks conscious awakening in the light. It is that which seeks to shine the light of the spirit in the darkness of the unconscious in order to comprehend the path toward awakening… to fecund the darkness, animate it and bring it to life. This was something that was also observed and expressed by the greatest modern psychologist Carl Gustav Jung who had the perception and discernment to be able to interpret the symbols of the collective sub-conscious and their meaning. Indeed we could say that Jung was a representative of the Solar current within the world of psychological study and Freud personified the Lunar current given that he proclaimed that we humans are mere slaves only to the Sub-conscious and to the sexual energy. The difference he had with Jung was that Jung observed that there is a transcendent current in human psychology. This observation led Jung to comprehend the inner nature of alchemy which seeks to activate this transcendent function. All the Solar expressions of the religious impulse are transcendent and offer a path of psychological and spiritual healing by means of a transformation of the inner values by which we live. Mental illness is a result of a breakdown in the natural capacity for self transformation and indicates a need to activate this.

In truth we can say that light is light and crosses all cultural boundaries. Those that are of the light recognise each other because the light knows the light and there is always affinity, friendship and understanding where there is light.

The Lunar currents are those that are always stuck on and identified with the external appearances. Under the Lunar influence the psychology is obsessed with its own reflection. It is subjective and easily subject to illusion. In the times that we are living practically all the world is under this Lunar influence and this is what keeps us trapped in the Maya of this material world, identified as if this were all and everything.
Lunar man has created a "civilization" full of the shine of false hopes, the trick of mirrors and the glint of neon. It is this lunar current that causes such confusion and contradiction in the minds of the people, obscuring the light and creating conflict.
Thus the Lunar mind perceives that which is, in essence the same, as something opposed. (The light of the moon is not the opposite to the light of the Sun… it is the reflection of Sunlight…!!)
But instead of seeing the “other” as part of itself, it inverts everything. For this reason country fights country, brother fights brother and all is an illusion designed to keep us from uniting and returning to the light where we would see all objectively and once more be able to live in harmony.

(NOTE- Given the sensitivities that are present in our modern age even to make statements of this kind that frame Solar as "good" and Lunar as "bad" is something that perhaps some people would object to.... so to explain we are not donating the Moon as "inferior" in any way... The Moon has her place and function as a satellite that revolves around our planet Earth which is also donated as a Feminine element of the Cosmos... but the whole of the KOSMOS is in one respect feminine.. This is the PACHAMAMA... The Cosmic Mother. She is the generator of life... from her all form comes.)

The Solar aspect is the light that fecunds the dark and in their harmonious relationship creation comes to be... When the human being is overly biased toward one or another element of the creation or of the psychology (which is a mirror of creation) we have the creation of “ISMs” i.e. - favouritisms; thus machoism (Mysogeny) and feminism are two sides of the same coin. Often today we have the problem that many women feel bad with the way woman has been treated, they are wounded, as is Mother Earth, by the imbalanced male energy... This is true and has happened and no-one can deny it... but if the male is imbalanced it is because also the female has become imbalanced... the illness is in all of us. So when a woman responds to or feels that pain and this makes her afraid of men or reject men then she is not going to find healing because man and woman are one in flesh and blood and we are opposite but complimentary and we need to face the wound TOGETHER and for the woman to comprehend that because SOME MEN behave badly then it does not mean she needs to reject all men or all male expression because the Male of the species and the Male aspect of God exist, always existed and will continue to exist and without the Male then there would be no creation, no life etc. just as without the female there would be no creation of life. Both are necessary and both have their role.

Maybe in this life you were born a woman, maybe before in another you were a man or visa versa so we don't know all we have lived in multiple incarnations.. sometimes we have been the aggressor, sometimes the victim, if we are wounded it is also because we have wounded others too - this is the Law of KARMA.. Cause and effect, action and reaction, so to blame and to attack the other sex for the so called collective sins of those from that sex is not logical in the ultimate sense although it is "understandable" given that we are all trapped in duality and can often only see one side of the coin... Many times nowadays as a man one can feel the rejection from women and this can come even when one offers love and not invasion so we all have to be patient and not let those instances of rejection, fear, pain etc. to stop us trying to make a change in the way we relate... It takes time and perseverance to make the work of shamanic healing....)

If by paganism we mean a spiritual way that acknowledges the many aspects of God (and God is not "Male" God is BEYOND all that) as expressed by the Gods and Goddesses of the old religions then we would say let’s use the ancient rites of our ancestors in order to make a true transformation of our consciousness. Let’s revive the communion with Mother Nature so that we can return to our roots and liberate our souls from the psychological prison we have closed them in, let's work to eliminate from ourselves the selfishness that harms others.


Here we want to send the message that all is ONE. God is ONE and the light is the light… but God has many faces and there are many emanations that come from the absolute. For this reason it is clear that it is possible to reconcile polytheism and monotheism. There is only one God and yet there are many Gods and Goddesses.
Perhaps in the Hindu tradition we can see the example of a culture that at its height managed to reconcile the one with the many.Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and yet God has infinite manifestations. Perhaps this is why for the Hindus it was not difficult to recognise that Jesus Christ was like "God made flesh" even though he wasn't a Hindu and didn't speak or dress like Krishna.
Equally we also know that, for example, Lugh of the Long Arm, God of the Gaels of Ireland and Europe was also"God made flesh" he was another incarnation of Divine Light and Consciousness in a human body.. And in the same way Bridgid or Bridey, Goddess of the Sacred Fire, Guardian of the Medicine and of the workers of Metal was also the an embodiment of God in the Feminine aspect.. etc etc etc...

True religion comes from the practice of principles and values that ultimately transcend cultural differences. Sadly, due to the abuse of spiritual principles by the human ego there have always been conflicts, lies, hypocrisy etc that have entered the distinct cultures around the world and in the end this led to monotheism and later to atheist materialism like a succession of reactions to the spiritual failures of mankind. In the end Marx concluded that "religion is the opium of the masses" and this thought echoes in many minds today. This in reality is yet another defect of mankind. It is not the fault of God that man has turned religion into an opium rather than a means to reach God.
That is the fault of man but mans greatest fault is perhaps to always blame outside himself rather than look within.

When the people are united we will never be defeated and WE CAN CREATE A BETTER WORLD, it's a question of changing our perspective, opening our minds and working for change. What we need to do is clean from our minds rigid perceptions and allow the new to enter and not let ourselves swallow the lie that tried to divide us.

CYBERSTALKING AND INTERNET ABUSE

As many will realize the world of internet hides many things and is used by many types of people to propagate different causes, agendas, opinions, ideologies, rumours, conspiracies and, in some case, hatred and defamation of innocent persons. This kind of things is easy in the internet age given that many people have become experts in hiding their true identities making it easier for them to attack and defame or criticism other people with false accusations that they are not able to prove.

False accusations. Many cyberstalkers try to damage the reputation of their victim and turn other people against them. They post false information about them on websites. They may set up their own websites, blogs or user pages for this purpose. They post allegations about the victim to newsgroups, chat rooms or other sites that allow public contributions and attempt to gather information about the victim. 

Cyber stalkers may approach their victim's friends, family and work colleagues to obtain personal information. They may advertise for information on the Internet, or hire  a private detective. They often will monitor the victim's online activities and attempt to trace their IP address in an effort to gather more information about their victims, encouraging others to harass the victim. Many cyber stalkers try to involve third parties in the harassment. They may claim the victim has harmed the stalker or his family in some way, or may post the victim's name and telephone number in order to encourage others to join the pursuit. False victimization. The cyber stalker will claim that the victim is harassing him. 


As a group of people that has been involved with Shamanism and other themes that are spiritually orientated we have, at times expressed some controversial opinions in the internet especially in relation to the way that current political and social behaviour is effecting the planet, the plants, the wild life and also the human life in this materialist system that values money higher than life itself.

Due to this we have had the experience over the years of being attacked and vilified numerous times, sometimes even by people that claim to have a spiritual focus.

For some reason there are people that do not have enough of a life of their own or who are frustrated and dissatisfied with their existence, unable to find happiness and so on and such people can fall into many negative psychological states and even make a whole project designed to attack and vilify people that do have a life and that do have things to share on a positive level…

Such it has been that as a result, being students of Gnosis we have been attacked and slandered by fellow gnostics. Being students of Shamanism we have also been attacked by other so called “shamanic” people and recently we have become aware of the existence of online HATE GROUPS that make it their business to defame, attack, accuse and slander all under the cover of internet secrecy.

Such groups resemble online CULTS in which they have tyrannical leaders that control the forums they manage, accusing innocent people of serious crimes without evidence. They allow people to register on their forums anonymously and to register grave slanders, publishing names, addresses, telephone numbers, photos and email addresses, exposing the targets of their hate to potential attacks and harassment either online of even physically.

Such groups do not observe legal procedures and hide behind masks of internet secrecy, registering their sites in countries where there are few restrictions on internet activity and where it is more difficult for anyone to pursue a legal case against them.

Closer analysis has shown us that often these sites are run by very suspicious people with military connections or connections to spy networks such as the CIA or others. Their purpose seems to be to attack and harass anyone that expresses opinions of a spiritual or shamanic nature and doesn’t fit their narrow category of an approved worldview.

Furthermore when people try to defend themselves or to demonstrate that their accusers are unstable and mentally ill people that carry bad intentions and perpetrate lies they censor and block their responses.

We have seen that the leaders of such sites are people with psychopathological tendencies, individual psychological problems and social dysfunction. They are people that, unable to find satisfaction in their lives, dedicate to making difficulties for others.

The leaders of these ONLINE CULTS show themselves as intolerant, racist and full of hate for others. They accuse others of different kinds of abuse but typically these kinds of people are abusive people, playground bullies that get satisfaction from hurting and trampling on others, and even putting their lives in danger.

We advise anyone that seeks out information on the internet to be careful and to find out where the information is coming from… Find out a bit about the forum you visit and observe what their general attitude is, is it an online discussion in which differing views are debated fairly or do they use bullying tactics, censorship, double standards.

Above all use your own judgement and practice CRITICAL THINKING…. Don't take all that is said as true just because its online. A lot of people public lies and distortions online and seek to slander and defame others simply because they get a sadistic kick out of it. Intelligent people do not fall for such things. They take their time to think for themselves and are not affected by such attacks.

Here we mention no names, we leave people free to be aware for themselves and decide for themselves who is telling the truth.

May All Beings be in PEACE.


SOLAS AMARU

WITCHES, MACHIS, FEMINISTS, PSYCHEDELIA, GNOSTICS AND OTHER LIES.

Salem, the social movement of psychedelia began in the USA, with the first famous article on mushrooms by Gordon Wasson (Timelife 1957), through which also began the career of the psychedelic guru of LSD, Timothy Leary, who, before brainwashing the American youth, worked at Harvard University, Massachusetts ... Today, it is common knowledge that Timothy Leary was a CIA agent, with he himself admitting his ties. The roots of psychedelia are found in Salem, Massachusetts near to Harvard.

Upon entering into the practice of witchcraft, a psychedelic witchcraft apprentice easily comes to believe that christianity and spirituality is a lie.

Witches also believe that order, ancestral tradition, discipline, respect, love and harmony are all their "enemies" the same as good and goodness.

"The new order" has nothing new, it is simply a return to the vibration of involution, a return to the lunar cults of backward times, to the blind and deaf ignorance of the past. Today with feminism, people are increasingly ignorant and the main ignorance is in the woman who has been the easiest prey to be used by the UN (the beast). *Eg Emma Watson.

We see how the Gnosis, after the death of Samuel Aun Weor, became a Lunar cult.

The current Gnostic Church of Colombia and other countries has already been profaned..

Now they eat "Yoni" with Yoni (vagina) in the altars, the same as in the feminist cults, in the UN, among the Marxists, or the crazy lesbians of the degenerated TV programs. All of them have rejected the" Lingam "(Phallus or penis) that is the generator of the seed from which men and women are born.

(Translators Note; There is a cult to the Yoni - The Yoni is worshipped in a vulgar form - The author is also making reference to the fact that in ancient times there were cults to both the Yoni and the Lingam… The Men adored the Yoni and the women the Lingam / These were Solar Cults in which the masculine and feminine were in balance. These cults were not vulgar, but sublime.)

We humans are "seeds" of the Sun. The seeds come out of the semen, the sperm from where are born men and women.

The lunar culture is Jewish, it is Winca, (Mapuche word meaning “heart of stone” referring to the Spanish Invaders and to all Imperialists), it is matriarchal, it is witchcraft, it is brutish, it only accepts the "yoni", therefore it is infrasexual.

The scientists of the United Nations play and experiment with the yonis (vaginas), until they have managed to cross human females with animal sperm, deforming and altering the fetuses, aborting them and even eating them like the cannibal witches of medieval Europe. The feminist witches of today do not say anything about this.

THIS IS THE TIME OF GREAT WHORE, 666, mother of all abortions and fornications. They will be kings for a day, so it is written, they will rule, they will enjoy and they will fornicate, then their terrible punishment will come. (See the book of Revelations/Apocalypse).

The spell of Salem (A word that comes from the Jews, meaning "peace") is behind the psychedelic movement, the feminist movement and behind these two “popular” social movements, are the Satanic Cults and Judaism (the root of Satanism is in the distortion of the ancient Judaic religion which has become a cult of Kabalistic Black Magic).
Modern Witchcraft Cults and also all the false Machis (Mapuche word for a Shaman) or false women shamans, (as in the novel by Florinda Donner, the disciple of Carlos Castaneda), are born from nothing, effortlessly, without kindness, without love, without will, without sacrifice or voluntary sufferings. On the contrary these are born of parties, fornications, drugs, drunkenness, alcohol, television, lying, etc …i.e. of stupid feminist hysteria, so easy.

The new feminist machis that sell their people to the UN are just witches like all the others i.e. those that believe all that comes out of SERNAM,*(SERNAM is a Chilean Insitution dedicated to inserting the Ideology of Gender into education, government etc in Chile) Bachelet, the Piñeras, the Pinochetistas, the rotten and abortionist politicians of bourgeois Chilean socialism but they do not have the wisdom of their ancestors of the Chau Antu, (Chau Antu = Father Sun) because they are ignorant.

EXAMPLE = They are giving publicity and propaganda to this news in Chile: "Sofia was a girl who was eighth grade; She was a cheerful girl, naughty as anyone at thirteen. She was studying in a municipal school in a rural sector of the ninth region; In early 2017, her teacher and classmates noticed changes in her behavior;
"In April, the girl began to show signs of being distracted, pensive and without enthusiasm, the opposite of her usual character. One day when she was in class she had convulsions and started screaming, fell to the ground and fainted. From that moment things with the girl went from bad to worse."
"I remember that one day the girl had a crisis, she started shivering, her eyes went out, she fell to the floor and started talking in her mother tongue, Mapudungun, even though she had never learnt it."

"On another occasion the girl was sitting and suddenly she looked at nothing and her eyes went white, she did not blink ... She was referred to a social worker and a psychologist under the assumption that the girl could have family problems."

After several home visits it was concluded that it was not a case of family violence or violation of her rights and more blah, blah, blah

Do you see what we mean? These shameless Chilean feminists even speak of "violations of human rights” - they that themselves who violate human rights (by approving abortions etc.). What terrible hypocrites and Pharisees they are!

And moreover on top they finish their article by saying that: "To explain these phenomena, Víctor Melinao, Mapuche engineer, relates that;

"In the last 15 years Machis have been born in different parts of Mapuche territory, several decades after they were known to be almost extinct.”

Here we see how they now have" Mapuche engineers "and by this means claim to recover a legitimate ancestral knowledge with university educated “Mapuche engineers” in the style of the Wincas. What a big farce.

Here we can see how it is that lies are invented and in this way the "Machitun" (traditional Mapuche healing ritual) the "Mapudungun" (Mapuche language) and all this ancestral knowledge is now being DEBASED and changed into a tool of the United Nations, the cults of witchcraft and also for the evangelical cults which are similar to spiritism or mediumship.

Translators Note- In the ancient tradition of the Chilean Mapuche if a child has such a kind of a fit or similar it would be considered a condition caused by bad spirits thats needs treatment and not a sign that the child is a Machi.. to this the author is referring)

In this way they are also stealing the treasures of Wallmapu, (Mapuche territory) whilst the Mapuche children are sent to study Winca culture.

What fools, even Gandhi knew that it was ridiculous to send his children to school in the schools of the enemies of peace and nature. ... and in fact, Salem is not peace, it is a spell, a LIE, repeated so many times that it becomes "real" ... it is the spell-lie that rules the feminist mind of today.

To complement what we are saying let's see this:

The Creation of the Religion of Witchcraft.

The feminists of the United Nations have promised humanity that through they, the feminists, will re-establish the ancient religions of witchcraft and thus replace christianity, and in general the so called “patriarchal religions.”

For the feminists everything that has logic, order, discipline, will, sacrifice, kindness, love etc. is Patriarchal and everything that is capricious, hysterical, vengative, cowardly, corrupt, false, abortive, cannibal, hypocrite and cynical etc. is Matriarchal.
(all this is a distortion of the facts in which all which is masculine is labelled as evil and these false ideas about feminism are considered as the truth...)

Therefore, feminism has launched a spiritual war against the Christ, and today, for many witchcraft represents “good” and christianity, evil.

This is the way of the so called “new order” that is; to put the head down and the legs up. (inverted)

Atte: CAMINU (United Campesinos and Indigenous.)

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The King Of The Greenwoods

The Great Oak in all its majesty stands strong in the woodlands of the Celtic Isles and within its boughs and the sinews of its mighty trunk holds a history and a testimony to the fall of our race from a wisdom and a sacred way of life, lived in veneration and love of nature.

The Oak is one of the longest living trees and throughout the history of the Celtic lands has played an important part in the lives of the people. Its extremely dense and hard wood was prized for its durability and used in the construction of houses and ships, as firewood. Before iron tools were invented the oak had proved impossible to fell and subsequently the wood was used to make the charcoal needed to fire the furnaces that separated iron from its ore. The Oak was planted to mark boundaries due to its longevity and ability to endure for 100’s of years. The Oak begins to produce acorns when it is 70 to 80 years old and land used to be valued by the amount of acorns it produced as this was the food on which the swine were fed. Lightning was known to be an expression of the fire of God and the Oak’s boughs which reach as high to heaven as its roots reach into the earth attract the magnetic force of lightning as they often grow where two water veins cross. The Druids would carve a circle divided by a cross in four parts in order to protect the tree from being struck. The name of the Druids is derived from “DRU-WID” which means “Knower of the Oak trees” and they worked closely with the oak that formed the basis of their culture and spiritual practice. Oak trees were held in high esteem and reverence by the Ancient Celts. They would not plant the Oak tree close to their homes as the tree was considered too sacred and their rightful place to be in the wilds of nature where they would be used as the temples of the woodlands where ceremonies and sacred rituals would be held. Our Celtic Ancestors would invoke the pure forces of nature and beneath the green of the oak tree glade would perform their sacred rituals, dances and spiritual rites inspired and guided by the great Oak spirit, Deva Nahosha. They would also hold meetings beneath its boughs to come to decisions on morality, law and order within the community which was said to receive the force of the Oak and therefore would endure and stand firm like the tree itself. An era of spiritual freedom reigned and the wisdom of nature was with the Celts as they were with her. However this culture of wisdom and knowledge was damaged and eventually destroyed by the fanatical efforts of the church to turn people to Christianity and with violence they began they began their war against the culture that held nature in awe and respect. A clergyman named Bonifatius declared outright war on the so called heretical practice of tree worship, turning his fury against the sacred temples of the Oaks. To stand up to Bonifatius and his great army meant death and many stood by and watched in horrified silence as he uprooted their beloved Oaks and burnt them to ashes. It was only when he reached the Friesians (Northern Germany/Holland) where the people had warrior force, that Bonifatius was struck dead. Despite this and many other campaigns to destroy the sacred shamanic culture of tree worship the spirit of the people was strong and the elementals of the trees were with them and the church, in its first attempts, failed to put an end to it. The pride and arrogance of the church, however, was strong and the began to claim the trees for themselves, declaring them holy to their saints. They began to imitate the practices of the true Celts but now all was cloaked in their rigid doctrine which seeks to dominate and convert. Just as they pillaged, attacked and destroyed the sacred cultures of the indigenous of South America, blinded by their pride and oblivious in their ignorance of the spiritual treasure that those peoples held, they also enslaved the deep wisdom of the men and women of the nature worshipping Celts and so the fall of that race was initiated. The felling and enslavement of the Oak spirit was symbolic of the fall of its sacred culture. All of the wisdom of nature was reserved and more than half a million Oaks were felled to build the ships of the naval fleet that would go out to pillage and conquer. Thus the destruction of the Oak’s wisdom gave rise to the building of the British Empire. Today the wild nature of the woodland has been slain and what is left of our sacred trees and forests is imprisoned by the energy of materialism which despises all that is of God and nature and seeks to control and exploit the very spirit of the plants. The Oak still stands defiant, he still holds his wisdom despite all that is against him but he has withdrawn now from his people who have forsaken him for the worship of the Golden Calf. Now the great Oak spirit only waits and watches in silence as the karma befalls these lands, for all the wrong that has been done to our fellow man and to Mother Nature. The door is only open to those with a sincere heart, those that remember the ancient promise that has been made to honour and protect our sacred land and to keep its wisdom pure. If we return to the Father Oak and speak to him, remembering his love with gratitude, it relieves something of the pain that the treason of his people has caused him, freeing a part of his spirit that will help us on our spiritual path, giving us strength, endurance, perseverance and the will to fight to defend all those that suffer as the hands of the injustice that this culture inflicts upon humanity. SISA PACHALINA.

AIDS & HIV… A Shamanic Journey

UPDATE with respect to the article AIDS & HIV.... A Shamanic Journey.

The following article (see below) has been subject of some negative comments from elsewhere and we have been accused of many things for publishing this kind of message about the potential of plant medicine and plants such as Ayahuasca to help in processes of curing major diseases.

This is the most read article on this blog and some people arrive here from links posted on websites that have a very critical view of what we have written. They have accused us of writing these things in order to get publicity so that we can make profit from this. We have also been accused of many more additional things by one website in particular but the owners and moderators of that website have never published any concrete evidence of anything they say.
They are happy to put up random and unsubstantiated comments from "anonymous" people and have even published names and addresses, id numbers, photos and emails of various members of our community and slandered us with some very serious accusations.
When we or friends of ours have responded to such postings by revealing the identity of one person who we know to be giving them information we were banned from defending ourselves and we were told that posting personal information about people was a instance of bullying and stalking which, apparently on that website they do not tolerate.
However when it comes to us it is a different matter. Apparently we are fair game, we don't count and that to name us, put photos up, give emails and id numbers in our case is not intimidation and stalking. In that case they define it as "criticism." Perhaps they think that people will not notice the contradiction ? It seems that for them it is OK to publish personal details about us because, according to them, we are just an evil cult and so our human rights in that case do not count.

If you come here from that website then please take into account these things.

This has been going on since 2011 and in the most part we have not responded much because we are too busy to do so. We are working people and we have much to do to grow our food, to learn about plant medicine, shamanism and community living so we don't have time to spend hours on the internet getting involved in long arguments as all costs time and money and we have not made loads of money out of what we do, contrary to what these people say about us.
This blog is just a small blog, it is about all we have published in English and it is far from being a complete set of information about Shamanism but we are a little surprised that it has attracted the attention that it has attracted and that some people feel very disturbed and shocked by the idea that illnesses such as AIDS could be cured. It is a matter that we have, of course reflected upon and why that should get such a negative reaction, almost hysterical, from some people.

In due course, perhaps, we shall publish some reflections on all of this.

In the meantime we have more practical work to do.

The article that follows has now been updated as of Nov 2018 with some additional clarifications made at the end. These are presented in italics.

Judge as you feel fit, take your own conclusions and if you come here from the website forum where we have been slandered and accused of being fraudulent in what we do then just remember that there are two sides to every story and if you are the type of person that judges from only hearing one side then we will leave you to your judgements and if you are prepared to believe what those online hate groups say then you are free to do so. Everyone is free to think what they like but we think it says more about the people on that website, the way that they put people on trial, condemn them and label them, opening them up to all sorts of attacks from other sources without any hint of considering that someone is innocent until proven guilty. In their eyes we have been guilty from the outset and they have encouraged us to be harassed, stalked, bullied etc. Like I say, IT SAYS MORE ABOUT THEM that they are so full of double standards to do such a thing and by doing all that they take the step to DEHUMANIZE us and to DEMONIZE us.

It is similar to how many folk in the middle ages that practiced plant medicine, or that challenged the Catholic Orthodoxy were burnt at the stake by the Inquisition. They were labelled as heretics just because they stated opinions and gave air to ideas that were outside of the accepted ones of the time…. Nowadays people are not literally burnt at the stake but they are most certainly marginalized and vilified publicly without recourse to any kind of intelligent dialogue or attempts from the moralists to comprehend what they are saying, but anyway, so much for these modern day kangaroo courts...

There is a saying given by SAMAEL AUN WEOR (which was also said by Victor Hugo) that is quite appropriate ——

“HE THAT JUDGES THAT WHICH HE DOES NOT KNOW IS WELL ON THE WAY TO BECOMING AN IDIOT.”



Thank you for your attention and taking the time to read this pre-amble.

WARNING

The article that follows is a direct account made by a witness of this healing process and includes some personal reflections on AIDS and the Shamanic healing process. We would advise anyone reading that if you have HIV or AIDS or know someone that does that in no way do we counsel you to take actions or decisions as a result of reading such an article. This is an anecdotal account which in no way pretends to give a complete description of such a healing process and anyone with such an illness that is looking for alternatives to the official treatments and drug programmes should do thorough research and take their own responsibility for decisions they make. This is, of course, COMMON SENSE but common sense nowadays would seem to be in short supply. For this reason we stress here these things for the original intention of this article always was TO INFORM and to give some explanations or indications as to the nature and factors involved in shamanic healing, the values, human qualities and psychological effort required on the part of both patient and shamanic practitioner not to mention the need for a wide knowledge of plants and the conditions needed for their preparation. Success is never guaranteed in such an endeavour. It should also be noted that the Shaman and students of Shamanism that were involved in this case did not seek out this person and do not ever advertise for or seek patients. We only attend to that which presents itself spontaneously. For that reason here we give no names and addresses, no contacts.


AIDS & HIV… A Shamanic Journey

Just over two years ago we were visited at our Uk Shamanism of Light Centre by a lady that had been diagnosed as HIV Positive. It was the first time that we, as students of shamanism, had come into contact with someone that had been diagnosed (or better put, labelled) as having HIV and on their way to full blown AIDS. At that time I knew very little about the subject other than what most of us have been told by the mass communications network and had never really investigated or approached the subject.

The lady, S, came to participate in a Shamanic ritual with the sacred plant Yaje (or Ayahuasca) after having met us and spoken with us or her wish to drink Yaje. We accepted and so she arrived. At that time she certainly did not look to be in the best of health, she was drawn and thin in her face with a look in-between nervous and haunted.

In that first ceremony as the experience began to get strong I could feel the presence of something in our small Temple-Yurt and as we began to shamanise with our chants to the elemental spirit of Yaje we could feel the spirits begin to arrive.
In a shamanic ceremony the objective is to call positive spirits to come and help the humans to get rid of negative energies they are carrying and help them to have spiritual insight, healing and so on. It is also common that negative spirits will arrive and attack the people. The job of the people such as ourselves who have been trained in the Shamanic techniques, is to be alert to the different energies that arrive into the sacred space and we use our concentration, meditation and sacred chants in order to call the positive forces so that the negative energies will be cleaned. When we do this work well one can feel a force field around the sacred space that repels the bad spirits but in the case that there is a person present carrying a bad spirit then this work requires more concentration.

In this case as we began to chant and chant the Yaje began to show more clearly this strange presence and there was no doubt that it was an entity and that it was intelligent because it had strategies of its own and did not want to leave. It also became clear that this negative entity was in the aura of our friend S and she moved uncomfortably in her experience as if it was annoying her and causing her difficulty. The battle was long and difficult and required an unwavering concentration as we moved into territory that was also a test of our learning as shamanic students but such was the force and unity of our chants that the Yaje heard us and little by little the negative entity was subdued and at the same time S became calmer in her experience. When we finished that chant a sense of relief permeated the atmosphere and the good energies began to flow through the ceremony.
Such was the effect of this that S received an experience in which the Yaje gave her some initial instruction in the psychological and spiritual changes that were necessary to begin a process of healing and thereafter she became a regular visitor to the temple that was hidden amist three tall fir trees. (The elemental of the different species of Fir tree gives far sight and vision).
Very soon the Yaje instructed her to give up taking the drugs prescribed by her consultants and to enter fully into a process of natural medicinal healing. We gave her depurativo, a medicinal tonic for the blood, the digestive system and the immune system. She also began to take Uña De Gato (Cats Claw), a jungle vine with small claw shaped thorns, hence its name, this plant is especially good for the immune system. Over various ceremonies it soon became clear that a big part of her healing process would involve a cleaning of the negative side effects of the cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs that had contaminated her body and penetrated into her bone marrow. She had some particularly strong experiences in which she vomited and vomited whilst the Yaje showed her that it was cleaning the toxins from her bone marrow.
When she gave up taking the drugs, the consultants, of course, told her that she was mad and that within a year she would be dead but thankfully this courageous lady had a lot of fight in her and refused to become psychologically traumatised by the pessimistic prophecies of these modern witch doctors. Indeed, in her case, being a rebel soul, she was determined to proove them wrong and now, after more than two years she has certainly prooved them wrong.

After a few months it was time for me to return to my home in Colombia but S continued to participate in ceremonies with other students from our community and a year and a half later she felt strong enough to make the journey to our community and receive healings from the Shaman who is our teacher and spiritual guide.

When she arrived at our farm I have to say that I barely recognised her such was the change in her face, her energy and her posture. Gone was the haunted look although she was still somewhat weak and, certainly, our Shaman was a little concerned that in this new environment with many bacterias and virus unknown to her body that she would be exposed to a risk of becoming ill.
Very quickly he gave us a long list of treatments with different plants that was to be carried out along with many dietary recommendations and a lot of attention to hygiene. Furthermore the Shaman explained to us that when the Indigenous Taitas make a treatment for an ill person then that person should be segregated from many of the normal activities of the other people, that the person should receive food and drinks, medicines etc using plates, spoons, bowls that were kept apart and used for no-one else. To the modern mind this appears extreme but a shaman is aware that all is energetic and that much care must be taken in this respect so that the person being treated is not adversely affected by other peoples energies and also that other people should not be affected by the energies of their illness. To this effect certain people were given the responsibility to make the medicines and to oversee their administration as well as monitoring the psychological state of the patient since a large element of the healing is completely psychological.

For the initial month or so S struggled to adjust to being a patient, to being attended to but not being permitted to cook food or make medicines. She went through bouts of home sickness, of doubt and other psychological difficulties especially as, through the use of Yaje she was also being shown the roots of many states and events that had led her into the situations in which she came to be diagnosed as HIV Positive but it was easy to see that this lady was nothing if not a spiritual warrior and she stuck with it through thick and thin until one day after some 6 weeks it was decided that she could go on an outing to see some of the local sights. (The area in which we live is a centre for a huge number of megalithic sites left by an ancient and wise Indigenous culture unknown to the archeologists that have studied the the stones)
She was taken on a 5 hour tour on horseback and when she returned she was glowing with happiness and that evening she explained that two years previously when she was gravely ill and seemed to be entering into full blown AIDS a friend had taken her horse riding. She had mounted on the horse for only half an hour and at the end she was so exhausted that she needed to be lifted down from the horse lest she collapse in a heap. The source of her happiness was that after five hours on horseback she had dismounted like a teenager and felt no ill effects. with this experience she was suddenly able to comprehend the depth of the treatment she was having, which, in addition to the medicinal plants, had also involved a series of shamanic healings with the famed Ortega plant.

Thereafter she went from strength to strength and during her three month stay with us not only did we witness a marked improvement in her physical and psychological strength, along with a further improvement in her complexion and her aura, but also she contracted no illness from any strange bacteria or virus of the locality, a feat that many apparently healthy visitors have not managed when coming to Colombia.
When she said goodbye to the Shaman of our community he said to her in his broken English "I think you are better now" and gave her a big hug.

Equally she continues to take the plant medicines prescribed and we have advised her not to let up.

The moral of the story is that there is no illness or condition that cannot potentially be cured by elemental therapy, as natural Shamanic Medicine is called by the Gnostic Master Samael Aun Weor. What we can understand from this experience is that true healing is not simply a case of treating a set of symptoms with loads of drugs. Modern medicine is nothing short of a business arrangement through which certain multi-national companies make a lot of money whilst tricking people in multiple ways. At certain points S said to us that the whole situation smelt of "black magic" and that it was the drugs that were making her ill rather than some virus, that upon investigation, is shown to be more like a fabrication of some depraved imagination rather than something in itself that leads to the so called AIDS syndrome.

True healing is something that occurs and needs to be attended to on many levels; spiritual, psychological, energetic and physical. A person cannot be healed unless, as a first requirement, the person understands the spiritual-psychological factor. Illness is something that is showing us a need to change our lives and the most important factor is FAITH for it is the spirits of the plants that cure us and they will only work for us if we have faith in them as vehicles through which God moves and teaches us to change our way of thinking and feeling. The healing action requires also that we understand that all illnesses are a consequence of certain circumstances that we ourselves have created through ignorance and unconsciousness of the right way to live and also the purpose of existence itself.

The AIDS con.

As a result of this experience, towards the end of her stay with us, we came across certain documents and films that have been produced on the subject of HIV and AIDS… information that only served to confirm our suspicions that the issue of AIDS is a gigantic con trick on humanity.
Taking into account the huge campaign of international propaganda around the so called AIDS epidemic, it is not hard to imagine the terrible and devastating effect of being diagnosed HIV Positive. Personally I remember as a young 20 something taking the test myself and the sense that the rest of my life was to be determined by the results of that test. In my case the HIV test lottery came out negative but little did I know that the tests are not much more than the throw of a dice since none has been shown to be 100% accurate. In fact, scientifically speaking, the so called HIV Virus has never been properly isolated in a manner that is satisfactory to all the scientists that have investigated the theme. Perhaps we could say that the only ones that have been satisfied with the methods used to determine if a person is HIV Positive or not are those such as Robert Gallo, one of the "Doctors" that "discovered" the virus and who receives royalties every time the test is made because he patented that test.
Indeed, even more disconcerting is that fact that among the scientific community there is no overall consensus as to the definition of what AIDS is and the top laboratories are not able to agree upon what constitutes a positive or negative reading of the test because, as we just mentioned, the virus has not been isolated properly and the test is not able to show the presence of HIV itself but rather the anti bodies that combat the virus. Without doubt we can affirm that this is an authentic example of the pseudo science of the Anti Christ.
In some places, such as South Africa, quick tests are done. This involves three distinct test methodologies, the first of which, the nurses that conduct them freely admit, are far from conclusive and very inaccurate. If out of these two you get two positive readings then you are diagnosed HIV positive, if it comes out 1-1 then a third test is taken that they say is marginally more accurate and upon this will depend the outcome. Frankly, you may as well just go to your local casino and play dice or go and toss a coin three times. It is astounding how peoples lives are played with in such a casual way.

In the rest of Africa people are not even tested for AIDS. If a person is ill and sent to hospital whether they have TB, Malaria or whatever if their condition looks deteriorated enough they are simply diagnosed as having full blown AIDS and the person is put on the AIDS drugs from which they inevitably die since the drugs themselves are what kill the people. The sinister plan behind this stinks of downright evil. Why do they not simply treat the person for the illness they have? The answer is that the UNAIDS agency will donate money to the hospitals and doctors that come up with numbers, for this is no more than a numbers game that enables them to receive money and line their pockets, whilst the pharmaceutical companies also rake in billions for killing people. This is the silent genocide of millions around the world and who pays? This is worth investigating for it would be interesting to know where UNAIDS get their money from but there is no doubt that one way or another it is all a convenient form for each country to run up more debt as UN receives its contributions from its member countries and from the "innocent do-gooders" that donate money to these criminal charities.

It is also worthwhile asking the question why is it that there is a UNAIDS agency but not a UN agency for other illnesses or causes of death? Why the big campaign, what is behind it all? Does all this have anything to do with the plan to reduce the world population? It does not seem to be a coincidence that behind the big pharmaceutical companies that deal in death by drugs are the usual culprits. AZT, the first "anti AIDS drug" is a drug that simply kills your cells. In the first years that it was used everyone that used it died. This company (Wellcome organization) is owned by the Rockefeller family and they, surprise surprise, are among those that want to reduce the world population.

HIV - A Quantum Virus?

Some folk that have refused to accept the HIV Positive death sentence have taken many tests and have found that in one it comes out positive, in the next negative and so on. Our friend S told us that once diagnosed HIV one is given periodic blood tests in order to take your CD4 count and the viral load count. Her nurse told her that she had noticed that the test results were clearly affected by the emotional state of the person, their psychological state, their stress level and so on.
In other words, "HIV" behaves like a quantum particle…. one minute its there, the next its not.. so where does it go? This fits with our shamanic experience that has shown us that HIV is more like some kind of malignant entity…
S told us that she has witnessed many cases of African women that get shipped over to Britain to receive treatment on the condition that they sign up to be guinea pigs for the pharmaceutical companies for testing out new drugs to be used later on their more privileged patients from the "first world" such as the gay community since the "pink pound" is one of the major sources of money when it comes to donations to the scientific laboratories that research new drugs and homosexuals are among those most willing to pay through the nose in order to prolong their agony.

Those African ladies, many of them fanatical evangelical Christians, are understandably totally destroyed internally when they get diagnosed with HIV as their religion coupled with the propaganda tells them that it is because they are terrible sinners. In such cases total psychological collapse is very quick and death follows swiftly. The words of S were that it was literally as if those women had been cursed by a witches spell and she may not be far from the truth. This evasive virus thats there then its not, that appears like an entity seems to act like some kind of entity that has been created by some terrible act of black magic. It is an illusion created by some very sick minds.

Indeed, this is very much backed up by the research of more enlightened Doctors such as Roberto Giraldo, a Colombian Doctor who has studied the human immune system for nigh on 40 years. He says he has cured many cases of HIV-AIDS and his investigations have shown that the single most important factor in maintaining a healthy immune system is our psychological state. Apart from this diet and lifestyle also have a big effect but seeing as the negative traits that we develop such as drug abuse, sexual degeneration, bad diet etc stem ultimately from a lack of self respect, a lack of love, a lack of meaning in our lives we can comprehend easily what Dr Giraldo is saying.

If we analyse things well then it all fits. Many people in the world today have a low self esteem, they are stressed, they do not have a quality life, they consume many types of chemical drugs, be they prescribed or recreational, they do not respect their bodies, doing things with them that go against natures design as in the case of the homosexuals. In the case of many of the poorer countries the lack of healthy lifestyle is also due to poverty, malnutrition, lack of education, loss of their Indigenous cultures etc etc etc. so we can say without a doubt that once a person is diagnosed HIV Positive the propaganda that serves to further affect a sense of the value of their lives, practically condemning them to die and into the bargain cutting them off from a normal family life since their intimate relations with others will never be the same again. This coupled with the regime of drugs that they are pressured into taking becomes a self fulfilling prophecy… which is, in effect, a CURSE on their lives. S tells us that within the HIV community one can tell who will survive the diagnosis for a long time by their reaction to the results. Those that have a warrior inside and refuse to accept their sentence will resist the psychological attack for longer whilst others are psychologically destroyed by the sentence.
In the case of S, being a natural rebel, she had fought for many years and finally she has been rewarded for her efforts and her refusal to lie down and die spontaneously coming across the sacred teachings of Yaje, the wisdom of shamanism and the benefits of natural medicine.


It should be noted that we are not saying here per se that Yaje (Ayahuasca) cures HIV/AIDS and this is not ever what we were saying although this seems to have been some people's interpretation... In light of that we wish to clarify that;

In Amazonian Shamanism, whilst Yaje has many medicinal properties which, along with the techniques of shamanism, can help in cases like this, the main use and role of the Yaje in a process such as this is for the wisdom and insight that SUPPORTS THE HEALING PROCESS.
Traditionally Yaje is used as a DIAGNOSTICAL tool and in order to see the problem at a deep psychological or soul level. Following from this the shaman will advise on the different actions that need to be taken on the levels of psychology, lifestyle and medicinally with the use of plants. In such a case the shaman also draws upon his or her knowledge and experience of other cases and any factors observed that may be unique to the particular case being treated. According to the shamanic understanding of illness each case is unique and there is no uniform formula, it depends on the person and the particular conditions of their lives. We should also clarify that whilst this case has shown us that the phenomena of HIV and AIDS is not what it seems, that does not mean that we deny the existence of a problem with the human immune system because there are clearly many people that suffer from immune related problems, however, the reasons for this may not be quite so cut and dried as would appear. The state of a persons psychological, spiritual and physical health can and does fluctuate and it has become clearer even to many more open minded scientists that mind and matter are not separate. In our experience, not only in this case, the psychological attitude and the power of human will and faith are absolutely VITAL in any healing process. It is not for nothing that Christ said that if you have Faith the size of a grain of mustard you can move mountains. The insights and efforts made for someone to achieve the radical turnaround that we were able to witness in the case of the lady mentioned here, however, are not changes that should be made just for the period of healing and recuperation of an illness for, in a spiritual sense, illness is a MESSAGE from the world of spirit of a need for a deep and lasting change, perhaps a change in the whole feeling and direction of life itself and this is the true purpose of any illness or crisis.
In that respect the real message here is that ultimately it is up to each one of us, for the solution to our problems are inside us and once we connect with our own inner spark of light and spirit we can walk toward the solutions and create the conditions for a solution around us. This may not happen immediately for we also need to develop patience and persistence. The key is to learn that we do not need to be victims to our circumstances and even if there is some kind of dark and sinister agenda working behind the scenes with regard to the AIDS phenomena and other issues, that does not mean that we have to be a victim to that.

So we are not saying here that Yaje/Ayahuasca will miraculously cure you of AIDS or anything else... and nor do we pretend that for anything there is some kind of quick fix formula, not at all. Shamanism, if studied seriously is an ANCIENT SCIENCE, albeit, a science that recognises and works with energies, forces and intelligences that are not visible to the physical senses... but nevertheless it is a science in which many factors are at work and influence the outcome of any situation. In this case, outlined in a very resumed way here, we can cite the psychological factor of the patient, we can cite the careful scrutiny of the Shaman with regard to the preparation and administration of medicines, something which was done according to a daily timetable, taking into account the way that different plants work and how they work in combination with each other, whether they are cooling, heating, astringent, relaxing, fortifying etc. etc. Some of them must be taken on an empty stomach, some at more regular intervals, some after meals etc. The attention to hygiene and also the surroundings of the patient were also very important and the use of Yaje in the key part of this process when S visited our community was made with the utmost discretion and not in an ad hoc way. Over exposure to this potent jungle brew would have been counter productive because she needed to build up the body strength required. In this phase the Yaje was, as we said earlier, a support and was used in key moments as a compliment to the other medicines and in order to make the energetic/spiritual aspect of the healing process through shamanic healings using Ortiga.
All of this requires and extensive practical knowledge and experience which usually takes many years to acquire. Thus we stress, so as to be quite clear, that we do not claim here to be giving any kind of formula... We are offering, by means of relating these things, information and explanations about how shamanic healing works and this is not just some kind of "up in the air" "new agey" thing.. it is something very practical that involves a lot of attention to detail.


We believe that stories like this deserve to be told and hopefully they will give some valuable and interesting information that will inspire others to fight the good fight against those evil forces that wish to suck humanity into the abyss.... For let us be clear; This world is a world of duality in which there are forces of Good and forces of Evil. Shamanism recognises that ultimately life is a journey in which we attain learning and knowledge of those forces and how they work inside and outside ourselves. Life is a journey of the soul in which the soul is presented with a series of choices and there are forces that actively work to confuse and disorientate the soul for this is a world in which all is not as it seems on the surface...

So we say ---- Don't believe the hype, don't take the drugs in an unquestioning way, don't believe all you are told about HIV-AIDS for this condition is not by any means incurable. We also add that you should not just believe without question what we have written here. Decide for yourself, investigate for yourself, use your capacity to think, to feel, use your intelligence... you were given it for a reason and each is free to believe or not believe. Whatever the case to believe is not the same as to know for yourself.

For us, however, as the years have gone by since this article was originally written we are ever more convinced and ever more firm in our vision and our experience and we say and will continue to say that the keys to humanities health lie in us returning to the bosom of our Mother Earth. The Divine Mother Pachamama is the best doctor that exists and the plants that come from Mother Nature possess living and intelligent spirits and through the contact with these spirits, THROUGH THE LOVE THAT WE GIVE TO THEM, and through the wise and humble use of all that they offer we humans can find solace and healing for our ills, whether those ills are physical, psychological or spiritual or a combination of all of these which is what, in reality, they are. Those plants were made for all of humanity, regardless of creed, race, religion, ideology and so on, just as the Sun shines upon all of us without prejudice. As such nobody owns the Shamanic wisdom, this wisdom is for all beings, however, at the same time the vocation for learning this wisdom is not there in all people and such a learning requires dedication, humility and respect for the plants and also for the wisdom of the ancestors and it is before those ancestors we kneel and give our thanks and praises. It is also by those ancestors that we shall be judged.

Upon returning to the UK our friend S went to take the customary blood tests. When her nurse put the needle in her arm it came flying out again with a mysterious force. The nurse tried to put the needle in her other arm and the same thing happened. The nurse was spooked. What ejected the needle? The vital force of Mother Nature, the spiritual energy of the elementals? S's nurse has said that in all her time attending to patients with HIV-AIDS she has never seen such a turn around and recovery. A message from the spirits perhaps? I think so.

May the marvellous forces of Love ignite our sacred fires.
May the light of Pachamama illuminate our hearts and souls.

Intiananda
Los Arrayanes Shamanism of Light Community, Colombia

FOOTNOTE. The author of this article wishes to thank all those that have continued to learn alongside us and support our community....

"Life is a series of lessons and in life we all make mistakes. Now that time and circumstances have allowed me to revise this article thoroughly and in the light of criticisms made, whilst standing firmly by the principals learnt in the Shamanic Way and especially with regard to the healing properties of the plants and the elemental spirits of the plants I recognise that this article lacked some clarifications and some deeper insights, so whatever the case and whatever the criticisms that have come as a result I would like also to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to the critics, for even if their intentions have come across as destructive and judgemental and have led to further wild accusations that have nothing to do with this article, they have still been useful. I also clarify that I am not a shaman, but a student of shamanism and have never claimed to be a shaman or of any pure blood indigenous ethnic group in any way, shape or form. However, as a human being I do claim the right to study, practice and research shamanism, and to make, along with the like minded folk of the community to which I belong, a spiritual/religious practice inspired in the principals and understandings of, what is broadly termed as shamanism and I do this in the knowledge that to profess a belief system and to practice it is a fundamental human right regardless of race, colour, gender, nation etc.
Finally, my greatest thanks go to the Shaman that I have studied with and his patience and understanding in the face of many attacks and criticisms received as a result of the original article. The witnessing of this and other Shamanic healing processes before and since have given and continue to give profound understandings of the human condition. This for me is beyond doubt and any errors and lack of clarity in the original article are my own and not those of the people with whom I have studied."

MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY, MAY ALL BEINGS BE JOYFUL, MAY ALL BEINGS BE IN PEACE.

Intiananda

Shamanism, God and Religion.

REVISED and UPDATED. Oct 2018....

One of the benefits of shamanism is that it is a practical way to rekindle our spirituality because it helps to re-new our understanding and feelings with respect to God and Religion.
Religion, far from being a name to describe different institutions built up around one or another expression of spirituality, means to make reverence to or communion with God or Gods and Goddesses.
Shamanism is, essentially a method of direct communion with the spiritual reality and is the origin of religious expression for it is direct communion with spirit as revealed through nature.
The institutionalised religions have distanced God from Man but our connection to the spirit can be awoken with the help of the spirit beings most readily accessible to us; the elemental spirits of the plants, the earth, the air, the fire and water and being part of God these beings will act as bridges for us in order that we can receive revelation, insight, inspiration and approach the spirit anew learning for ourselves through our lived experience.
God is not a dirty word.
The word God has been abused by the impostors that have infiltrated religion and imposed their mental model. Religions have been taken over, in many cases, by people that are not God conscious, although they may give the appearance of being pious or saintly. They have made God into a distant figure hidden from the view of all but those that make themselves into an elite and proclaim themselves to be the "holy ones" or the “chosen few”.

Those that are truly "chosen", however are those that have a living communion with God inside their hearts and who live by the hearts law. In other words it is we that choose to enter into communion with God and not that God chooses us because we belong to some particular sect, social class, priesthood or whatever. The secrecy around certain kinds of spiritual practices and rituals can have a valid reason in that in order to enter the realms that can be accessed through ritual a preparation and orientation are necessary. However, the flip side of this has been the creation of elites that abuse that secrecy for their own ends. Today we hear much about this and of the existence of different secret societies that attempt to control world events. Many of those societies started out as genuine esoteric orders dedicated to discovering inner wisdom and doing so hermetically because of the need to protect those teachings from people who would use them for selfish ends. However many of them became corrupted from within because they forgot to keep checking that they also didn't use such secrets for egotistical gain... hence the confusion sometimes about whether the Templars or the Masons are good or evil (etc.)

God is not an old tyrant in the sky that goes around sadistically punishing sinners;

God is the living presence, the flame of life, being, is-ness, spirit, intelligence, and light. God is that which a child feels when in innocent awe at the immensity of the sky and the wonder of creation but we have been taught in schools that God and religion are houses of greyness and repression where the imagination and freedom of a child is frowned upon. In school we were taught to feel God as colourlessness and guilt in boring sermons uttered by religious education teachers.

Yet, to imagine is to see and to see is to perceive that creation is full of beauty, harmony, intelligence, wonder, and connection.
In shamanism, by accessing our internal world, our feelings, thoughts, dreams, visions and ideas we learn to open our eyes anew and see that the force of life itself is fire and light, is consciousness, the seeing eye, the feeling heart, the breathing air and through the energy of life itself we can connect with being and being is God.

All we need to do is open our minds and see, for it is the mind that is like a steel trap that blocks our vision.

Cosmology & Cosmo-vision.

Over time religion has become less a matter of direct experience and connection with the spiritual dimensions and more and more a thing of books, dogmas, superficial interpretations and something onto which humanity projects its inner conflicts and traumas. This rigidity has pushed many people away from the spirit and confused people into seeing God as a punishing tyrant and as a result many people become atheists.

The error here is not with God or any of the God’s and Goddesses that are aspects of the one God. The error is in the human consciousness (or lack thereof).

If we analyse the word Cosmology we can observe that the root of ology is from Greek logos, which is verb or word. Cosmology is DESCRIPTION IN WORDS of the cosmos. The word was always sacred and in oral form as living sound the sacred verb re-news creation – for this reason in shamanism the chants and invocations are so important BUT the other side of this is that once “the word” i.e. the description of the revelation, is written down the mind tends to reduce the written words to DOGMAS… this is, largely what has happened to most religions, especially the Judeo-Christian ones.

Religion has become DOGMA.. Even the most enlightened teachings can be twisted and turned into a mental prison in which people fight over interpretations.
For this reason its important to re-new with art, poetry and music and to understand that it was not for nothing that many traditions did not write down the wisdom and that the tradition was ORAL.

Cosmo-vision is based upon the CONSTANT OBSERVATION…

It is interesting to ask why the more dogmatic expressions of religion enclose the people in churches where THEY CAN’T SEE THE SKY and are forced to access “the word” through a sermon giving priest. Those kind of religions form cabals of learning among the “select” and even go as far as naming whole peoples or races as “The Chosen people.” They are the ones that decide what is right and wrong, what mode of life people should adopt, what taboos they should have and in general the over-riding societal morality.

The peoples that choose to have COSMO VISION instead of lots of OLOGIES have temples of astronomical observation where the cosmos is observed and where the manifestations of the wonder of creation are visible for the people in general, the same with the use of the sacred and psychoactive plants.. The connection is direct and leads to experience with the supreme personality of God – leads to direct inner knowledge. This is precisely what those obsessed with control of man and society do not want, for this is the way that our spirits can be free.

Shamanism takes us back to the origin and back to an awareness of our interior world. The sacred plants are especially helpful in this.
The fact that such plants have often been made illegal is a reflection of the tendency to push away into the realms of subversion the elements that we have been come scared of… the thing we are most scared of is ourselves and of seeing ourselves as we really are.
Religion in reality, in being communion with God is also communion with ourselves, it is the seeking of God inside us and shamanism helps to comprehend and to clean and heal all that which has become a block inside us to our inner journey.
As the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung said in the introduction of his book "Psychology and Alchemy"; true religion is something that has to be lived in the psyche or soul (psyche=soul) and religious feeling emerges from the soul through its own experience. He was much criticised for this stance by dogmatic religious types (not surprisingly) but Jung had a lifetime of experience and he observed that the psychological problems experienced by many people.. i.e. the illness of their souls, was precisely because a direct experience of the spiritual realities which human beings need to feel truly healthy and whole was in some way denied and prohibited by the dogmatic rules of religion and society, leading to an inner emptiness and dis-satisfaction with life, hence the kind of modern psychological illness that is so common to day in the advanced technological societies.

Jung leant more and more over his lifetime toward the techniques of meditation, of shamanism and direct experience (GNOSIS) as being the keys to comprehension of all of these mysteries of life, death and the soul. We would add that, further on from this, the sacred plant and the shamanic techniques teach us to explore and know ourselves and our souls, showing us our inner reality, the different planes of the mind, consciousness, the inner cosmos and the outer as well and it is from these experiences that we can re-new our understanding of religion, nature and God.
Humanity has not only strayed from God and deformed religion, we have also disconnected from nature.

By the recuperation and practice of shamanism we can return to nature and to God and recover the true religion, which is direct communion – Gnosis.

Intiananda, Shamanism of Light, Colombia

Advise for Students of Shamanism of Light.

Advise for Students of Shamanism of Light.

“He that wants to officiate in the great temple of wisdom has to know how to command the elemental creatures of the plants”
p.18 treatise of Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, Samael Aun Weor. (Translated from original Spanish version)
Gnostic Shamanism is, precisely, the study and practice of of such wisdom.

“Each elemental of each plant has its own ritual, mantras and its hours in order to deliver itself to the doctor who knows how to command it with love and impose upon it with tenderness…”
VWSAW, Treatise of Occult Medicine and Practical Magic.

The person that works with these rituals and mantrams is a student of the ancient art of elementotherapy. The term Shaman is a word coming from Siberia meaning Medicine Man or Priest-Doctor and refers to the people that divine and cure with the elementals of the plants. This term has been coined to describe the persons of all Indigenous cultures that perform this sacred function.
Any Gnostic Student can study the book Occult Medicine and Practical Magic and he/she will discover that VM Samael speaks with great respect of the Masters of the Mayan Ray and the wisdom of the Green Snake (Shamanic Wisdom).
It is clear that this Master studied, practiced and shared the profound wisdom of Mother Nature in company with the Shaman Priests and Priestesses of various Indigenous peoples of Colombia.
In one of his books called “The Diary Notes of a Guru” he explains how, whilst living in a small house in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia he was visited by such and Indigenous person and he explains how this person, who had learnt to read, had understood the gnosis completely and profoundly just by reading one of his books and in this he gives the indication that if the person has the right level of consciousness they can understand the wisdom easily and put it in practice. This clearly demonstrates the level of this kind of Shaman.
The VM Samael wrote many books and spoke of many elements in the study and practice of Ancient wisdom, including Yoga, Buddhist Meditation techniques, Shamanic Medicine, Kabbalah, Egyptian mysteries, Celtic Mysteries, Aztec and Maya initiations, Christian Esoterism, Sufi wisdom and so many more. He covered all the planet and for this reason he is the Avatar of Aquarius.
For every person there is something, for each person there is a note that he can relate to. There are many mantras that are given by the Master and we can select that which we feel attracted to and which resonates with us.

For this reason we, as students, should respect the wisdom of the distinct rays.
We, as students of Gnostic Shamanism do not claim to be the “only inheritors” of the Gnostic wisdom or that people should only study Shamanism in a rigid sense… we say that Shamanism is underlying all traditions, yes and that it is part of, for example, Hindu, Tibetan, Japanese, even Christian and Muslim traditions, if, that is, we can understand that Shamanism in essence is communication and interaction with the intelligent spirits, devas, elementals, genies and regents of Mother Nature.
The Hindu had their legends of SOMA the mysterious magical potion that helped them enter other dimensions. The Celts had their legends of a Magic Potion that enabled the shaman magician to shape shift (Story of Taliesin), The Japanese spoke of the KAMI the nature spirits to whom they made shrines and sacred groves. In the ancient times when those traditions had their day there was no division between religion (i.e. communion with God) and the practice and use of plant medicine, the perception and communion with Natures spirits. All was ONE and so in this new age of Aquarius all will gradually merge again into a continuous interplay of energy, consciousness and divine wisdom.
We do not oblige or force any person to enter these studies. We prefer that any person that comes to visit us with the express purpose of studying this wisdom is a person that is clear in their purpose, whether that be to be healed of some ailment, psychological, or otherwise, to learn about plants, shamanism and the spiritual life, to explore community living and the opportunity this gives for self knowledge and so on. The important is to have a CENTRE OF GRAVITY, to have a purpose and not to be swayed by the come and go the thoughts that one day say “I want to study Shamanism” and tomorrow say another thing.
The work with the elementals requires commitment, discipline and decision. Very different to the tendancy of the modern sub cultures that have profaned the sacred plants, trying to use the elementals as drugs and vice in order to escape themselves or believing that they know better than the Ancient Cultures.
It is so typical of the emptiness of modern people that they pronounce against Shamanic Disciplines and traditions as superstitious as though they were wiser and as though the ages have given us enlightenment. Again we see as in other cases the fear of deep and authentic tradition.
We do not advise the abuse of the elemental neither in practice or in word. We must learn to discern and comprehend. We know that there are charlatans who try to deceive young people by presenting themselves as shamans.
We also know that there are shallow people that believe they know it all about Gnosis or Shamanism and who speak in elevated and mystical tones, acting as if they were wise men of great standing, but who, in reality are no more than vain and conceited products of a vain and conceited society that looks down upon the Indigenous peoples as if they were mere primitives who are just emerging from the mud in the process of evolution.
Poor ignorants those people and they will cry bitter bitter tears when they realise the falsity of their intellect and their “tower of babble” crumbles to the ground with the civilization upon which they sit so smug and satisfied with the “knowledge” that they have stolen and appropriated for themselves without real vocation.
The true student of Shamanism much cultivate great humility before the secrets of Mother Nature, he must learn to see himself as but a small child standing in awe at the gates of the Universal Mysteries, he must throw away all his preconceived ideas and concepts, all his prejudice and learn to be meek and listen with great care in order to become sensitive to the voices of Natures Spiritual beings. He must realise that he is only beginning to enter into another world… the real world of multi dimensions and in order to tread those worlds he must purify his mind of doubts and his heart of envy and resentment.
This is the true way of Shamanism Of Light and its only a small approximation that we make here about a subject on which mere words are inadequate.

PSYCHEDELICS & SHAMANISM

PSYCHEDELICS & SHAMANISM



As many people know the word psychedelic or psychedelia came into popular use during the 60’s and in particular in association with the fashion for taking LSD that grew initially on the west coast of the USA in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

One of the first and most vociferous exponents of the use of this chemical compound, first synthesized by Swiss scientist Albert Hoffman, was the writer Ken Kesey (author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”) who inaugurated the famous “acid test parties” attended by the fashionable people of his generation and even members of the infamous Hells Angels.

It has also been documented, however, that behind the introduction of LSD to the North American youth were none other than the CIA and other shadowy organizations interested in experimenting with the youth.

LSD was later given secretly to soldiers in Vietnam in a further development of a series of experiments is social engineering that were carried out by various human behavior research projects.

Various researchers have now revealed that the development of the psychedelic culture was influenced, at the very least, as part of a social experiment carried out through projects such as MKULTRA and people such as Timothy Leary and even Terrence McKenna were all CIA agents. This has been documented and covered extensively so we will not go into all the details here but rather concentrate on the workings of psychedelia and shamanism.

What is psychedelia ?

The word psychedelia comes from Greek. “Psyche” means soul and “delia” means to reveal or to make visible. To quote a South American Shaman that we have studied with…

“In reality this means to reveal the subconscious states that lie in the interior of the soul. Reveal the soul by means of psychedelia means to bring to the surface the things of the subconscious mind.”

If we analyse this point we can see that in these terms there is a clear relationship to shamanism. Obviously the shaman is an expert in entering the subconscious and bringing its contents to the surface.. In order to help him in his work to heal, cure and order the subconscious elements, ultimately helping the patients connect again with their essence the shaman is able to call upon spiritual forces that orientate, protect and guide.

As The Shaman that we spoke with continues to say, “Bringing the contents of the subconscious to the surface would not be dangerous to the soul if there was will, self control and the capacity for observation..”

In the modern world, however, the word psychedelic has taken on other connotations and is used more to refer to a recreational drug use, acid parties and the pseudo-mystical experiments as was the case with another champion of LSD use, the even more famous psychedelic guru Timothy Leary.

Leary went further perhaps than Kesey, who remained surfing the wave of the hedonistic fashion in true Californian style, Leary, meanwhile, tried to be more serious and academic, professor, as he was, of Harvard University on the less wild east coast of the USA.

Whilst Kesey and his Merry Pranksters developed the loud colours, discordant music and distorted art that emerged as a result of LSD use, Leary attempted to find analogies to the LSD experience in the mystical teachings of the “Tibetan Book of the Dead” and others. He tried to map the experience with the intellect and this led to the emergence of a more serious sounding aspect of Western psychedelia and projects such as MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies).

The influence that people like Kesey and Leary and others have had was immense but clearly they were not alone in their use of LSD. Many who would become cultural icons for the and future generations, sampled the ‘delights’ of LSD use.

In popular modern culture there were many that recognised that the artist is very similar to a shaman. Indeed, the line that separates art from magic is very fine and in many respects the appearance of shamanism and an interest in its techniques was inevitable.

Shamanism became fashionable among the hip artists, poets, singers etc and this later led to the search in Mexico and South America for shamans, the success of anthropologists such as Castenada and Wasson and a documentation of the various psychoactive plants that exist and have been used around the world.

Unfortunately most people failed to perceive the difference between the plants and an extracted or synthesised chemical, replacing the mushrooms and the peyote that Wasson and Castaneda talked about, with synthetic chemical drugs. The direction that Castenada’s stories took meant that many began to perceive shamanism as some kind of fantastic exotic world of disembodied experiences, sorcerers, bizarre dreams and so on.

The idea that to really work with shamanism requires discipline, self observation and will was not emphasised much and little by little all sorts of people started to emerge calling themselves Naguals, Shamans, Psychonauts and so on, some looking for fame others for power and others for a quick buck. The Sacred Science of the Indigenous was not understood by the vast majority of people looking for a new thrill and many things were damaged.

Maria Sabina, the Mexican Shaman who had used mushrooms with deep devotion all her life as a source of healing, inspiration and guidance said that after Gordon Wasson, part time anthropologist and publicist who worked for Chase Manhattan Bank, had come to her, many young “gringos” arrived looking for mushrooms in the hills and as a result the mushrooms spirits left and never came back.

For Maria Sabina the mushroom was something tremendously sacred that connected her to paradise realms where she could travel and speak with the Gods.
For many young Americans and Europeans the mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca etc. are plants that contain a chemical substance that makes you trip out. The difference between a Shamanic Journey and a Trip is more than just a case of semantics.

For the modern people with their materialist inclinations, the mushroom is something to dissect in order to extract an active ingredient that is useful for the high they want. The Indigenous peoples understand that each plant has active and passive elements and that the passive elements are also necessary for a balanced experience and so for them it is not only a case of extracting the active ingredient.

Really it is very difficult for materialist and atheist people to have the same kind of experience as Maria Sabina because, as she said, the spirits went very far where the people cannot damage them and so, logically, the spiritual and healing experience is replaced by another kind of experience.

The Shaman that we spoke with also comments that “In 99% of cases, to enter into psychedelia means to be controlled by the ego… and power is given to the dark sub conscious elements turning the person into a Black Magician or Sorcerer. ”

This was the part that the unsuspecting youth did not know. LSD was introduced gradually into the youth culture. The first users were invited to take part in some scientific experiments being carried out in California and were paid to be human guinea pigs. Indeed, Ken Kesey, first took LSD in such a situation. Later he was given LSD to distribute outside of the laboratory…

Clearly, the uncontrolled use of such a potent chemical substance was going to have many unpredictable effects but that was what the secretive elements behind its introduction wanted.

Effectively, the subconscious elements of the collective psychology of an entire generation and also the ones following were called to the surface but sadly there was little will, control or capacity for observation. We can say that in effect the youth of the sixties and after have been put through a psychedelic initiation and this has unleashed the collective sub-conscious. The difference between this and a genuine shamanic initiation is that the modern western youth has had little preparation for entering into such realms.

Anyone slightly familiar with these themes will be able to recognise that locked up within the human subconscious are tremendous amounts of psychic energy.

To reach a state of psychological and spiritual health it is necessary to bring into consciousness that which is hidden in the subconscious. This is one of the purposes of a shamanic apprenticeship. In order to help others first one needs to organise ones own psychology and transform it.

So what happens when people take LSD ? …Apart from the visuals and the sensations and so on we can clearly say that they unleash the hidden forces of the psyche.

But how is a person with no observation going to adapt to this? In most cases the person simply does what they are trained to do by their ‘education’… They become fascinated and identified.

Some may enjoy a sudden feeling of power or the idea that they have been given the keys to the universe. Perhaps, some will be gratified by a new feeling of themselves, of their sexuality of their artistic potential or perhaps many will merely enjoy the display of colours, strange sounds and take it all as entertainment, much in the way that one would enjoy a good film.

There are many possibilities but, in general, we can say that the experience is very subjective.

Perhaps we could call it an expanded subjectivity; in short, the sub conscious elements or egos arrive in full force and given that in most cases the subject will have little capacity for self observation, it is difficult to know what is truly happening beyond what is being projected onto the screen of the mind. The source of what is being projected, however, is difficult to see unless discernment and observation are developed.
Obviously, the reactions and sensations experienced by people that take LSD are very varied and there is no doubt that the use of LSD has given a lot of material for psychologists and psychoanalysts to study. Literally anything can come to the surface from euphoria to extreme terror and all the range of human emotions and ideas that come between these two extremes and one cannot deny that these psychological elements are real. The difference, however, between chemical psychedelic drug use and shamanism is that the synthesised chemicals don’t have a spirit whilst the sacred plants do and it is this living spirit and the connection made with the spirit by the shaman and the participants in the ritual that helps the people to see more deeply what is happening and what is emerging.

The fact is that shamans have been studying these states for millennia within the context of a sacred and ritual dynamic that allows people to enter such states with a protection and guide in the form of the shaman, the spirits and the accumulated experience of the tribe and its tradition.

THE SHAMAN THAT TRIED LSD.

Some years ago a couple of English LSD users went to stay with a shaman in the Colombian jungle. The shaman had been practicing and learning with the jungle vine Yaje (Banisteriopsis Caapi) for more than twenty years. His use and knowledge of indigenous sacred medicinal plants was extensive but he had never taken a chemical substance like LSD.

One of the English visitors was in the habit of using LSD regularly and had become so accustomed to it that his body was relatively insensitive and in order to feel an affect he had to take 2 or 3 doses. The jungle people who he was visiting did not understand why this man shut himself up in his room all day with headphones on listening to trance and techno music rather than being outside, working and exploring the jungle. Later they discovered that he was taking LSD but they still did not understand as they had never taken this drug.

During his stay the Englishman offered LSD to the shaman, convinced that the shaman would like it. He gave him enough LSD for a double dose for three people and said that it would be best to take 2 doses per person to have a good effect. The shaman received the LSD and guarded it away. He did not have any intention of eating these strange cardboard tabs with the visitors present.

One night, after the visitors had left he decided that he would try it in order to know what the western people found so fascinating. He took it together with two women of the same jungle community but they tried a lower dose than the visitor had recommended. The experience that followed was very strange for them. The shaman explained that when he tried to see in the superior realms using his usual meditation practice he could see nothing, only darkness. He was unable to connect with the spiritual forces that he used in his shamanic practice. When he looked down however into the infra-dimensions, the show began. He said later that as he lay in meditation he began to hear the sound of a lorry or something similar. He thought it was a lorry crossing the bridge near to his home but as he listened and concentrated the sound grew louder and had a kind of hypnotising effect so he began to follow in his concentration until he found himself sitting on top of the lorry and the lorry began to wind its way gradually downwards and downwards in spirals. The shaman quickly realised that he was traveling into the inferior astral dimensions and alongside the road on which the lorry was traveling he saw unfolding different scenes that evoked the sensations and the states of people when they are immersed in the inferior worlds. We could say that there was something akin to a Dante type experience to see the hell realms. The shaman, with his experience and his capacity of self control and observation, knew very clearly what was happening and as the experience continued he became aware that at the bottom of the spiralling road were a group of black magicians and demons waiting for him. He said later that the atmosphere became dense and heavy and it was difficult for him to move. As the lorry descended he realised that if he continued he would soon reach a point of no return so he decided that he would continue no further, this was enough for him to know the secrets of LSD and with an effort of concentration and will he awoke himself from the experience.

Using an interesting analogy, the shaman said that the LSD was like getting into a car as a passenger and finding that the car went but had no driver and there was no way of knowing where it was headed. To use Yaje, however, was like getting into a car but in this case there was a driver, the driver is the spirit of Yaje that guides the person in the interior worlds. With Yaje, one can learn how to control the experience. Yaje teaches the person to have will and objectivity and thus it is possible to shine light on the subconscious realms with the help of a spiritual guide, the elemental spirit of Yaje. This conscious and intelligent spirit is a mediator between man and God (the superior intelligence) and therein lies the difference between LSD and the Sacred Plants.

It is interesting to note that the shamans’ training gave him the capacity to be aware of where the LSD was taking him. In most cases however, the young people that experiment with this substance have no idea where it is taking them. They do not have the preparation of a shaman or the help of an elemental spirit like Yaje. It is also important to note that although the shaman was able to observe and control, up to a point, his experience with the LSD, enough to avoid his coming to any great harm, he was not able to use this substance to call upon spiritual forces and make his work as a shaman.

As he himself said, the experience was useful so that he could understand the interior state of many young people from the west that were beginning to come to him looking for help. He also explained that physically, for him and his friends, the experience was very uncomfortable and they felt the draining effect of the chemical on their bodies and their energies.
It took them several days to recover from the experience with the help of plant medicines. We should understand that for people like them, who study and practice shamanism, the body is very sensitive and feels more effect from the chemical substance. They all said that the most unpleasant aspect of the experience on a physical level was the taste of the chemical in their mouths and its smell in their sweat.

Yaje, on the other hand, is medicinal and leaves one feeling replenished and healthy.

The hypnotic force that was present in their experience, the shaman explained, is an opposite force to that of the Kundalini. This shaman explained that just as there is an energetic current that Hindus call Kundalini (which shamans also know about) which goes up the spine, there is also an inverted version that extends from the base of the spine downwards into the infernal dimensions.

Prolonged use of LSD and also substances such as Ecstacy or Ketamin lead to the development of this serpent like energy that reaches down and draws its power from the inferior dimensions. This is the source of the ego. There are many egos inside each person. They are like entities or parasites that live in the subconscious and trap the human essence, bottling it up and feeding upon its energy in order to survive.
The ego or egos are like knots in the psychology and in reality the use of LSD and other such substances strengthens the ego and develops its complexity. To strengthen the ego is to travel upon the path towards black magic because black magic is the use of magic for selfish ends and conduces us towards the state of being a demon, and so this gives us a clue as to to the secret reasons why LSD was introduced to an unsuspecting youth during the 60’s.

Through the practice of shamanism there are people that have discovered the internal reality in both the positive and negative aspects. The psychedelia now present and influencing all of western culture is a way of disorientating, confusing and distracting young people and as such is a tool of the black magic power that controls the governments, the people and society in general.

In the beginning, LSD use tried to disguise itself as something alternative and revolutionary and many people with good hearts that wanted change and an alternative to the boring materialistic life fell into its labyrinth and never found their way out. Countless talented people have been tricked by the psychedelic illusion into using their gifts for the art, music and literature of the drug using generations but in the end the promise of a new tomorrow has been a mirage on the horizon as we walk through the empty desert of a modern society, devoid of real purpose or spiritual direction.

In truth, the word psychedelia has come to mean more than the meaning defined at the beginning of this article. Its meaning is the sum of the culture that was spawned by the introduction of LSD and all that it helped to develop on the downward path of degeneration. Clearly it is not only LSD that has played a role here, we can also list Heroin, Cocaine, Ketamin, Ecstacy, Amphetamines etc etc.

The direction of the youth drug culture was given nightmare proportions in the dark prophecies of William Burroughs with his surreal prose that called upon the subconscious realms for ‘inspiration’.

His famous ‘cut-up’ style became one of the blue prints of art for the psychedelic generation and this fragmented vision is a mirror to the fragmentation of the psyche that results when the sub-conscious forces are released without any comprehension of the interior and esoteric purpose.

Ken Kesey surfaced again in the late 90’s doing a re-run of his bus tour as he tried to relive the acid drenched days when he toured the US in a brightly painted day-glo bus, performing circus stunts.

When he revived the bus, it was quite clear that he had ended up like some kind of cartoon style Uncle Sam with no real message for the youth other than “have a good time man”.
Leary took psychedelic drugs until the end and finished up believing that the internet was going to save our souls.
Other psychedelic gurus and icons like Jack Kerouac and Jim Morrison ended up as alcoholics and drug addicts and died for their vices. The list goes on.

In reality the early promise of a cultural and spiritual revolution in the 60’s ended up as a collection of youth sub-cultures all designed to suit the different personalities and psychological make-ups; punks, goths, metal, hippies, ravers etc.

In the late 80’s a 60’s revival was staged with the introduction of Ecstacy, an alternative to LSD that was called the ‘love drug’ because of its supposed capacity to put people in a euphoric state but time showed that this was yet another false dawn for the youth and yet another doorway to the infernal realms.

The impulse to want a change and transformation in society is not unusual and many people feel it but the step between feeling it and doing it is a big one. It is strange that every time such an impulse emerges in society different drugs appear to give the answer, but in reality in no way does the use of chemicals such as LSD or Ecstacy conduce people towards any real transformation.

In the end we can see that the psychedelic style has been employed mainly to sell things; fashion, TV, cinema, music, etc all use the psychedelic style. The influence of psychedelic artists has become part of the style and design of modern life where what was the drab and unimaginative style of the post war 50’s has been converted into a glamorised materialism full of the colours, sound effects, visuals and special effects that are employed in the modern forms of entertainment evoking the sensual affects of the drug experience. Advertising in particular is an industry that has profited from using a surreal style full of triggers for the subconscious with the aim of impulsing the desires that everybody carries inside. Some people have even likened the use of many artistic elements taken from the drug experience in cinema etc to a kind of modern shamanism.

Certainly, it is true that there is an element of magic in all of this because the use of drugs opens the Pandora’s Box of the subconscious but what we find in the subconscious is not necessarily useful when it comes to living in a spiritual connection with our fellow humans, with nature and the development of a deep understanding of existence because the sub-conscious is full of a lot of rubbish that needs to be cleaned. This is why the use of Sacred Plants and the practice or shamanism requires discernment and care.

It is not a case of taking psychoactive substances without using the faculty of consciousness.

The subconscious and unconscious exist below the threshold of the conscious. That in us which is conscious is only a small percentage but we must learn to use this small portion of consciousness in order to liberate the soul essence that is trapped in the subconscious. We need to shine the light of the consciousness into the subconscious so that we can rescue the essence that is trapped within the unconscious patterns that we play out in our lives.
The psychedelic people, however, say that you should go with whatever comes up, surrender to the subconscious forces without question.

The people that study shamanism of light say that we should observe what comes up and learn about ourselves. In this case we need to develop the capacity for meditation and a connection with the spirit and with our Internal Being.

Use of the sacred plants such as Yaje, Peyote, San Pedro, Mushrooms, Coca etc are are a help for this because through the shamanic ritual we cultivate a connection to the plant spirit and through this to God in both the Male and Female aspects.

In truth, we can say that in order to meditate, to observe oneself and to be close to God we do not have to use these plants but they exist and were put here on this planet by God as a help for those that need their help.

On the contrary, LSD, Ecstacy, Ketamin, etc are not a help for connecting to the spirit because they make the subconscious more active but without the spiritual element that helps to make us more objective. When using these substances meditation is more difficult than normal because the nerves, the mind and the body become more agitated.

The sacred plants also affect the central nervous system but as the plant is something living, with a spirit, it is possible to use prayers, chants and concentration in order to control the substance in the body and harmonise with the elemental spirit of the plant so that you are calm and the energy is directed towards the spiritual realms, towards introspection, contemplation etc. This is why the shamans use their shamanic chants because through the chant and the plant elemental in your body responds and you can journey with it.

With LSD, the substance does not respond as a living spirit would so in this respect you are on your own, at the mercy of the subconscious elements that emerge.

We know that some people will say and do say that they have the ability to control the LSD and in reality everybody is free to believe what they want but we have known more than one person that was very sure of his guru status with LSD until he received an electrical nervous shock that he could not control and through this ended up losing all of the capacities he thought he had gained by using LSD.

Before embarking on the long path of shamanic study it is necessary to have at least a little bit of humility.

SHAMANISM AS AN ANTIDOTE TO THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE.

Drug abuse causes damage to mind, body and soul, this is clear. The many side effects of drug abuse are well documented and many people have tasted for themselves the results in terms of damage to their health, their relationships, their minds and ultimately their hearts. When people become lost in cynicism about life it is because their hearts have become damaged and the person has lost his or her faith in life.

If we seek the help of shamanism and natural medicine in order to heal our bodies, our minds and our souls of drug abuse and in general of the pain suffered by our souls in this world so lost in materialism, greed and avarice, then first of all it is necessary to have at least a little bit of faith in God, in the plants and in Mother Nature, or Pachamama as she is known by the indigenous people of South America.

Another thing that we need to develop in order to be healed is the will to change because true healing implies a change in us. In this respect the plants can initially help us by showing us the change we need to make but it is up to us whether we make it or not.

If the modern generations that have interest in these themes were to develop a little more humility they would discover that they are like small children beginning in school whereas the indigenous Masters of ancient times that now live in the superior dimensions are the real teachers.

It is only a little more than 40 years since the interest in shamanism and the use of plants became more widely known in western culture. It is extremely arrogant to think that in that short space of time we can claim some kind of expertise in these matters when in reality 40 years is about enough for one person in continuous work to become a shaman and to do that he needs to draw upon the wisdom of previous generations, stretching back into ancient times.

Many anthropologists that claim to be experts in these matters after a few years study have not even got this back up of tribal experience as a source of wisdom.

We should take great heed of the work, effort and discipline required to become a shaman, for a shaman is a person with an immense knowledge, or better put, Gnosis of the interior realms, not to mention the fact that being a shaman does not only imply a use of shamanic techniques but also a complete way of life, a practical knowledge of plant medicine, cultivation of the earth, community and integration with Mother Nature.

The psychedelic world view has, in general, tried to add a pseudo-shamanic vision onto the modern lifestyle rather than seeking a transformation of lifestyle, hence the tendency towards the use of drugs and the idea of ‘urban shamanism’, a contradiction of terms if ever there was one.

If psychedelic drug-use is a kind of mutation of art and culture that leads to a greater immersion in the material and sensual illusion then Shamanism of Light is the antidote that leads us towards an authentic, archaic revival, a recuperation of the timeless values we find enshrined in the shamanic myths of many cultures.

It cannot be denied that the impulse itself that leads many young people to experiment with drugs is something that relates to an innate human impulse to want to change his everyday state of consciousness.

The fact that this impulse, in the present day, gets focused on chemical, psychedelic drugs is a reflection of the fact that a more positive alternative is not generally available and it is also a reflection of the materialist attitude of our society.

Many people are looking for something to fill the spiritual void that exists in modern day society and as such drug use is an outlet for this that unfortunately becomes an escape rather than a means of truly filling that void. Ultimately that impulse becomes diverted into a fascination with sense gratification which is why psychedelic art tends to be very sense orientated with forms and colours that reflect the tainted light of the infernal dimensions.

That ‘dark and seductive light’ gives the appearance of filling void but the accumulative affects of psychedelia produce a reduction in the body’s natural ability to produce hormonal substances important for our natural well being and the harmonious development of the chakras and the subtle bodies.

It has been documented that in ecstacy users the capacity of the brain to secrete the hormone serotonin, a substance related to the dream state and to feelings of joy and euphoria is destroyed, leaving the person dependent on ecstacy as an artificial replacement. In this sense it is like to try and force that euphoric state.

In the philosophy of shamanic peoples, however, it is not merely that a particular hormone produces, in a mechanical way, such a state but rather that the more subtle spiritual connection impulses the production of that hormone.

In the human body and brain there are many receptors that have the capacity to receive the hormones that stimulate the different states of consciousness but as humans have become more materialistic, the capacity to produce the corresponding hormone becomes atrophied. If we wish to reactivate the states of natural sensitivity, enjoyed by our ancestors, we would be better off recuperating the timeless values and ways of living in harmony with the living intelligence of life that are the solid basis for such states of being.

The planet is alive and conscious and has brought forth plants that can give us food for the soul and reveal it in a positive and intelligent way, leading us towards a conscious transformation of all that is hidden in the subconscious.

Yaje or Ayahuasca actually stimulates the brains capacity to produce hormones such as serotonin. It helps in the regeneration of our atrophied faculties, if that is, we are ready to follow the promptings and teachings offered to us by this marvellous plant, with all the respect that it is due.

Many Indigenous shamans today are aware of the esoteric terms that have become widely used and I have heard them say that Yaje is Kundalini in plant form. Kundalini is the Divine Mother inside us, a subtle energy that lies coiled at the base of the spine. When this force is awakened in us it hails a complete transformation of the human being. This process is a long one and if we wish to follow such a path the shamanic wisdom is necessary.

Yaje is a medicine that balances the central nervous system, repairs the nerves damaged by the abuse of chemical drugs and the radiation so present through the many electronic devices that have become an everyday part of modern life.

Yaje helps cellular regeneration and in this respect it is also useful in the treatment of illnesses such as cancer and AIDS. It is not for nothing that some people have noted a connection between Yaje in form and vision with the DNA itself, because it is precisely on this level that it works and can give healing at a genetic level, if we have the heart and intelligence to be open and accepting of all that the elemental spirit of Yaje asks of us for in nature all is an exchange and if you work for the mission of Yaje, Yaje will work for you.

This civilization says that it represents progress, evolution, achievement in science and technology and the ability to use and adapt natural resources in order to give us humans a better life.
That is the propaganda of our modern civilization that has traditionally ignored and repressed its other side. This was true through the 18th and early 19th centuries and since then there has been a gradual release of inhibitions and taboos about sex, liberty, consciousness and so on, leading to the opposite extreme, i.e. philosophies, that counsel complete freedom of exploration without discernment. In reality there are two columns in life, that of severity and that of mercy. To be too severe and rigid is one mistake and to be too libertine is another.

In the 60’s, this reaction to the rigid religious values exploded.

The reaction had been growing for a while. People, such as Byron, Shelley, Crowley, Oscar Wilde etc had begun to breech the walls of repression, making visible the other side of the coin. When ecstatic states are prohibited they take a form that is reactionary. The natural impulses become distorted and exaggerated even turning into anger, hatred, abuse etc. but in all this one can detect the yearning for freedom, confused as it may be.

This is the unfolding and release of all those repressed sub-conscious forces, magically one could say, into the society at large. It is an endless conflict that goes round and round in circles. Our consciousness has become conditioned, trapped in between two extremes and without self knowledge, thus we lurch from repression to uncontrolled debauchery.

First with religious dogma and fanaticism we repressed and imprisoned ourselves and began to invent all manner of technology and ways of distancing ourselves from the natural. We became ashamed of our natural state….And then those natural forces locked inside and repressed began to explode and we burst out with all that pent up energy ready to try anything without knowledge of ourselves and so we try what is ‘forbidden’ and we try it without control or balance, desperate, and thus we came to the culture ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll’ in a world where mans abuse of religion has turned him first into a fanatic and then into an atheist.

If we have the capacity, however, to learn from all this we can return to the natural way with the experience of the cycle under our belts and recover the wisdom of the ancients before it disappears completely.

Shamanism in its true sense gives us the opportunity to break this conditioning because it returns us to the original, unconditioned consciousness. It takes us to the archaic revival of the indigenous state. At the root of it all there is an indigenous person inside all of us, for the indigenous state is natural innocence, freedom from concepts, observation of things as they are, simplicity.

At this point in the human process we have the opportunity to return to the beginning but our returning requires that we learn the lesson of having lost the original innocence of our soul. We need to make a retrieval of our souls from the trap of being imprisoned inside a set of conditions, locked inside the subconscious. In the ultimate sense, shamanic healing is retrieval of the original seed, it is to take possession of your soul and this is a work of great patience.

Above all to return to Our Mother and Our Father is an adventure that gives life meaning again.
The natural impulse in itself is not good or bad, it is what we do with it that defines us.
If we want to seek sensual enjoyment we can and if we want to discover the wonders of the spirit we can. The choice is ours.

Intiananda, Shamanism of Light