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are there any transsexual shamans within the forum?

What kind of shaman?

~ Blair

north american indian traditions...celtic shamans winktes...

Not that I know of however one of my very best friends is a real true blue shaman...

QuoteAbout Bridget Wolfe
Bridget Wolfe is a teacher, writer, storyteller, personal coach and guide.  She has taught and run groups in various aspects of Shamanism in the United States, England and Ireland and has led journeys to sacred places in the American southwest, Mexico, South America, and England.  She holds MA degrees in English and Clinical Psychology and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. 

Her relationship with the Shamanic world and the World of Faerie began as a child and much of her adult life has been spent pursuing those mystical early connections.  She has spent almost 30 years studying Shamanism with teachers from North and South America, England, Africa, and Hawaii.

When the Fairies asked John to build them a house, they began whispering their stories to Bridget.  She writes the story vignettes for each house and, being an avid gardener, creates miniature Fairy garden habitats for her Faerie World friends. 

After years of living in Los Angeles and New York, John and Bridget were led (by the Fairies, of course) back to the more natural settings of their hearts where they can laugh with the blue jays and listen to the eagles call.  They make their home on the central Oregon Coast, where Fairies dance on the water in the early morning, whisper in the fir trees, and make the apples blush. They live with a number of cats and acres of woods and gardens filled with Fairies and other Folk who provide continuous inspiration.

The Fairy Woodland Fairy Houses were conceived, born, and continue to grow from Bridget and John's collaboration.
http://www.fairywoodland.com/page.php?About_Us&page=2

this site's got such a good feel...i've been a long time in finding this.. i;'d really like to thank the creator(s)

I've dabbled with Celtic geomancy in the past, but I wouldn't consider myself a full-blown shaman at all.  I'm more of a spiritual force of nature.

~ Blair

is that like leylines and stuff?

not totally related, but I may as well toss in I am a Tarot reader and a pre-cognitive dreamer.


BTW Cindi and Tink? I owe you a reading and have not forgotten. With the craziness right now I want to wazit til I am on a more even keel so that there is no interference. Let me make it to TN ladies and we will do them.

Quote from: timberwolf on March 27, 2007, 12:30:55 PM
this site's got such a good feel...i've been a long time in finding this.. i;'d really like to thank the creator(s)

You are welcome!

Quote from: timberwolf on March 27, 2007, 12:38:23 PM
is that like leylines and stuff?

Something like that.  I don't know, I did it in high school.  I was a wierd kid.  Maybe I should dust off those tomes!

~ Blair

Quote from: togetherwecan on March 27, 2007, 12:38:53 PM
I may as well toss in I am a Tarot reader and a pre-cognitive dreamer.

Oh wow, we MUST talk ;)

Keep an eye out for me Out There, k?



<--- Look for her :)

Kate

Quote from: Kate on March 27, 2007, 02:44:25 PM

Quote from: togetherwecan on March 27, 2007, 12:38:53 PM
I may as well toss in I am a Tarot reader and a pre-cognitive dreamer.

Oh wow, we MUST talk ;)

Keep an eye out for me Out There, k?



<--- Look for her :)

Kate

would love to talk anytime and for that matter your avi although is not you I seem to now her from somewhere and cannot place her. Is she famous???

i am still new to the sight, so i am still figuring things out yet. but i have been studying the native american traditions for 15 years or more and i have been honored with two pipes to carry in the lakota tgradition. i have also studied reiki for a number of years, and other forms of energy healing. if i can help i will do so happily
                                                          staceyanne

Quote from: staceyanne on March 27, 2007, 04:37:19 PM
i am still new to the sight, so i am still figuring things out yet. but i have been studying the native american traditions for 15 years or more and i have been honored with two pipes to carry in the lakota tgradition. i have also studied reiki for a number of years, and other forms of energy healing. if i can help i will do so happily
                                                          staceyanne

Welcome Stacey, good to have you here.

Quote from: timberwolf on March 27, 2007, 12:09:51 PM
are there any transsexual shamans within the forum?

I'll think of myself as transgendered in the sense of transgressing and transcendanting the gender boundaries and not as transexual leaving one gender behind to move to the other.
I have studied the Personnal Totem Pole Process  with Steve Gallegos and Margaret Vasington.  I'm certified as a guide and teacher by the International Institute for Visualisation Research. I practice and teach the Totem Pole Process for the last 9 years. I regularly participate in both Karl Big Heart's and Yves Sleuh's sweat lodges. I also specialise in organising visits and journeys to pre-christian celtic holy places in Ireland and read power stones. At the moment I am developing a teaching program for proper leadership integrating the Visionary, the Warrior, the Teacher and the Healer in each of us
Does that make me a Shamman or just a very spiritual person, connected and opened to the marvelous diversity and intricacy of the universe? I don't care much about labels anyways.
LL&R
Maebh

Quote from: togetherwecan on March 27, 2007, 12:38:53 PM
not totally related, but I may as well toss in I am a Tarot reader and a pre-cognitive dreamer.


BTW Cindi and Tink? I owe you a reading and have not forgotten.

Don't worry about it hon.  Take care of yourself for now, do the things you have to do and we'll have plenty of time for our reading.  TN?  Wow!  All the best sweetheart! :)

tink :icon_chick:

Quote from: staceyanne on March 27, 2007, 04:37:19 PM
i am still new to the sight, so i am still figuring things out yet. but i have been studying the native american traditions for 15 years or more and i have been honored with two pipes to carry in the lakota tgradition. i have also studied reiki for a number of years, and other forms of energy healing. if i can help i will do so happily
                                                          staceyanne

i'm just looking for someone i can talk to in the terms of spirit that i understand... iLOVE talking to shamans because they understand exactly what i'm talking about...power animals and chakras ancestors the great  spirit etc etc etc

Quote from: Maebh on March 27, 2007, 06:50:06 PM

Quote from: timberwolf on March 27, 2007, 12:09:51 PM
are there any transsexual shamans within the forum?

I'll think of myself as transgendered in the sense of transgressing and transcendanting the gender boundaries and not as transexual leaving one gender behind to move to the other.
I have studied the Personnal Totem Pole Process  with Steve Gallegos and Margaret Vasington.  I'm certified as a guide and teacher by the International Institute for Visualisation Research. I practice and teach the Totem Pole Process for the last 9 years. I regularly participate in both Karl Big Heart's and Yves Sleuh's sweat lodges. I also specialise in organising visits and journeys to pre-christian celtic holy places in Ireland and read power stones. At the moment I am developing a teaching program for proper leadership integrating the Visionary, the Warrior, the Teacher and the Healer in each of us
Does that make me a Shamman or just a very spiritual person, connected and opened to the marvelous diversity and intricacy of the universe? I don't care much about labels anyways.
LL&R
Maebh

i suppose the true definition of a shaman is "one who knows". the word shaman comes from the tungus people and it literally means," one who knows".

a shaman enters the world of spirit by shamanic journeying and brings back teaching and healing from  the other side..they also perform soul retrievals unblock energy trapped in the chakras.. any way, they say that if you dream then you are a little bit shaman

Quote from: timberwolf on March 28, 2007, 05:55:21 AM

Quote from: staceyanne on March 27, 2007, 04:37:19 PM
i am still new to the sight, so i am still figuring things out yet. but i have been studying the native american traditions for 15 years or more and i have been honored with two pipes to carry in the lakota tgradition. i have also studied reiki for a number of years, and other forms of energy healing. if i can help i will do so happily
                                                          staceyanne

i'm just looking for someone i can talk to in the terms of spirit that i understand... iLOVE talking to shamans because they understand exactly what i'm talking about...power animals and chakras ancestors the great  spirit etc etc etc i'm also powerfully attracted to the peace pipe

Quote from: Maebh on March 27, 2007, 06:50:06 PM

Quote from: timberwolf on March 27, 2007, 12:09:51 PM
are there any transsexual shamans within the forum?

I'll think of myself as transgendered in the sense of transgressing and transcendanting the gender boundaries and not as transexual leaving one gender behind to move to the other.
I have studied the Personnal Totem Pole Process  with Steve Gallegos and Margaret Vasington.  I'm certified as a guide and teacher by the International Institute for Visualisation Research. I practice and teach the Totem Pole Process for the last 9 years. I regularly participate in both Karl Big Heart's and Yves Sleuh's sweat lodges. I also specialise in organising visits and journeys to pre-christian celtic holy places in Ireland and read power stones. At the moment I am developing a teaching program for proper leadership integrating the Visionary, the Warrior, the Teacher and the Healer in each of us
Does that make me a Shamman or just a very spiritual person, connected and opened to the marvelous diversity and intricacy of the universe? I don't care much about labels anyways.
LL&R
Maebh

i suppose the true definition of a shaman is "one who knows". the word shaman comes from the tungus people and it literally means," one who knows".

a shaman enters the world of spirit by shamanic journeying and brings back teaching and healing from  the other side..they also perform soul retrievals unblock energy trapped in the chakras.. any way, they say that if you dream then you are a little bit shaman

Welcome to Susan's timberwolf!

Been interested in shamanism since reading Casteneda and Eliade. Shaman's are also the self/re-created being. The death and destruction of the self and concommittant re-creation into a new spiritual being parallel the T persons journey closely. I'm actually going back to college to study psychology, with a focus on the psych of self transformation. Look forward reading more from you and others on the subject.

Rhonda

i was first attracted to shamanism when i heard about his first book.. you know? the sonoran shaman don juan? i can't remember the name anyway..i've gotten some techniques from books and other shamans but mostly i'm self taught.. you really look out for sandra ingermans book soul retrieval. if you're psyche orientated it might just interest you

Quote from: rhondabythebay on March 28, 2007, 12:13:57 PM
Been interested in shamanism since reading Casteneda...

Ya know, the funny thing is I started reading Castaneda... ALL of them... because I had this feeling it held the keys to figuring out how to become female. And I mean from birth.

And while the earlier books were interesting, it was last book, "The Art Of Dreaming," that sent chills down my spine from page one. Page after page, here was my life, my OTHER life, the real one... being described and explained in painful detail. I felt raped, violated, and yet... my God, "I'm not the only one!" Oh, I know about the inorganics alright... we have... a history going back to my childhood.

And whadaya know, the last chapters of the last book... The Tenant. The Death Defier. The one who defied the inorganics by twisting his assemblage point around so that his physical form and life became female.

It's a little trick I SO gotta learn, lol...

Kate

you should try shamanic journeying...it'll blow your mind

Quote from: timberwolf on March 28, 2007, 01:20:13 PM
you should try shamanic journeying...it'll blow your mind

Oh honey, I'm old and tired... at this point, I'm just trying to tidy things up and consolidate myself for the next jump. I sometimes feel like old Moses up on that mountain... seen more than I was 'sposed to. But Peeping Kate just HAD to know, lol..

I'll leave the adventures and new discoveries to you young 'uns ;)

Kate

Quote from: timberwolf on March 28, 2007, 05:57:00 AM

i'm just looking for someone i can talk to in the terms of spirit that i understand... iLOVE talking to shamans because they understand exactly what i'm talking about...power animals and chakras ancestors the great  spirit etc etc etc

This is exactly what the Totem Pole Process and the Vision Quest are about.

Quote

i suppose the true definition of a shaman is "one who knows". the word shaman comes from the tungus people and it literally means," one who knows".

a shaman enters the world of spirit by shamanic journeying and brings back teaching and healing from  the other side..they also perform soul retrievals unblock energy trapped in the chakras.. any way, they say that if you dream then you are a little bit shaman.

It is during one of these journeys that my Totem (chakra) Animals and Spirit Guides gave me the vision of the 4 directions and the 4 aspects of leadership. Then they gave me the mission to share that teaching to implement their integration in myself and others in order to create clear, courageous, wise and loving leadership in the community free of confusions, fears, ignorance and despair. 

Quote from: staceyanne on March 27, 2007, 04:37:19 PM

i am still new to the site, so i am still figuring things out yet. but i have been studying the native american traditions for 15 years or more and i have been honored with two pipes to carry in the lakota tradition. i have also studied reiki for a number of years, and other forms of energy healing. if i can help i will do so happily.                     staceyanne

Yes!
The first tennet is that with knowledge comes responsibility. If you know something is wrong, if you know how it could be made right what you are doing about it is the test. Talking the talk is easy, but even if walking the walk is scary it is also the most powerful and liberating way to really live your destiny.

Love, Light and Respect

Maebh

Quote from: Kate on March 28, 2007, 01:34:54 PM

Quote from: timberwolf on March 28, 2007, 01:20:13 PM
you should try shamanic journeying...it'll blow your mind

Oh honey, I'm old and tired... at this point, I'm just trying to tidy things up and consolidate myself for the next jump. I sometimes feel like old Moses up on that mountain... seen more than I was 'sposed to. But Peeping Kate just HAD to know, lol..

I'll leave the adventures and new discoveries to you young 'uns ;)

Kate

A little young for retiring, aren't you Kate?  Don't forget that you're not the only person in your life opening doors.  Adventure has a fun way of falling in your lap, and sweeping you off your feet.

Just ask Bilbo Baggins.  He knows.

~ Blair

Hey, there! Wel met!

I'm a Heggenheimian witch. But I don't think you mean anything like that; Heggenheim is about the world between reality and fantasy; between wake and dream. It's rather fascinating, but it's not like shamanism, in that it recognises the realm of reality being real, and fantasy, dream and the astral plane as not being real. (Not that they aren't exciting and fascinating; just not real.)
So a spirit totem, though it offers much insight and wisdom, isn't real.
But I always enjoy talking with Shamans, as there are a lot of things we have in common. And that is mostly travel, I admit.

Witch?  I'm the biggest witch ever; oh no, wait, that was another word which starts with a different consonant! >:D

tink :icon_chick:

Quote from: Dryad on March 28, 2007, 08:02:13 PM
Hey, there! Wel met!

I'm a Heggenheimian witch. But I don't think you mean anything like that; Heggenheim is about the world between reality and fantasy; between wake and dream. It's rather fascinating, but it's not like shamanism, in that it recognises the realm of reality being real, and fantasy, dream and the astral plane as not being real. (Not that they aren't exciting and fascinating; just not real.)
So a spirit totem, though it offers much insight and wisdom, isn't real.
But I always enjoy talking with Shamans, as there are a lot of things we have in common. And that is mostly travel, I admit.

before i got into shamanism i dabbled with astral travel but i got attacked by god knows what. never again

Little hint of the astral: Shield your own mind from the nightmares of others. The astral is basically hive-mind fantasy; if you're having a nightmare, and you're linked to this hive mind fantasy, your nightmare may bother someone else.
Nothing is actually real in the astral; it's all fantasy. Knowing this can also offer some safety from the horrors of the mind. The only trouble is: It's not just your own fantasy; it's that of everyone participating; be it consciously or accidental.

I suffer from an extreme case of Newtblo (NWTBLO). Also known as "not wanting to be left out".

Does being a Christian Contemplative count. I took a seminary course called "The Practical Theology of Mysticism" Some of what has been talked about here has parallels in the Judeo Christian traditions. Its not what conservative fundamental christians want to admit to but it is there.

Any thoughts?

Debbie

Well,  Shamanism and witchcraft are a practice, a philosophy, a mystical path. But not in itself a religion. Being christian doesn't mean you can't be a witch or shaman, in addition, though many pagans and christians alike will disagree with me, on that respect. (Because witchcraft is, these days, a term mainly used for wiccan religious activities.)
So you're not left out. It's all about spiritual journeys, and helping others who are in need of your help. In that respect; religion can be the basis for your spiritual path, but isn't nescessarily so.
For example, and this is an example used a lot on these forums, many christians do not 'walk the talk.' And that's fine in itself, because 'walking the talk' with christianity comes awfully close to witchcraft. ;)

Quote from: Dryad on March 28, 2007, 08:02:13 PM
Hey, there! Wel met!

So a spirit totem, though it offers much insight and wisdom, isn't real.

Yea???  If you need to hold on to this kind of beliefs to feel secure...

Yes the path can be scary (or better still exciting); but we can choose to either vegetate by compartimenting or deniing the reality of our experiences, thougths, feelings, instincts, dreams, connections etc... by using labels to define or limit ourselves and others or we can live our destiny to the full by embrassing and integrating the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

We all have that choice.*

L L & R
Maebh

*May be the biggest BLESSING of ->-bleeped-<- is that it gives us an opportunity to be more aware of this?

Maebh: I believe you missed my draft. I said they were there. That they're not real doesn't mean they're not there...
Like I said; Heggenheim is the place between reality and fantasy; the place between wake and dream. There are all sorts of things in the astral that are there. Doesn't make them real, but that doesn't make them go away, either.

absolutley maebh.. the true definition of the word reality is "that which lies beneath" and i'm really excited about discovering what lies at my core.

Welcome Timberwolf. I wouldn't consider myself a shaman, however I have a few friends who've studied and taught me some things. I've delved more into pagan practices, reading tarot, etc., so perhaps I'm a witch  ;D I definitely believe that being transgendered is a gift, if we choose to explore it, and can offer us much spiritual insight, because of our dual nature.

zythyra

absafrickinlutely