Audio Transcript • Sandra Ingerman’s Answer (spoken by Richard Conner)
Shamanism is the oldest human practice known to mankind.
Many anthropologists have dated it to around 100,000 years.
It was practiced in every culture the world over.
As a spiritually based healing modality, it is concerned with living in balance within ourselves, each other, and the natural world.
It survives in many forms because it has been so successful at helping people and communities heal and stay whole and connected as opposed to sick, separate, isolated, and disconnected.
It is a ‘divine or direct revelation’ form of spiritual practice.
This means it facilitates individual spiritual authority, autonomy, and power without the need to seek guidance externally elsewhere.
Through Shamanic Practice, we can all access spiritual knowledge to guide us in our lives now in the present and in the future.
Shamanic Practice requires no outside authorities, intermediaries, spiritual teachers, gurus, or even beliefs. Sceptics are welcome!
Instead, it provides accessible tools that put you in direct contact with your deep inner knowing, intuition, and spiritual knowledge that can provide timely insight, healing, and personal transformation.
Shamanism is shaped through practice by people from around the world, yet each person experiences it, and Spirit in their own way.
It is not a religion, nor does it have a doctrine, dogma, holy book, or a set of rules to adhere to. In fact, it is said that Shamanism has no rules.
Shamanism involves the most widespread and time-tested practical system of spirituality and mind-body healing known to humankind.
It is a timeless body of experiential and practical knowledge developed by indigenous cultures that are passed down through the generations through apprenticeship, community service, and word-of-mouth.
Until relatively recently it has rarely if ever been documented.
Most importantly Shamanism is a way of life.
