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Humanity has always used drugs, they make it easier to be a shaman, but unfortunately they usually forgot they had also teeth. Even the best shaman needs in the first place good teeth.
I'm particularly interested in sooo's framing "what if I got this reading on a desert island" and I'll add, and there were no hard things, it was some kind of soft serve fruit island, what would 21 mean then?
Also interested in Lise's interpretation here, I feel a bit silly but I don't get the metaphor of having good teeth.
And I suppose part of me wants to know how one can be a shaman in everyday life, a notion which seems oxymoronic.
Now I'm not saying that is what shamanism is, or claiming I know about shamanism proper, but this process sheds what was and shifts my awareness . . that shift of awareness that liberates feels very much like what must be at the core of a 'shaman' - imo
Does it involve some transcendence of the mundane situation? So the shaman brings it back to whole, makes it work again, but through leaving the physical plane?
'Crack open' and then 'bring together' as a unit .. I like this, it comes full circle
I think asking the Yi has something of the shamanic in it -we reach out for our Sacred selves, a higher existence, our totem animal or protector saint to help us get thru the boulder from lack to harmony . . what cracks up is the sense of not seeing what I have in front of me, what unites is me and the world in its wholeness, being
. . For some time now, when I'm throwing a Yi reading and perceiving I am coming across my own misperceptions or pre-conceived notions, I loosen up, crack my willful self, and, usually, I get a spontaneous feeling of beating wings and a sense of flying . . then I know I have to allow this to take me and when it does, my throw comes together in much more meaningful ways . . Now I'm not saying that is what shamanism is, or claiming I know about shamanism proper, but this process sheds what was and shifts my awareness . . that shift of awareness that liberates feels very much like what must be at the core of a 'shaman' - imo
Just quoting this because I like it so much I want it to be on the thread twice.
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Hi, Chingching:... "what if I got this reading on a desert island" and I'll add, and there were no hard things, it was some kind of soft serve fruit island, what would 21 mean then?
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Hi, Bruce:That sounds like 21.2: biting through something so tender that the nose disappears into it, like say a melon or mango.
The Yi is the catalyst and the cauldron in one experience, like dance or sound can be a catalyst-cauldron for shamanic detachment and rebirth. It opens the mouth of the maelstrom and says, step in if you dare. The Yi is not for sissies.
It may be significant that shamans stand as the gate-keepers between this world and the world of the subconscious. Curing schizophrenia, for instance, is a shamanic task, where the normal connection between symbolism of the material world and the subconscious has been lost and the individual spirals into insanity. Caught at the right moment, this can be reversed by a shaman who can follow, mimick, and retool a disintegrating mental/spiritual process by reengaging emotion. And here there is the chewing motion perhaps, of disconnecting and reconnecting synapses that weren't working and reestablishing a new bond between material reality and spiritual meaning, chewing the disconnected, shredded elements into a new cement.
The image of hex 21, the breaking and discovering and reworking into a new substance reminds me that we are in charge of our own nourishment. We can't just lie there and hope somebody will feed us. And the wonderful promise of this process is that we have the tools, we have the teeth or can use a hammer and chisel, a mortar and pestle, an imaginative mind, to open and grind and rework into a substance that is useful. We are all alchemists who can transform apt symbolism into thought and action. That is the excitement of casting the Yi, to me at least. I am enquiring: what can I do with this situation? What the Yi suggests back to me may even seen impossible at first glance, then I begin to draw together the elements, measure, toss them around, align them and look again, choose a few and begin to knead, mold, or crack open to expose the core.
The Yi is the catalyst and the cauldron in one experience, like dance or sound can be a catalyst-cauldron for shamanic detachment and rebirth. It opens the mouth of the maelstrom and says, step in if you dare. The Yi is not for sissies.
I have known teachers, psychologists, artists, singers, poets, who are shamans.
Love this guy. He's also featured in "What the bleep do we know, Down the rabbit hole."
This may not meet your question on shamanism and hex 21, chingching, but it may shed light on the "not yet-ness" of understanding, which you speak of. If it's any comfort to you, you're not alone. This difficulty to grasp in a final resolution way is shared with some of the greatest contemporary minds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yufAa4oFyug&feature=relmfu
64 is also descriptive of this not yet-ness nature or way of understanding. This is especially true when dealing with (waves of) potentials, which is part of both shamanism and quantum theory.
finally got to watch this, fascinating. Its very much the way I worked as a pilates instructor but I could never really talk to anyone about it and clients were quite conservative. It got to a point where before my shift I'd notice some pain, or bone out of place etc, then when the shift started there would be one client with that same problem. But because none of my peers had the same experience I never learnt what do with that next and now I have left the industry. Most Instructors are very in their heads and not in their intuition or instincts in this town. Its a real pity that westerners have this cut out of our culture. I want diviners and shamans brought back. Cesar milan is a shaman.
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