This group is devoted to the living path of Shamanism, a sacred practice of threshold crossing, spiritual guidance, and inner transformation. Found across the world in Indigenous and ancestral traditions, Shamanism is the art of moving between realms in service of healing, harmony, and truth. Shamans and spirit-walkers enter altered states to engage with guides, ancestors, and natural intelligences, retrieving lost knowledge, tending to the soul, and restoring energetic balance.
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Laura replied to the topic
Have you experienced a crisis that felt like an initiation? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months ago
CW: I’ve experienced many crises across this life – almost dying from my gallbladder at 17, being SA and raped by my ex bf at 17, my parents nasty divorce at 18, but the biggest one was the house fire in 2010 when mom almost died, followed by my 1st C-section and feeling everything and almost losing the kid.
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AshSongbird replied to the topic
What methods do you use for journeying? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months ago
Most of the time, it’s breath and sound are all I need. Music is powerful, certain tones can pull me into that in-between space. That said… I have worked with sacred substances too. But I don’t take that lightly. They open doors to greater fields of consciousness, but they also strip you bare. If your heart isn’t steady or your intention isn’t c…[Read more]
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AshSongbird replied to the topic
Have you experienced a crisis that felt like an initiation? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months ago
My mother died when I was 16. For a while, I didn’t know how I’d make it through… The world kept moving, but I felt distant from it, like I was only half-there.
I started turning to the old ways, at first because I needed comfort, but over time, because I could feel them working. I began connecting with my ancestry because I needed it. I was s…[Read more]
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AshSongbird joined the group
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HaleStorm27 replied to the topic
Use of Sacred Substances in Healing in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
Yeah, I’ve done a few journeys always with friends, but I usually end up walking off by myself for a while. Just to get in my own head, you know? Last time I did, I sat by a creek for like an hour just feeling everything. It’s hard to explain, but it’s like the world breathes different when you’re really in it. Everything slows down, and stuff I…[Read more]
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HaleStorm27 replied to the topic
What has been your most powerful experience in non-ordinary reality? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
Yeah… a backpacking trip changed me. My buddy passed a couple years back. I didn’t really know how to deal, so one day I just packed my gear and went out alone for four days, no phone, no distractions. Just me and the woods.
The second night, something happened. I’d hiked deep into this canyon, nowhere near a trail. Made camp, got a fire going…[Read more] -
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Rose replied to the topic
Use of Sacred Substances in Healing in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
Well stated !!! I personally prefer LSD as mushrooms usually make me throw up. My trips are spiritually healing for me. Somehow it helps me shred all the negativity in my life and refocus on what I can and cannot change and whats the best path forward. My first time was completely magical. It opened up my mind, it made me one with the world. Made…[Read more]
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OffRoadReed420 replied to the topic
Use of Sacred Substances in Healing in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
Yeah. I’ve sat with a few things, mushrooms mostly. First time wasn’t fancy. Just me, the woods, and a lotta questions I didn’t know I had. But it cracked me wide open. Felt like the Earth itself was speakin. Showed me the parts of myself I’d buried just to get by. Thing is, it ain’t a game. These ain’t party drugs. They’re keys. And if you don’t…[Read more]
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OffRoadReed420 replied to the topic
What has been your most powerful experience in non-ordinary reality? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
Bike laid out on a back road don’t even know how I lived. I remember the hit, the sound, then nothing. Just this quiet. Then I was gone. I saw the Earth from above. Real quiet, real clear. And I saw energy movin all over. Every emotion like a ripple. Folks sendin out anger and fear. It stuck more than the good stuff. Clung to places. Built up o…[Read more]
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OffRoadReed420 replied to the topic
Have you experienced a crisis that felt like an initiation? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
Yeah. I been through one of those. Wrecked my bike few years back. Wasn’t sure I was gonna make it. One minute I’m flyin down the highway, wind in my face, feelin free. Next thing I know, I’m layin in a ditch starin up at the sky, blood in my mouth, thinkin… so this is it. But it wasn’t.
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NoraSpinnor started the topic
What has been your most powerful experience in non-ordinary reality? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
There are moments along the shamanic path that change everything—encounters, visions, or revelations that shift our entire worldview. These experiences often happen in non-ordinary states: deep meditation, trance, dreams, or altered journeys. They may defy logic, but they leave a mark that lingers in the body, spirit, and field.
In Netism, t…[Read more]
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NoraSpinnor started the topic
What methods do you use for journeying? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
Shamanic journeying takes many forms. For some, steady drumming or rattling opens the path. Others use breathwork, lucid dreaming, or guided meditation. In some traditions, sacred plant medicines are allies for accessing deeper dimensions. The common thread is intention and surrender. The conscious mind steps aside so the deeper self can walk…[Read more]
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NoraSpinnor started the topic
Have you experienced a crisis that felt like an initiation? in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
The shamanic path is often marked by rupture. Something breaks within or around you, and what once made sense no longer holds. Though these moments are trying, they are also transforming. In the shamanic path, pain is required before one can begin.
Have you lived through a crisis that felt like an initiation? What did it strip away, and what did…[Read more]
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Rose joined the group
The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 1 week ago
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NoraSpinnor started the topic
Use of Sacred Substances in Healing in the forum The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Spirit, and Healing 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Psychedelic therapy is finally gaining traction in the medical field. Substances once dismissed or outlawed are now being reevaluated for their profound healing potential, particularly for trauma, depression, and existential crises. What many modern researchers are finding, however, is what indigenous traditions have always known: these substances…[Read more]
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I think it should be legal for everyone. Period. Doesn’t mean folks shouldn’t be smart about it but no one should need permission to heal their own mind. These pla…
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not everybody need a jungle shaman, but u need sum kind of structure or grounding. even jus someone holdin space wit good energy. these ain’t party tools they’re key…
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