Learning to listen means distinguishing real Vision from your own dream voices of fear and memory and desire. Belief in the inevitability of nuclear destruction is a dream of this type, felt by people who can sense that the world they have known is no longer working, but who have not turned far enough to seek a vision beyond war.
Even when you get beyond your fears, sometimes your expectations will get in the way. Somehow you expect your Vision to be spelled in lightning across the sky. But while you watch the sky, you may miss the tiny drama of butterfly upon leaf happening at your feet.
The Vision itself can come in many forms, through a clear visual impression or visitation of spirit, physical contact and communication from an animal, a song or a dream.
Very often in completely unexpected fashion, out of the darkness of a Vision Quest will come an awareness of a Guardian Spirit, a force or energy that provides a clear channel for greater wisdom. Many cultures have believed that such guardians, like saints or angels, protect and guide us even when we are unaware of them. Conscious acknowledgment of a Guardian Spirit offers the possibility of communication and a ready source of strength and counsel.
Awareness of the guardian could come when you see a hawk fly and are uplifted by a sense of strength and freedom, when an oak tree drops its leaves at your feet, when the Northern Lights dance overhead, when you hear words whispered by the wind. Or a guardian might communicate itself as an intellectual concept, a particular energy that is understood to be a source of strength and direction, such as innocence or bravery, or love.
From: A Voice From The Earth
-
Counting Coup The act of Counting Coup signifies a victory over an enemy or an accept...
-
The False Face Society The False Face Society is the best known of many medicinal societies am...
-
What a Real Shaman Is I found a great blog post about shamanism at a pretty cool website call...
-
Ode To Counting Coup To know that I have honored My words with my deeds, Sweet victory is sh...
-
Grandfather Sun Grandfather Sun Illumination, Enlightenment, Knowledge Out of t...
-
Dreaming The Secret Wishes Of The Soul One of the greatest gifts of dreaming is that it puts us in touch with...
-
The Spirit of the Corn An Iroquois Legend Adapted by Harriet Maxwell Converse There was a ti...
-
Three Braves and the Great Bear Long ago, the Great Bear wandered freely throughout the sky. His massiv...
-
The Sacred Way Ceremony isn't the only time you're supposed to carry yourself in a sac...
-
A Shamanic Enlightenment Igluik, an Eskimo shaman describes his shamanic enlightenment: "I en...
Leave a Reply