Shamanism is a dance across the unknown, a journey to test the limits of the human heart.  Shamanism devolves you, rebuilding you on a different model of what a human can be. Whether good or bad, it is certainly different.

Shamanism is:

• Learning that time is not only not linear, but mostly irrelevant
• Learning that clarity involves more than just understanding concepts
• Learning that balance is an ongoing process of self adjustment and determination
• Learning that seeing anything, is only one way to see among thousands of ways which are available to human beings
• Learning that the paradoxes in shamanism (and most metaphysics) are not the end, they are only the means to create an opening through which one's consciousness can pass into a different realm of understanding
• Learning that healing is a process of self determination for human beings and that sometimes you really can't help
• Learning that stopping the world can happen in an instant, and in that instant, anything is possible
• Learning that truth and experience is often in the movement of your energy and not in the final destination
• Learning that being truly human is so much more than what we imagine and more than we choose to face
• Learning that fear is real and that it holds your life hostage in ways people can never comprehend who seek to hide their fear
• Learning that your own death is your true and only ally, that it puts all things in perspective and delivers you to clarity
• Learning that perception is only a tool which man has chosen to use in very limited ways for very selfish ends
• Learning that having compassion isn't the same as pity, even for yourself
• Learning that you can do very little for your fellow man, but what you can do is important and almost always goes unnoticed
• Learning to cry at your victories because you see the cost and laugh at your defeats for the same reason