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Inner Space
While journeying is one of the great pillars of shamanism, it’s by no means a practice that’s solely reserved for shamans. In fact, journeying is something many of us do, regardless of where we live or the culture that surrounds us. For example, in the East, journeying is referred to as meditation. In the West, we call it prayer. Essentially, the art of journeying is one and the same all over the world. And yet, at the same time, there’s something truly unique about the intention behind shamanic journeying. It’s something magical that cannot be compared to anything else we have known or lived through. It’s a concentrated, quiet practice, during which we aim to let go of space and time, to travel to realms beyond the physical world and to move through our minds, all with the intention of moving back in time to connect with the energies of that which is greater than ourselves.
— Alberto Villoldo
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Walking the Red Road
“This is the hardest time to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive now, and to be allowed to see this time. There is no other time like now. We should be thankful, for creation did not make weak spirits to live during this time.
The old ones say “this is the time when the strongest spirits will live through and those who are empty shells, those who have lost the…
