Predatory Shamanism by Guest Writer Mick Garnett
In the so-called civilised West we have the unfortunate consequence of viewing the various indigenous tribes dotted about the Earth as being somehow spiritually superior to our overly materialistic societies. This is because such a view is manipulated in order to keep us blind to certain realities, and also because it is immensely profitable on varying levels. As well, it allows us to assuage our consciences regarding the harm our societies have done, and still do, in destroying these peoples’ genuine way of life. Alternatively, we can clap ourselves on the back for bringing them out of the dark ages.
Nowadays, shamanism is almost an obsession for the urban middle classes. They have the time and money to indulge in playing at being the Indian, and returning to a seemingly more valid world-view. A burgeoning industry has arisen to cater for this psychological need, with newly initiated shamanic teachers, all with the appropriately advertised lineage (and spirit guides) available for hire. Its presentation in popular books, podcasts, TV specials and online courses is dominated by the presumed psychic and physical benefits that shamanic techniques can bring. But this heightened, and lucrative, interest has required a persistent purification, if not complete white-washing, of the ritual practices by those who put themselves forward as genuine shamanic practitioners, inspiring the feverish quest for personal meaning and fulfilment. In other words, the dark aspects of original shamanic practice (such as blood-letting, possession and energy feeding) have simply been erased from the record. Now this can be seen in a positive light, in that indigenous shamanism has been cleansed of its demons, its dark entities having been banished by more evolved spiritual powers. In effect, a rehabilitation of a spiritual practice that has been raised from its primitive beginnings. Also, it is seen as rescuing a form of cultural individuality that would otherwise be subsumed in the cultural homogeneity of rampant globalisation. But this merely paints a cheery, over-spiritualised veneer on a very complex and socially intricate practice. What is often ignored is the very centrality of shamanic ritual power to the constitution of native societies, and how their culture operates, as well as the role that shamans have played in resisting colonial conquest. It must be recognised that in indigenous societies shamanic influence is still very much present in the exercise of political power from the local to the national level.
Shamanism itself is indicative of the inherent duality residing at the core of reality. It has dark and light aspects, a powerful shaman being able to both kill and cure. What is also glossed over is that during trance a shaman undergoes total possession by discarnate entities. These are usually the tutelary deities of the tribe, who offer protection and healing to tribal members. This is obtained through placatory practices such as blood sacrifice and offerings. Principally, they are ancestral spirits that emanate from the Underworld or Land of the Dead, very rarely are they Sky deities. The shaman is but a vehicle to access their intervention. He or she is the horse upon which they can ride into the physical realm, and through which they can have a tangible influence. This is the very same precept that resides within the practices of western ritual magick if one removes all the religious gloss. Much of the reasoning behind physical events can be found to be anchored in more subtle realms. A modern example can be found in the United Nations, and its various NGOs, whose spiritual philosophy is firmly rooted in the teachings of Alice Bailey and her ascended masters. It is they, allegedly, who crave a world government and new world order. Much of the UN’s policies are at their behest.
If one subscribes to the maxim ‘as above, so below’, then these so-called astral realms follow the same principles enacted here in the physical realm. This means that however spiritual we wish to paint them, they are still engaged in energy production and maintenance practices. Simply put, they also need to feed. And we are very likely their main food source. Much of indigenous shamanism, when not curing the sick, revolves around the disputes and battles between various sorcerers and witches. This often involves inciting inter-tribal warfare, headhunting and cannibalism. In my opinion, the long term goal of encouraging and normalising the ingestion of hallucinogens is to facilitate a more widespread possession of people, without them even realising it. I find it very unlikely that the intent is truly benign, but you never know, all the pundits may very well be telling the truth.
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ethompson
July 9, 2021 at 12:32 pmGreat article, Mick.
From my experience real shamans are solitary people. They are complete beings who have risen above duality and have mastered their own thinking. Their aim is to reunite with aspects of self that have been projected outside in line with duality and recover their multi dimensionality.
The world is full of ‘so called’ shamans who like to exert their will over others. Bullies and psycopaths who exploit their ‘apprentices’ psychologically, sexually and financially. Shamanism for them is all about money, power, control and an easy living. Sounds a bit like a drug cabal!
The quality of spiritual possession that occurs in ceremonial practice depends entirely on the resonance of the practitioner. Everything is energy and people who are negatively charged and who operate behind a mask of ‘spiritual seniority’ will attract demonic forces…like attracts like.
ethompson
July 9, 2021 at 4:11 pmA lesson in resonance when contacting spiritual reality.
Aleister Crowley, in 1945 raised the great God Pan in a hotel room in Paris. Terrible shrieks and screams were heard during the night but Crowley had issued orders that no matter what his devotees heard, they must not try and open the door. When Crowley and his apprentice didn’t appear in the morning, the owner of the hotel battered down the door. The scene inside has been described as something from a horror movie. Furniture was broken and splintered to pieces. Both Crowley and his assistant were naked, scratched, bruised and battered, their robes torn to shreds. Mac Aleister his assistant was dead.
ethompson
July 9, 2021 at 4:12 pmThe police were called leading to an enquiry and trial, but Crowley was unable to answer any questions. He was incoherent, babbled incessantly and was eventually judged insane and sent to a mental institution. Crowley was released several years later but never regained his full faculties, or powers. He died on 1st December 1947 at Netherwood in England in relative obscurity.
ethompson
July 9, 2021 at 4:21 pmCrowley’s piss poor resonance plugged into the lowest vibration, the animal instinct personified by Pan. They got exactly what they deserved.
Mick
July 9, 2021 at 4:51 pmBut that is what they wanted to bring through, isn’t it? Open the gates of hell, now they have CERN, much more manageable. Crowley’s English successor, Kenneth Grant, for a short while ran the Typhonian Order which was very Chthulian in its orientation, and specific in its aims. Before Crowley, the Golden Dawn was run by MacGregor Mathers who admitted their ‘secret chiefs’ were terrible to experience, and it all devolved into in-fighting and court cases anyway. I think all that was kabuki, creating a hollywoodesque meme. More distraction, while a sleight of hand was going on elsewhere.
ethompson
July 9, 2021 at 5:12 pmAgain it is about the speed of our resonance patterns. How free we are from arrogance, envy, jealousy and all the negative emotional states we go through. The less emotional garbage we carry the less dense we become. I also think that Cern, 5G and graphene are all part of a new matrix which we will not be part of because we are vibrating too fast. As Trevelyan always says. You are on a race track. Your adversaries are driving a model T Ford while you, m’dear are driving a Maserati.
Much love, Mick.
Mick
July 9, 2021 at 6:25 pmYeah, but you’ve got to work through the dark side, bring it out and transform it. With each conflict inner decisions ae made that are either progressive or regressive. Each shaman has the choice to be either a sorcerer or a magician, and while incarnate that choice is there with every breath.
To be honest, I don’t know where I will be, I will go where I’m needed I suppose. I think it’s better to be a bodhisattva than a buddha, more job satisfaction. Ivan once told me, we don’t go back until the last sheep returns safely home. Now, that filled me with dread, still does. But then, I’ve never been very courageous, just arsey 🙂
Mick
July 9, 2021 at 4:41 pmThe word ‘shaman’ is a bit of a catch-all, and I think was popularised by Mircea Eliade’s book Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, but later what became known as Neo-Shamanism entered the circuit through practitioners like Michael Harner. This seems to have been part of the Archaic Revival promoted by Terence Mckenna. It does really belong with the Tungus, but has been appropriated and probably twisted out of all proportion. The above is just a personal view, and my personal dealings with entities, which were real to me, have admittedly been through drug-fuelled sessions, mainly LSD and psilocybin. And that was years ago, mis-spent youth and all that. But it does open a door that, once unlocked, does not close again – not that I would wish it to.
It is true about the quality of possession, but I think we should accept the fact that in our present condition we are but vehicles. Is the possession vampiric or is it symbiotic? Are we here to feed and gorge, or are we here to help?
Iam
July 9, 2021 at 1:24 pmMick,
Thanks for this!
Much as we only see a small fraction of the universe through visible light, depending on the focus of our perception, so it is with “non-terrestrial” experiences. I believe it is also about a lack of capacity for this experience and its understanding that ultimately gives an inaccurate interpretation. As I understand it, universal experiences are very intimate and personal. It does not surprise me how much apparent misinterpretation exists with these experiences. One of the greatest obstacles may be when one person attempts to interpret the experiences of another, having not had the experience themselves. This is the seed of deception. Some who have committed themselves to their path understand who they are and what their focus, intention, expression and purpose is. As it is, these are the people who stand invisible in their humility and service to the universe and the people.
ethompson
July 9, 2021 at 3:57 pmAwesome comment,Iam.
Mick
July 9, 2021 at 5:17 pmThanks Iam, I think the main problem is appropriation, and through that, the corruption of previous spiritual cultures. But, even in mythology, this was happening centuries ago if one follows the orthodox time-line. For example, the expulsion of Quetzalcoatl by the priests of Tezcatlipoca. Of course, such happenings can be seen from a cosmic point of view as well. I think a modern example would be the Mazatec Affair involving Gordon Wasson and the curandera Maria Sabina ( who was in fact a Catholic nun) where a traditional practice was virtually destroyed by the influx of enlightenment seeking American hippies. In an interview for the magazine L’Europe, Maria said: “From the moment when the strangers arrived the ‘Holy Children’ lost their purity. They lost their strength. They were profaned. From now on they will serve no purpose. There is no help for it. Before Wasson I felt that the Holy Children elevated me. I no longer feel so.”
This was probably part of a larger agenda that is only beginning to bear fruit now, Wasson is credited as saying: “Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …men we have never heard of.”
Well, there are white hats and there are black hats, are there not? I do wonder why mine is red?
ethompson
July 9, 2021 at 5:33 pmI can bear witness to this:
Maria said: “From the moment when the strangers arrived the ‘Holy Children’ lost their purity. They lost their strength. They were profaned. From now on they will serve no purpose. There is no help for it. Before Wasson I felt that the Holy Children elevated me. I no longer feel so.”
They became service to self individuals.
Mick
July 9, 2021 at 6:36 pmIt’s very sad, and I think it happened everywhere.
This is from the book Shrooms by Dr Andy Letcher:
The only problem with all of this was that the veladas were not religious ceremonies. That is, though each was framed within a unique and adaptive blend of Catholic and pagan ritual actions – prayers to Christian saints and Mazatec spirits, for example – they were not performed as an act of worship, or to induce mystical experiences of God: they were performed for the serious and pragmatic purposes of healing. Sabina was clear on the matter: ‘the vigils weren’t done for the simple desire to find God, but were done with the sole purpose of curing the sickness that our people suffer from’. To find God, Sabina – like all good Catholics – went to Mass.
Indigenous shamanism seems to be solely practical in its application.
ethompson
July 9, 2021 at 8:29 pmI agree with you about the term shaman. In Lakota society you had many types of healers. Plant doctors, stone doctors, thunder dreamers and spirit doctors. The shaman’s path is different even though he may practice all of the above. Norbert Running used to say. “When I enter my altar I am of a different mind.”
“To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.”
― Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan: the Sorcerer
Mick
July 9, 2021 at 10:23 pmI like a bit of synchronicity:
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” ― Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
ariel
July 14, 2021 at 7:05 amYeah, otherwise it’s ‘Day Tripper,’ and the Weekend Ayahuasca industry. Package tours.
It’s definitely a cultural thing or nothing, and you have to be subsumed by it or you never get the picture or anywhere else. You never know until you get the visions proper yourself.
xxxxx
ariel
July 10, 2021 at 9:00 amOh I dunno, I’ve still got my special knife I use(d) for blood-letting, especially when I made a new sacred pipe. ‘Blood of the Native American Peoples/Buffalo,’ so when working with pipestone you give it some of yours.
Have we uncorked a volcano? Vitruvius/Vesuvius. Plutonic architecture.
xxxxxx
ariel
July 10, 2021 at 9:07 amGreat comment Iam:
Interpretation of others’ experiences is such a common problem. Over here we have the ‘Kindred Spirit’ (magazine) type problem, which was where they all advertised their services. People have no sense. When working with life energies, you (I) NEVER bring or brought money into it, or any publicity whatsoever. If life doesn’t want you to do it, it just doesn’t support you, and you are supposed to notice.
I guess it’s all online now. Sasha Stone et al.
xxxxxxx
Mick
July 9, 2021 at 10:58 pmA curious read regarding sun ladies, stargates and desert summonings:
https://theaeoneye.com/
Mick
July 10, 2021 at 4:59 amA Heilung track to dance off to, keep with the bass beat. Best with headphones. I chose this rather than the live version because it includes the pre-chant (imagine a Dragon breaking free):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVH0qY-JGw
Mick
July 10, 2021 at 5:10 amAnd much lighter, Lyfjaberg ‘Life Mountain’. Einar Selvik is an amazing musician and a true Skald:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEizKmZlUAw
You can hear the primordial ice move as the thurses shift.
Mick
July 10, 2021 at 11:19 pmHere is an example of how they have turned the tables, and now have the public demanding a continuing of the imposed rules:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/public-alarm-grows-at-boris-johnson-s-plan-for-covid-freedom-day/ar-AAM0dP0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
ariel
July 12, 2021 at 7:28 amWell, they SAY that that’s true, but can we believe them? Or anything they say at all? At this stage I hear alleged ‘doctors’ and ‘professors’ uttering the most outrageous lies on radio 4. TV went out the window in
1987. I deliberately listen to the LIES to understand what the vox pop is being brainwashed with.
xxxxx
Mick
July 12, 2021 at 11:59 amIndeed, if everything is a lie, where does one find truth? Perhaps it is a case of degrees of lies, the percentage mix. Fifty shades of shite, is better than black and white 🙂
BoJo appeared (did you watch?) and…….flubber, flubber, flubber.
At least someone brushed his hair.
Mum says: he seems very nice, but I wish he’d have a decent haircut.
Oh, bless. I can’t tell her he is a complete King Cnut 🙂
ariel
July 14, 2021 at 7:08 amNo. I thought you understood. No TV since 1987.
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Mick
July 14, 2021 at 12:02 pmI’ve known people with no tv, still watch tv when the opportunity arose. I’ve never owned a tv, but I watch at mum’s. Boris is interesting to observe in speech mode. His obvious desire to burst out laughing is almost palpable. And he flubbers commandingly. People find it endearing, apparently.
ethompson
July 14, 2021 at 1:18 pmWatch this guys…explains the agenda going back to Jenner.https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/dr-david-martin-the-illusion-of-knowledge/
ethompson
July 14, 2021 at 2:15 pmZen sent me the video It’s mind bending. Please watch it. Dr David Martin covers some very relevant points about the soul detaching inoculation…eugenics and the syphilis experiment on Native Americans and African people…and why the CDC was founded. Another highlight is that the Queen still owns the USA. I knew it from David Icke’s research and Dr Martin tells us where to look. . Super challenging I suspect for a lot of folks…
Loved it!