Thread: We Are All Shamans-in-Training

A blog post by Paul Levy at Reality Sandwich:

"Our species and its civilization are currently in the throes of a collective (nervous) breakdown. If what we, as a species, are doing to ourselves (destroying the biosphere, the very life-support system of the planet, to use one example) isn't collective madness, then what in the world is? Our underlying institutionalized and incorporated structures that are helping to keep us asleep are breaking down and coming apart. Just as with an individual's psyche, only writ large en masse on the world stage, we are going through a collective shamanic initiation process, a genuine "death/rebirth" experience. The false, illusory separate self, which experiences ourselves as alien from one another is "dying" as the fundamental framework by which we relate to each other and the world, as we incarnate and give "birth" to a truer sense of who we are, realizing our deep interconnection and interdependence with each other and all living beings."

Read the text here: We Are All Shamans-in-Training

Reality Sandwich is great.

thank you, I haven't known this website up to now. brilliant stuff, this will take much time to read through

Great post CM (again )

i found a new meaning for soul food and i'm not hungry anymore

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The world experiences death/rebirth every day, every moment even
every day you wake up the world is completely different

Where is the line between ‘mania’ and visionary experience?

Hmm.... This interests me.

this is a great article. i know it's old, but i had to bump it

What a fantastic article! To a true psychonaut these are innate truths but it's written with such eloquence I could shpongle in my cosmic underpants right now.

I'm a heavy rock guitar shaman. I f**king love my life :o Who else is a shaman in training here?
By the way, very nice article, thanks for the share!

We all are

It's all about projecting, bab-eh.