Re: What is a shaman?

Posted by suzyq on 1140904379

Zan,
I came across as a preacher. The cross step I told you about...? Did I go over a boundary line? Even step on your toes? It will happen. I am not so sorry. I am equal to you in various ways, not subordinant. You would have it no other way. A stool can not be balanced on uneven legs!

So that was the trigger then? I am not Auntie! Now I am offended! Shall I call you on your days of preaching from here forward. Some days I want to tape your mouth shut too!
Do I? I think about it...I let it pass. Do you prefer I call you on each occassion?

Perhaps you are correct, filled with passion I was taking for granted having shamans and so many practitioners around to practice with. It took a long time to develop our community, one person at a time, yet we did it! They told us it couldn't be done in Omaha, yet we did it!

Zan when we are doubted in our quest and they say we can't do it, do we believe it? No, we know it can be done. We have both proved otherwise in numerous other opportunities in our lives when someone has got in our face and said it just couldn't be done and we proved them flat wrong! We are doing it again one post and person at a time! Adversity, preaching against ones heart...been there. It makes me stronger, not worn down!

Do you remember my dream the other day?

Life always finds a way...an inner way. Sees things from other perspectives.

Do you understand it was not out of pride or ego I wrote this piece the way I did. It was not based out of a need to be right or to even teach, rather it was informative and simplistic. My intention was to be as basic and neutral as possible. It could have been much more than it was, yet I choose differently. Yet, I did not choose in error. Why it could apply to just about any culture or tribal experience. To speak from my own experience was all I did. I am not even a shaman, I refer to self as a practitioner, do I not?

I do not take back my personal integrity by saying I am sorry for what I wrote or how I feel. I also honor your own voice and appreciate your feedback.

Thank you for recognizing the inner path is the key to learning. Did I not make this clear enough. I talk about the way.

Something to agree on none the less. I see the inner way in many paragraphs I wrote...I am puzzled, perhaps more than you.

Namaste'
suzyq