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| Vera Remes |
As the founder of and practitioner with Raven Reiki, Vera Remes offers Usui Reiki with nuances of Shamanism and psychic intuition. She also offers Shaman Oracle and Angel Card readings and is a certified H3 Energy Healing Therapist. Vera's column will focus on the many aspects of Shamanism.
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For
a long time I didn't feel comfortable cruising the Upper World. I
resonated with animals and the earthy feel of the Lower World and was
comfortable there. Many of my friends were exactly the opposite,
identifying with angels and shunning the Lower World. Having been
forced in a recent Shamanic seminar to repeatedly journey to the Upper World,
I found it compelling and a source of great wisdom. I encourage
everyone to journey to the Upper World, the place where we can access
the future and, with our Teachers and Guides, find healings. It has
been said the Upper World is where the Shaman negotiates with the
gods.
Shamanic
practitioners are called upon by clients frequently to journey to non
ordinary reality, the Upper and Lower Worlds, to obtain healings and
spiritual wisdom and guidance in answer to their client's questions.
But anyone can do this for themselves, with some guidance. After
completing the Michael Harner Method Shamanic Counseling Training
Program, I trained several clients, unfamiliar with the journeying
process, to make their own shamanic journeys of divination to non
ordinary reality (Upper and Lower Worlds), where they personally obtained direct spiritual
wisdom and guidance in answer to their questions – basically
cutting out the middle man - me. The results were startling, some
clients moved to tears. In my last blog about Spirit Animal Guides, I
said I believed that traveling to the Lower World and identifying
with a Spirit Animal should not stop you from resonating with
Guardian Angels, Ascended Masters or Spiritual Teachers who are usually
accessed in the Upper World, a bright and heavenly world of cosmic
beings that appear in human, mythical or angelic form as our
Teachers. But, no hard and fast rules here, occasionally you will
find a Spirit Animal in the Upper World or access a Teacher in the
Lower World. The realms are all linked. Everything is connected.
Except that the Upper World will feel totally different than the
Lower World. Not nearly as earthy or practical.
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| The tambourines of the upper and lower worlds |
The
process:
In a journey to the Upper World, we travel upwards from a familiar
place here in ordinary reality. I get there by imagining I am
climbing the pine tree growing next to my meditation bench and
hitching a ride on raven. As you ascend, you travel through a
membrane which can appear like a cotton wool cloud. We are not
limited to one Teacher per person either. During a recent journey to
the Upper World to ask my Teacher a question concerning my health I
was met with someone I did not recognize. Apparently my usual Teacher was
on vacation and a beautiful young woman who I realized later was
Archangel Jophiel, met me and took me on a tour of a garden to answer
my question. I won't go over the half hour of meditation but Jophiel
showed me flower essences to help with pain.
I
tried to find meditations readily available on line to help find your
Teacher. This proved difficult. The audios and videos I found were
not well done. So nothing I will recommend. However, there's a lot
written about how to do it if you wish to try. I help clients during
a Shaman Oracle Card reading access their Spirit Animal with a deck
of divination cards. I can help clients access their Teachers through
the use of similar divination tools. Doreen Virtue’s Ascended
Masters Deck and her various Angel and Archangel decks work really
well. Shamanic Counseling can empower anyone to explore both Upper
and Lower Worlds. Barring the constraints of distance, I can make
myself available to anyone interested to learning this technique.
Sharing this knowledge is a privilege. 
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