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Unique to shamanism, the practice of journeying is a very powerful way to gain insights into problems, to look for healing, to seek allies or just to relax. When you journey, you enter a different world. It is essentially one that you create and guide yourself through, although your consious self relinquishes control to your spirit. Before you begin journeying you need to work on visualizing a place in your mind that becomes your own sacred space. The sacred space you create will be your place and only people you invite may enter. It can be any kind of place in which your spirit feels happy and at home: a woodland clearing, a cave, a deserted beach, even a corner of your garden. The more times you visit your sacred space the more real it will seem to and the easier it will be to get there. Concentrate on creating and remembering detail; love the place, care for it, plant flowers and trees and tend to them as they grow, decorate it as you would your home. Work out rituals for arriving and leaving and, from time to time, imagine making an offering there to help express your gratitude. A drum is useful in journeying and it is good to have someone drum for you (or to record your drumming onto tape and use a tape player to play it back to you), as a regular beat of 200 beats per minute aids the focus needed for the opening of a gateway. It is good to build up the rhythm gradually to allow the traveller to become acclimatized to the adventure. At first it is best to journey for a set time of around 5 minutes. At the end of this period the drummer can intiate the return with a call-back signal (ie, four 1 second beats followed by some very rapid drumming). Making a drum tape for your journeys is very useful, as you can record several sessions of various lengths and incorporate your own call-back signal. We all have the ability to journey to different worlds/levels, and indeed do so when we dream. As in dreams, these otherworld are places of limitless possibilities, where information is relayed in a format the journeyer can relate to. Unlike dreams (except lucid dreaming), the journey to the to another world/level is undertaken with concious intent and with a specific goal in mind. -Socharis |