The word “shaman” comes from the Siberian Tungus tribe. And it means “spiritual healer,” or, “one who sees in the dark.”

In world mythology, The World Tree is the “axis mundi,” world axis, or central axis of the cosmos. Images of the World Tree exist in virtually all cultures, and represent the world center and/or the connection between heaven and earth. The axis mundi links heaven and earth as well as providing a path between the two. Many ancient cultures incorporate the myth of the World Tree, Tree of Life, or Tree of Knowledge, as it is also known. It is familiar today as the Rod of Asclepius, the symbol of medicine. The staff is the axis itself, and the serpent or serpents are the guardians or guides to the other realm. Shamans believe that this central axis and the universe it unites lie within the soul, within each of us. According to shamanic cosmology, there are three inner planes of consciousness: the Upper, Middle, and Lower Worlds. The roots of the World Tree touch the Lower World. Its trunk is the Middle World and its branches hold up the Upper World. Humans did not invent these inner realms; they discovered them. Far from being a human contrivance, these archetypal worlds are inherent in the collective unconscious, the common psychological inheritance of humanity. They are woven into the matrix of the psyche. They are a part of our psyche, a part of us whether we choose to become aware of it or not.

Many formalized religions, from Buddhism to Christianity, came from ancient shamanic roots and still bear the shamanic threads of deep connection to the divine in all things. But shamanism itself is not a formalized system of beliefs or an ideology. According to famed American psychologist and consciousness pioneer, Stanley Krippner, shamans are “community-assigned magico-religious professionals who deliberately alter their consciousness in order to obtain information from the ‘spirit world’. Shamanism is a spiritual practice found in cultures around the world from ancient times up to the present day. First and foremost, shamans’ practices are practical and adaptable. These practices coexist over millennia with varying cultures, systems of government, and organized religious practices. Krippner describes shamans as the first physicians, diagnosticians, psychotherapists, religious functionaries, performing artists, and storytellers.

A soul is comprised of divine energy (chi, prana, life force, etc), it is the essence of who that person is without their physical aspect. This is a technique from Seichem which is Shamanic in its nature. The Aura is removed so deeper healing can take place, and the Aura is cleansed removing any affinity for specific detrimental patterns such as bullying, abuse, addiction. Shamanic Extraction is a way to remove old, stuck emotional energy blockages from the energy field. This results in improving the overall natural energy flow of the body.

Shamans still exist in some form in every culture on the planet, including our own modernized Western world. Engaging with the shamanic tradition is not about cultural appropriation or ripping off the spirituality of any indigenous peoples. We all come from indigenous ancestors if we go back far enough, and they all had great shamans. Shamanism organically arose all over the world, all throughout history, as a response to the needs of people. Shamanism is an ancient collection of traditions based on the act of voluntarily accessing and connecting to non-ordinary states — or spirit realms — for wisdom and healing. In many tribes, it is said that Spirit chose to incarnate itself as a shaman before it was even born into physical existence. A shaman is known by the spiritual elders of a tribe as he or she is born.