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This month’s thoughts HEART OF THE SHAMAN

about things...

“I want to look back on my life and be giddy with ...continued from page 8...
joy that I was the one who got to live it.”
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I told her it was in the interest of karma that she NOT try to Someday, I will see if it worked. There are dangers lurking in
go after the officer for doing his job whether she gets off on the tides of time. It can be turbulent enough when you drift
a technicality or not. It was HER OWN actions that began the along in it during the course of everyday life. But when you
ripple effect. She is so focused on portraying herself as the rush into the future or the past in a shamanic journey, it is hard
victim of "a malicious arrest" that she completely forgets the to tell what is real. Here fantasy and illusion are intertwined.
part that they have her on video taking the money. What is true and what is magic, trickery, or deception? When
we dream during the night, wherever we find ourselves—in a
YOU DON’T WANT JUSTICE, YOU WANT MERCY train, or speaking with our deceased father—seems absolutely
Don't be screaming for justice, when what you really want is real and as tangible as our waking reality. Yet when we wake
mercy. Go ahead and play the system if you think you can get up the details fade from memory in an instant.
away with it but be prepared for the karmic consequences.
You know deep in your own soul the truth of the matter. How do shamans know if their spirit journeys
through space-time are true?
WHAT THEY DO NEEDN'T AFFECT YOU
if you think anything anyone does against you can prevent you You have to train to retain clarity during a journey and to pre-
from attracting what you are meant to attract, you’re simply vent yourself from becoming terrified by the ghosts of the past
not connected to guidance. If you think anything anyone says that inhabit these realms, or seduced by temptations in the
about you can prevent you from attracting the good that is future. Communication with the formless beings can be tricky—
meant for you, you are temporarily disconnected from guid- many are hungry ghosts masquerading as spiritual masters. And
ance. we are easily seduced by the answers that make us feel most
comfortable and self-important. In retrospect, I now under-
WHICH THOUGHTS TO REPEAT, WHICH TO DISCARD? stand Roshi’s comments about how these beings can become a
Your thoughts may appear out of nowhere. You can’t stop distraction from the path.
that from happening. What you can decide is how long you
will continue to dwell on that thought. You have the choice When I started my shamanic training, I would ask myself, “Is
of staying on that thought long enough to get pissed off about this real, or am I making all of this up?” During one lengthy
it. You have the choice of moving to a better feeling thought, stay in the jungle working with the Ayahuasca vine, I began
before you attract something you don’t want. to learn the territory shown to me by the plant medicine. I
was no longer thrashed about by the visions, taken from the
WHERE IS MY SOULMATE?? holiest heavens to the deepest hells, but able to guide them.
Where is my soulmate?? As a psychic reader, that's one of the But before that happened, I had a terrifying encounter with an
top questions I'm asked. A lot of people who've been waiting Amazonian anaconda.
years for their love partner don't realize they've shifted into
a phase where having a conventional partner will not be their In one ceremony with the medicine plants, we were inside
life. Their soul is calling them toward inner work but they a maloca, a circular thatched hut raised on posts above the
don't know what that looks like just yet. ground. We were working indoors because the Amazon River
had overrun its banks and flooded the area. Halfway into the
YOU DON'T NEED A PARTNER, YOU NEED A PURPOSE evening, I felt a need to pee . . . I leave the maloca and go
We can get used to having a romantic partner fill in the gaps down a couple of wooden steps. I am peeing contentedly, the
of our life, so we assume that is what we're waiting for next. sky above full of stars, when I notice a ripple in the water com-
But we don't need a partner, we need a purpose and just have ing toward me. As it draws near I realize that it is a serpent,
not discovered this yet. Start praying for meaningful purpose a gigantic anaconda that opens its mouth when it reaches me,
to be dropped into your life. For some that will be a partner, showing me the webbing inside the roof of its mouth. I am ter-
for many it'll be something else rified by the beast and run back inside and hide my head under
my poncho, praying that it will go away.
Enjoy our offering this month.
Hari Om.
Andrea ...continued on page 29...

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