BeShamanic Facebook Round-up September 2024
- Richard Valintine
- Oct 11, 2024
- 7 min read
Updated: Jan 24
The location for this workshop has now been confirmed as The Woodland Retreat in Llanishen, Cardiff. Please get in touch to reserve your seat in circle, and please share if you feel guided to.
The Ego is an AI, a highly intelligent binary thinking entity that can appropriate and mimic anything. Beware the demon of Desire, for it wants to De-Sire the soul from the throne of your Mind, Heart and Motor centres.
The Desire to 'be spiritual' and build an identity around that is a trap than many fall into. The Desire to be God and know all, is intellectual and mystic Pride. The 'I's within us can play a pretty convincing cosplay.
There is one thing the ego's cannot abide or comprehend however, and that is true Humility. The ability to let go of all self importance is a great step on the path of real-eyes-ation.
The 2024 Ravens are fast approaching Weekend 6, Moon. An opportunity to comprehend the forces of nature and creation that operate within us and outside of us. Not from a kindergarten 'Good vs Bad' instilled by the corruption of Abrahamic religions, but from an objective and functional perspective. Nature holds all the answers.
Rife in the New Age, New Cage community is the 'I'm just tuning into you' adage that judges, tries to fix and diminishes the other into a soup of shame. Worst still the so called 'readers' and 'psychics' who exchange energy for guidance without having their own house in order. Be-aware your so called 'tunings' aren't shadow projections of your own deeply unconscious and sleeping state. Discernment starts with ourselves first.
The path to healing begins with knowing how we play our part in the quantum entanglement of our lives
The work always starts within yourself, otherwise you'll burn out your nervous system trying to 'fight' ignorance and evil. Working with shamanism and any form of inner realm work requires absolute discipline and focused intention lest the odd house guest gets invited unbeknowingly
"Our protection against any form of negative force is always the absence of that quality in ourselves or the constructive control and redirection of that quality. If we have transformed fear into faith within ourselves, the collective fear of all mankind cannot shake it... Thus, the more difficult the times in which we live, the more sincere and honorable must our endeavor be to maintain the attitudes which are necessary for our own security."
— Manly P. Hall
Stalking the Underworld with the Wolf 2025.
Overwhelm creates great confusion. All our vital energy rises to our intellectual centre to try and 'cope' with everything that has to be done or thought about. Like a hurricane, the Air element can soon take over and cause scattered thinking, tendency to distract, procrastination and emotional outbursts.
We are not robots, our energy centres can only cope with certain amounts of sense impressions daily. Our lives are just too complicated and can be likened to an insidious form of mental torture. Let's show up for each other in less desirous and mechanically demanding ways.
Smell the flowers, simplify your life, slow down
Looking forward to hosting this workshop in November at the Woodland Retreat in Llanishen, Cardiff. To book on, contact me directly though this page or you can book directly at:
Honesty spoken kindly is always the wisest way, yet it feels that most of the time now the big fat demon of pride in us tends to have the overall authority over the 'reaction' to the honest communication.
Remember.....demons are spiritual too.
Sometimes we've just got to wait it out. In the void of uncertain outcomes, whilst the divine mother plays her cosmic dance to create our next mind fuck.
Funny old things thoughts are. We don't really 'think our thoughts' do we. They often just simply appear like a fluffy cloud or force 9 hurricane. Sometimes expected, sometimes taking you by surprise. Often they'll try and persuade you to express them, many times they just ''come out' without warning. Just imagine what your day would look like if ALL your thoughts were expressed fully.
The Raven crew really 'showed up' in all their lunar reflections for Weekend 6, Moon of Flying with the Raven 2024. Angels and Demons and everything inbetween......we went deep and we flew high, from vice to virtue and a smorgasbord of humour and laughter. Watch those 'lunar' -tics folks.
The definition of transcendence.....
There is an epidemic of loneliness where the shadow aspects of our nature are inadmissable to even our own conditioning, let alone the wider community. Surface level dopamine rules the day in this devolving spiral of humanities consciousness. Deep down, so many souls seek a depth of relationship that feels even more inadmissable, or unsafe. We've got alot of growing up to do.
This doesn't mean we should all be 'projecting our shadow on others, it means we must own it fully and feel safe to communicate our suffering. The toxic positivity cult of the New Age has really done a number on our growth.
If your ready to face your depths in a safe and non judgmental space, then book a shamanic session.
You can't obtain in the outer world anything that you've not obtained or conducted in you inner world. You soul exists in the depth of the darkness. Its longings can never be satisfied 'externally'. You will only ever attract into your life people, situations and experiences that reflect the depth at which you have met your own soul, or people will only ever have access to the first point of resistance you've not managed to get beyond yourself.
Go deep into the Underworld, it's not that scary.
Stalking the Underworld with the Wolf 2025.
Stop trying to be spiritual. You cannot 'possess' any quality that isn't already part of the ineffable present moment. The fallacy that 'You' exist and are attempting to appropriate a divine quality is the source of much suffering and anguish.
Just mind your own business and get on with your life. We don't get to God through works but through Grace, and true Grace is the surrendering to the unknowable to govern 'this' life.
A Sufi once said:
“I am baffled by what people say: They see the world and say ‘I can’t find God!’ I see nothing but God and can’t find the world.”
I'll be conducting a monthly Mantra class at Bronleigh House from November this year. We will be studying the power of Mantra in healing practices as well as our own personal alignment with the divine. We will be working particularly with Tibetan healing wisdom and the use of Mantra in Shamanic practices from around the world.
If you are willing to commit to the full 6 month program, I'll be able to offer a 10% discount on the total fee for the block booking of 6 sessions.
All the event dates are on this page and my website,
Please get in contact if you'd like to join the classes. Recordings of the class will be available to purchase through my website.
A calm autumn equinox to one and all.....
A monthly immersion into the benefits and healing qualities of Mantra and Mantra practice.
We will be working with a different Mantra each month. You will receive in depth esoteric teachings from Tibetan medicine traditions and various Shamanic and Animistic traditions. We will practice the Mantra with the intention to work with it until the next class. Each class will also include a 15minute group healing.
You will need a yoga mat, cushion, blanket and water. If you have a shamanic drum or rattle please also bring that. You will also require a 108 bead Mala.
Being 'nice' doesn't make you 'chosen' in the eyes of spirit. Being nice sugar coats the demons that you live 'within'. Nice is squishy squashy wishy washy. There is an insipidness to niceness, a slithering slime of demasculation and defeminisation.
You can be a kind warrior, even if it means putting yourself through a psychological death. Nice just won't do.
There are plenty of parasites out there willing to 'feed' off your success, or either overtly or covertly stick the knife in and criticise you from the sidelines of their very small minded little lives.
If you're happy to judge those that are trying their best to make a go of their lives and creativity, whilst you sit like a frightened and insecure little worm, hell bent on bringing those on an evolving spiral into your miserable devolving one, then take a long look in the mirror.
This also applies to all the snake pit 'shamanic' gossip zones on Facebook full of wannabe 'special ones' wasting all their creative lifeforce telling everyone else they are 'doing it wrong' whilst still living in their parents basement masturbating over the latest power animal or alien encounter. Get out there and do the work where its needed....in the world, not through some self serving and Pride aggrandizing virtual reality screen.
Willpower is neutral until applied to an intention. Before you criticise, what are your Intentions for the criticism? For the path to hell, just like the ascent to Everest, is littered with so called 'good ones".
There are many 'false prophets' within us, vying to gain accolade and adoration in the form of our vital energy and consciousness. When you truly examine the mind, you find that that there is no 'singular 'I'', but a multitude....a legion of 'I's or false prophets constantly telling us what 'they' want to hear. What a paradox. Then along comes the Christic awareness to blow apart the bullshit, and guess what, it gets crucified even more by the Pharisees and Saducees of the false self.
As within, so without. When someone comes along to teach an uncomfortable truth, we throw stones of stubborn pride, hatred, science and fear at them. For the criminals within us will defend their crimes to the bitter end.
It is the way of things.
Shamanic 'medicine' can sometimes create a deep purgatory experience. What we purge can often be everything we've felt we've 'had' to swallow to survive in this realm of narcissistic abuse.
Get it out....it's not yours to digest.
If you'd like to commit (Tiwaz) to a new cycle (Jera) of healing wisdom (Ansuz) and practical and pragmatic( Mannaz) knowledge to expand (Ingwaz) your own healing practices, then touch base (Uruz) with me through this page or my website.
May the powers of the Wyrd bring healing, peace and blessings to all....
An opening has just come up for Flying with the Raven 2025, a 12 month apprenticeship in Healing and Shamanism. This is great opportunity to deepen your journey and practice, or become a healing practitioner.
For more details, please contact me directly and you can also look at my website,
Why not jump on board and gain your wings.
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