4 Reasons Why the World Needs Shamanism
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I was called to the Shamanic path from the spirit realm. I've never met or even talked to a shaman or knew anything about it until several months ago. However, I have completed all trials and was anointed in the spirit realm. It would be nice to meet another practicing shaman. To learn, to connect, to share, and not feel so alone on this path. All I know is from raw internal experience and have yet to study anything, I'm getting there. 😊 I have all three traits. Seer, medicine man, and spirit walking.
Me too
what was your calling nitch like wat sign or vision did u experience
Me three ✨🫶🏻✨ EDIT: except I don’t feel I can actually call myself a Shaman yet. Just this year I started a course in Celtic Shamanism with John Matthews and others but, like you, I believe I was initiated by Spirit and have had quite a number of what I’ve since identified as Shamanic experiences. My own belief is that Otherworld Spirits spontaneously burst through via our subconscious/dream/trance states and chooses us (in some cases). I can’t explain my experiences any other way.
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@@arizonaflute 😆😂🤣😂🤣
Jacob I know you have said before you are not a scholar or historian - but as a professional historian myself, I can tell you that you are doing an amazing job bringing the world and paganism back into the ligbt. Keep doing what you are doing friend - its very important work.
Thank you! That means a lot 🙏
@@TheWisdomOfOdincongratulations for silver play button in advance ❤❤
I'm a Good Shaman from Kugluktuk Nunavut Canada when r any of u r ever gonna come to the Arctic n ask us Inuit about our ways that I'm still learning about???
@@user-dv7pd9cg6ihe should come and visit you and your people
Thank you so much for pointing out that being a Shaman is way more than drumming and smudging on the internet with a few nice insta pictures. I see so many self initiated shamans these days popping up like mushrooms, people who have no idea what they are talking about really bit who present and sell themselves. In that way shamanism gets viewed very wrongly,being called esoteric - while in truth it is the opposite. I agree 💯 that humanity and the world needs more shamanism and animism again in order to regain balance.
Glad I was able to articulate this difficult, but much needed, subject 🙏
I'm waiting for our own rituals to regain the sense of reckless abandon and joy that doesn't need to pull from anger or "going primal." For me it's less about abandoning our humanity and more about abandoning our fear of judgement or shame. To feel free enough to dance and sing and celebrate Ecstatically in the real sense of the word.
I think they have. Midsummer in Ohio was nothing but dancing like fools 😂 I think we are finding our balance with the summer/spring being lighter and free. While the darker months more heavy.
Our current organized religions lack an ecstatic component and I believe we humans have a need for that type of expression. The closest outlet we have for satisfying our need for ecstasy is [sadly] watching TV or attending sporting events and shouting out loud for "our team". Sports might satisfy our raw need for yelling or anger and maybe even the need for community, but does not begin to address our needs for spiritual expression.
It's about your journey of pain and reaching down within doing some real soulsearching to bring yourself back to good.....and with isolation we become connected to everything
Wounded Healer. Connecting to the Universal Spirit and offering Light and encouragement to others is what my Artist’s Path has come down to. I am an avid outdoorsman and spend time in nature everyday. I don’t practice any specific rituals however I live a disciplined life. My journey has been over 50 years since my teens, 20 years of that time were very emotionally tough which began by following my first Spirit Guide into the desert of the unseen, I came out sober and then was lead by my next Spirit Guide, Jesus. Now at 66, I listen more than I speak. My word for this new year is “CONTENT”, I focus on that throughout my day. As for Shamanism….whatever helps, for myself it is my art that is my expression of my Spirit and few others seem to connect to that, if I wish to help another to heal their soul, I must come to them at a comfortable place for them, be accessible and welcoming. My more bizarre inner self is the mask that others tend to cross the street to avoid interaction with and so I do not show my Shaman-self…..that is for me only.
I express myself through my art as well! I’ve had the self realization of my spiritual path being connected to it❤ I hope you continue to create
None of that is shamanism.
@@arizonaflute for me interacting with the Spirit is not something I would label. If it has no connection to Shamanism that’s ok with me I’m just grateful to have been given a chance at a second life beyond the psyodelic experiences, the 14 years of psychiatric wards, the alcoholism , drug addictions. I am just a person who hopes to help others if given the chance as a regular old man.
So many seeds are being planted world wide right now. I'm looking forward to seeing them sprout!
Regards from Germany
I appreciate what you are doing to dispel misconceptions about shamanism, mainly that it is not exclusive to indigenous communities. While in these communities there has been an unbroken tradition while in other parts of the world shamanism has to be rediscovered. What I know is that we do not choose Shamanism, it chooses us. Shamans will not have a common, mainstream or easy life. They will have a unique history that will include supernatural events, and some extreme physical events (NDE's, lightning strikes, ego death, death of beloveds, mysterious illness and other).
Once the illusion of reality is shattered within you things like shamanism, nature, plant medicine, creativity fill the void. Learning with the understanding that I may never truly know anything. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on shamanism and showing me the beautiful gathering you've allowed me to experience a very small part of through your video.
It truly was such a wonderful experience. The world needs healing, and I think it is already well on its way 🙏
@@TheWisdomOfOdinp
The ancestors are calling us back
The tying wishes to trees .... and this is the same for prayer flags or feathers etc. ... and then music for prayers. Or even smoke from a Pipe or a fire.
These tap into natural energies that allow the prayers to move forward or move onward from this realm and through the next.
It's like with how paranormal researchers have documented (and I've witnessed personally) how the presence of "ghosts" or spirits can suck the warmth from the air or kill batteries in cameras. These are pulling energy to manifest.
It's the same, in my personal opinion and observation. Energies are being tapped to move the prayers from this realm into the spirit so that those prayers get to where they need to go.
It's also why I have a bell on the staff I walk with. (And another reason I share is speaking these words help me to own them, and get them straight in my own mind and heart. So hope you don't mind.)
It is definitely coming back!🙏🌊🌟🦅
I so agree with you and thank you for spreading this message! I am currently attending shamanic classes and learning how to become a shaman . Not easy. A long road and always learning
Though I am a fully devoted Protestant, I find valuable wisdom in your words and the values of paganism, especially in it's teachings of nature and connection to the natural world.
I admire your religion and respect it very much, respect from Nagaland✝️
Hail to our gods. Best of luck out there friend 👍
This. This is how it should be between different religions and faiths. Peace, exchange, understanding, and respect.
I wish more people would agree with you, especially from the western Christian world. As someone who grew up in a quite strict Christian household compared to my friends in my opinion we have forgotten our own connection to nature. If Christian’s truly believed what they taught I have long thought they’d take better care of themselves and the nature around them and people. Too many are so singularly focused on the afterlife and live in fear of this life.
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I started out Christian-ish. "Luke warm" as I've heard it, but my early adult life committed fully to being Christian. But the more I looked for Jesus and God and being as genuine as can be, the further it seemed to push me away. I even went so far as to ask the Devil to speak to me, to validate something, because if he answered, then that would god was real and present, but even that proved to be of no avail, nothing, not even a demon or angel, anthing.
And then a key moment in a forest happened, where I had to ask myself a very big question, that seemed rather small, and then after that, I was never a Christian again. Been a Shaman ever since, and honestly, my life, personally, has improved. Nature answers me when I pray, which is something I never got when I was Christian.
I'm not speaking for everyone, nor am I trying to convert, misguide, or slander Abrahamic faiths. It's purely my story. Nothing more. Do with it as you will.
Shamanism is the way people will see the light 🙏🏼
I really enjoy your content and I appreciate how you articulate your thoughts. Thank you for your work
Glad you enjoy it!
so thankful that the youtube algorithm has connected us! I deeply resonate with so much of what you said - you are doing brilliant work here!
Glad the waves of the algorithm brought you here as well!
@@TheWisdomOfOdin much love brother :)
Living the best life ❤😊
This world needs the shamans now more then ever. I respect the diversity of their respective backgrounds and cultures, as i am a finn descendent slowly learning my ancestral faith( ukkonusko ) i am happy to see such beautiful rituals being shared and respected equally and not a contest to see who's faith and practice is better. We NEED the shamans to guide us once again in these strange times. Thank you for this beautiful video you have produced 😊
Thank you Jacob. I am being pulled to a Shamans path. I am not sure yet if I am meant to BE a Shaman...but I want to incorporate many of the practices into my path. Learning about Kai from Heilung, and meeting several Shamans in the last 3 years and then doing a LOT of research has awakened something in me. I'll keep you posted ;) Great video!
Best wishes on your journey friend 🙏
Strength and healing in unity 💯
Even though I'm far from being a shaman, I'm sure I'd love the vibe there - a lot of energy converging in that spot. Plus, I've heard that travel in Eastern Europe is way more affordable and you get to see a lot of the same kinds of architecture, historical sites and museums.
It was great to meet you! I hope our paths cross again, and I’m sure they will!
It was great meeting you too 🎉
Shamanism exists all over the world & it deals with the opposite of mainstream religions. It's usually offered by those who've had big failures in their life but have conquered their fears & suffering by submitting to spirits.
If there is no Shaman from the Amazon, Mongolia or from Africa in this gathering, then you're missing out a lot.
What a beautiful and true response. Thank you!
This is absolutely correct. I have walked this path myself. I call it our true path where I was allowed to encounter myself and work out all the traumas and pain. It is precisely all these setbacks, pain and countless failures that have made me who I am. It was a journey of decades.
For some time now I have been following a 3-year training as a Shamanic healer in which we can learn this beautiful way of life. After this training you are absolutely not a Shaman yet.
The path you walk after the training and which takes many, many years shapes the person into the Shaman that is or can be.
Thank you very much Dear Jacob- May your day shines beautifully 🌲🌲🌲- See you at your next video
For me, I carry a sacred Pipe that came to me. Since it did so, it has led me down a path that seeks the similarities between Norse and Albion paths. It has me curious what the peoples were like back before the land bridge (or Doggerland) between England and Europe sank into the North Sea.
With Scandinavia, I've always found the Sami fascinating and wish we knew more about what the first peoples of the British Isles would have been like.
Now back to the video ... as excited for this series.
Thank you, Jacob, for doing these.
Sidenote ... I have "Way of the Shaman" on my desk right now as I've just started it.
Have to admit, I've started and stopped reading many times over a long while now as I'm deeply rooted into the foundations of what was originally shared with me those years ago and along the way.
When I've had questions or needed to learn this or that, I've found that's when someone new crosses my path with shared wisdom that helps nudge me on the right track.
Then when it feels right and I then finally get to a book like this one ... I find its no longer a how to guide but something that helps fill in the gap.
Does that make sense?
And what you said about being a Shaman might look cool, but in reality .... Well, that's kind of how I'm finding being a Pipe carrier to be.
Don't get me wrong, I love what it's asked me to do but ... it quickly showed me how ill prepared I was / am ... How far I've got to go. How much work there is ... How I had to and am having to learn to step outside of myself as your life is no longer really your own.
There are days I wish I'd never set foot in that first Full Moon Pipe Circle or asked to learn to pray with a Pipe or they deciding to teach me.
In fact, I'd finally let go of all that after a few decades and then this Pipe came to me after I set foot on the Norse path and blew up everything I thought I knew and showed me how much I've got to learn. It's often like being a toddler and being dragged along by your parent when you have to be somewhere in a hurry.
BUT ... I've seen remarkable things I can't explain and stand in awe.
And this ended up being much longer than I was planning. Apologies.
Now back to the video. :)
Thank you for sharing so much 🙏
Thank you so much for this episode Jacob!! Wow…❤
I am an unlabeled healer
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Glad you enjoyed 🙏
There are few content creators that I feel enthralled in the content…I feel you were meant to bring people together here. ❤
You showed up in my newsfeed and then checked ur page out and just wow! The 1st video of u selling ur belongings to study religion I was like...my tribe 💫💥💯
Happy you found your way here 🙏
I'm so grateful for your videos because these discussions are important to be able to shift our paradigm. Thank you!
Shamanism hasn’t left.
It took me to realize this once I’ve had my intense life experiences.
Shamanism or a shaman finds you when you need it most.
Just simply beautiful
I love this video
Very nicely done!
Fantastic video about a fantastic topic! I want full-length documentaries about this topic, this event, and these people.
Haha maybe one day! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Thank you so much for sharing Jacob! Amazing work you do!
Love the video man! Couldn’t agree more.
Thank you for sharing this! Wonderful video! ❤
Glad to see you well friend
Haha better now that I’ve dried off
Thank you for this video. Blessings to all 💜💜☮️
An excellent video. A great message, Jacob!
This was just amazing,thank you so much❤❤❤❤
What an important message. Thank you for making these videos.
Great video! It is clear by the tone and cadence of your speech that you are in a good spot. Clearly that was a moving event. Very cool.
Thank you Jacob for another excellent video
Great video. Thank you for making it.
I wholeheartedly agree with what you are saying. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful experience
I absolutely love your channel. You do an amazing job of research to give us the most accurate info on Paganism. Thanks!
I have just recently found your channel and have been binge watching....this episode has moved me to tears...thankyou for sharing your discoveries on your journey.
That means a lot, thank you ❤️
God bless you love this vid! the info help affirm my omnist beliefs, thank you
I love everything about this video but possibly my favourite part is you pronouncing "sauna" correctly, always a delight to hear! I hope to someday take part in this festival, it seems very welcoming and like one I'd feel at home at. Thank you for sharing your experiences!
After staying with the Finns they corrected me on my sauna ways 😆
I was initiated into witchcraft and shamanism in 1997 by the High Priest of the Wicca clan in Nottingham. My advice is ignore all internet courses in shamanism and as Jacob said quite rightly, training can only be done by a shaman. But remote viewing can be taught and learned from anywhere.
Absolutely beautiful, we definitely need more of this in the world.
Brilliant episode Jacob, thank you for uploading. I only wish we had such festivals in the UK. To hear directly from different traditions and their perspectives on shamanism and life in general must have been fascinating.
Thank you for such a beauuuuuuutiful video and great memories
So happy to have met you!
Nice job Jacob!
This looks like so much fun! What beautiful Lammas vibes with the grass and sunset too
Super inspiring video, very grateful for your hard work, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏
Thank you! You have no idea how important this video was to me! Keep spreading shamanic wisdom everywhere 🤗
Great video, ❤
Thank you for making this channel!
I loved this video 👏
I live in Latvia ( it is next to Estonia) and I didn't know that there is this kind of festival! Maybe see you there next time 🙋🏼♀️
Or in Latvia - you should come here as well ❤ 🇱🇻
I highly recommend this festival. While it was mostly in Estonian there were several English presenters, and generally everyone was very friendly!
Thanks a lot sir for your revelation of the world of spirits. I am happy to see you explaining the phinomina of spirits in such an interesting manner.
Basically all most all civilizations, I am referring to ancient civilizations and not modern civilization, all civilizations have a mechanism of connecting with spirits.
All living creatures like plants, animals, birds, almost all living beings including human beings have spirits. I don't agree to the point that non living beings like stones, machinary, instruments like washing machine, or telephone have life.
Contacting and connecting with spirits can be done through various means. One way is through shamanic retuals like making sound or music, singing, dancing and showing respect to trees rivers and such natural forces. This is a formal and traditional method.
The other method is looking at our value system. And finding and analysing our value systems.
Yes, if we remove all negative values like hatred, jealousy, dishonesty, violence, hurting, harming, then our soul or spirits what so ever name we may give gets cleaned and purified. Once our soul or spirits gets purified it acquires strength or power or capabilities to connect and communicate with other spirits. It also means liberating our spirits from impurities and strengthening of our spirits. This method is needed in our present modern civilization.
This method, I think may be most suited for our modern civilization.
Thanks for the video.
I agree you are very smart and from the heart. Thanks I will follow you. Kool
Awesome video! I hope there are many more shamans in this world when I leave than when I arrived. The ring of people danicing through the coals looked powerful.
Powerful, and very hot! 😂
Thank you.
That is true. You must embrace the dark and hurt part to
You're right about doctor medicine not working
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I’ll share more of my story one day when it’s got a few more chapters. By my physical healing journey has been even longer than my spiritual healing. I have learned so much ❤️
@@TheWisdomOfOdin thanks
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 bravo to the connection
How great!
You can still preserve nature even if you're not a shaman or shamanist
thank you Jacob, for sharing your insights & overall explanations of the various ways of walking a Shamanic Spiritual path. I’ve been following Shamanism since the 90s & it has helped me, my family & community shift into a higher awareness of living & connecting. Also, the fact you were in Estonia, a place that’s close to my heart, really resonated so deeply with me bc it’s where I was gifted with an Elks tooth, one of my 1st power animal medicines. What part of Estonia were you in?
This was just 30 miles south of Talinn
is this a yearly gathering & what is it called?
interesting video
I'd love to see a video that compares the similarities and differences between shamans and druids. Some people I've met in the world don't know the difference at all and it's difficult to explain sometimes.
I just found your videos and am enjoying them. Would you do a video on what you mean when you say "spirit."
No more understanding iyah, we inner stand !!
Interesting to find this today. I was looking at some stuff that alleged the civilization before younger dryas, was shamanistic in nature.
Shamanism has more than likely been around in some form as long as we have been human
Wonderful and informative video. I am currently studying shamanic healing. I heard you say here in "Estonia". But where exactly? And will this retreat be happening again? I'd like to attend. Thanks 🌻
💚☯️ Interesting journey for you to take part in, for lifes purpose. ☯️💚
I would love to be with you 😊 Blessed by
People find similar solutions in their lives, I practice historical technology re-creation as a hobby examples are Bull-roarers found in the archeological records on every continent humanity lives on, willow baskets from different cultures separated widely in time and distance that take an expert to find the differences. I really struggle with many accusations of "cultural appropriation" I hear about for that reason. (I need to research how many peoples independently developed archery). However I do see cultural appropriation happen, but the examples I think are rarely get called out.
I'm trying to research pre-Christian European sauna rituals but finding very little. I've attended several different native American tradition ceremonies but those aren't my path.
Please do a video on Veleda
Apparently sauna traditions existed in Ireland as well ❤❤❤
❤ Are there any more shaman events like this coming up soon, if so, where ?
There’s lots of info online where people will get together, some are even women only
In Africa to become a healer Sangoma is a calling from the Spirits not your choice. the initiation ritual is hectic ,physical death by drowning
laying with a goat etc. if you have been called you must listen. Blessed be you
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the origin of sauna is somewhat
a mystery.. the linquistics say
the word means a place under
snow, while in the volga region
it was more of a sandy /
underground pit that was
heated up..
i´ve also read it was a hut
made out of willow branches
(all of which says earth to me,
very similar to the native
american huts, originally
not stationary but build for
a specific occasion, even
the stones were hand picked
carefully here).
i have so much knowledge of
saunas, still i don´t know
the origin, maybe you´re not
supposed to :)
i´ve been going anti-spirit
because you can just see a
beautiful tree, if you love
nature that should be enough..
you don´t need to include the
invisible realm, you can,
but you don´t need to :)
it´s like with any tradition,
you can have different ways to
the same outcome (it´s the
traditionalists and those who
want to go to the opposite
direction).
forest teachers and human
teachers, which one is older.
Hello Jacob! i'm a little confused with shamanism and the "völvas" or the "runic masters", i don't understand the differences or if they are the same but in different periods of time.
Could you make a video where you explain all this?
When the Spirits choose you take up your calling serve your peaple.
Thank you. I am a shamanistic practitioner, but don't consider myself a shaman.
Question ... What is the wheel made of stones at timestamp 19:31? It looks like a medicine wheel, but has more divisions and sections within. Kind of reminds me of the wheel of the year, but ... more than that.
Deliberate placement of standing stones along the outside as well as the poles / flags .... Isa it the wheel of the year?
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Welcome to the Shaman Path.
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Im a muslim(by choice) , but i find shamanism interesting, my great grandma was a native brazilian, true pureblood native, she knew how to heal every sickness using plants in her Garden, she knew wich forest spirits were agressive and wich ones would help us, she also had a copy of saint ciprianus book(witchcraft, not some espiritual/emotional thing like wicca, like, real witchcraft, she once became a log, it scared me shitless), she was probably one of the few people who still knew how to worship the brazilian thunder god Tupã, if i weren't a muslim, id probably follow her footsteps, sadly she is now dead by 15 years, even if i wanted to, i can't ask her to teach me.
Just for you to know how messed up that book is, it cant be burned, torn or cut, my uncle burried that somewhere in the rainforest and i honestly hope noone ever gets to it, there are demons inside of it.
Where in Estonia does this gathering take place?
The respect and admiration of nature and the cosmos are what are most important. Particularly, shamanism doesn't work for all cultures.
Question: Would you train to be a shaman Jacob? ❤❤❤
Perhaps the most straightforward way to show the spirit world exists is to point out the existence of our non-material conscious sensations which is something not a part of physics. Then consider that it must also have an evolutionary purpose otherwise out material brains would not have connected to it. This implies we get some sort of survival inputs from consciousness (spirit world).
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Hello I like in Quebec city and do shamanism and would like to go to this festival. What is it called?