COURSE DESCRIPTION: Healing-The Shamans Way is a twelve-module course providing basic information about shamanism and shamanic healing. Included are the controversies surrounding shamanism, the shamanic worldview. Specific tools such as flutes, drums, and rattles as healers receive major attention as do the dowsing rod, the pendulum, auras, raw eggs, and the scrying mirror as diagnostic tools: The function of herbs and what some of them are used for, (creating a foot soak) essential oils, how they are created, and which ones you do not drink or apply directly to the skin, and crystals as healing tools. Not all crystals are safe; some are poisonous. Self-healing techniques include the use of herbal teas, elixirs, soups, and other drinks. Shamanic Journeying and Astral Projection are contrasted with the purpose of each explained. The use of hallucinogenics and sound in producing an Altered State of Consciousness and the use of such a state to travel to different Realms is connected to healing. How to acquire Spirit Guides and Spirit Animals and their function as helpers and protectors. Soul loss and its shamanic retrieval shed light on ones physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Finally, the ways one becomes a shaman, that shamanism is not an alternative to contemporary medical practices.
