Need help with getting into shamanism

[Justin my mind]

I was wondering if there are any shamans on this forum that could help me communicate my prayers and communicate with helping spirits and guides. With my disability, it's hard to do the practices, and I was wondering if someone can help me heal and engage with the things I want to accomplish, the communication and healing im looking for 

[kbone]

On 5/19/2025 at 9:53 PM, Justin my mind said:

I was wondering if there are any shamans on this forum that could help me communicate my prayers and communicate with helping spirits and guides. With my disability, it's hard to do the practices, and I was wondering if someone can help me heal and engage with the things I want to accomplish, the communication and healing im looking for 

I'm curious, do you have a gift with respect to shamanism? Have you noticed a strength of intuition, a sense for the non-mentio-physical aspects of 'reality' (that word kind of annoys me, hehe), or a presence of/as existence that you would be willing to share?

I do not 'know' a lot about shamanism, but have met several in different countries and live with someone who I suspect has genetic memory of being one. She's quite a gal, to be sure. I bow to her trans-rational logic, like, all the time, if ya know what I mean. 

Other than that, when living in the mountains, a few siddhis emerged from the space that was apparent. Nature taught the mind A LOT.

Edited May 21 by kbone

[Porphyry Fedotov]

I'm not by any means a shaman, but I do commune with spirits during my psychedelic mushroom trips, and they visit me in my dreams, especially the lucid ones as well. I keep a small altar with some things that represent them for contacting in a sober state. So if you're interested in shamanism, I suggest looking into sacred medicine and lucid dreaming. Visiting forests and meditating in the wild is also a good practice.

Ask spirit guides to visit you in dreams, ask them before your trips as well, to teach you.
Read Castaneda, his books have a plethora of helpful information regarding shamanism.

[Justin my mind]

@Porphyry Fedotov Would smoke cannabis while listening to druming be useful I've been thinking about doing that 

[Porphyry Fedotov]

@Justin my mind I usually meditate in silence after smoking cannabis. But combining it with drums like Lakota war drumming, for example, might induce shamanistic trance-like states in theory