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    The Shaman's Toolkit: Ancient Tools for Shaping the Life and World You Want to Live In
    The Shaman's Toolkit: Ancient Tools for Shaping the Life and World You Want to Live In
    The Shaman's Toolkit: Ancient Tools for Shaping the Life and World You Want to Live In
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    The Shaman's Toolkit: Ancient Tools for Shaping the Life and World You Want to Live In

    By Sandra Ingerman

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    According to Sandra Ingerman and thousands of years of shamans before her, it is not what we do but who we are and what we are willing to become that affects our happiness, the health of our communities, and ultimately the planet itself. The Shaman's Toolkit teaches us how to root out the beliefs that are limiting us, how to heal our inner lives and become the people we most want to be, and how to utilize ancient shamanic principles of manifestation to help shape the world we want to live in. This is shamanism with a kind of social change agenda. It's about having the happiest and most fulfilling life possible and becoming a truly effective world citizen and change maker. (This book was originally published in 2010 as How to Thrive in Changing Times.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9781609258658
    The Shaman's Toolkit: Ancient Tools for Shaping the Life and World You Want to Live In
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    Sandra Ingerman

    Sandra Ingerman, M.A., is a renowned shamanic teacher who gives workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and soul retrieval. An award-winning author of 10 books, including Awakening to the Spirit World and Soul Retrieval, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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      The Shaman's Toolkit - Sandra Ingerman

      Introduction

      When I was a child I was very influenced by a Star Trek episode titled Shore Leave. In this 1966 episode, an exhausted Captain Kirk and crew went looking for a planet for a short holiday. They found one, and part of the crew beamed down to see if it was a suitable place for a good rest. The planet was quite beautiful, a healing natural environment with forests and meadows. The landing crew thought there were no animals, people, or worries there. They thought they'd found a planet of only peace, sunshine, and good air.

      Then, the fun began. No sooner did Dr. McCoy, the ship's surgeon, comment that the planet was like something out of Alice in Wonderland than the rabbit from that tale appeared, and then Alice was there too. He thought it was a hallucination—until he saw the huge rabbit paw prints.

      Each person in the landing crew had a similar experience. All he or she had to do was think of something or someone—a person or animal or object—and it would appear.

      Mr. Sulu always wanted an old gun—and then found one under a rock.

      Captain Kirk met up with a loved one who was always on his mind, and a practical joker appeared from his training academy days and teased him into a fight.

      One of the crew daydreamed about a dress and hat that a princess would wear, and it appeared on a tree. She then imagined that she would need protection from a black knight who also appeared. Earlier in the day she had daydreamed about Don Juan, and he had appeared as well.

      Meanwhile, Mr. Spock had stayed behind on board the Enterprise. Using his tracking equipment, he quickly realized that beneath the planet's surface was industrial activity. Then he beamed down and observed what was happening to everyone and announced that everything that was manifesting into form was appearing because of people's thoughts. Captain Kirk then radioed his crew and asked them to rendezvous at the glade where they had first beamed down.

      At this point a very friendly, white-haired man wearing a robe appeared. He introduced himself as the caretaker of the planet and apologized to them. He said the people on the planet did not realize that the visitors did not know the purpose of this planet.

      He explained that a factory of workers dwelled in the core of the planet and that this was a place where people came to manifest their dreams. Whenever someone daydreamed, he explained, this factory went to work creating the players and the scenarios. You just had to think the thoughts—old desires, new ones, what you love, what you fear, a triumph, a battle—and they would manifest. There was no judgment involved. Anything one wished for was made to happen.

      Watching this program at age thirteen, I instantly realized what planet Earth was about. For, as I wrote in the preface, we are spirits clothed by these wonderful bodies, but we are spiritual beings who come to earth to experience manifesting spirit into form. We are a reflection of our creator/creative force of the universe, and we come here to create beauty and form with each thought and word we use. And the dreams and thoughts we have do manifest without judgment, for from a spiritual perspective, life is a learning experience. From a spiritual point of view, there is a state of neutrality about what happens to us. Not good or bad, right or wrong. What is, is.

      When we speak about being spiritual beings, we are describing that part of ourselves that is beyond our body and mind and is invisible. This part of us is as extraordinary as the extraordinary qualities we ascribe to our creator. There is much that goes on in our life that happens in this invisible dimension. Our thoughts, for example, are invisible, and yet they manifest into form. We may dream about a particular relationship and then find that a person with these very characteristics appears in our life.

      All spiritual traditions teach that everything that manifests on earth begins in the invisible. Most spiritual traditions also teach that that everything outside of us is a reflection of our inner state of consciousness. As above, so below; as within, so without.

      I teach workshops on reversing environmental pollution, and in these classes I teach that the state of pollution in the world today is a reflection of our inner state of consciousness. As we learn how to transform our own toxic states of thinking, I show my students, the earth will reflect that transformation back to us. This is a powerful way of working, and I describe it in two of my previous books: Medicine for the Earth and How to Heal Toxic Thoughts.

      In The Shaman's Toolkit, I would like for us to focus as a global community on how to create a positive world for all of life. This work, too, is about changing our inner landscape so we can alter the outer one.

      I have been teaching workshops on spiritual healing since 1982. And I have also been working with private clients during that time. What has become crystal clear to me is that working in a community to heal an individual's illness is far more powerful than working one-on-one with a client. I have also witnessed dramatic differences between the experience of a group focusing attention on an issue affecting a community and one person working alone or in isolation to create change. I will further explore this idea with you in chapter 7, Shining Our Light into the World: The Power of Global Community.

      I will teach you to create what you want in life and so we can gather our energies as a global community and create a world filled with love, light, peace, harmony, equality, and abundance for all.

      Today many people are focused on personal processes of healing and transformation. And that is fine. We must all do the personal work that creates healing in our own lives. We want to continue to manifest a life filled with joy. But I am also asking you to think about your personal work as it relates to creating a positive world for all of life. The beauty here is that you don't have to choose. I'm talking about an and relationship not an or one. As you engage in the spiritual practices in this book, you will find yourself experiencing a tremendous amount of personal healing, and this kind of healing ultimately leads to the healing of the earth.

      We will focus on making the internal changes that will then bring about true change in our lives and on the planet. We will learn the importance of taking responsibility for making healthy changes on the planet. We will continue with the theme I wrote about in Medicine for the Earth and How to Heal Toxic Thoughts that it is whom we become that changes the world and not what we do. We will work more on how to live a conscious life rather than looking at what we need to do to create change.

      It is my firm belief that change comes from the state of being we hold in life rather than from doing something. You will learn more about what that means as we proceed into the book.

      We will explore how our thoughts and words impact the world we live in. We will look at our own core beliefs that influence what we believe is possible to create for the world. And we will learn different ways to release and dissolve those beliefs that block us and prevent us from using our creativity. We will see how we can use ancient principles of creation and manifestation to heal the earth and create a good world for all of life. And I will encourage you to perceive yourself as part of a global community, which will make your work much more powerful than anything one person can do on his or her own. We will learn how to thrive and not just survive.

      Throughout the book you will notice I often use the words we and us instead of the singular you. I do this deliberately. It is time for us to become a true we as we learn how to work together as a global community to become agents of conscious change.

      In 2008 I was interviewed for the movie The Invocation. The director asked me what I thought was needed to heal the world right now. I responded that we need to move from a vertical and hierarchical structure to a more horizontal structure. We need to move to a consciousness where each person on the planet owns his or her creative brilliance and sees that we all have a piece of the puzzle.

      You see, change isn't going to come from one person, and no one's going to do it for us. The time of the hero or heroine is over. It is time for all of us to gather our energies together as a global community to create the world we want to live in—a world that supports all of life. And our descendants will sing praises for the beautiful planet that we have left for them.

      Is this hard work? Is this impossible?

      No. We just have to learn how to change our thoughts and keep them changed. We have to learn how to develop new patterns of thinking—thinking that supports our bravest vision for the kind of world we want to live in. By supporting that vision in everything we do—in our words, our thoughts, and then, quite naturally, our actions—we can bring it to fruition.

      In today's world a growing number of people are losing faith in the world's economy. People believe that the economy will collapse, and they are exploring more ways to go off the grid and become self-sufficient. That's understandable. There isn't a lot of good news.

      Every day we hear about how global warming is, and will continue, impacting our way of life. Pollution on all levels is increasing, and we are constantly bombarded with images and stories of starvation around the globe. We see child abuse happening on many different levels. The weather has become unpredictable, and natural disasters are impacting all countries.

      We are called to act. We want to continue to explore renewable forms of energy, using materials that are not toxic to the environment and all of life, recycling, and all the many ways we can effect change by our daily habits. We want to look at how we can create a safe and supportive environment for all children in the world.

      Especially as the economy worsens and things become even less certain, we need to look at how we can simplify our lives more so we are not spending so much energy to gather material possessions. We need to create more time for ourselves to relieve some of the stress that creates emotions such as depression, frustration, and anger as well as physical illness. It is important that we elect politicians who want to create the kind of changes that will support our environment and will lead us toward a unified world instead of one locked into division and power struggle. We want to elect officials who honor life over money.

      And at the same time, it behooves us to engage in spiritual practices that support the physical changes we want to—and must—make. We need to be able to imagine a good, healthy, clean, abundant, and loving world for all of life. And we

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