Shamanic Initiation: Consciousness Expansion

Welcome to this shamanism initiation course. I am Karen Prieto and since 2008 I started together with the Andean Indians of the Sutagaos tribe on the spiritual path. Many see shamanism as another technique existing within so many other holistic methods, but shamanism is a philosophy and lifestyle with no religious or dogmatic connotations, as it is not mandatory.

The limits of shamanism are set by the practitioner and when the practitioner achieves what he/she was aiming for as the maximum expansion of consciousness, he/she discovers that there is still more to go and expand and that it is an endless path. That is why it is impossible to reduce shamanism to a course of a few hours or to make an attunement or tune in so that someone magically becomes a shaman master. Shamanism is a path for the rest of life and the purpose of this course is to give an introduction to the basic points, considering various cultures such as the Toltec, the Mayan, and the Inca.

In shamanism we see negative and positive forces as a worldview similar to ancient Chinese Tao, in which Tao says that yin and yang are two energies that complement each other, they are not antagonistic like our current concept of duality: good and bad. Yin and yang are part of Wu Wei which means emptiness. The focus in this course is the application of shamanism for therapy and self-healing, as well as for self-realization.

One of the foundations of shamanism is the access to other realities of consciousness, which are interdimensional planes that, as its name indicates, are other realities. It is not a fanciful thing and it is not something created out of our head, it is realities. It is as quantum physics even indicates: other space-time dimensions.