Shamanism in Sweden (video)

This path of practice to know and see

Wouldn't it be better to be a "priest" than a "shaman"? A priest is an intermediary between a religion and parishioners, whereas a shaman is all about direct experience. So, of course, having no intermediaries is better. The Buddha, like Mahavira and many others before him, went into the woods to have an experience of Truth. Shamans do not seek beliefs, dogma, and things to accept. They go for a face-to-face meeting with what is real. Rather than faith and devotion (bhakti and puja), they seek the path of knowledge and wisdom (jnana and prajna). Knowing and seeing, the Buddha taught others to know-and-see. One can go far on faith (saddha), but all the way to liberation, that's a job for wisdom.

• Inca mythology
• Inca Empire
• Shamanism
• Is there Buddhist shamanism? Tengrism and Bon
• Shamanism is the folk religion before Buddhism
• There is a worldwide belief in Animism

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Is there shamanism in Sweden? Of course, there are the Sami, the Indigenous whites, the original Scandinavians we seem to base all of our Christmas imagery on -- reindeer sleighs dashing through the snow in colorful clothes, dropping psychedelic mushrooms the shaman dropped in through the chimney of our yurt through to deliver so that we could place them in stocking over the fireplace to dry so they wouldn't rot and turn into charcoal-looking petroleum sludge. The red and white of the Amanita muscaria or powerful fly agaric entheogen was the "gift surprise" we are mimicking under the pine tree, where they grow in a symbiotic relationship to the conifers. It all ties in from former Lapland (now Sapmi) to the Arctic Circle, where the North Pole is located. The shamanism in this cold part of the world is what we have been mirroring and remembering in our racial or genetic memory as a collective human family. Just ask Terence McKenna or the Machine Elves.

Inca Wisdom: Urban Shaman Annika Panotzki's Guide to Emotional Transformation

(Wisdom From North) Annika Panotzki is a Swedish urban shaman whose vision is to build bridges between the teachings of Inca Shamanism and the urban culture of the West.

For Annika, her life completely transformed after opening herself to the wisdom of the shamanic Inca way. In the Inca tradition, Annika says, we see that we are all creators of our lives.

The higher awareness we have, the more we can create and choose good things. When we see that we already have everything we need around us and we see that there is enough for everybody, then we are no longer guided by our ego.

When life is flowing for us, then it is natural to receive and have the desire to share with others. We can share our unique talents, passions, kind thoughts, and so on.

This natural teaching is beautiful and can be applied no matter who we are, what we are working with, or where on earth we live. Inca Shamanism's philosophy of life has amazing tools for us.

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