Spirituality, Spiritual Nature of Shamans

All throughout the world mankind has been engaged in various spiritual beliefs and practices to give meaning to the universe at large. When we study our history, we come to find that, our ancestors started burying their passed loved one as early as 500 000 years ago. Also in our recorded history we come to see that ancient Egyptian cultures placed much emphasis around spirituality, and have built awe inspiring structures to please their spiritual masters.

The word spirituality is a matter that concerns the spirit. And spirituality has been part of everyday life for our ancestors, and still is for many cultures around the world, who still choose to live as their forefathers. Spirit world co exists with physical world, although in western cultures the focus has shifted to science where science does not take into account of spirit world. Nonetheless spirituality is still widely practiced throughout the world. In eastern parts of the world where spirituality is concerned the belief is, the world is profoundly alive, and all that is in it has vital energy essence, and everything that exists lives and has consciousness.

The consciousness of spirits can integrate into human consciousness, and the soul – spirit of a living human is believed to become spirit when it dies, people who have past over becoming ancestor spirits or part of larger elemental spirit. And those who take spiritual world seriously often turns to spirit world for spiritual guidance, help and advice in times of uncertainty or trouble. And many cultures around the world have their spiritually advanced psychics that they consult; these spiritually knowledgeable psychics are called shamans, who can make the journey between spirit world and physical world. From Mongolia to Amazonian cultures to Africa shamanism is still widely practiced. And discoveries of prehistoric cave painting around the world suggest that earliest practitioners of spirituality in fact were shamans. And when we study the word shaman, it means that man or a woman who journeys in a trance, in its simplest meaning the words shaman is someone who has the ability for communicating with spirit world through entering a trance or alternative state of consciousness, therefore we can conclude shamans can be called psychics, in English language where the word psychic, meaning of the soul is widely used today. Although we cannot fully compare the word psychic to shamans, as for shamans must be initiated, into the spirit world, by means of psycho-spiritual disintegration, which leads to abandoning of former self and rebirth into a shamanic life with the spirit world. Most cultures in the past have had some form of spiritual tradition that recognized shamanistic interconnectedness of spirits; this may have been long ago, as the establishments of major world religions, also some cultures in middle Asia such as Siberia Mongolia Kazakhstan India or Africa still retain the remnants of shamanistic rituals.

Spiritual connections to higher realms can be useful for the practitioner, regardless of spiritual belief everyone can give meaning to the cosmos accordingly to their spiritual teachings, when we take the journey on our own psychic path way, one point to remember is the answers one seeks in within each heart to find out for self, to reach higher on spiritual understanding, as wisdom is developed by degrees. After all our spiritual thoughts and ambitions are debated inwards for our growth, when minds are open then much can be evaluated, then self realization is discovered, thus, the door of your hearts spiritual garden flourishes, this resulting, inner strengths replaces outer show.

In everyone’s spiritual journey there is much to discover yet all roads will lead the seeker to one place, which is their own heart. With every beat there is movement towards spiritual skies.