I created a new new symbol.

Well, actually this is a collection of well known symbols arraged for my own personal shamanic journey.

Both Penczak and Cunningham have suggested that symbols are very powerful for many reasons. The subconcious mind is very attuned to symbols. Both of these authors have suggested creating your own symbols that hold meaning for you and to use them often on various tools, amulets, tailsmen, pendants, medicine bags, etc.

In any case I created the following symbol that represents my shamanic journey.

This symbol was created using some of the suggestions of Penczak, but is taylored to my own personal journey. I thought I'd share it here as food for thought.

Please excuse the crude GIF graphics.



This symbol is a take-off of the shamanic circle symbol. It's similar to a witch's circle but in addition to North, East, South and West, it also include Above and Below, Center, Right and Left.

Allow me to explain beginning with the Center.

The Center represent my spiritual nature. I use infinity to represent spirit. Violet is the color of Spirit.

The four compass directions are represented by Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

To the left is the feminine or Yin.

To the right is the masculine or Yang.

Above is the all-seeing eye, this also represents the mind's eye and it's connection with the universal consciousness.

Below represents the Underworld. I symbolize that using three symbols: from right to left they are:

The symbol of manifestation.

The symbol of Abode.

The symbol of Nature's spirit.

I have been using all of these symbols in other works but I bought them altogether in this shamanic journey symbol.

The final symbol is a bit subtle. It's the green labyrinth spiral pathway leading from Earth to the universal consciousness.

I've actually been using this symbol and drawing it without colors in my journals using a caligraphy pen. As complex as it seems it's actually quite easy to draw, including the sprial labyrinth path.

Here's a drawing that I jotted down in one of my journals.



I find symbols to be quite fascinating because they contain a lot of information in a very compact space.

Both Penczak and Cunningham suggest that symbols are really good at helping the logical mind communicate with the subconscious mind. So they suggesting the use of personal symbols whenever practical.

the funny thing is Ruth when I was typing that... I was thinking about you. You're one of the exceptions

I believe that the same thing happens to eveyone when they die. They continue on their journey.

I don't think it matters what we believe in this lifetime. There is no more benefit in being spritual than there is in being an atheist.

Of course there is benefit in how we interact with nature. An atheist who is also a naturalist is probably far more spritual than a religious prude who worships statues and doesn't believe that we evolved from monkeys because they think humans are above the natural world.

The atheist in that case would actually be far closer to spirit than the religious person.

Spirit = God = Spirit

There is no difference between God and spirit. So anyone who is closer to spirit is closer to God.

Religions traditionally distract people from God.

However, having said that, an interest in spiritual folklore is not without merit.

I don't consider what I do to be a 'religion'. Although teachnically it's form of "religiousity" (simply meaning to do things dutifully or with methodic consistency.

I personally feel that a lot of scientists are the most religious people of all because they dutifully (and thus religiously) study nature.

But even an atheist who is into gardening, or caring for animals, is closer to God then say clergy who sit around in a stone church mumbling mantras to stone statues.

Religion is a distraction from God's creation.

I'm excited about witchcraft and shamanism because they are very nature oriented. Even the physical tools that they use are associated with natural forces and energies.

So I truly don't think that religion is important for spirituality.

It doesn't matter what religion a person is. What truly matters, for them, is how close they are to nature (God).

God is omniscient in everything.

This I believe.

Thank you Abra

My apologies for the double post. My ISP just changed the URL on all my web site and I couldn't edit the links, so I'm reposting it here with the updated links.


I created a new new symbol.

Well, actually this is a collection of well known symbols arraged for my own personal shamanic journey.

Both Penczak and Cunningham have suggested that symbols are very powerful for many reasons. The subconcious mind is very attuned to symbols. Both of these authors have suggested creating your own symbols that hold meaning for you and to use them often on various tools, amulets, tailsmen, pendants, medicine bags, etc.

In any case I created the following symbol that represents my shamanic journey.

This symbol was created using some of the suggestions of Penczak, but is taylored to my own personal journey. I thought I'd share it here as food for thought.

Please excuse the crude GIF graphics.



This symbol is a take-off of the shamanic circle symbol. It's similar to a witch's circle but in addition to North, East, South and West, it also include Above and Below, Center, Right and Left.

Allow me to explain beginning with the Center.

The Center represent my spiritual nature. I use infinity to represent spirit. Violet is the color of Spirit.

The four compass directions are represented by Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

To the left is the feminine or Yin.

To the right is the masculine or Yang.

Above is the all-seeing eye, this also represents the mind's eye and it's connection with the universal consciousness.

Below represents the Underworld. I symbolize that using three symbols: from right to left they are:

The symbol of manifestation.

The symbol of Abode.

The symbol of Nature's spirit.

I have been using all of these symbols in other works but I bought them altogether in this shamanic journey symbol.

The final symbol is a bit subtle. It's the green labyrinth spiral pathway leading from Earth to the universal consciousness.

I've actually been using this symbol and drawing it without colors in my journals using a caligraphy pen. As complex as it seems it's actually quite easy to draw, including the sprial labyrinth path.

Here's a drawing that I jotted down in one of my journals.



I find symbols to be quite fascinating because they contain a lot of information in a very compact space.

Both Penczak and Cunningham suggest that symbols are really good at helping the logical mind communicate with the subconscious mind. So they suggesting the use of personal symbols whenever practical.

Abra, what would you ever do if you were limited on the space of your post?

I'd move to a different forum web site.

That's beautiful

I'm buying it tonight but I didn't want to say anything because I blab too much.

I didn't mean that I was only teasing you. I thought you liked to be teased?

Yeah, I always wondered what they'd do to me at mass if they knew the truth about me.

But, everything you post is worth reading and giving some thought to.

indeed

Of course, that doesn't mean we can't tease him from time to time.

I heard he likes to be teased by witches

Ooooo, do I sense another ex-Catholic (or current catholic with other worshipping paths)

Ruth is a practicing catholic witch

That's a different kind of teasing.

Yep, I practice the spirituality of Catholicism (minus the dogma, of course) and I'm a witch. Weird combo, I know.