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Experiential: A dream or a shamanic journey are images that are essentially articulations of a space of their own. To build up your capacity to carefully explore the imaginal spaces of dreamtime journeys, allow yourself to slowly take in all the details you see here. Take the time to notice each aspect and as many details as you can. Then lie or sit down, putting on some shamanic drumming music, and explore this space purely in memory, as it is now a memory image. Walk up the stairs and explore what you find, walk outside and get your feet wet, feel the marble sculptures, and so on. Notice your bodily felt-sense of things, how the spaces feel in your gut, how the images feel in your body, and notice the temperatures, the textures, sounds and smells. When finished, write down in your journal everything you experienced.
This kind of practice develops your shamanic visionary capacities in multiple channels (auditory, visual, kinesthetic, olfactory-gustatory, felt sense, etc.
I have taken this type of journey for many years. I enter a church and then find a door through which I travel on all sorts of adventures. I didn’t realise until recently what exactly I was doing. I call it awake dreaming. These journeys, teach, surprise, guide and most of all create excitement and fun in my life.
HI Clare. Thank you for your response. In this example I am just working with developing my students skill in working with images, slowly moving about and exploring with full senses. We then move from their into actively entering sleep dreams, lucid dreams, and shamanic dream journeys, or go deeper into the visions in our sacred breathwork journeys. I would be interested in hearing of some of your methods.
Mikkal
I don’t even know what to say, this made things so much eaesri!