Why do we journey?

We journey to gain knowledge and healing.  Shamans have always journeyed to gain knowledge and wisdom.  We enter into a space where we receive messages from our spirit helpers.  The journey is the cornerstone of shamanic practice. 

We step beyond this world, where knowledge and healing flow like hidden rivers.Since the dawn of memory, shamans have wandered these realms, gathering whispers of wisdom from the unseen.In the sacred stillness of the journey, spirit helpers speak, guiding us with gentle light.The journey is the soul’s compass, the sacred heartbeat of shamanic practice, carrying us into the mysteries that restore and awaken.

Michael Harner states in his book, Cave and Cosmos, “the journeying shaman is usually quite aware of what is happening … and attempts to remember as many details of the journey experience as possible. Thus the shaman normally can later relate to others in detail what took place in a spirit world, whereas a shaman who has consciously “stepped aside” to facilitate mediumistic communication often emerges from the altered state with limited memory, if any, of what transpired." pp. 69, 70