#69 Shamanic Technique Stage 4 - The Energy Changes - Prepare [Stage 4 #10]

Welcome to episode 10 of our deep dive into the energy changes of stage 4 shamanic technique. This week - Prepare (䷏)

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome back to the Woven Energy Podcaston Real Practical Shamanism with me Joseph Psychora,
and there's always Damon Smith. We'rehere to talk about shamanism from the
ground up. So we're going toget back into the beaten bones of shamanic
technique, specifically looking at Stage fourand we are now onto our fifth energy

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change. So it's quite funny demonWe were looking at this before the episode,
weren't we, and we came tothe realization we've done nine episodes so
far, so I think this isnumber this is number ten in our Stage
four series. I thought, ohwow, we've done nine energy changes,
sixty four. We've done four ofthem so far. So which which of

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the four we've covered so far we'vedone sweel them off? We've got yeah.
So to start off with, wedid the first two, which are
the ones that generally generally come first, so we had yield and persist right
or persist in yield, depending onwhich which we're around. You want to

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you want to list them. Ithink in the traditional book it's persist first
and then yield. It could bewrong, not think that's right. Yeah,
And then the most recent one wedid grow that's the one I remember
from from episode sixty five I think, and then before that it would be
its partner in crime. A wait, so right, so yeah, those

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are the two altogether that we've done. Yea. And just to point out
these, we're not doing them inthe traditional order of the sixty four hexagrams,
but we're doing them in Damon's practicalorders assuredly in the confusion order.
That's for sure. We're not renownedfor our Confucianism around here. Yeah.
Yeah, So we're going to diveinto what was the one We're going to

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dive into Prepare, which is numbersixteen persia in the traditional sixty four model.
All we can call it to prepareis our fifth energy change. But
before we launch into that, we'vegot a few patrons to thanks, so
Damon you want to take that away. So first of all, we have
all of our patrons to thank.It's a little while since we've done a

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woven Energy episode. I did dothat monologue on Shamanic Reggy a little while
ago, so I'm not if apologiesif I thank you twice, but probably
you're not too bothered if I thankyou twice. So and also apologies if
I don't thank you at all becauseall of our patrons, all sixty two
of our patrons, are definitely deservingof that. You guys, totally awesome,

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but just starting from some relative andyou know why I'm thanking. I'm
not gonna with time explain why I'mthanking people either, but let's go through
Erica Kessel Graham, Lance, BrucePanilla, Daniel Mann. We've got David
h recently renewed his long standing supportfor us, Thanks ever so much,

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and Jackie King's North. Those arethe people who need thanking the most recently.
That's probably the best way to putit. But as I've said many
times, this thing definitely for sureone percent wouldn't be happening if it wasn't
for the patrons. So you know, you guys have kept us going,
You've kept it moving forwards, andwe now have a thanks to you guys,

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we have a substantial body of materialout there and growing all the time.
So so you know, I can'tsay thank you enough to the patrons.
Nope, me too, absolutely brilliant, Thank you so much. Okay,
should we launch into it, demonSo we've got yes. So,

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as we said, Paris, oneof the preparers one of the changes.
So if you think about the persistand yield, they are very very fundamental
changes in some ways, there aremajor aspects of what people would call yin
and yang in the in the universe, and so without those it's almost like
those two changes, nothing happens inthe universe. Without those two changes,

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just like nothing happens. So theyare constants at all times in terms of
a shaman's development. They await andgrowth changes that we've talked about on previous
episodes that the other two we've talkedabout are really really important in terms of
shaman's development, and they kind ofprovide the foundation of moving towards nature of

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a person that takes the decision thatthey want to move towards nature, which
is effectively, you know, we'vesaid, like a shaman's like the mechanic
of nature. The person who knowswhat goes on underneath the hood or the
bonnet, depending on whether the AUSor UK English, the shaman is the
person wants to know that about natureand havn't taken that. The animals just
drives the car right, The animistjust drives the car correct good analty.

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So those two things are really idlein supporting that ongoing process of growth as
a shaman. This change prepare fallsout of grow quite often. It's a
it's an important change in terms ofit sounds like you sorted, So I
imagine that shamanism is like growing up, becoming a shamanist, like going on

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a journey. It sounds like you'repreparing everything up front and then setting out
on your journey to become a shamanist. But that's really not what preparation is.
Our prepare is in the sense ofthis change falling out of grow.
With the growth change, refer youback to the previous episode, so we
don't waste this one. But you'realready on that journey. But out of

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the growth comes knowledge and understanding andintuition. You know what I mean by
understanding in shamanism, I mean understandingon the baseline, midline and top line
all acting together. That's one theupper world, the middle world, and
the lower world all together, thisone entity within you, logical, physical,
and emotional in a very simplistic way, in a slightly oversimplistic way.

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Yeah, that's a bit too simplisticfor me. Yeah, let's say,
let's say the strategic or logical ammok with that for the baseline, let's
say the physical realm for the midline, and let's say the spiritual line
for the top line, which caninclude emotional aspects, but far from all

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those to it. That's probably thebest way to put it. So there
is a kind of learning that fallsout of shamanic practice. You start practicing
shamanic technique, and there's a kindof learning that falls out with that and
your preparation. The preparation that peoplemake when it's under their own power,
when it's under their own effort,is often misguided. And this is one

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of the big mistakes that a lotof shamans make in their progress. They
figure out what they need to doin order to become a shaman, but
you can't do that under your onnpower, as at least as a member
of a you know, mismatic,settled civilized society with all of the mismatic
brainwashing and stuff that goes on inour society. If you set out to

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prepare in that way, you aresetting out setting yourself up for failure.
So the way that preparation comes aboutis through the experience, Through your experience
of shamanic technique, you can,I just stop it. Would that be
because if we prepared before the fact, if we'd like to think of everything

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that it's like, it's like ifyou if you plan everything to the nth
degree, usually eighty percent of thatstuff. Your plan just doesn't come to
fruition when you actually put it intoit exactly exactly. You can sit there,
but you need to you need toadjapt and floor in the same business
as you know, this is mydad job. Insiness and organizations. You

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often hear in organizations that aren't veryshall we say, I'm very adaptive in
that outlook on life. You oftenhear it failed, it being whatever it
is, a project or some serviceor product or whatever it's it failed because
our planning wasn't good enough. Ihear that all the time, and heard
that and lots of different government departments, organizations regulating industries. I hear that

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a lot, and nobody ever stopsto think and say the opposite. Did
it fail because our planning was toogood, because we did too much planning
too rigid? Because yeah, weset ourselves up for failure by thinking arrogantly
that we knew everything at the startand we could figure it all out.

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At the start, which is akind of thought. Another analogy. Demon
proud of this one. It's likea bridge in it. If you build
a bridge to rigid, it collapsexactly. But you've got it. You've
got to build in that flex abilityinto a bridge so that it can withstand
exactly, pressures exactly, and theway that it learns. If you're like,
if you imagine that you're the bridgeas a building, the bridge you're

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building is you as a shaman.The best place to learn from is the
wind, right or if you're acountry like that, from the earthquakes.
You experience what happens to yourself inyour shamanic technique, and then based on
that feedback, then nature is givingyou grow. That's one thing. But
you then use that feedback that's cometo you from nature because you're practicing shamanic

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technique, right, So you've putyourself in a position where you are forcing
yourself to learn from nature directly withouthuman beings interposing themselves. Of human beings
ideas interposing themselves upon you, it'snot just growth that you're going to gain
out of that. That there's notjust the growth of yourself as a shaman

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is not just going to up andout of that, you're also getting point
as you're getting what shows that Nakiyama, that's one of the next generations of
the shamanist Miki's family what he calledguide posts. A guide post, it's
not something that you create. It'ssomething that you come upon as you proceed

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with your shamanic technique. And thisis one of the things that I do
a lot in terms of I mean, for instance, shout out to Emily
and Rambi are patrons that went outon the moors with recently for fun day
of and exciting day of shamanic rambling. It was. It was really good
fun that day. Thanks over somuch, guys, and we ended up

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you know, wading through bogs andall kinds of stuff like this. You
know what it's like, It's absolutelybrilliant. I'm curious rambling is now,
well it's it's so that's what I'mgoing to explain. This is what prepare
is. Those are the things youlearn from. So so if I was
going out for a hike, Imean, as people do not live on

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Bodminmore and Bodminmoor is a wonderful placeto go a rambling, we'll go for
a walk. But the opposite ofa shamanic rambling would be what most people
call a hike. I'm going tosee where the paths go. I'm going
to plan out my root. I'mgoing to take enough food and provisions and

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stuff because you can't walk for quitea long time with bodminmore. I might
even take a tent or whatever.All this kind of human preparation for that
kind of thing. And I geta map out and a plan where I'm
going to go, and which landmarksI'm going to visit and all that kind
of stuff. Now, shamanic ramblingis something I do an awful lot,
And basically you do the exact oppositeof that. You go out, that's

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it. You have no idea whereyou're going to go. And even when
you're out there on the moor orwherever you're up in the mountains or the
trees are watering, you still don'tdecide where you're going to go. You
let the environment nudge you in differentdirections. So whatever's happening as you're moving
along, there's some obstacles or stufflike that, you just find a way

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around them or through them. Aswe were doing on you're pushing our way
through deep, deeper, thick vegetationrather than taking the trodden path. It's
all about the you know where placepeople go walking a lot upon bottoming mode.
There's obviously trodden paths where everybody goes. So part of the shamanic technique
is, well, they're not goingon those things, but the last place

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we want to go. Yeah,I mean, my baseline is kicking in
a little bit here, demon butI get it. But at the same
time, you need my baseline,would say, you need some framework in
which to go for a y otherwiseyou might end up in a place where
you know you may die, whichis exactly where I ended up on a

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shamanic ramble, and there was aslight chance of death right with these bogs
that can be very very deep.But you know this is this is the
point with shamanism. And I'm notencouraging anybody else to do it. I'm
just saying for myself, this isthe way that I prepare an inverted commas

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for shamanic technique. It's not medoing the preparing, right. If you
think of the two trigrams in theproper so let's so the prepare hexagram I
should have mentioned this. It's numbersixteen if you're looking it up in the
traditional Book of Changes. It's ain baseline, a yin midline, and
a yin top line in the microcosm, right, So what does that say

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to you that says, I amentirely an empty vessel. I am the
virtual at the point where I'm doingpracticing, prepare within measuremanic technique. I
am a blank canvas, an emptyvessel. I have no desire for what's
coming next, and no thought forwhat's coming past. In the bus I'm

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entirely hanging within the moment. I'ma black canvas for Nature to write upon
me. And so in the macrocosm, we have that Yang baseline, the
thing that's providing the strategy, activelyproviding the strategy. In my for instance,
in my shamanic rambling, myself andare patron shamanic ramblings is the baseline

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of the upper trigram. It's thatYang strategy nature the environment is providing the
impetus. But the physically speaking,there's no change in the environment. The
environment is as it is, andin the spiritual sense, there's no change
with the environment. The environment isas it is. It's just very simply

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nature directly giving me impetus as ablank canvas in a deep state of telicity.
If you haven't tried it, Imean it okay, it's dangerous.
There are, for instance, thereare a lot of disused mine shafts on
bod Momode, just as it's youknow, that's it's that's it's long history.

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It's why it's a World Heritage Site. One of the reasons why it's
a World Heritage Site. I mean, we're talking about going back to the
Romans and stuff, you know,yeah, and so, or even before
the Romans. So in that particulartechnique, which if you want to call
it a shaft, it's a veryvery broad portfolio techniques. And obviously I'm
not just rambling namelessly when I'm bymyself. I'm also practice stopping, finding

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growths, practicing other shamanic techniques aspart of the experience. But whout just
like allowing nature to guide me.That's what I'm looking I'm looking for shows
and niam as guide posts within nature, and then I'm unquestionably following them.
And so you try going in adirection and it becomes very very difficult,

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but you proceed to the point wherewhen past way pastor's where what people would
civilize people call it, same personwould give up and go back and find
an easier path you provide you Instead, you proceed in whatever direction nature has
pushed you to the point where it'sphysically impossible to proceed. Then you adapt

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and you find another way through.And this is a bit like the same
kind of attitude where we talked aboutearly on in our podcast. I mean
in the very early episodes, whereyou know, instead of saying those sort
of team building exercises ways to finda way to cross the stream, we
instead go out and find every singlepossible way there is to cross the stream.
Well, if something is that's justa stream, right, you think

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it's something the size of Bodmin Moor. It's a massive land area with lots
of varied types of terrain so whichare admittedly dangerous, and you just allow
nature to find you lots and lotsof different ways on different occasions of crossing
that that's the stream that is BodminWore, doesn't actually Bodmin Mother. There's

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a ton of Bodom was wonderful.It's got all the stone circles and everything,
all that kind of that's that kindof engine or theory and history to
it and all that kind of stuff, you know. But wherever it is,
it's wilderness, it's nature. It'snot controlled entirely by human beings,
and therefore scattered. The way tothink about it is, they're scattered on
Bodmin Moor. For me, whenI go out to do my shamanic rambling,

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are an infinite number of guide poststhat nature has provided for me.
I don't know where they are,I don't know what they are, but
I will find them because there's somany of them. I mean literally infinity
of them are closed too. Upthere on the moor. As I'm moving
along, I encounter a guidepost andI have to stay in a statulously and

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allow that guide post, whatever itis, a tree in my way.
I'm up to my waist in abog, I'm you know, hanging on
a branch to stop me sinking upto my neck. All this kind of
stuff. Those are all the experiencesthat you learn from in life, or
you know, teetering on the edgeof a precipice without you know, hopefully

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without dropping. But I'm not recommendingthis to anybody. All I'm saying,
is this is what I do personally. That's all I can talk about.
And if you did another example.Oh well, we did talk about another
example early on, didn't we.We talked about the wild run where you're
in a forest. Absolutely, you'rein a forest. Again, is this

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for me? This is not foranybody else? You Every shaman has to
find their own way, and I'msure there are far safer ways than this
to practice these kind techniques. Andagain, the good thing about shamanism,
there are infinity techniques out there.But the key point with preparers, where
is the preparation coming from? Isit from me packing my backpack, getting

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a tent together, you know,getting a map out, little compass,
planning my root? Is that who'sdoing my preparation? Or think of it
a different way, think of itthis week, hasn't it ure actually already
done my preparation for me? AndI'm just going out there to find out
what that preparation is. There's anexample for you from a long long time

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ago, mentioning bogs and a hikeand stuff for a walk. A long
long time ago. Used to goplenty of walks with me, Mum,
and she packed as a lunch upand me just being the kid, which
just went, yeah, fair enough, mum's back, lunch. Fine.
But we got halfway through the walkand it was a box of raw course
yet tomatoes, literally no no carbsor protein or anything. It was just

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it was just a box of nothing. And I got the I got the
shakes so bad because this was likea proper I don't know, ten mile
five between five and ten mile walk, that kind of thing. And we
got halfway through and I just went, there's the car and it was.
We were halfway through the walk andwe looked over a massive field and at

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the time didn't realize it was fullof bogs. It was. It was
a boggy feel, but we justwent right, let's make one bee line
straight for that direction, and sowe we started walking down and yeah,
we got completely hammered by the bogsand it was very slow. Process.
Made everything worse. But you sayit made everything worse, it depends what
situation you're in. If you don'thave a goal, yeah, it can't

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make things worse. I mean,obviously not dying is good, you know,
but if you don't have a comic. To me, that was the
highlight we went out for quite afew hours on the moor, and that
was the highlight of the day.I mean nearly dying in a bog,
not quite nearly. It was flowingwhen you look back on it, and
I had kick. I got akick. That was all right. But

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yeah, that was the first timeI ever experienced like you know, when
you just completely drained the shakes andeverything and you're like, oh gosh,
yeah, what's happening to me?It was so well. I was going
to ask you at that point,adaption or like, to me, there
was no choice but to go inthat direction through it, even though we

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were halfway through it. There wasno adaption. It was like, we
need to get to that car,we need to get across this field.
And so to me, that wouldbe persist. That would be persist.
But it's not necessarily very I mean, it's not necessarily the healthiest thing for
shamanic practice. I mean, youcould do it. I mean, like
you know, the shamanic practice.You can learn all sorts of things from
different aspects, but a much betterthing is when you find yourself in that

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situation, is it is the adaptthing. It's the it's rather than you
deciding how to get yourself out ofthis situation, allow nature to decide for
you. And there were a bunchof in this particular instance, there were
a bunch of options. So Iwas hanging onto a tree to like overhanging
brown to a treat to stop mesinking further. And there are a bunch

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of actions I could withdraw. Icould see. I could ask one of
my patrons who because I I wasin the front, I was in the
bog, and they would, youknow, because I was also carrying a
bunch of stuff, so I couldhand it to them to make me a
bit freer to move out. Butthen when you really look at the surface
of the land and the waither thatthe land lays, you can when you

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think, you know, like inthose movies, you know, like the
Tarsan moves or something, somebody fallsin the middle of some quicksid and there's
just like it's all like even youcan tell that the prop guys are part
of big thing on what and putsome leaves on the topic, you know,
like I think it make easiest Likethe real world is just not like
that. Within a bog for insance, there are parts of more density,

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There are parts of less density andif you're sensitive enough to the environment.
And you know, my my strategywas to try to think about taking I
don't want to think about, butto adapt to trying a bunch of different
things. But very very quickly Igot the sense that there was a well,
I don't know what, you've gota client you know that word client's

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l I n e. Within thebog and there was a way of moving
out of it that would gradually bringme to a stable kind of like a
like a natural maze type of stuff. The thing that the thing that showed
me that client was the was theenvironment. It was nothing to do with

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me, wouldn't be being clever.It was just the environment just showed me
that. And it's like you go, you go from a sort of a
miismatic thinking, oh no, naturered in tooth and claw has put me
in a dangerous situation too, Hey, in this fun isn't it? It's
interesting you know kind of thing,and that there's a lot of stuff going

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on here. How can we playwith the energy changes that are going on
here and find ourselves, you know, a lovely and enjoyable, almost dancing
spirit dancing out of the situation whichis almost you could say that's what the
sprit downst out of this bog withfollowing the guide posts, the preparation had

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been done for me. A wayto think about it, a shamanic way
I think about it. All thatpreparation that was needed to get me out
of there was done by nature beforeI ever arrived. Thank you Nature.
You know that. I feel likeShamon's all the time, you know,
Thank you Nature. Thank you.I'm wondering iful a lot of it.
I wonder if a lot of itis not panicking in the moment and not

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panicking because you have that reliance andfit quote unquote faith in nature and the
ability to yeah, exactly, andalso nature in the moment and this is
will show me the way out ofthis situation. Yeah. And this is
where it fits in with grow.When you've done stuff like that a lot
of times before, many many,many times, and not exactly that situation

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because it's always different. But you'vedone those sort of kinds of shamanic experimentations
so many times in your life.You're not going to panic because it's just
it's really more of the same.It's not the same situation, but it's
more of the same kind of thing. It's more shamantic learning, more shamanic
practice, experimentation, adaptation, Andit was really cool. It was really

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cool day. Thoroughly enjoyed it.I hope the patrons who came with me
also enjoyed it. I didn't freak. I hope I didn't freak a life
and death situation. They weren't behindme. They're all right, all right,
they will be. But yeah,but it's just so good. I've

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done not a million times. Butit was nice to be with some people
so they could see it. Youknow what, Usually when you're shaman,
you're all by yourself, aren't youdo because shamanas are very shaman Shama trainings
are very sultry thing. It wasjust lovely to share that experience with some
people, especially wolf and energy patrons. The best kind of people to share
it with. It's it was awonderful day anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Yeah, we gotta do that again. Gotta do that again. I
mean, don't not exactly that,because that would be a mistake, right
because Niche had already prepared that trainingfor me. This is the baseline that
in the macrocosm of the young baseline. So next time, but I don't
know what niche has got prepared forme next. And this is the way
of understanding and more on. Thischange is all about the macrocosm, and

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it's all about the strategy or preparationthat the macrocosm has done for you.
You are the microcosm, right thatthat world out there, it's already prepared
stuff for you. It's just thatwaiting for you to come across it,
to stumble across those guideposts, andthen you take it on board. And
this is why prepare is so closelyrelated to grow. Your growth is being

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handed two years. As long asyou take note that the microcosm is yin,
yin, yin, As long asyou take careful note of that and
you put yourself in that good stateof dulicity, then you can take huge
advantage of the wonderful preparatory work thatyour teacher nature has done for every lesson
that you're going to get. Theteacher comes into niture when you're talking about

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nature is your teacher. The teachercomes prepared into every lesson, ready to
deliver that lesson beautifully. And sothis is the idea behind it. Now
what you told me once that youyou did you were a biology lecture or
did you did your lecture in biology? I can't remember, but you said
something like you would. You weresurprised you never got fired because you just

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turned up and just didn't have anykind of a plan at all. I
think you lectures. I was alecture. I was a lecturer, and
I studied biology, but I wasn'tactually lecturing in biology. I did a
couple of lectures on I've done acouple of lectures on subject biology, but
the lectures you're talking about, Iwasn't actually lecturing on biology. But you're

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right, yeah, I did quitea lot lectures like that. I actually
was in a in a lecture forwhich I've done no preparation. I was
giving a lecture for I've done nopreparation at all, and there was one
of the standards people had come alongto evaluate my lecturing, and I got
a glory. I got one ofthe best evaluations I've ever had for that

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lection for that just so happened.I've done no preparation whatsoever. But you
know that that sort of thing alsois to deal with knowing your stuff.
Some of the subjects that I talkabout, for instance, the stuff we
talk about on some of the stuffwe talk about in Heretics, some of
the stuff we talk about on Pigsand Chickens, all that stuff around agile.
I know that stuff, and youknow that's a progressive working practices in

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the workplace. I know that stuffback to front and inside out. And
you know, I can give animpromptu lecture on that stuff with thirty seconds
notice anywhere anytime. And so actuallysomebody can give me the sub subject within
that jen and you know, andI'll talk for hours on it if people

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want me to. Usually they haveto set whoever's organizing is usually pointing to
the watch at the end, youknow. And so oh, accidentally,
we recently relaunched myself and Graham recentlyrelaunched the Pigs and Chickens podcast. So
do do check it out if you'reinterested in business and stuff. I'm not
sure it's that easy. You're fine, because we haven't done all the effort
that we've done on the other podcastto get it listed on Apple Podcasts and

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you know, all Speaker and allthese sort of places. But but we'll
all do that must be on Speaker. But if we it's definitely. It's
just the Picks and Chickens agile podcast. That one. It's all about basic
shamonism in business if you aren't listeningto that kind of thing. And we
recently originally launched it with a guycalled Terry Child I used to work with.

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Shout out a Telly if you're listening, mat and we'll we'll have Terry
back on there. He was theoriginal co presenter. But now it's myself
and Graham have picked it up becauseGraham's got a ton of business experience as
well, so he's a good guyto do it. And we we are,
yeah, planning to do quite afew more Pigs and Chickens episodes going
forwards. So it's all part ofthe big Shamanic Pictures, isn't it.

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Yeah, exactly. I can't findit on Spotify, so if you guys
know that, I think it's justit's just a click of a button.
I think there's already likes four off. I think there's only four or five
episodes anyway, but there's going tobe more. That's the point of mecha.
So one of the things we shouldmove on to is the kind of
inference words that as part of thewhole Amabella movement that we talked about.

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We've got podcast on Amabella if anybodywho's interested in what it is. But
it was a period of time whenwhen Joe and myself and some other friends
Poland and various others in my teachercut of censer, we're talking about the
use of language to describe shamanic technique, and we came up with a bunch
of English sounding or English words thathelped with understanding of shamanic kind of ideas

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collectively of for a long period oftime. I always yeah, years,
wasn't it. And this this generalproject or whatever you call it, we
call that armor bellow at one time, which means the beautiful weapon. And
we we came up with a bunchof what you might call for the changes,
we came up with a bunch ofwhat you might call inference words.
These are words that because no oneEnglish word is ever going to describe one

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of these changes, the only thingthat describes has changed perfectly is the change
itself. And the change here isthat preparation that nature has done for you
that if you like, the guidepost that nature has stuck in the ground
for you to come and stumble acrossand take notice of. And there's two
aspects here an that there's the firstof all, stumbling across it, and

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the second one is to take noticeof and learn from and be pointed in
the direction where you're going. Idon't necessarily mean in a physical direction like
rambling around, but in a directionin life. And so the inference words
the Mbella project came up for preparewere devote, infuse, express, make
ready, offer, provide for andjust ready. But the thing you've got

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to remember when you're talking about thisis that the change is in the macrocosm.
It's not in the microcosm. Withthis particular change. Therefore, it's
not you that's enthused about the technique. It's not you that's devoted to the
technique. It's not you necessary that'seven expressing the technique. It's not to

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prepare you. You don't have tobe prepared. You just have to be
empty nature already. So this isthe thing. It's after the event thing
the micro in this particular change.In some quite a lot of changes,
the macrocosm and the microcosm do notexperience the change at exactly the same moment.
Necessarily, in this case, thechange within the macrocosm has happened before

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the change within the microcosm. Doesthat make sense? And so the change
has already happened when you experience itsresults. That's what this change is all
about. And so if you've gotthrough those inference words, the vote,
this is a lot of Nature's devotionto you as a teacher. Nature is
very very when you get into shamanismand you start studying shamanic technique, a

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lot, Nature is very very devoteIt's a very very devoted teacher. Nature
is constantly providing you with you know, in terms of a watch without the
job description for nature. Nature isconstantly going way beyond the call of duty
in order to help you Nurature hasa total devotion to helping you on your

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shamanic journey. Nature is very enthusiasticabout that. Nature will never get sick
of doing that. At least,it hadn't happened in was it whatever people
say at thirteen billion years, ithasn't happened. But I know there's some
new developments in astronomy that are questioningthe exact age of the universe. But
popline is, however long it is, it's a very, very long time

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that nature has remained enthusiastic about teachingyou as a shaman. And Nature is
expressing that by sticking these metaphorical guideposts all over the scenery. Wherever you
are, Nature's whacking these guide postsin the ground in this guy or whatever
for you to follow. Nature hasmade ready for your arrival, the preparations.

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So, for instance, if youtalk about the episodes on the critical
Reading of Christian Rosencoitz on the Hereticspodcast, you know they're all talking about
the preparations for the wedding the kingand the queen. It's this chemical symbolism.
Nature, just as in the chemicalwedding, has made ready for you,

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for you as an individual shaman.Nature has made ready. So when
you're going into that place, alot of beginner shamon's will go into a
place thinking what should I do now? What shamanic technique am I going to
practice today? No, you're notthe teacher. Your teacher has already decided
what you're going to be practicing today. All you have to do is read

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the guide posts that Nature has liberallyscattered all over the place for you everywhere.
This is the whole point of thisprepare this idea of prepare offer,
you know, in a lot ofreligions or in spiritual traditions, So for
instance, and Shinto, people makeofferings Shinto shrine, you know, some
rice cakes or something like that.In the simplistic sense, in exotic sense,

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people are thinking, here's the offeringto the deity and the dead.
He might enjoy the that's enshrined inthe shrine the dead. He might enjoy
the ice cakes and then make me, make me grand of my wish or
something like that. That's an exoticway to understand it. But in different
ways, how did I get therice kicks? You know? The rice
cakes had to grow the ice aroundmy father farm, and then I put

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the effort into making them and allthis kind of stuff. And in a
way, there's my devotion to myspiritual path. And then I offer part
of that devotion to my spiritual pathbecause it's gratitude, because it's said thank

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you. Because the devotion shown theother way is absolutely immense. You couldn't
possibly give enough offerense. Just toimagine this enormous pile of gold or something,
I don't know what, you know, it's just huge pirate pirate treasure
and offering that is worthy of thedevotion that nature has shown to you as
a shaman and continues to shoot youas a shaman unendingly, ceaselessly for all

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time. That's what those in ashamanic sense, that's what those offerings about.
You know, you put your icecakes on the shrine, the shrine,
often on a Japanese shrine fence.This often has a convex mirror on
the shrine. And you know thisis old old school Gampan sorgan you to
shinto, the the Shinto of theoriginal source, which refectory shamanism. I'm
not talking about World War two stitcheduntold, nothing to do with that as

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nonsense. We're talking about the originalshamanic Shinto. The reason that's a convex
mirror is what does a convex mirrorreflect. It reflects everything from all different
directions. It reflects the whole ofnature. And so the offering is not
made to the god in the shrine. The offering is made to the entirety
of nature, of whom the godin the shrine or associated with the shrine

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is a human conceptualization of a particularaspect of nature. But the devotion is
a two way street, and ifyou get into that kind of devotion and
nature, you'll kind of they callit the gratitude attitude right for nature.
If you get into that kind ofthing, you will never give back the
devotion. No matter what you do. The nature has thought you do your

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best, and through that process youwill learn quite a lot. Another one
is provide for your shamanic jaunts orshamaic trips are already provided for, so
go ahead. How am I goingto go and do shamanism? Well,
the only thing you've got to do. This is what the advice we give
really on rights. Just get awayfrom people, get away from built up

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areas, get away from civilization.It doesn't mean you can't do shamanic technique
in the middle of London, aswho said, we've given examples, you
absolutely can. But you get outonto bodmin Moore or Dartmoor or any of
these other wonderful places in the UKwhere you can get away from people because
they're big areas. That's how it'snot that there's not people up there.
You can get away from people ifyou go off the beaten track, and

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which is what shaman's tend to do, and then you will be provided for.
And it's not like Nurtche will providefor you at that point in time.
Niche is already prepared for your arrivallong ago, who knows, long
long ago, thousands of years ago. It's been prepared for you, and
it's ready for you to practice yourshamanic technique. And ready was the final

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inference word that the Armabella Project,if you want to call it, that
came up with for this particular thankso, another thing to say, the
twenty one or the two in one, they are her ye of Tatsuo tatsu
of. This particular change in theBook of Changes is known as accumulate,
and that's obviously what we're going tobe doing on the next one. But

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before we do that, what weshould really be doing is we should be
talking about some of the changes thatfall out of this particular change. So
I'm just going to run through themquite briefly, because obviously we're going to
do episodes on them. We havealready done one of them, which is

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yield, actually two of them,because grow also falls, just as persist
can fall out of, so preparecan fall out of grow Grow. Obviously
you can also fall out persists.So we've done two of these changes already,
so what dwell on them? Andwe fall you back to those episodes.
But one that's really cool, andit's not necessarily one that we should
be doing early, but because it'ssuch a cool change, we will be

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doing earlier. That's shock, whichis like, oh, it's just such
a good thing. And experienced taichi practitioners will know an awful lot about
shock because it is one of thecertain in taichi. It is one of
the principles actually of taichi. Andthen another one that falls out of it

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quite commonly is release, which islike release is also like liberation, so
you can immediately see how that happens. You know all this preparation and nature
has done for you. You experiencethat you follow this guide and that will
you have to trust this in shamanism, through that nature will liberate you.
Pasque as they say in Japanese shamanism, and that was a word that Miki

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used all the time, pasque natureis there putting these grade posts in a
reason, is putting the guide postsin in order to show your path to
follow, the trustworthy path, thehon Mitchi as you called it, the
trustworthy natural path that you can followand it will liberate you from the miasma.
If you just follow it, I'llset you free. This is this

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is the whole release thing. We'llhave a fun one on that as well.
Obviously it includes adaptability, this wholeidea of learning from nature. You
have to be able to adapt this. So obviously, just as with my
story with the bog and you know, I can climb up the tree,
or can find the cline out ofthe density, cline out of the bog,
WA can find some other way out. That kind of immediate flexibility and
adaptation. Obviously that something that fallsout with the fact that I am being

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prepared. I have been prepared forby nature at my arrival, has been
paid for. And then another onethat is yield what you talked about it
at length. It's a second onethat we did in this series. And
then another one is a mass,which is a longer term thing. It's
about gathering together all of these littleexperiences you've had of following those guide players,

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aggregate them, assembling them, pullingthem together into a shamanic you that
exists from the beginning to the end, and not at any given point in
time from the as the you know, the Bible calls it the alpha and
the omega. It's that broader aggregatepicture of your shamanic dance. If you

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want to think of your life asa beautiful dance of energy changing, ever
changing energy patterns that go on withinthe universe, then that aggregate, that
whole thing, taking us one thing, not as a thing that you progress
through like a project plan, butrather as a holistic thing that all aspects
of it are there at all pointsin time, aspects of the future and
aspects of the past, all hereaggregated together in the here and now,

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assembled a kind of congress of energy, a timeless congress of energy. That's
a mass. We'll have another.We'll have fun with that when we do
that one as well. And thenwe just recently did grow. That's another
change that falls out of this veryI think it was the last one of
these changes that we did, sothey're also the most likely changes to fall

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out of this stuff. That everythingis so connected. Interconnectedness is what this
is all about. It's what youknow, this level four stuff it's all
about. You know, you gothrough a process in becoming a shaman.
Level four is it so level threeis about learning the technique right, It's
about bringing yourself to a place whereyou can experience these energy changes. You

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need that skill, which is youknow, that's what the amscine, the
level two is about, and theabsolute foundation is the chilicity. Right.
Without those things, you can't evenattempt this stuff, you can't even engage
in the stuff. But once they'rein place, this is where your direction.
Remember we said all shamanic technique isdirected, didn't we Early on we

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said that that it's different from justanimism. All shamank technique has a purpose,
but that purpose doesn't necessarily have tocome from you. Nature has prepared
a lot of purpose for you inyour life. All you've got to do
is go out and metaphorically do Ihave to actually leave the house to do

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a lot of this stuff, butyou know, metaphorically or either physically and
reality, go out and find thoseguide posts and Niche has stuck in the
scenery for you to find, preprepared. Go and find them and follow
them and you will grow. Youknow, you will flourish as we said,
you'll increase, you'll prosper, you'llrise, and you know this is

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as we said shamanism is not aboutyou know, I always cringe around here.
What are the benefits of shamanism?You know, I think what are
the benefits of I don't know,you know, pilates or something. No
more people ask us that questions arelike, you know, you need the
shamanism one o one. This isget back to episode one and start again
if you think that's what about.But it will be a treasure in your

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life. I can tell you thatyou'll something you find so precious, so
wonderful, so amazing. The experience, especially that a massed experience of it.
They're talking about the mass change.It will be a real treasure to
you. And I'm so wonderful ineverything that you do. And in a

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way sadly because this is not thepurpose. It will make you happy as
it has done with me. Itwill bring a kind of joy. But
you know, my teacher carts andsay he called it yoki, which means
like yours, like young's like positive, and key is like spirit or energy.

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But in English dicks now is youoften translate yoki is joy. So
it is a kind of joy,but it's a highly energetic type of very
positive, buzzing joy that you getout of following those guide posts and they're
just stuck in the scene before you, and it's a long term kind of
joy called it yuki u san.Yeah. So she said that the kind

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of positive energy that comes from playingyou means play yuki is the positive energy
you in the mountains sans. Youimagine a child, a small child,
running through the mountains chasing butterflies withouta care in the world, with complete
chelicity. Oh there's a pretty butterfly, let's chase it. You know,
there's no committee meeting deciding to chasethe butterfly. It just happens. And

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that happening the child, the butterflycoming into the child's attention is the nature
has put the butterfly there so thatthe child can be joyous, So the
child can experience that enlignment that comesthrough that kind of engaging with nature in

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a way where you don't have expectationsof the outcome, without desire for what's
coming next, just hanging in themoment. That's the that's the idea behind
this change, this one before wonderfulchange and prepos it's it's it's it's interesting
listening to you and I am struckby something that I want to put to
you as in a mean analogy fromfrom my world with music. I'm not

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sure how it relates, but I'mjust going to throw it at you and
see if you've got any comments.So, like, if you if you
want to write music, so let'ssay I want to sit down at the
piano. I just want to writesome music. Sometimes you just have to
show up, you have to sitdown at the piano, and you have
to sort of start the process somehow, you know. And it's like it's
like pushing a big boulder down ahill. It's like you've got to put

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that energy into start with. You'vegot to show up and do that.
And then once you start doing it, and you might have a few pre
ideas and you just start playing around, and then the ball starts to gather
momentum, and soon it's almost likeyou lose control and flow and flow.
Yeah, it's like just other thingsshow up, like music, Like you

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start playing things and creating things thatyou are completely in the moment with and
it's almost like they're just there inthe ether and you're just sort of pulling
them together exactly finding it. Soin Japanese is called the garay And basically
also another thing that the shamanismiki saidabout this stuff is that to reach the

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hon Michi, the path of nature, you have to go through a very
narrow path. It's like turning theaddition on in the car, I guess,
but it's a bit more difficult thanthat with shamanism. Afraid that,
you know, it's like turning theaddition on where the car's not actually working.
It's more like that, you know, And so you have. She
said you have to go through anarrow path. In fact, she said
you have to pass through flaming swordsand stuff like that. It's an analogy.

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You know, this is a difficultnarrow path, but if you stick
to the path, you follow theguide posts that nature is giving you,
you will eventually come to a broad, trustworthy main path. And she called
it deliberately the hon michi the naturalpeaches math and horns like nature or origin,
the original path, the original pathfrom which the whole universe was built

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from the from the start. Youwill eventually come through that narrow path to
that broad, trustworthy path. Andthat's exactly what you're talking about. You
have to make effort to be ashamanism to be a shaman. To become
a shaman, you have to makean effort, and it's not easy,
and it can take years, yearsand years and years. But the great
thing is through this preparation that naturehas done to you as done for you.

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As long as you get a levelone right, as long as you
get the chelicity right, there willbe progress, however slow, there will
always be progressed. As long asyou can get your level one right,
as long as you can get thatstate of chelicity, you wouldn't matter what
you do from that point onwards.And Nature's guiadposts, which to a certain
extent, even if you're just practicingyour level two yamscus stuff, you will

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still beginning benefit no maw what youdo as long as you're in that state
chelicity, because how could you not. Nature has stuck with guideposts all over
the countryside, all over the scenery, throughout your entire existence, millions of
them, billions of them, andsome of them, even if you beginner
shaman and you're not picking up onmuch. You know, your armscott techniques

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maybe not that great, yet someof them you will see, and some
of them you will still learn fromand there will always be progressed. Shamanism
is not like that sort of traditionalI'm not sure that Buddhism is either,
but that traditional idea of the Buddhasat meditating under the body tree and then
all of a suddenly as a suddenenlightenment, Shamanism is nothing like that.
Anything any sudden revelation that you havein shamanism, if it wasn't gradually gained

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over a long period of time ofhard work, it's probably your imagination ninety
nine times out of a one hundred. So just forget about it. That's
Uncle Demon's advice. It's so depressing. Demon. That's not depressing. It's
totally possible to what I mean,because that's one less thing to worry about.

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It's one last thing to worry about. Yeah, So I think that's
about it for this change. Anythingelse you want to go over it before
we call it? Their met andno, that's fine. What's the plan
for the next So the one thatwe're going to explore next is what which
one? So so it's called acumulate, and which describe one, isn't

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it? That's the two and oneyear So we don't really have a choice,
So we're doing them. We willdo all of them in two and
one pairs until the next one.We've we've set the precedent now, but
it's the one after that that Idon't know yet. I haven't decided.
Let's let nature decide. Yeah,I think as well, it would be
really cool to go back to chelicityand do a series on telicity at some

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points. Every time, every timeI ask you about chelicity, you always
describe it and come up with differentways of approaching it in different ways.
So I think it's I think it'suseful, but you can never think about
it. You could be the mostYou could be Nakiamma and Miki herself,
right, you could be on thesegreat sho powerful shamans. You still need

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to practice this yellosity well our advanceyou actually are or think you are.
You can't do much too much chelicitypractice in your life, that's for sure.
Well. You can start with episodesseven, eight, and nine on
our Woven Energy podcast, and thenwe have scattered a few bits and pieces
on chelicity in and amongst the podcastssince, but it all starts at seven,

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eight and nine. I think wedid. We did physical chelicity as
well at some point in time aswell, didn't we right? But yeah,
you're right. Let's go back toit at some point noime? Do
you yet another series, yet anothertake on chelicity because it's some pott,
it's it's definitely worth doing. Yeokay, Well, thanks for as much
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