Lost & Found and other Mini-Journeys

1/29/05: I had misplaced a book several months ago and have been looking for it the past few days in every nook and cranny, as I wish to lend it out to a friend who is very interested in Shamanism. Having had no luck whatsoever, including looking through our main bookshelves numerous times, I finally performed a mini-Hollow Bone Journey this morning before I got up. I whistled myself in as always after mentally opening up Sacred space in my room. I was ushered into a large library, and there was an older woman wearing a librarian smock who was climbing ladders to the very tall shelf-walls of books. I got the impression she was THE head Librarian of the Universe. I asked where my book was, and she showed me two key images, the first of which I rejected at the time as not very likely, the second of which I took as vital. The first image showed the book’s surroundings. It was indirectly lit, as if in my dining room, but other books were surrounding it, or at least in front. The reason I rejected this first image is because it seemed to be the bookshelves in my house I had searched many times, and I had already looked carefully behind all the books (except for on one shelf).. So how could it be there?! The second image showed that the book was lying in such a way that I would not be able to read its title. That is, the pages side of the book was showing versus the spine. This info convinced me to look on our bookshelves one more time, but this time do a really thorough search. I finally looked in the shortest shelf, where mini-books are kept, which I had only searched in passing. I had assumed the book couldn’t be there as it was much taller than this little space could handle. But in my new mode, knowing the book was on its spine or front/back, I looked behind the small books carefully this time, and on the very right, behind them, was a book lying on its back. I could not see the title, just the whiteness of the pages. But I knew I had found it, as it was the image in my Journey! And there it was. And of course now I realize the first image I got, of the book surrounded by others in the light of our dining room, was equally valid. Never reject anything you get on a Journey. :) Finding lost objects like this is a Shamanic capability that can come in very handy..

1/30/05: Today I took a small journeyto try and find my son's missing snowboarding boots. We have searched everywhere in our house and shed to no avail. On my Journey, I found te boots sitting against a large, blank wall, one standing, one on its side. I remember looking at the environs and thinking, "this place does not look familiar to me." Since then my son has recalled leaving the boots at his girlfriend's house last spiring, and she thinks her brother took them to college. No wonder I couldn't recognize the setting!!

2/5/05: This morning, at my morning Prayer Site, I took a small journey to look for the sumer shower curtain hangars..my wife just couldn't seem to find them where she thought they would be. On my Journey, in which I used the Spiritual Hollow Bone, I was taken to a large room, the "location of all lost things room". There, I was met by Utawa, who told me to use my Mirror to find the hangars. I gazed into the surface, and saw a large box sitting up in the attic where we keep the Christmas curtains, etc. I dismissed this imagery as not being right, for certainly my wife would know if she had placed them there..she was in that box a week ago or so. So I tried to retool, but Blue Shaman told me to empty my mind and relax! At that point, I heard a noise to my left. A squirrel was scooting up my Epiphany Tree, quite close to me. So I asked Squirrel for help. I melded with the Squirrel Spirit, and we went quickly through my house. Squirrel looked briefly in the bags hanging on a pegboard on the closet side, but then scooted up the attic stairs. Back to the attic, and to that box. At this point, I ended the Journey, not quite sure if I had been sensitive enough to receive the Truth.

Turns out, they were in the box in the attic. You'd think by now I'd realize that the well-executed Journeys always produce the Truth. :)

2/10/05: One of the People I'm helping asked me to locate a pair of ear warmers for her husband and son that have gone missing. I decided to use the Hollow Bone. I blew Smudge through it, then placed it on my chest next to my Shaman's Mirror. I whsitled as taught in a Journey and was soon inside the Bone. My two new Helpers, Ducks Ongwon and Aduwa, appeared and flew rigght over me, producing the tunneling sound of their wing rushes I had heard before when outside praying. The tunnel of noise then puled me up and I was flying just beneath them, as if held up by this Tunnel of disturbed Air. They landed on a small Lake and told me to look down. I saw a storage area. There was asmall wooden box next to a door to the left and a work bench to the right. I got the impression the warmers were either in or behind the box. I also was shown the back of the passenger seat of a mini van but got the impression that the warmers were NOT there. I then was taken back through the Tunnel of Wing whirring into an area filled with molecules of brass. I then resurfaced on my Mirror, walked past my Bone, and rejoined my Body.

2/13/05: An extraordinary Calling this morning as I began to shower. I was pulled through a wavy canopy of Leaves and Branches into a Rain Forest. I spotted a large Tree with a bright red human Heart embedded in its trunk, directly in front of me. It was smaller, like a child's. I was told to merge with this Heart, and as I did so I became one with the Tree. I felt so deeply rooted and relaxed, so at one with my surroundings. I knew any Living Thing was welcome, and that weather conditons were completely exterior to my existence. I got a tremendous feeling of being grounded and centered..the feeling of a Shaman. The Standing person then released me and told me to remember our visit..to leave behind the relics of my past as I was so recently instructed, and assume fuly now the mantle of the Shaman..be ready at all times to work and pray for any cause. This was all the more amazing since last night I had stumbed across a Travel Channel special on a Shaman at work in his Village, complete with Animal Blessing and House Blessing Ceremonies. I felt so at one with this person as he danced..I knew the feeling of the trance he was in. I also knew this was a calling by my Helpers to finally get serious about my being a Shaman. One must either be one or not. I can't live half my life as a westerner and half as a Shaman. The "relics" must go. As if to re-emphasize this point, after my Morning Prayers today, during which I asked to be brought fully into the camp for once and for all, I found two Mourning Dove (my Pipe protection birds) Feathers in the snow where the Birds feed. My Guardian's name is Two Feathers, and she was obviously thanking and congratulating me on my decision. These were my first Feathers in literally months. This is how it works, folks. You commit to the Spirits and they commit to you..tey bring you to places for training, and they actually bring you physical gifts of thanks and remembrance. I have placed these Feathers on my Shaman's Mirror so it can absorb the "wind horse" (Spirit Essence) of the Feathers and the moment.