Thr Modern Urban Shaman: A Guide to the Transcendent Experience of Shamanic Mastery for 21st Century Healers

By Darren Maxwell

The Modern Urban Shaman is an introductory guide to shamanism - the oldest spiritual wisdom tradition - and its powerful practices - for 21st century healers.
Learn how to:
- build your personal divination tool and medicine bag
- learn how to create a sacred space
- conduct sacred shamanic ceremonies and create a daily ritual
- connect with spirit familiars, power totems and guides
- undergo transformative journeys for healing and personal development
- connect with spiritual ancestors and evolutionary descendants
- use soul level divination and a devotional pathway for spiritual awakening and personal freedom

• Language: English
• Publisher: DJM Australia
• Release date: May 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9780980729528

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Dedication

I would like to give special gratitude and huge thanks to the love of my life and soul partner, Robyn. Without you, your undying love and your eternal devotion, these words would have remained unfinished business, buried by the sands of time.

Preface

Dear Reader

I invite you to share an extra-ordinary, uplifting and empowering spiritual experience with me. This book is the culmination of over 20 years of living daily in the channelled energy experience of soul spirit guide 'Flying Eagle' and my personal shamanic evolution through a spiritual practice I was guided to call ‘Modern Urban Shamanism’.

During the creative process of writing this book, thousands of people have been exposed to the spiritual philosophy and pointed inquiry contained within Flying Eagle's teaching and messages through my shamanic work and outreach. Almost all have declared their lives to have been transformed in one way or another. It was those positive outcomes that helped me make the final decision to proceed with this publication, as it was obvious that there was something contained in the channelled words and teachings of Flying Eagle for everyone to share.

Sometimes all we need to begin a new life with a passion and purpose expanding beyond our wildest dreams is proof that there is more to life than we have ever imagined possible. Scientists confirm that humans function on a daily level using much less than 10 per cent of their available mind power. That leaves 90 per cent of your available mind power disengaged or not active. Accessing the unused power and potential of your mind to enhance your life experience is not always an easy exercise, until now.

This work introduces the universal aspects of infinite shamanic insight expanded into a new age of reasoning. For those with minds that are atrophied and locked into the separate illusion of the physical realm, this work will appear as a mysterious novelty, at best something to maybe consider in another time and space. However, for those who are open-minded and serious about transcending the collective trance of the separated mass illusion, this work is a key that unlocks the door to the neurological pathways active in the deepest subconscious regions of your bodymind. It will enhance your ability to create the life you desire most while revelling in the ultimate experience of infinite wisdom, pure love and the intelligent collective consciousness found only in the universe of one living soul.

I have divided this written work into three easy to understand sections.

Part 1 Channelling includes a recollection of my earliest contact with Flying Eagle. It describes the process of profound personal change and spiritual reflection I experienced as my life was revealed to be something overwhelmingly more than just mine alone.

Part 2 Initiation includes the guidance I received from Flying Eagle to create the symbols of the Dreamtime Alphabet of the Trees using ceremonial message sticks laid out in a specified guided pattern that revealed spirit guide stories to me during my sacred shaman oracle vision quest initiation. This section contains the psychic energy divination and soul-consciousness training exercises that Flying Eagle originally shared with me during my initiation period.

The third part is called The Sacred Shaman Oracle and includes the vision quest pathways and soul-consciousness training exercises I experienced while being fully immersed in the teaching of soul spirit guide Flying Eagle. In this section, you will experience the spiritual guidance aspects of the dreamtime alphabet. This will help bring your conscious awareness in sync with a different level of understanding universal truth and a new way of relating to subconscious natural connections.

A companion element to this written work, and not contained within this book, is the Sacred Shaman Oracle – Flying Eagle Medicine Cards and accompanying readers’ handbook.

Introduction

Due to a growing reliance on technology and media there is an expanding gap in people’s understanding of the collective unconscious and our intimate connection to the psychic energy spectrum naturally occurring in the environment. History states this has not always been the case, however.

The word ‘psychic’ is derived from the Greek word ‘psychikos’ and refers to ‘psyche’, which was used in classic Greek as a synonym for the word ‘soul’. In the West, because of established routines we have tended to avoid any serious recognition of psychic shamanic traditions in relationship with soul. This is an unfortunate situation because all spiritual cultures, traditions and religions around the world have grown out of a natural shamanic foundation that recognised and valued the 'more-than-human' psychic, spiritual, soul environment.

Modern Urban Shamanism is a distinctive form of shamanic study as it involves a focus on psychic reverence. Psychic reverence, healing and intuition are not subjects that many caught up in the daily push and shove of westernised society take a lot of time to consider seriously. Yet, as human beings, we are by nature all born as psychic creations. A little time spent in considering psychic healing and exercising your psychic connection with the natural environment is a key element in overcoming feelings of isolation, confusion, anger, fear, guilt, depression and anxiety while manifesting your innermost visions, dreams and desires. The need for a wide range of systemic Western social and cultural pathologies can be immediately eradicated through spending time in psychic healing practice and reconnecting with the natural, psychic or more-than-human environment.

Healthy babies are born with their psychic senses intact and functional. To a greater or lesser extent we all make use of our psychic senses in the fight for survival during the first few years of life. Psychic healing and reconnection removes fears and doubts about the unseen energy that influences every moment of your life and helps you experience the holistic truth of what it means to be completely alive in a more-than-human spiritual universe.

In most developed industrialised nations the leading schools of thought and teaching regard psychic sensory perception as additional to the normal needs of healthy human behaviour. As such, psychic senses are classed as an 'extra' sensory perception, not required and therefore not exercised. This way of teaching is definitely not the case for shamanic cultures from every country around the world, however. The traditions of shamanic cultures value their psychic connection with the more-than-human environment very highly. More than just simply retaining the natural 'new-born' psychic connection, shamanic cultures have evolved through teaching and training to regard the psychic, spiritual, physical and emotional needs of the human experience as being a holistic vision with its foundations grounded in the more-than-human environment via a connection with the soul.

As human evolution slowly moves through the age of enforced religious or spiritual indoctrination to embrace the age of spiritual and religious freedom, choice falls upon those who feel driven to discover more and to seek out a universal truth that resonates with their natural subconscious affiliation. For many born and raised in westernised culture the appearance of spiritual wisdom often begins as a pre-programmed belief that is heavily influenced by organised religious values for controlling social purposes. These influences may have occurred as direct teachings or as subtle mythology often distributed via the power of mass media and education systems. The search for spiritual truth, however, is often triggered by an intense knowing that there must be something more to life than what is commonly taught or evident in the limitations of the observed physical universe. This often leads the seeker to embark on a spiritual learning or training journey with the deliberate end goal of mastering the universally radiant aspects of the-self not evident in the daily urban experience of human life on Earth.

My journey in the search for truthful answers to a myriad of questions about God and the universe began, unconsciously, in my very early years listening to the stories of my maternal grandfather, who was a soldier in the Salvation Army, and my vivid experiences with my maternal grandmother, a psychic medium and member of a spiritualist church movement.

I was just over 18 months old when I came to live with them due to my parents’ separation. They had already raised seven children and had seven grandchildren before I was born. I spent my early years, until age five, as part of their daily routine. My earliest memories were formed in their home immersed in their spiritual teachings. Most of these memories are of childhood adventure and play. Many involved pain, fear, mystery and happiness. It was, from a psychological perspective, a very typical childhood.

However, one memory above all stands out as an early transition between this life and death that had an outstanding influence on my early development, which I never really began to understand until I started a journey to spiritual enlightenment in my late twenties.

Family history has it that one day between the ages of two and three, I started choking on a piece of apple. Apparently I must have bitten off more than I could chew and just swallowed it whole (a fitting metaphor for my life I later discovered). It wedged so firmly in my throat that my grandfather could not get it out. I was turning blue and choking to death. There was a doctor’s office only two blocks from his house, and my grandfather ran with my limp body in his arms to get help. The blockage was cleared, and