What is Shamanism and how can this ancient path help us? In this episode of Wisdom of the Ages, host Ayn Cates Sullivan is joined by the award-winning author of 12 books, including the Book of Ceremony, Sandra Ingerman as they talk about the most ancient spiritual practice known to humankind and what it can do to our lives. Sandra shares that Shamanism transmits light and hope for the planet in the most challenging times and allows us to transmute negative emotions into love. Join Ayn and Sandra in today’s episode to discover more about Shamanism.
Welcome and blessings. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, host of Wisdom of the Ages: Weaving The Sacred into Modern Day Reality. Each week I interview healers, spiritual teachers, and mystics, and I now offer monologues on spiritual awakening, and you can listen to many more spiritual episodes on superpowerexperts.com/wisdom-of-the-ages. You can also find many more spiritual books on my publishing website, infinitelightpublishing.com.
Today’s topic, it’s one of my favorite topics. It’s shamanism. As my guest on this episode, Sandra Ingerman, says that the word shaman comes from the Tungus tribe in Siberia, and it means spiritual healer or one who sees in the dark. Shamanism has been practiced in Siberia, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Greenland, and native North and South America. Shamanism is the most ancient spiritual practice known to humankind. I mean, that’s why we really want to tap into these roots today. Many anthropologists believe that the practice dates back over a hundred thousand years, a long time.
I’ve been interested in shamanism ever since I read a book by Lynn Andrews in the 1980s, and I’ve also trained in Celtic shamanism with Caitlin Matthews and others in Britain. In fact, I recorded an interview with Caitlin on her holy grail and fairy grail, which you can go back and listen to. It’s a topic that I love and find endlessly interesting. I continue to be part of an international Celtic group of people who practice together for the good of humanity and the planet.
It’s clear to me that shamans walk on the edge of society, and during times of shift and change, they’re holding the light. They can help us retain hope. Shamanism is needed today to help people connect back to nature, to their soul, and to the truth of who they are. This leads me to my guest today, Sandra Ingerman. I’ll do a little bio for her because she’s really quite an interesting woman. I want you to know about her.
Sandra Ingerman is an award-winning author of 12 books, including the Book of Ceremony, which I’m currently reading. It’s beautiful. I’m listening to her audiobook also, Speaking with Nature: Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth, and that has really touched my heart, so I encourage you to find that. She’s a presenter of eight audio programs produced by Sounds True. Sandra is a world-renowned teacher of shamanism and has been teaching for close to 40 years. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Sandra Ingerman is a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional mental health counselor, and also a board-certified expert on traumatic stress. She’s not a lightweight. I’m really impressed here. She’s a woman who’s really walking her talk, so I love this. Watkins Body Mind Spirit Magazine honored Sandra by including her in their most 100 Most Spiritually Influential People of 2020. That’s sort of a big deal. She also has a show called Shaman TV that I enjoy watching and listening to. Thank goodness there are women holding us as we birth into this next era.
I’m very pleased to have her with us today. If you stay towards the end, she’s going to do some drumming and actually take this into a shamanic state; I’m really looking forward to it. When we come back from the short break, I will introduce Sandra Ingerman, and we will continue to discuss shamanism and how this ancient path can help us. Now, please check out her website, sandraingerman.com. Stay tuned, we’ll be right back.
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