When we pray, we are aligning ourselves with what Spirit wants for us. Sometimes it takes a bit of talking round the subject to get there. And if it's just what your ego wants, it probably won't happen, because there isn't the power of Spirit behind it.
But that doesn't mean we can't pray for ordinary things. Spirit doesn't mean 'spiritual'. Spirit concerns the totality of life, the totality of this dream that we are, for now, part of. Spirit will respond to whatever we genuinely need for our life to flourish, or even for our life just to work. There is nothing superficial or disrespectful about praying for your car to work properly. Or that your ageing aunt will continue to be able to go to Bingo.
Shamanism is an earth path, that which really matters is not away in some higher world, but here and now and embodied. We have our upperworlds and lowerworlds, but they are places we visit for nourishment; sideshows, even, to the real thing. Really, this world and the otherworld are not different.
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offer Shamanic consultations, usually by skype, in which we can talk
over anything you want to talk over. I may use the Medicine Wheel,
Journeying, Astrology, Tarot or anything that works. And it centres
around listening to ourselves in a deep way. I work on a donation basis,
and I am happy with whatever is easy for you: I love this work.
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So prayer is grounded and ordinary, and is about aligning ourselves with the greater dream of Spirit, which is easy to lose sight of amid what are often all-consuming practical concerns. Unless you are a child or an old person.
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