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Shaman wolf forms11/11/2022 ![]() “Well,” I demanded, “if you're with me all the time and I’m supposed to be taking care of you, what do you eat? The souls of rabbits?” “But I’ve been with you since you were a little girl,” the wolf said. Irritated by the arrival of this large and aggressive animal, and suspicious that I was not being humble enough or original enough in my choice of mythic familiar, I snapped, “What are you doing here? I expected a deer or a songbird or a platypus or something!” Soon I came face to face with a black wolf. Shaman wolf forms full#The scenery was beautiful, but I was full of anxiety that I would imagine an animal that was too grand-or too small-for my liking. I entered this world through an old hollow tree I remembered from my childhood, and saw in my mind's eye an underworld full of forests, mists, and caves. I appreciated the opportunity to imagine a world that was entirely wild, without roads or buildings. A power animal, we were told, was a helper spirit, an animal representing our instinctive knowledge and elemental gifts. ![]() Each of us was asked to meditate and go on a journey to the lower world (by imagining a hole in the earth or a tree, or simply imagining an elevator with a button labeled “lower world”) to discover our power animal. We lay down in an outdoor field to the sound of drumming. Siberian shamans, we were told, held a similar belief in a three-world system. I was once at an outdoor shamanic event where we explored the South American (Peruvian) belief in three worlds: an overworld of spiritual beings, a middle world of humans, animals, plants, and physical forms, and a lower world of power animals or helpful animal spirits. The Lower World: Shamanic Spirit-Animals (Jill Hammer) ![]()
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