Recently someone 
asked me what shamanism has to do with sex and I answered something like: “We are all connected by an invisible web of life. Our thread begins when we are conceived, we maintain weaving with our sexual life force energy, and of course, death is a natural part of this tapestry. As shamans, our spiritual practice is to walk in the visible world of form as well as the invisible world of spirit.”
Though Shamanism is deeply spiritual, it is not an organized religion, neither is Tantra.
The word Shaman means “to know” and is the earliest known spirituality sourcing back to prehistoric time beyond measure. Archaeological evidence of Shamanism has been found from 40,000 years ago, and is believed to have originated in Siberia. Shamanic practices have existed in every aboriginal culture throughout history. Shamans have been known to:
- heal human suffering,
- interpret dreams,
- reveal prophecy,
- reverse disease,
- control the weather,
- project their spirits out of their bodies,
- exorcise spirits from other bodies,
- channel animal guides and spiritual entities,
- shape shift,
- and time travel.
Michael Harner, who has dedicated his life to studying and preserving Shamanic teachings through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, says, “A Shaman is a type of medicine man or woman especially distinguished by the use of journeys to hidden worlds otherwise mainly known through myth, dream and near-death experiences.” Shamans are widely known as intermediaries who use trance and spirit guides to travel between realms. Trance is induced through singing, dancing, drumming, meditating, breath control, fasting or ingesting natural psychoactive drugs.
Both Tantra and Shamanism use specific principles and practices for sexual healing and enlightenment. Some of the basic tools include breath, sound, movement, prayer, chanting, lovemaking and ritual. Tantra is also about cutting through the illusion, veils, dreams and maya so we can break free of the nightmare of the collective unconscious.
Scholar of Tibetan Shamanism, Terence McKenna, makes the correlation between Shamanism and Tantra apparent in his book The Archaic Revival. He states that Shamans “use archaic techniques of ecstasy that were developed independent of any religious philosophy. ” He further defines ecstasy as “the contemplation of wholeness.”
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