Travelling in a different reality

Kamlaniye is an essential element of shamanic practices. It is a very strong mental and emotional experience, in which both involved the shaman and his people present at the rite. During this action to heal the sick shaman has made great efforts and made a trip into another reality. This shaman changes in the patient's habitual perception of the reality shows him that he is not alone in their struggle with disease and death that he was helping the powerful gods and spirits to banish evil spirits brought disease. Thus triggered the strongest effect of psychotherapy, built on absolute faith and belief in healing.

special role in this process is occurring trance states. Modern neurochemical studies have shown that the human brain itself produces substances that alter the state of consciousness, including hallucinogens - such as dimetiltiptamin. During the ritual, this natural defense is activated biological process as a shaman and his patient, and the audience.

On global phenomenon shamans are written about modern scholars Castaneda, M. Harner, VA Kondakov D. Kandyba. Here are some of their statements about the phenomenon of shamanism.

When the shaman (gradually or suddenly) falls to the floor, they say that it 'plunges", ie, at the time visiting other worlds - especially underground .

Shamanic Journey - one of the major challenges facing them. It will certainly be executed. The basic form of this journey - a journey into the lower world. To accomplish it, the shaman uses a special inlet. It exists both in normal and in unusual reality. For example, this hole can be a source of particularly hot. It is assumed that the shamans are hundreds of miles under the earth, going through a hot spring in and out of another. It is assumed that the shamans dive into the ground and go outside, if they wish.

entrance to the Lower World may also be hollow trees (in this case, the shaman follows the roots of the tree down into the ground); caves, burrows Earth-moving animals, and even special hole in the ground floors of houses.

entrance to the Lower World generally lead down into a tunnel or tube, which lead to the output of a shaman in a beautiful and unusual places. From there, the shaman travels to the places in which he wants. Such trips can last for several hours. In the end, the shaman comes back up through the pipe (called a tunnel) to rise to the surface where it went.

description of how a shaman uses this method, given Rasmussen:

"For the great shamans of the path is opened directly from the house, where they call spirits-helpers, the road down into the ground (if they are in a tent on the banks) or through the sea (if the snow hut on the sea ice) on this road shaman are freely He almost glides as if falling through the pipe, so fitting to his body, he can stop traffic, just slightly pushing down on her wall, so that he can not fall down rapidly. This pipe is still open for him - all the spirits-helpers care about it until then, until he will be back".

When the shaman returns from his travels, the people from afar hear that he is the noise of its passage through the tube.

Typically, the tunnel is wide enough for passage. But sometimes obstacles in the tunnel may block the passage. In this case, the shaman finds a crack or hole through which you can pass, and continues to travel through the tunnel.

Sometimes, going down through the tunnel, the shaman is rising or going down the river, which may or may not be part of the tunnel. For example, a shaman, describing his first trip to the Lower World, told:

"When I looked around, I noticed a hole in the ground. It became more and more. We (he and his guardian spirit) descended through it and were near the river, which form two streams, flowing in different directions.

- Well, guess, - said my companion, - a stream flowing from the center to the north, the other - to the south, in towards the sun".

Description Lower World mainly received by shamans, who believe that they visited him in a trance state, ie, while in another, unusual reality. Binding of two realities - a very important part of the shaman, since he is the tribe, moving between realities. However, he never asks for help. Shaman's ability to operate successfully in two realities as evidence of his power. Shaman should be adequate to any reality. He must possess the usual reality as well as unusual. Only then it can be considered a master.

each of the two corresponds to the realities of his state of mind: in the real world - the usual state of consciousness in an extraordinary reality (the world's ecstasy) - shamanic state of consciousness. Master Shaman freely change the state of consciousness with under the proposed situation.

world of ecstasy - a world of supernatural forces and actions, for this reason, the shaman and immersed in it. It exists in two worlds: out of the trance he was living an ordinary life of his countrymen, in a trance, it becomes part of the supernatural world, sharing with the spirits of some of their abilities: to fly, transform, merge with the spirit-helper, etc.

Shamanic state of consciousness includes various degrees of trance - from easy (the North American Indians) to deep (for example, when the shaman may at times fall into a coma). Siberian shamans use various degrees of trance - from light to deep. Shamanic ecstasy is a state of inspiration rather than the usual trance. Thus, the shaman sees and hears spirits, travels - but remains fully conscious. He is in a state of clairvoyance and inspiration.

main means of achieving that state is magical music, obtained by means of a drum (or drum) and rattles. Usually the shaman uses these instruments only to induce and maintain the shamanic state of consciousness. Thus, subconsciously they are connected to it with shamanic work. Experienced shaman quite a few minutes drumbeat to fall into a light trance. Siberian shamans called his drum 'canoe"or"knight", transposing them into lower and upper world.

Log into another reality also helps to sing songs of force, which performs a shaman. Each tribe has a song, melody and rhythm which remain unchanged, and the words following each shaman can write again.

songs tend to be monotonous, their rate increases as the shaman approaching shamanic state of consciousness. They secretly acting on central nervous system activity, like yoga breathing. Often the shaman to help with the students, who picked up the song.

direct experience of being in a shamanistic state of consciousness is considered a shaman is not a fantasy but as reality. At the same time the shaman is distinguished reality ordinary state of consciousness from the reality of the shamanic state of consciousness and not mix them. He knows when he is in a different reality and alter them according to their choice.