We all learn how to journey in different ways and from different belief systems. Due to this, there can be great beauty to share and much to learn from each other. And because the shamanic journey is a process of direct revelation, I’ve also noticed from my decades of doing and teaching that at times this can be euphemistic for ‘anything goes.’ 

However, participating in a journey is a visit to a vast, shape-shifting, unlimited dimension of reality where our learned ordinary modes of perception, discernment, value, personal status and deduction don’t always translate well. It is also direct encounter with actual beings and this means relationship, with all the subtleties, curiosity, mystery, power dynamics and necessary protocols and observances that any true and worthy relationship requires for us to be and behold the Beloved. A shamanic journey can also feed our longing for something more intimate and truthful than what we often experience in our ordinary lives and so we can become somewhat enchanted and hooked on the necessary and delicious, mystic adventure and love qualities of journey experience and neglect the so-called “work” aspects involved with all the deep insight, healing and creative, practical possibilities that lie in this practice when we also approach it with serious, well-shaped inquiry and focused application and tested follow-through.

So.. ..I have a reputation, for good or ill, of being precise and scientific in certain ways when it comes to being extremely well resourced in how to shape a shamanic journey for best outcome. And I’m content with that reputation because I’ve endlessly observed the positive results that come from it. Consciously developing the art of the shamanic journey is vastly underused but enormously fulfilling.

Please feel free to email me with any questions: damaris@damarischrystal.com