Full Description
The role of a visionary is to help dream the future into life. Throughout the ages, shamans have played the role of visionary within their communities. Yet how does one open to visions and allow the messages we need to hear to come through?
Exploring how to access your creative potential to shape and hold a strong vision for yourself and others, visionary teacher Carol Day shares hands-on tools and step-by-step shamanic practices to become more visionary and connected to the world around. She explains how to prepare for shamanic visioning and details Earth Whispering practices to expand the senses, set intentions, and connect deeply with intuition and spirit helpers.
Detailing the visionary quest, the author offers exercises to open up to different dimensions and initiate a conscious relationship with the elements through the creativity wheel. Introducing animal and archetype support systems, she shares advice on working with guides and soul protectors, such as elemental spirits, birds, trees, and the fae. She presents visionary practices to help you connect, acknowledge, and honor the past, present, and future--each of which is connected with an element, a spirit animal, and a plant spirit. She shares a sacred time-travel journey in the symbolic form of a loop, taking you first through the present, then opening to an exploration of the realm of the past and the ancestors, continuing into the vision of the future ones, and ultimately back to the beginning of time.
Taking you through the three pathways of time, this guide presents shamanic tools to help you prepare to receive visions, release the burdens of the past to heal your ancestral line, and bring clarity to your visions of the future.
Contents
Foreword by Sandra Ingerman
Preface
Introduction
Act 1
Calling
Scene 1
Heeding the Calling
Chapter 1
Presence and the Three Pillars
Chapter 2
Calling
Scene 2 Tuning
Chapter 3
The Visionary Quest
Chapter 4
Dimensions
Chapter 5
Passion, Creativity, and Fire
Chapter 6
Guides
Scene 3 Nature's Communications
Chapter 7
Weather Spirits
Chapter 8
Birds
Chapter 9
Trees
Chapter 10
The Fae
Scene 4 Animals and Archetypal Support Systems
Chapter 11
Brain Opening and Mapping
Chapter 12
Dreamtime
Chapter 13
Journeying
Chapter 14
Archetypes on the Land
Scene 5 Reflecting
Act 2
Loop
Scene 1 Prep Aligning with Loop
Scene 2 Present Lifetime
Chapter 1
Land and Perspectives on Time
Chapter 2
Rose and Soul
Chapter 3
Spirit of the Age
Chapter 4
Nature's Eternal Knowing
Scene 3 Ancestral Pathways
Chapter 5
Introduction to Ancestors
Chapter 6
Safe Practice
Chapter 7
Dreaming with the Ancestors
Chapter 8
Ceremonies of Release and Surrender with the Ancestors
Scene 4 Future Pathways
Chapter 9
Waters of the Earth
Chapter 10
A Cleaning-Up Job
Chapter 11
Journeying and the Oracle
Chapter 12
Unity
Scene 5 Wishes for the Future
Finale Vision Hoop
Overview of Exercises
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
About the Author
