Shamanic Journeying: Bringing Spiritual Practice Into 'Real Life'.

What happens when a spiritual practice stops being something you do in isolation and starts influencing how you actually live? In this conversation, David and Greg explore power animals, spirit guides and shamanic journeying — but the discussion quickly moves beyond the mechanics of the practice. They talk about why shamanic journeying can sometimes help uncover what sits beneath anger, fear, guilt or other patterns, and why the real value of any spiritual practice may be what happens when you bring the experience back into ordinary life. They also explore the idea of changing our state of consciousness, habitual patterns and the “furrows” that can keep us seeing the world in the same way. Rather than telling people what to believe, Greg describes shamanic practice as something to experience for yourself and then interpret and integrate in your own way. The conversation becomes particularly personal when David describes using a shamanic journey before an important business meeting, where he was confronting fears around his own value. What happened afterwards gave him a very different experience of what it might mean to bring shamanic practice into everyday life. This is a conversation about shamanism, self-awareness, fear, intention, healing and, ultimately, what it means to become more at peace with ourselves.