JOSE ATID LENA STEVENS^45the feeling of strength welled up in his chest. He asked
for Rock to help him keep up with the others in the Great
Hunt. Thanking Rock and aware that his spirit now
showed the strength and stamina needed for the journey,
he set out to meet his father. Red Hawk was initiated into
the hunt.When using the shamanic vision of intuition and imagina-
tion, the color density of the spirit body is easy to see. You
see if a person is expansive or feeling contracted. You sense
whether a person is open to you or not. As we have already
pointed out, you also detect who has the real power in a
situation and who does not.Frank Skione, a physician familiar with the method of
shamanic visioning, arrived at a hospital to consult about
a patient who had complications following heart surgery.
He met with the medical team responsible for the patient
and quickly assessed the energy around them, using his
shamanic visioning method. Frank realized immediately
that the charge nurse, Carol, was the one who not only
had the most affinity with the patient, but also could most
effectively apply his recommendations. He saw that her
spirit glowed around her chest when she spoke about the
patient. He also noticed that her spirit body was large and
more powerful than the fatigued and lifeless ones of the
medical experts in the room. Frank could see that they
did not really want to be there. They should have been
home in bed, resting. He wasted no time theorizing with
the specialists, but delivered all the necessary informa-
tion to Carol and left. He knew she would provide the
necessary assistance to the patient.The best way to begin to understand how the spirit body
works is by observing yourself. Observation is also the most
fruitful because it will tell you instantly what is going on with
you in ways that you wouldn't have detected otherwise. Your
spirit self records instantly what your body may feel minutes,
hours, or even days later.
When someone shouts at you, your instantaneous reac-
tion might be to feel verbally attacked; an emotional feeling
may follow that could remain with you for some time. Like-
wise if you were physically assaulted, your body would feel
the immediate sensation, but you would have an emotional
reaction that could remain for a long time. Most of us are
unaware of how frequently our spirit selves are also affected,