Secrets of Shamanism

52 SECRETS OF SHAMANISM

group of people working together on a project or gathered in

a meeting tend to match their frequencies at the same level.

The average color among them may manifest as perhaps blue

or yellow, depending on what they are up to. They tend to

match at the average or midpoint of the people making up

the group. The presence of a powerful individual can, how-

ever, influence the entire group in a major way. When they

separate and go their own way, they gradually resume their

unique and original colors.

Researchers have discovered that people in close proxim-

ity to one another tend to match up on heart rates, blood

pressure, and a host of measurable metabolic processes. The

physical body responds more slowly than the spirit body, so

this matching process can take place over the course of an

hour. Spirit body matching is much more rapid and often

takes place instantaneously. As you can probably foresee,

matching everyone you are with is not necessarily the health-

iest course of action. At the end of a long day, you may be

left feeling irritable and cranky because, as the shamans

would say, you came under the influence of alien spirits and

you lost power. In other words, you matched too many un-

happy, angry, or depressed people in the grocery line or in

the department store or at the office.

When your spouse comes home in a lousy state, you

might say he or she has brought the troubles of the office

home with them. This is quite literally true. You may not be

looking at the person you know anymore, but instead seeing

all the frequencies of a variety of people he or she has met

that day.

This, by the way, is one of several reasons that so many

people are prone to drink alcohol at the end of the day. It

tends to mask or knock out the discomfort of the foreign

feeling.

Exercise #5: Clearing Your Spirit Body
A number of simple shamanic methods aid in clearing out
the foreign frequencies and re-establishing your own com-
fortable equilibrium. Here is an internal method that again
begins with relaxing and closing the eyes. Then using the
methods you have learned, picture your spirit body around
you. Define its edges and sense its shape. What color is it?
Imagine a warm, light waterfall of the purest spring water
cascading into a shallow pool before you. Enter the pool with
or without your clothes and allow the waters to purify,
cleanse, and balance your spirit body. Take a drink and allow
the cleansing water to penetrate throughout your entire