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A Spirit Walk is when you follow the calling of your destiny, going where Spirit leads you, to experience that which you to need learn. 

It is living not from Ego, but from Complete Being.  It requires that you be totally present and accepting, so that old habits and ideas do not foster illusions and lead you away from Harmony.

 As much literal as figurative, the Spirit Walk is a right of passage. It is a pilgrimage from one time of Being to another. While it may involve a journey from home, it is actually a journey to return home.  It is seeking to return the spiritual home from which one drifts in the course of living. 

If in finding the Harmony of Body, Mind & Spirit you turn your senses from illusion, awakening to a new awareness and finding what is Truth for you, then the Spirit Walk will lead to your true Path.

"Now, the true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.  The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.  It is no matter whether one talks wisdom or nonsense, the case is the same, the bulk of the enjoyment lies in the wagging of the gladsome jaw and the flapping of the sympathetic ear."
~A Tramp Abroad~

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e*The Shamanic Path

Walking in the Spirit

Shamanism is not a religion, it is a way of being.  It is the direct experience of spiritual knowledge and the shamanic experience can be found in every religious faith.*  Shamans are not masters, gurus or teachers; they are solitary travelers along unseen roads.  The Shamanic Path is an investiture, a pilgrimage that one must undertake on the way to becoming a shaman. 

The word "shaman" originated in Siberia and it describes a specialized type of holy person who practices not only with prayer, ritual and offerings, but through direct contact with the spirits themselves.  In traditional shamanic practice the Shaman may be priest, magician, vision seeker or healer.

Through popular literature, the term ‘Shaman’ eventually came to be applied, incorrectly, to any medicine man or woman of the indigenous cultures whose calling involves the spiritual quest.

  Though it is a personal and individual experience, shamanism is tribal in its nature and needs to be experienced within the cultural elements of the differing tribal lands.  The Shaman must be attuned to the parochial, as well as the universal mythos of each tribal region in order to understand the true Spirit of the land and that of its native inhabitants.

While there are cultural differences, there is a universality of shamanic ritual.  Though the essence of the shamanic practice does not change and its elemental ritual experience remains immutable, shamanic custom acclimates to differing times and differing cultures.

The journeying Shaman must be able to live astride two worlds; the world of perceived reality and the world of intuitive reality.  The Shaman is able to actualize this duality of existence by venturing into what is called the "shamanic state of consciousness" or "shamanic ecstasy".

The distinctive feature of the shamanic ecstasy is the experience of "soul flight" or "out-of-body experience".  During these cosmic journeys the shaman will travel to other spiritual realms, encountering the people, animals, and spirits who inhabit them.

Through these ecstatic experiences the Shaman explores the paths of the mystical universe.  The danger of losing ones way along these nameless roads is ever present, but through initiation, experience and in fellowship with the guardian spirits, the Shaman is able to challenge the perils of the journey and travel the Way.

*(Pentecostalism is a movement within Evangelical Christianity that places special emphasis on the direct personal experience of God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as shown in the Biblical account of the Day of Pentecost. Pentecostalism is similar to the Charismatic movement, but developed earlier and separated from the mainstream church. Charismatic Christian is an umbrella term used to describe those "glossolalia", or speaking in other tongues or languages, and are practiced by contemporary Christians.)