By exploring it. Not through books or tapes, but through experience with a seasoned teacher who can guide you into and through the practice.
While both youth and elder, the woman and man can learn the practice, many students have the following traits:
- A lively intelligence. Students of shamanism have bright, curious minds, and often have seriously explored other spiritual practices. Not content with second-hand information, they want to explore other realities themselves.
- A desire for direct simplicity. Shamanism purports that you have a right to direct revelation, and that you do not need books, gurus or ministers to interpret your spiritual life for you. Still, shamanism is respectful of all belief systems.
- A spiritual knowing. This may mean you have explored many other spiritual paths, and have always had a heightened relationship with nature and animals. You may have had a near-death experience or a strong feeling that you can't explain -- that there is something more, but you don't know how to find it.
- You are a sensitive. That means when you're with others in a group, you can feel things that others are feeling. You may also be tied into what animals, plants and our blue orb are experiencing
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