Any Authentic Native American Shamanism Visualizations?

[DreamBliss]

So... Many years ago, reading one of Robert Moss books, I performed a, "Dream Re-entry." I have talked about this before. On successfully doing this one time, the only time (to my memory) I recall ever doing it, a fox showed up. The fox was not there in the original dream. Around the time I started doing some sort of Chakra meditation or work, and the fox appeared again and was with me during this. The name that came to me for the fox is Ayhunna.

 

For some reason, I stopped doing these meditations. I stopped doing the visualizations, and I stopped interacting with Ayhunna. I feel bad about that. I don't know what changed in me. But with certain things I am considering, and my mood at the moment, I miss playing "Chase the Fox" with my friend/guide/teacher. I would like to hang out with them again.

 

I've got some Shamanic drumming tracks so I am covered there. But I don't have any ready visualizations or anything to work with. I had the thought that maybe I should find an authentic Native American Shaman on YouTube, if there is such a person, or failing that, find a Native American Shaman author - some sort of teaching that would be used with the Native Americans when working with a spirit animal or guide.

 

I don't really know who or what Ayhunna is. Only that I think of him as a him, I see him as a fox (and I'm not ready to deal with seeing him as anything else) and he first showed up during that dream re-entry where I was using Shamanic Drumming. So I figure the best way to honor him would be with some sort of authentic Native American practice.

 

Please note I am not Native American, except maybe in heart or spirit. I was egoically thinking of myself as a Shaman for a short period of time, but right now I want to keep it real, and it seems more genuine to say I feel connected or drawn to what little I know of the Shamanic path. Hopefully there are some authentic Native American teachers around, and maybe someone here in these forums can point me to them? I will look myself of course. But this is really the only spiritual community I am a part of at the moment, and I thought I would come here and ask for help first.

 

Appreciate your help with this, and thank you! Now you know, those of you familiar with my avatar before, why I chose that particular avatar, and why Nungali enjoyed calling me, "Little Fox" for a time.

[silent thunder]

Robert Moss' Dream Re-entry sounds like a derivation of Jung's Active Imagination. 

 

Active Imagination is a potent practice Jung developed later in life.  It's based on Hermetic Alchemical principles, where you actively engage with your subconscious mind through dream imagery and active questioning/exploring.  It's entirely personal and very useful in my experience.

 

A simple and direct method is to use a moment/memory from a dream that resonates and carries potency for you, anything that has impact.  Your Fox seems perfect for this.  Dreams are your subconscious reaching out and communicating with your active local mind through symbols and emotional context.

 

Sit and take a few minutes to settle in quiet and then engage the image and actively, sincerly inquire of your source, if there is more to be shared.  Then remain open to any images, impulses, thoughts, scenarios that arise in response.  This process can become quite vivid and intense.

 

In the meantime, have you explored the broader and more general social meanings of Fox via Euro-pagan historical and Indigenous American Native Lore to see if these social structures have any useful context.

[snowymountains]

1 hour ago, silent thunder said:

Active Imagination is a potent practice Jung developed later in life.  It's based on Hermetic Alchemical principles, where you actively engage with your subconscious mind through dream imagery and active questioning/exploring.  It's entirely personal and very useful in my experience.

 

Active imagination is more of an influence from shamanism via mircea eliade, he worked on alchemy later.

 

Agreed re the rest.

[snowymountains]

Re Shamanic journeying, my view is, if you have ancestry or close ties with these cultures, then try it.

If not, as you mention, active imagination hands down.

 

Also active imagination is not for everyone, like anything else it has its risks. Tbh I'd only recommend doing active imagination with a Jungian analyst.

 

If you want to give it a go solo and interpret your dreams, because we all dream anyhow, buy Von Franz's dreams book and her books on interpretations of faerie tales ( she's written 4-5 of them ).

Keep in mind Jungian analysts spend 4 or more years of training to do this properly, and for some of them this is after having previously done another of 4+ years of training in psychotherapy and/or psychology.

[Salvijus]

6 hours ago, DreamBliss said:

I feel connected or drawn to what little I know of the Shamanic path. Hopefully there are some authentic Native American teachers around, and maybe someone here in these forums can point me to them?

 

I saw you mentioned Robert Monroe and st. Germain in another thread. You might resonate with shaman durek.

Edited June 2 by Salvijus

[blue eyed snake]

12 hours ago, DreamBliss said:

I've got some Shamanic drumming tracks so I am covered there. But I don't have any ready visualizations or anything to work with. I had the thought that maybe I should find an authentic Native American Shaman on YouTube, if there is such a person, or failing that, find a Native American Shaman author - some sort of teaching that would be used with the Native Americans when working with a spirit animal or guide.

 

I don't really know who or what Ayhunna is. Only that I think of him as a him, I see him as a fox (and I'm not ready to deal with seeing him as anything else) and he first showed up during that dream re-entry where I was using Shamanic Drumming. So I figure the best way to honor him would be with some sort of authentic Native American practice.

 

how nice to meet you here, its been a long time.

 

I cannot answer your questions being quit unlearned but maybe just sit down, remembering that fox and softly drumming. Then just observe whether something happens, just observing, keeping your cool as in not getting emtionally heated so to say.

 

Just calmly repeat this, in a rhytm, like maybe once every week, no need to be hasty, slowly does it.

and find a good spot

 

who knows he will come back for a next "lesson"

 

I tend to approach things like this

 

There are foxes in this neigbourhood, amazing creatures