Ancient Greece,
Parmenides & Lost Western
Shamanic-Philosophical roots:
Ending our
Human-Centric
Rationality Consiousness.

We have lost our connection to ancient wisdom.
This does not mean the connection can’t be re-membered.

Within Anthropology research, Depth Psychology and Analysis there is an underlying reference to the perspectives and mechanisms of Shamanic Praxis.
Yet ‘Archetype’ does not exactly reference ‘Spirit’.
Within Analysis, Sacred Cermony and Research is not made within altered states of consciousness, as it is with Ancestral Lineages / Core Shamanism.


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We are not the center of everything: The Human Mind does not ‘create psyche’ alone.

In Mythopoetics - so much of what is written and so many healers who are on the jungian path, seems to still view everything from the perspective of the human. As if Spirit steps in when we call. No. We step in, when Spirit calls us.
At the end of Jung’s life what he began naming as the “Collective Unconscious”, he ended up calling “Objective Psyche”. He decentralised from the human centric perspective.
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Calling the Collective Unconscious, Objective Psyche is recognising the meta-physical as serpate from the human perspective and not (only) a product of it.

The human perspective is not central with the words “Objective Psyche”.

The existence of a psychic objectivity to which we are all connected, to which our psyche is evolved from and to which our entire existence is born from is (for me) an Animist thread.

All spiritualitiy practices are connected to this space, we just connect through different methods and use different terms and wording.

A state of beingness, transcendental states, awe states...

The work of Peter Kingsley, [ “In The Dark Places Of Wisdom” ]  was important for me as it helped me get closer to understanding where our ideology changed during the development of westernised consciousness through ancient greece, between Parmenides, Empedocles, Pythagoras, and Socrates into no longer recognising the other side of the veil - altered states - as wisdom portals towards an Objective Space.

With Socrates, we favoured rationality and logic and the value of darkness and incubation, the important unknowing and knowings of the somatic conciousness - dance, trance, and thetha states - dreaming, music, meditation, got lost or pushed aside.


Peter Kingsley’s books are a poetic and hauntingly beautiful journey into the forgotten Iatronmantis - a Greek word whose literal meaning is most simply rendered "physician-seer," - the shamans of ancient greece - whose work occured in altered states and who understood incubation to be a vital form of wisdom seeking.


In this video Peter Kingsley is talking to Murray Stein.

Around the 52nd minute mark there is a beautiful reference to the term “shamanic” as:
“Enchantment like that, is the oldest form of Medicine.”

- @52 minutes - a discussion on Orphic Incantations [chant] and C.G.Jung [ Red Book ]

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‘What is Core Shamanism’

“Core Shamanism consists of the transcultural, universal or common principles and techniques of shamanism. It is a coherent system that is terminologically as well as conceptually consistent and taught worldwide. Core Shamanism is based on decades of research by the anthropologist Michael Harner, his colleagues and successors.

Core Shamanism offers a practice-oriented approach to shamanic work that focuses on the essence.
It is not bound to any particular cultural group or perspective.
Rather, Core Shamanism enables especially those people who have lost their shamanic roots (like so many people in the Western world) to reconnect with those roots.”

- The Foundation Of Shamanic Studies Europe.