Polyamory and Shamanism Intro

I apologize if this ends up being the ramblings of my mind in an incoherent and illogical manner, but so often when only using mind it tends to jump and bounce from concept to concept. 

I am new to shamanism and new to polyamory so this might also all be naive hope rather than anything grounded but if there is one thing I have learned so far about both shamanism and polyamory it’s that it is always unique and individual to each unique individual. What is a truth for me might not be a truth for you, and that is great. I celebrate our differences and love you all the same.  As such please don’t take what I say as me preaching truth. I am sharing my truth and yours might be very different.

In this introduction I want to try my best to define some concepts and what they mean to me personally so going forwards readers will hopefully better understand the context.

Shamanism 

This is not a religion or a set of fixed beliefs. It is a way of viewing the world that reveres nature and my/our place in it. It doesn’t use the imagination, but tangiably tests itself from our teacher, Nature itself. 

Polyamory

The usual many love. Not in context of swinging but all aspects of love. Love is definitely not a finite source, and there are many kinds of love. I believe that you can have multiple “romantic” relationships without diminishing or detracting from each other. In fact I suspect they might add to each other.

Nature

This is essentially everything. You could easily replace it with the word universe, or Tao or god or anything else that takes your fancy. I tend to bounce between nature, universe or Tao depending who I am talking to and the context of the moment. 

Mind/body/spirit

These are three separate things that we can use to experience the universe. Ideally all three would be used all the time equally however, due to the culture and society we live in there is a huge emphasis placed on mind. This causes multiple problems and I will delve into this on more detail in later parts. I will also refer to these sometimes as base line, mid line and top line, which comes partly from my introduction to shamanism through the woven energy podcast, and partly through my training in Chinese medicine which touched on trigrams.

Chalicity

This is a term stolen from the woven energy podcast. I would recommend checking out there episodes on this 7,8&9 if you want more information. For most of my writing this will relate to a state of being in which mind/body/spirit are all used equally to receive information without judgement and analysis. This is not easy as it’s not what we are conditioned to do from birth. There is so much more beyond this but I feel I am not experienced enough yet to really talk more. 

Miasma

The state where we spend most of our time. From what I understand this goes back to the birth of agriculture and this has created the society in which we live in which innately wants to protect the interests of those at the top. This is to blame for hate and phobia and generally all the obstacles we encounter.

All of these are core concepts to my world view and what has shaped me moving into polyamory in such a sudden and I am sure some would say rushed fashion. I hope to take you on a further journey with me into why polyamory for me and how shamanism shaped this. 

Written by VonManson