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About Bringing Your Visions to Life
How extraordinary it is for people in Western culture to learn that an ageless spiritual technique could be preserved in a work of art, and that the practice of that technique was central to Western culture’s original shamanic core!
It’s even more remarkable that the visionary consciousness afforded by trance poses can now be brought back to life in a simple, safe, reliable way that bypasses the narrowness of modern Western awareness.
Each trance pose embodies its own ritual intention, and when a pose is experienced in a sacred setting, to the accompaniment of specific rhythms, its distinct ritual intention is manifested.
Paradoxically, the stimulating rhythm of the rattle (approximately three beats per second) awakens changes in the brain, heart and endocrine system that produce a calming effect in the body. These pleasant physical sensations are accompanied by visionary experiences in sacred Dreamtime realities.
But experiencing ecstatic awareness is just the beginning of the story. The next step is finding ways to bring visionary insights alive in everyday life.
In my case, that means finding ways to work proactively on issues at the cultural intersection of spirituality, politics and nature. One example of this is my involvement in land use planning in my community, where I’m organizing a local conference about citizen-based planning and conservation.
It is my intention that this page be devoted not only to sharing news about spiritual archaeology discoveries, but that it also become a place where we learn from stories of how people are bringing their visions to life in ordinary reality.
I look forward to hearing your insights and stories about how your own experience of trance poses is helping to create a better world for yourself and your community. From time to time, excerpts from these stories will be posted here.
Write to me at info@robinettekennedy.com. (A blog commenting feature will be coming to this page soon.)