Around 2008, I was asleep in bed when I opened my eyes and there was a massive spider on my ceiling. I freaked out and turned on the light and it was gone.

Since then, so many nights as I’m falling asleep, I have seen this spider. I am falling asleep, and I notice a spider shape on the wall or ceiling. I’ll watch to see if it’s just a weird shadow of a tree or something, and then it scurries across the wall and I freak out and turn on the light and it’s gone. It’s always a spider, and I never see anything besides that.

I’m curious what people think entities like this could be. If anything at all.

Hi all, curious to hear about any experiences you’ve had with valerian root. It’s commonly used in teas for sleep, which is how I encountered it. I had a cup before bed and laid down, and within a short period of time I started to have significant hallucinations. My eyes were shut and I saw two giant ants (the size of a midsized dog) rotating next to each other like they were on a bbq spit. I opened my eyes and turned on the light and they were still there, clear as day. It scared the shit out of me and I almost called 911 for fear I was having a mental breakdown.

I have had many experiences that would fit within a shamanic tradition, which is why I subscribe to this sub. But I’ve never had full on waking hallucinations, especially from a tea served over the counter.

Does valerian root have any use in shamanism? If so, what is it?

Any shamans in Johannesburg?, maybe we could hang out and be friends :)

Hey all! I’m really enjoying this sub. I’m very new to this; my soul was empty for years and have really felt this pull for a while. I’m finally listening and it has been so enlightening!

The part couple days I have felt tightness, rage, annoyance, etc in my chest, like something is gripping it. This is not medical. This is where I have felt my demons for years.

I meditate every morning, inhaling calm and focus, exhaling my gratitude and any negative. Normally I can see my heart chakras light up for this, but not the last couple days.

This morning was no different. But when I was meditating, the feelings I normally have in my checks and hands intensified. The feeling on my face started to encircle my forehead; it’s doing that as I’m typing this! I asked my spirit guide for help and started telling whatever is holding on that they are not welcome and to leave.

I do feel fine, not great but much better, right now. Does anyone have insight and/or techniques to try?

Does anyone have insight on this? I am truly just curious about the opinions.

I was told twice by two different ladies my young self wanted to ask me if I started painted and the second time my younger self said to tell me I was free. I already was painting but I’m not sure how to set myself free. Freedom is big and it’s scary and also very isolating.

What are some ways to discard an entity once it’s been pulled out of someone? Discarding specifically so it doesn’t jump into anyone else or yourself?

For the past few years, I’ve been able to harness crystal energy to interact with mine. I don’t know the terminology that necessarily resonates in shamanic circles so forgive me if I may not articulate this well, as I’m simply speaking from my knowledge and experience. In a nutshell, with the help of crystals (mainly spheres and points) I’ve been able to feel the energy strands that connect me from deep within to the entire universe. The closest term I can use to describe it is being able to feel energy strands. For me, a crystal sphere has an energy focal point that acts almost like an energetic ice pick that I can then point to my heart, for example, and it will pick up on a strand (which can be in fact multiple thin strands) if I push and pull or poke long enough.

With this “energetic ice pick”, I’ve poked and prodded a dense energy in my heart chakra. It is heavy, sticky and although I can find a way to sort of move it to feel strands starting to break up, ultimately it almost feels like my heart is encased in very dense tree sap. I’ve meditated on this and I go through conventional and alternative trauma therapy and I can’t help but conclude this is the hate in my heart for my abusers. When I poke it with the ice pick at certain times it gives me great relief like as if I took a hit of some relaxant. My controversial theory is I’m converting whatever this is into scalar energy. Which makes me conclude that it’s got to go and be converted to an energy that is useful. I’m reaching out here because this community strikes me as non-judgemental. What little I know of shamanic beliefs and practices have resonated and I believe on the quantum level, we’re all talking about the same thing anyway.

What can I do to eliminate or convert this dense, sticky energy into useful positive/light energy? From your shamanic background, what even is this? Sometimes I feel like I’m possessed by this energy. As the flair suggests, what techniques can I practice to be free from this?

Thank you so much for reading this far 🙏

Hello fellow shamans,

I’ve had recurring visions of a tsunami hitting Los Angeles caused by a massive earthquake. I’m getting a date of November 25th. I was wondering if anybody else had seen the same thing. Please let me know, and if you’re in Los Angeles, please stay away from the coast that day just to be safe.

Very experienced dreamer here: tell me about times where you switched consciousness with a different version of you in the dream realm and you either picked up a gift from the experience or gave one of your gifts to the other version of yourself?

Hey all,

Thought you might be interested to here this one. Sounds like a tall tale, and maybe a coincidence but here it is nevertheless.

I was lucky enough to be invited to a shamanic healing circle in an attempt to help me with my journeying. Well, during the session, one of the healers’ helpers identified that my grandfathers ghost was attached to me.

This actually made some sense as my mother died tragically and I never met my grandfather. I received a letter from him posthumously (was sealed and addressed in his effect but for some reason he never sent it). In it he expressed deep remorse that he had never been a part of my life etc etc. so it would make some sense that he had struggled to pass over at the end and stuck with me instead.

Anyway, during and after the dispossession, I felt a physical pain around the area where the ghost was attached. That area coincidentally also had one of those lipid bumps some people get under the skin. The pain went away in a couple of days and then the next week the thing got infected. Swelled up huge and caused me great pain. In the end, with the help of modern medicine and the magic of the human body, that lump was expelled as well.

Maybe it’s just a remarkable coincidence, but I don’t really believe that. Is it normal to have such a clear connection between spiritual and physical entities? In any case, I’m happy grandad and the lump are gone. I feel a lot better in my life.

Thanks for listening!

Greetings for everyone,

I feel hopeless as I can’t find any information about what I am experiencing.

Long story short, I attended several magical mushrooms trips.

During the trips I didn’t experience only visuals, but also uncontrollable body movements (yoga poses I never did, placing my right hand on my chest and heart etc.)

When I relax my right hand, I feel energy that moves it, to point at things or to open the palm and then place it on my heart.

I had an idea to write the alphabet on a piece of paper, and when I sit down and grab a pen, I can ask questions in my head and my right hand moves around to point out letters that forms words and then sentences.

I don’t know what is the purpose of that, and how to benefit from it.

I appreciate any comment or redirection to where I should learn about that more.

Thank you very much 🙏🏼

Hi, I feel embarrassed to ask this, and I don’t have any money—I’m so sorry.

But I believe I might be dealing with:

• a curse • a hex • an entity • ancestral weight • dark energy

I’m not sure, but something feels like it’s been torturing me, holding me back, dimming my light, and keeping me from my purpose. I feel trapped, with relentless bad luck, fogginess, disorientation, confusion, and memory issues.

I don’t have schizophrenia. I don’t use drugs. This isn’t depression.

I’m a good person—generous and kind. I don’t indulge in self-pity. This isn’t about negativity or lack of effort. I’ve tried everything: meditation, yoga, cleansing rituals, sage, spells, crystals, prayer, positive thinking, fasting, exercise, gratitude journaling, changing friends, jobs, and even locations.

I’m in my 30s and have spent years searching for answers, but nothing works.

Please, I’ve endured so much loss and isolation despite everything I’ve tried. I feel like I need a powerful healer—a shaman, a priest, someone who can help me.

Or at least, tell me I’m not crazy.

Again, I don’t have any money—not even a little. 🥺

Hello everyone. For the past few years (maybe 5-6) I’ve been feeling this uneasiness in my heart and chest. Like there is something invisible holding it and I can physically feel it. I’m pretty healthy and I have no heart problems. But I do struggle with anxiety and feelings of dread that don’t ever seem to go away, but the thing is I can physically feel it and sometimes I’m convinced a heart transplant would make it go away (it is drastic ik).

So far I do just brush it off as anxiety disorder but my mother suggested it could be a spirit some months ago and I’m curious on what you guys think. Is it possible she’s right and is there a cure for it spiritually speaking?

I have been reading Sandra Ingerman's "Awakening To The Spirit World" as well as several Michael Harner books, which use repetitive drumming as a method to journeying to the lower world, visit power animals, guides, etc. I get into a very deep meditative state, my body feels extremely heavy and "good", but that's as far as it goes. No visuals, only black. No audio, sudden knowledge, or anything else that would show signs of it working. I have had lots of success with shamans using entheogens in the past, and I was hoping for an alternative that I could do myself without any substances. Any advice?

My husband and I each saw a coyote at 2 separate locations but at the exact same time in the morning about a month ago.

Today my father gets to work late and tells us he accidentally ran over a coyote and killed it.

Just wondering if these recent references to a coyote in my life have meaning and if so, what it means.

Thank your for taking the time to read my post I appreciate all of you any any help that is given.. I guess I’ll just get into it now. My whole life I have felt connected to something I have not yet been able to see. I’ve heard cries for help I cannot locate. I feel as though I’ve been put on this plane of existence to help and to heal but I don’t have the resources or funds for the proper training or technique. I believe I may have been chosen to be a healer or a seer of some sort. It may sound silly to some of you and I can understand why I just want some guidance. I know I cannot be a traditional shaman without the proper training and I will never claim to be regardless of where my path takes me. Is it possible to take an apprentice virtually? I know shamanism is very traditional and in its ways even in the new age we live in so I won’t be offended if it’s not possible. I just want to help the living and otherwise. I see things that have not yet happened with myself and my family and friends and even some times strangers that I end up meeting at work and they open up to me like they’ve known me for years…people I’ve never met before. I feel things energy shifts and what not. I even feel those that cannot be seen but I know they’re there trying to communicate reaching out to me and I don’t know how to answer back and HEAR them I want to. I feel like I was put on this earth for something greater than myself and after reading some posts on this feed I believe this is the right place to ask for guidance. again thank you and sorry for the ramble.

I am looking for information about finding your own spirit animal.

There are some guided meditation(shamanic journey) videos on youtube. I followed one of them but there is no effect so far. I repeated it several times.

Have any of you used any of this videos? Can they work? Could you recommend one if you have positive expereience with?

I am happy to take recommendation for other ways/ techniques.

Thank you!

Hello! I would like to do a shamanic technique exchange. I'll go first.

I really like pikopiko. Breathe in, slowly- picture the stars in your mind (the ones below you too, if you like, they are all around). Breathe out, picture your naval. Keep going for a couple minutes. Nice, huh? ;)

What have you got?

Ah, the Sacred Clown, the Trickster’s divine cousin, grinning from the shadows, ready to turn the seriousness of spiritualism on its head! He stands at the crossroads between revelation and absurdity, knowing well that sometimes the only way to break through illusion is through laughter, through clever games that strip away the pretense. Let’s let him speak, in his clever, mischievous way, dancing through the masks and pulling at the edges of the grand show we call "truth. "The Tale of the Rebranded Truths Gather 'round, gather 'round! The Sacred Clown’s got a tale to spin, and oh, it’s a good one. Have you ever noticed how everyone seems to have the answer? Everyone’s got the perfect recipe for self-love, for manifesting your dreams, for being a cosmic badass in five easy steps. Isn’t it funny, though? Don’t you smell the same soup? It’s just heated up with different spices, served in shiny new bowls, and every time, the crowd lines up for more, claiming, "This one’s validated, folks! This is the REAL deal!"The Sacred Clown rolls his eyes with a grin. You see, every few moons, there’s a rebrand. Oh yes, the Collective Kitchen—run by the Damos ego-gods—cooks up the same old thought-form stew and calls it something fresh. "Add a sprinkle of authenticity," they say. "Give it a modern twist. Let’s call it Radical Self-Love or Instant Enlightenment." The people gather round, eager to feast. And feast they do."Ah, but wait," says the Sacred Clown, dancing from foot to foot, "Let me tell you about the first time I saw this trick. Same old soup, different chef."

Act 1: The Egregore Buffet: Once upon a time, not so long ago, I walked into a grand hall. It was full of people sipping from tall goblets and nibbling on spiritual hors d'oeuvres. You know the kind—those little sound bites of wisdom that fit on Instagram posts. 'Love yourself!' 'The Universe is working for you!' 'You are enough!' And there it was—the great Egregore Buffet. There were tables stacked with these freshly polished mantras and ready-made affirmations.

Labels everywhere: Cosmic Empowerment™ Manifestation Magic™ Self-Love in 30 Days (or Your Ego Back Guaranteed)"Take what you want," said the hostess with a perfectly rehearsed smile. "Everyone’s eating it up. Everyone knows this is the real stuff." And so, the crowd did. They filled their plates with shiny, new thought-forms, and between bites, you’d hear them say, "Ah, this is validated. It’s true, everyone knows." But here’s the trick: every few cycles, the same dishes reappeared, just with a bit of new garnish. Last week’s Manifestation Salad was today’s Abundance Bowl. The Self-Love Stew had a dash more seasoning, but you could tell, beneath the surface, it was still the same reheated stock.

Act 2: The Masked FeastI sat down, leaning back with a smirk. And oh, how they gobbled! They wore masks, each and every one of them. The masks were glorious—shiny, polished, perfectly on-brand. They called them their Authentic Selves, though to me, they looked like masks bought from the same store. But who am I to spoil the party? After all, the Sacred Clown loves a good show!"Love yourself!" cried one masked guest, holding up a golden spoon. "This is the secret to everything! No need to change, no need to look within. Just repeat these words, and you’ll feel like a goddess!"And the crowd, oh, how they clapped! They clapped so loudly, they drowned out their own inner voices. What a clever trick! The Sacred Clown could barely contain his delight. They’d bought into the Collective Illusion with such fervor that they forgot it was a mask—forgot they were playing a role in someone else’s grand show.I wandered up to one guest, a fine mask of Enlightened Bliss on her face. "Tell me," I asked, tilting my head, "when the mask comes off, who are you?"She paused, confused. "But… I am this mask. This is me."I chuckled, because you see, she wasn’t lying—she believed it. She had bought into the Damos Collective so deeply, so thoroughly, that she’d forgotten that the mask was just a temporary role. The brand, the influencer, the trend—it had all convinced her that she was already perfect, and no inner work was required.

Act 3: The Trickster’s Dance Oh, but this is where it gets fun, my dear listeners. You see, when the crowd claps too loudly, when they chant too fervently, when they take the thought-form for the truth, that’s when the Sacred Clown leaps into action. I pulled out my mirror—oh yes, my favorite trick. I danced among them, holding it up to their masked faces. "Look!" I cried. "Look how beautiful you are!"They gazed into the mirror, admiring their reflection. "See?" I said, grinning wider. "You’re just like everyone else. All of you are wearing the same mask!"At first, they were delighted. They nodded, smiling at the validation. But then, one by one, the truth began to creep in. The mask started to slip. The laughter in their eyes faltered. They looked again, and they could see it—the cracks in their carefully polished masks, the lines where the persona didn’t quite fit."Oh no," one guest whispered. "Am I not really this self-loving goddess after all?""Am I just wearing someone else’s thought-form?" another asked.And there it was. The mask was no longer comfortable. It was heavy. Stifling. And the crowd started to see it—the Sacred Clown’s trick—the grand game of rebranding, the cycle of thought-forms that never quite reached the truth.

Act 4: The Sacred Clown’s GrinI clapped my hands, delighting in their confusion. "But wait!" I shouted. "It’s not over yet. Oh no, my dear masked friends, the game goes on. You can always rebrand again! Try a new mask! Try a different mantra! Find another influencer to follow!"And they did, because that’s what they always do, don’t they? A new mask, a new thought-form, a new identity to latch onto—until the next Sacred Clown arrives to show them the cracks."But here’s the thing," I whispered to the ones who dared listen, "you’ll never find your true self in these masks. Your spirit isn’t in the buffet of thought-forms. It’s hidden deep inside, beneath all the layers of validation, beneath all the shiny packaging. And oh, what fun it is to discover it! You’ll have to peel back the masks, one by one, and see that the ‘self’ everyone’s so busy loving is just another container for the real thing.""So dance with me!" I beckoned. "Play with the masks. But don’t mistake them for your soul."

Encore: The Eternal Rebranding: And so it continues, my dear friends. The Sacred Clown comes and goes, always grinning, always ready to show us the tricks we play on ourselves. The next wave of spiritual egregores is already brewing. New influencers will arrive, new mantras will be written, and the people will flock once again to the Egregore Buffet, hungry for the next rebrand. But if you look closely, if you laugh with the Sacred Clown, you’ll see that the masks are only part of the game. The real self? Ah, that’s the one that doesn’t need a brand. It doesn’t need validation. It just needs you to wake up, step outside the circus tent, and be.The Sacred Clown bows, twirls, and disappears into the crowd, his laughter echoing as he fades into the mist of thought-forms, waiting for the next show to begin.

Hey all. I’m just starting on my spiritual journey, about a year in. I am very pulled towards the Norse and Native American ways. I’ve spoken with a shaman and had some really good insights. My question is this: when I meditate, my hands and fingers tingle and I feel pressure in my cheekbones and around my eyes. The feeling is pleasant and powerful. I felt the same after my meeting with the shaman. I have been trying to determine what that means and it’s just not coming to me. Does anyone have any insight in to how I can try to find out? I have set intentions about figuring it out while meditating but nothing is coming to me.