Power Animals
Linda P. from Newcastle asks us: "What are power animals, how do you acquire and use one?"
Power animals (also known as totem animals) play a very important role in the life of a shaman. Everyone has such an animal from birth. Totem animals are, psychologically speaking, a suppressed part of the human psyche. During meditation and on mind journeys, totem animals can provide a sort of anchor hold on normality. In everyday life, they channel all a person’s suppressed characteristics. Everyone is actually dealing with his or her totem animal all the time.
A strong totem represents a great challenge for the owner, one with which he or she is constantly having to deal. Someone with a weak totem will scarcely notice it in normal life and conflicts with it will be minimal.
Shamans can recognise the totem or power animal in almost anyone in the normal course of life. To do this, they don’t use any special techniques or induce anything consciously; it jumps out at them, so to speak. If a shaman looks at a small baby (a few days or hours old) it is completely clear and unmistakeable to them what the child’s totem animal is. It is different in the case of adults; in order to be absolutely sure, the shaman has to at least concentrate very hard if not actually perform a ritual in order to find out. It is a good idea to visit a shaman to find out what your totem animal is.Created: 02:46 PM | Author: Questico editorial staff | Category: Current questions | Comments [0]
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