Shaman Log Excerpt: Reconnection With My Guides

The scratchy, narrow futon beneath me and the whistling wind outside my garden apartment both kept me alert and awake. The lime green walls in the living room also had a role in this; a leftover and somewhat garish choice from the previous renter…but it was still not a high priority for me to remedy this. It was late at night, an ideal time to begin practicing travelling through non-ordinary reality.

Recently, in my Shamanic training we had been focusing on connecting to our guides. The direction was to start by travelling through a tunnel to your journey center. Your journey center is a place you love and also the place you start out, every time you travel. It can be anywhere-another planet or country, someplace that really resonates. Once there, you ask for your guides to show up and you explore, watching out for them and waiting. It may be just one who shows up at first or it could be a few.

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All of us have a few guides who are with us throughout the course of our lives. There are others who pop in to help with specific situations or phases of life. Once they show up you can begin asking them questions. They are friends and helpers in non-ordinary reality and they also travel with you (you never go alone). I had been practicing for a couple of weeks and though I had encountered several beings, I had yet to meet my guides.

This night, I started the drum track, settled in with Loki curled up on top of my feet and soon the itching and whistling faded away…this trip was a full download. Four guides showed up, Hawk, Wolf, Brigit and Guenevere. They each had a specific role (protector, spiritual guide, relationship guide, and phase of life guide). Each was also associated with a direction as well as certain plants, crystals, symbols and other information. “You already know us, we have always been here…surely you remember-Ginny and Ba Ba.”

My “imaginary” friends when I was very young (1-3 years old), I was told, were Ginny and Ba Ba; who I would chatter on to for hours. Guenevere and Brigit. All four guides shared with me at length, ways they had been supportive over time (dropping a feather in front of your feet on the sidewalk last week so that you would pause and notice the building you were standing in front of and meet a new friend) and how they would continue to help, letting me know that I could indeed call upon them. Hawk would accompany me in my travels through non ordinary reality.

After about twenty minutes in this reality (completely timeless in the other), the drum beat sped up-the indicator to say your goodbyes and to begin to travel back. Loki shifted at my feet and I commenced a full body stretch. I blinked my eyes open and, fairly astonished and excited, reached for my journal. I still have the handwritten record of that journey to this day.

And now, fifteen years later, I continue to connect with, travel with, learn from and love those guides as well as many others. I think I am a well grounded person but I am also someone who lives beyond this reality and I am supremely grateful.

The support my guides offer for myself and others is truly incredible. They have been assisting in healing sessions since that winters night, years ago, in Chicago where we all reacquainted and I knew I had shifted into a whole new reality.