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JAMIE SAMS

Cherokee and Senca Traditions

Oh keeper of anicient knowing,

Whisper your wisdom to me,

That I may remember,

Live's scared mystery.


WISDOMKEEPER PRAYER

Jamie Sams

Jamie Sams is an internationally respected Native American teacher. She is the author of many bestselling books including " The Thirteen Clan Mothers " and " Dancing the Dream " (That's one of my Fav.s!!!!) as well the cocreater of the innovative " Medicine Cards " and " Sacred Path Cards."

She is half blooded Senca on her Father's side and half blooded Senca on her Mother's, with a mohawk great grandmother and a choctaw great grandmother.

Jamie experienced other levels of reality from early age, which attracted the attention of both her tribal elder and western researchers into parapsychology. Although she herself had no desire to be a shaman, Spirit had other ideas. Through a magical sequence of events she ended up studing with a nuber of extraordinary teachers who helped her to develop her natural shamanic abilities. the teachers were a Mexican shaman, Joaquin Muriel Espinosa, and two Kiowa grandmother's, Cisi Laughing Crow, and Berta Broken Bow. When Jamie was 22, Cisi was about 120 yrs old and Berta 127! Both were born shortly after the Trail of Tears in the 1840's when their families, refusing to be confined to reservations, traveled south to find freedom in the Mexican mountains. Here they were able to keep their traditions alive-- an ancient lineage of which Jamie is now a living representative.

Jamie is a dynamic and charismatic communicator, with a gift for presenting indigenous teachings in ways easily accessilbe to the modern world. Draw on the riches of all the different tribal traditions that have touched her life she teaches an insiring syntheis of Native American wisdom, which goes to heart of the perennial spirituality of shamanism. Her earthy and often ribald sense of humor cuts through spiritual pretensions to reveal the everyday magic of living in communion with the Great Mystery. For Jamie, each one of us can become a shaman in our own way, by discovering and nuturing our own particulars gifts from Spirit. She teaches Native American Shamanism as Spiritual path which, if walked with sincerity, can help us live in natural harmony with all of life.


Listening To Wisdomkeeper Jamie Sams

" The goal of Shamanism is total and complete merging yuor spirit within the whole and finding your place within the whole. You are still a human spirit but you acknowledge that you have a meat body that is connected to the animals, nature and every other part of the universe.

" I was moving objects with my mind when i wes three years old and I become the lab rat. My family is a very educated family. Education was the most important thing for the past four generations of my family. My great grandmother was one of the first Native American woman to guaduate from college in the United states in 1886. so we are connected to variuos universities and when this phenomena started happing the parapsychology departments in various universities started doing tests on me. I don't know how to explain the facts that I have always seen energy around objects.

" It was my grandfather who decided that I should be trained with the elders. i just wanted to fit into modern everyday society. At one time I was living in Hollywood, California, and I wanted more than anything esle to sing.

"But Spirit said: `No way!' when you' re doing the wrong thing everything is an effort. Your body will suffer and your health will suffer--running up against a brick wall and splatting time and time again. It's always like that if you are not doing what is authentically right for you. It's a real hard lesson because you didn't get yuor heart's greatest joy and spirit has another plan for you.

" I ended up training with three elders in Mexico for three and half years. The only reason I stopped was that I fell through a roof and was paralyzed from waist down. ' People said: `She will never walk again'. But my teachers worked on me and I was walking in three months! One of my teachers was Joaquin Muriel Espinosa. He was truly an amazing person. One of the things he told me was that the person who has actually intergrated with life can shape-shift. they have taken all of creation into themselves and can walk in the snow without leaving a footprint. I have seen my sharp-shifter teacher Joaquin shift into the form of an owl right in front of my eyes. He used that ability to check up on peolpe he had done healings with who lived a long. long way away. It came as naturally to him as breathing does to you or me." Jamie's teachers helped her develop her awareness of more subtle forms of perceptions. one of their technigues was to require her to sit still and simply observe the world for up to eight hours without blinking! Such Demanding trials taught her how to clearly percieve the spiritual " energies " which permeate creation and enter into silent communion with nature.

" Shamanism is fairly misunderstood by the western world because they are looking for the physical reality of what a healer or holy person taps into when they are trying to access the spirit behind a physical object. Many of the indigenous tribes take people who are gifted and use power substances, in the way of ayahuasca, herbs, mushrooms, and various things, to strip away the third dimensional perceptions, so they see the patterns-- which are basically lines of energy that come together in different ways. With those patterns there are sound connections. There can also be visuals. Like the face of an animal coming forward to the person and going into the person's body.

" My teachers, when they started me, would sit me on one of the busiest interscections in a big city in Mexico. And they would make me sit without blinking for about five minutes. And maybe in five minutes 150 people would walk by and they'd say: `How many people walked by that were wearing the color pink?' And that was the first lesson. And so you extend your perception peripherally with your eyes. You have to also percieve every single thing around you in a different way. They worked me up to sitting eight hours without moving, blinking, twitching. And then they upped the gradient. Like asking: 'How many

" Its not about 'me'.

It's about 'we."


people walked by who had a disablity?' and of course they knew the answers! How many people walked by who had a life-threading disease and a hole in their dreaming body?' how many people walked by who were holding a death wish? How many people walked by who were fulfilled and happy? And on and on until I could take it all in. It was observing the obvious and then observing energy--the intagible and the physical together.

" When you blink. the optic nerve acts as a shutter mechanism in between the brain. The more you blink the more you are recreating the solidity in front of you. When the mind is clear and you're not blinking, then there is space for your body to perceive the other sensory perceptions that go beyond the five senses. These are 357 invisible threads that go all the way around the body from the centre of the navel, which is the dreaming body. These perceive and then what they are perceiving and funnel it into the brain so you can see it.
Blinking creates the thought process going `yak yak yak'in your head which stops you from perceiving other things which are not tangible but which are connected to all solid matter.

" It's a real different world out there when you can see the energy surrounding every living thing. you see that evergything is interconnected. Everything is alive. And once you experience that wholeness no one can take it away from you. There is a new-found deep, deep respect for every living thing that allows you to walk gently on the earth and in harmory, and experience life with ease. Even if the most dramatic, chaotic experiences come and land on your doorstep you can still move through them, because you see them as opportunity instead of tragedy. This is part of the understanding that life is an initiation."

As in other shamanic traditions, the Native american tradition teaches that we can learn much wisdom from our " relatives " the animals. Jamie is well known for making these ancient teachings accessible in a thoroughly modern way in her " Medicine Cards" These help people connect with the animal spirits which are particularly relevant to them in their spiritual evolution.

" One of the things that draws people to this path is that they can see nature all around them. Even if a person lives in the city, they have at some time in their life been in nature. I think that it's important that every human being understand that they can tap into the animals and to nature. And that it's another form of paying tribute to the God in all things--the spark of life that the Creator put inside of every living thing. And once they can honor that scaredness they are able to see that same spark, what we call the Eternal Flame of Love, within themselves.

"In our tradition every human being has nine power animals that they are born with, and these power animals represent nine different facets of their personality, and why they are here, as well as their gifts, talents, and abilities that they can share with the world. some of these talents or traits can be very undeveloped. You are here for a reason,which is to learn these skills and develop these gifts and talents to the point that you can share them with others and make a difference within the human condition for the better.

" My teachers taught me the animals though drum beats. They showed me the patterns of energy that were connected not only to the way the animals walked but to the energy that the animals carried. And they would do certain drum beats and ask: " what animal came to you when you were listening to this?

" Everything has a pattern. You have a pattern. I have a pattern. My Grandfather taught me this when I was seven years old. He threw a rock into a pond and asked me what I saw. I said that I saw a splash in the water. And he said: ' Good, what else did you see? and I said I saw circles. A little circle and then a bigger circle until it came all the way out to the edge of the pond. He said: 'Good. What I want you to know is that you have to be very careful about the kind of splash you make in the world because your individually circle will touch another circle all the way out to the shore. So what kind of splash are you going to make? What is in your circle individually that you can share with others?"'

" Walk your talk.

Don't talk your walk."

The ineffable Power of Life which we call " God " is conceptualized in various ways by different spiritual traditions, but its essential nature is perhaps most eloquently expressed by the evocative Native American phase the " Great Mystery. " for Jamie, the goal of shamanism is not to possess special magical abilities, but to transcend the self and commune with the Great Mystery. If we do this, then all of life becomes magical.

" Some people choose not to help others. They choose to develop their gifts so they can have material things. To be respected as: 'Gee! I'm the shaman. I'm the healer.' And the old ego stuff comes in here. Some people get stuck in not healing themselves. They get stuck in revenge so that they feel they are in competion with everyone else. They use the same beautiful gifts, which could help people, to harm another person. That is very common, especially in indigenous communities.

" Many people get to the place where they say: I know my power animal' or I have these abilities'--but they never relinguish the human identity into infinite identity of being a perfect part of Spirit within all of creation. i think that it's very important that people who are looking at Shamamism realize that being a shaman is not the goal. The goal is to acess their place in the whole of creation. It's not to be a shaman. 'I am a shaman'--that statement creates separation.

" If a person is looking for a way to connect to what we call the Great Mystery--the continual evolving universe--and to tap into the 'Dream Weave' and the Spirit within all things, they have to begin by illuminating places they have sent their own spirit into expressing revenge or envy or any of the unbecoming attitudes and behavior patterns that further separation. So it always begins with the self. You may not be able to change society or save the planet, but you can correct your own behavior so that you walk in an impeccable manner with respect for all living things, And that is the goal.

" Life is magic. Sometimes people get stuck in what we call an enlightenment trap. In the phenomena. In 'Oh I can make this happen or that happen!' Well, where is that centred? In ego. The phenomena is just part of the process. It shows us that life is refunding us with signals and knowledgements. If we use spirit in a proper manner, then we are going to feel that everything is magic, and that miracles are possible, and that every single thing that we do in life can help the world.

" there are a lot of dabblers these days--

weekend warriors."

" If there is inner peace there is connectedness. When it's still and quiet inside we call it 'Tiyoweh' which means the 'Stillness.' If you cannot be thinking of anything, you're in present time. Then you become a part of the harmony in nature and nature's creatures will acknowledge you without fear. You can literally stop the world and an animal will walk up within two or three feet of you and look you straight in the eyes, and not be afraid. And you will see that you can get rid of all the separation and be in communion."

By Timothy Freke


THANKS!!!!!

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