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January 2009 
Shamanic lessons from the movie Ratatouille
Posted on May 25th, 2008
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ShiftingShamanics!
ShiftingShamanics!
Shamanic FUN: The movie Ratatouille is full of the ingredients for shamanic innovation. Here are just a few of the basic level shamanic lessons I noticed:
I have used Ratatouille in shamanic teaching since I was entertained by watching. There are many more, more subtle shamanic lessons in this movie. I find that most movies teach shamanic shifting if I watch with shamanic attention and let the entertainment entrain me.
- Ecstatic imagining shifts reality: Imagining can change you and your realtiy, which changes all reality by just that much, which can bring amazing shifts. Gusteau's 'spirit' as an imaginary chef is a powerful teacher and guide, even though he is also 'just a figment' of the rat Rémy's imagination. Whatever you can imagine with gusto (or dream up) you can dance to life in ordinary reality.
- Unlikely companionships stir up the best shifts: Awkwardness and mastery co-create the famous restaurant transforming, critic-healing soup through the weird purposeful cooperation of rat and human as chef and cook. Later, cross-species cooperation that would have been impossible before happens on a wider scale and saves the day.
- The remedy for what ails exists in ordinary reality: Shamanic shifting juxtaposes life's ingredients in new, transforming ways, even in simple situations such as serviings of soup. The skinny embittered food critic re-connects with his lost childhood self and happiness and becomes a whole man through the soul-healing smells and tastes he experiences within the first spoonful of this story's ordinary yet extraordinary ratatouille. Vital re-connections and interconnections in the soup(s) of LIFE are re-activated and come alive through shamanic tweaking amidst everyday situations.
I have used Ratatouille in shamanic teaching since I was entertained by watching. There are many more, more subtle shamanic lessons in this movie. I find that most movies teach shamanic shifting if I watch with shamanic attention and let the entertainment entrain me.
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