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January 2009 
Everyday signs form a non-ordinary message to shift
Posted on Jul 8th, 2008
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ShiftingShamanics!
ShiftingShamanics!
Harbinger: Someone wrote to me a little while ago commending the practice of offering Shamanic Shift Center consultations and sessions on a donation basis. Weirdly, that same day the signs of a message urging big shifts in our longstanding purposeful money-practices began appearing.
First sign: To fund Shamanic Shift Center I am doing some property management jobs as an independent contractor for a local property management company. Some new tenants - jovial young men and self-described yuppies - got wind of this shamanic practice and attempted to get a shamanic performance for free for their own and their friends' amusement at their next weekend party by 'pulling my leg' about a haunting in their new abode.
When I shamanic-journeyed on this, I was tipped off by Spirit and Spirits that these funny business guys assumed I was gullable, and this was a sympton of a mild sort of dis-empowering disrespect that had grown out of their interpretation of Shamanic Shift Center's published 'donation basis' or 'energy-exchange' or 'love-offering' policy around shamanizing.
These young men are in business with a gusto to achieve ambitious goals and they could hardly help concluding that I must not really be in business here, that this Shamanic Shift Center - Companions Circle is only a pretend gig. Well pretending is an effective shamanic technique and we do call the life-source-force FUN, but this here is a real business, albeit a non-profit one.
Next signs: Then came a series of contacts by earlier inquirers or visitors who had phoned or arrived here for shamanic assistance before, stating up front their various situational inabilities to donate any money for sessions. In each of these cases the process had side-tracked somehow - from cancelled or missed appointments, unfulfilled energy-exchange agreements, half-hearted participation, seemingly relentless self-defeating actions, and apparent (attempted) crazy-making. I noticed those old familiar patterns starting up and begining to cycle in each of these out-of-the-blue renewed requests for more shamanic assistance.
Juxtaposed alongside came a series new contacts flowing new energy, who clearly took as a given donating an amount of money comparable to a massage-therapy session's cost. These new visitors are clearly shfiting their lives according to their stated goals as their shamanic processes unfold. After shamanic dream-venting for a few days I shamanic-journeyed again on these old and new connections and was taken by Spirit and Spirits to a place of a bright red X and two green arrows along a lighted tree-lined road.
"Shut down one lane and open two new ones!" I was urged, by Spirit and Spirits. "The other way was the best for a long while, but no longer - shift now!" Now I am changing all those shamanic consultations or sessions 'offered on a donation-basis' statements on websites, announcements, and business cards. I am leaving open several donation opportunities that are obviously separate from the booking of shamanic sessions and consultations.
And...As gently and kindly as possible I am terminating (and redirecting onward with many blessings) those earlier customers. I take some deep blessing (leading up to laughing) breaths whenever I consider how I may receive unhappy or even disparaging and debunking comments and/or low ratings somewhere over these recent changes and actions. I ask for and accept ongoing gifting and guiding from Spirit and Spirit for facing cheerfully any challenging counter-reactions to this radical shift to new ways of going about shamanic-ways business!
Update - Clarification - Elaboration: A key feature of Shamanic Shift Center's non-profit mission is keeping a shamanic practice active and shamanic practitioner(s) available in our community. So requesting payments or donations for shamanic assistance to offset costs or improve our shamanic outreach is 'related business income' for Companions Circle Church, a non-profit corporation.
For shamanic consultations or sessions one can pay the suggested amount(s) or donate another amount. The form of matter-energy to pay or donate for shamanic assistance is money in US Dollars. If anyone wishes to offer some other form of energy or matter in addition to the suggested payment or a donation of money, OK.
Funeral officiating and the Roadscrossing project's supportive counseling and related services for our uninsured and lower-income neighbors are still offered on an "affordable donation' basis.
First sign: To fund Shamanic Shift Center I am doing some property management jobs as an independent contractor for a local property management company. Some new tenants - jovial young men and self-described yuppies - got wind of this shamanic practice and attempted to get a shamanic performance for free for their own and their friends' amusement at their next weekend party by 'pulling my leg' about a haunting in their new abode.
When I shamanic-journeyed on this, I was tipped off by Spirit and Spirits that these funny business guys assumed I was gullable, and this was a sympton of a mild sort of dis-empowering disrespect that had grown out of their interpretation of Shamanic Shift Center's published 'donation basis' or 'energy-exchange' or 'love-offering' policy around shamanizing.
These young men are in business with a gusto to achieve ambitious goals and they could hardly help concluding that I must not really be in business here, that this Shamanic Shift Center - Companions Circle is only a pretend gig. Well pretending is an effective shamanic technique and we do call the life-source-force FUN, but this here is a real business, albeit a non-profit one.
Next signs: Then came a series of contacts by earlier inquirers or visitors who had phoned or arrived here for shamanic assistance before, stating up front their various situational inabilities to donate any money for sessions. In each of these cases the process had side-tracked somehow - from cancelled or missed appointments, unfulfilled energy-exchange agreements, half-hearted participation, seemingly relentless self-defeating actions, and apparent (attempted) crazy-making. I noticed those old familiar patterns starting up and begining to cycle in each of these out-of-the-blue renewed requests for more shamanic assistance.
Juxtaposed alongside came a series new contacts flowing new energy, who clearly took as a given donating an amount of money comparable to a massage-therapy session's cost. These new visitors are clearly shfiting their lives according to their stated goals as their shamanic processes unfold. After shamanic dream-venting for a few days I shamanic-journeyed again on these old and new connections and was taken by Spirit and Spirits to a place of a bright red X and two green arrows along a lighted tree-lined road.
"Shut down one lane and open two new ones!" I was urged, by Spirit and Spirits. "The other way was the best for a long while, but no longer - shift now!" Now I am changing all those shamanic consultations or sessions 'offered on a donation-basis' statements on websites, announcements, and business cards. I am leaving open several donation opportunities that are obviously separate from the booking of shamanic sessions and consultations.
And...As gently and kindly as possible I am terminating (and redirecting onward with many blessings) those earlier customers. I take some deep blessing (leading up to laughing) breaths whenever I consider how I may receive unhappy or even disparaging and debunking comments and/or low ratings somewhere over these recent changes and actions. I ask for and accept ongoing gifting and guiding from Spirit and Spirit for facing cheerfully any challenging counter-reactions to this radical shift to new ways of going about shamanic-ways business!
Update - Clarification - Elaboration: A key feature of Shamanic Shift Center's non-profit mission is keeping a shamanic practice active and shamanic practitioner(s) available in our community. So requesting payments or donations for shamanic assistance to offset costs or improve our shamanic outreach is 'related business income' for Companions Circle Church, a non-profit corporation.
For shamanic consultations or sessions one can pay the suggested amount(s) or donate another amount. The form of matter-energy to pay or donate for shamanic assistance is money in US Dollars. If anyone wishes to offer some other form of energy or matter in addition to the suggested payment or a donation of money, OK.
Funeral officiating and the Roadscrossing project's supportive counseling and related services for our uninsured and lower-income neighbors are still offered on an "affordable donation' basis.
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