Comments on: Symbolic Nagual Bird Lords: Honoring Aztec Symbols as Oracles

By: avenefica

avenefica — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:38:31 +0000

Hi Liara, as always, thanks for casting a greater light on this subject. I particularly like how you remarked on the purpose of shamanism. Thanks!

By: Liara Covert

Liara Covert — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:43:06 +0000

Naguals are also considered guardian spirits.
Shamans invite a guardian spirit into his body; it protects him from illness and from unfriendly forces in other worlds. Guardian spirits change over the years as the shaman’s needs change. If you have ever read any books by Carlos Castaneda, you may have learned a very secific context for nagual in shamanic journeys. The nonordinary reality is as real to the shaman as is the ordinary reality. The shaman is an individual who enters an ecstatic altered state of consciousness, which enables him to communicate with guardian and helping spirits and draw upon enormous sources of power. The primary purpose of shamanism is the healing of body and mind. He heals himself and others.

By: icanrel8

icanrel8 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:06:11 +0000

Bueno! Aztec’s are muy mucho intense. -Gonna try your oracle project – I bet the results are equally intense! Will let you know. thanks for the bueno info.
xo,
The Dandy Skull Candy Man