My friends, I’m so excited to be able to share a moment with you! After many years I am able to offer my first book, Journeying Between the Worlds: Walking with the Sacred Spirits through Native American Teachings and Practices, published by Llewellyn. You could say that my book was many, many years in the making. It contains the basic teachings that I have collected during my lifetime and have been given permission to share— from when I studied as a young apprentice, to walking with many Medicine teachers, in addition to my own insights and lessons given to me by the sacred spirits.
Journeying Between the Worlds was created because I saw a need. Although there are several books available on Neo-Shamanism, I saw there were very few based on Native American spritual tradition. Each time I taught a class, I always wanted share the teachings that I had received so that they can be passed along in a good way. I also was encouraged by countless students and educators to write this book because of the lack of reference material available elsewhere.
This book does more than just share how to safely journey. It offers you the beginnings of creating and maintaining a living and dynamic relationship with the Great Spirit, the sacred spirits, All Your Relations, and your sacred Self. These lessons and exercises will do more than enrich your life by empowering you. They show you the way to safely connect and have daily communications with your Guardian spirit, spirit helpers and beings in the natural world, and help you grow in your personal spiritual practices. Shamanism is not just an ability. It is a responsibility! A shaman’s responsibility is to actively live and harbor balance within the self, between peoples, and the worlds seen and unseen. This is what is being offered to you through this book if you’re willing to dedicate yourself to the studies contained within its pages.
Journeying Between the Worlds book would not have come into existence without the blessing of the Great Spirit, all my helpers seen and unseen, and you! Thank you so much for being my inspiration, and I hope that you, too, benefit from the teachings of the ancients.