Shamanic Drumming — Transcendental Boogie Experience Trove EP 11
Guaranteed AI-Free experiential recollections and musings on the Nature of (my) consciousness
Drums are awesome, I’ve always loved a good beat. Who doesn’t? It is something that is innate. As evidenced by the previous episodes, I’ve been interested in Meditation for some time. Through my exploration I came across some videos online by a group called The Honest Guys. This is not product placement, I have no financial arrangement with those chaps, purely a shout out to the genuinely sincere output of an amazingly talented duo.
The particular video I am thinking about was a guided meditation paired with shamanic drumming that could potentially lead you to an encounter with your spirit guide or guides.
Now, I must say there is a little bit of a back story with spirit animals. I am fairly sure that my one is the deer. I first came to this notion during a very early morning marathon training run in Schlosspark Nymphenburg in Munich. You’re thinking “he was fatigued, he was just imagining things” but the jog did not influence my experience, I was only a couple of kilometres in. I have seen plenty of deer in the Schlosspark but never an encounter such as this one, so close and intense. I came out of the bush and around a corner into a clearing, there, with a mysterious backdrop of mist, only a few metres away from the path, a relatively young deer was grazing on lush due-covered grass. The deer looked up at me, not spooked in the slightest, we briefly locked eye contact, I stared for an instant into the immense blackness of those beautiful eyes, we had a little moment, us two. Obviously I have no idea what the deer was really thinking but I felt it was a flash of mutual respect and recognition. The deer carried on munching on that juicy grass and I went on my way, completely invigorated from head to foot.
The soothing tones of the narrator brought me through a forest to a massive old tree whose ancient hollow core housed a set of steps which led down to a mirror image of the tree in a parallel world, as above, so below. In this other world, at the edge of the dense virgin forest, was a reed-edged lake. The drums were weirdly becoming more intense while at the same time receding into the background. The scene around me was increasing in crispness and I felt that I was really there, not just picturing it in my mind.
Someone or something else was in the vicinity. I could feel a presence and caught fleeting glances of a little shadowy gestalt darting around the reeds. It wasn’t a foreboding or threatening being, yes, being, I had the distinct impression that it was a living, conscious entity, not just the wind or a trick of the light. Could it be that it was coming closer? Then, just for a split second, out the reeds shot a deer. Not seeking to escape me but coming right up close, a mere few centimetres from me. A huge teethy grin, laughing eyes, the big reveal and then he or she vanished as though some unseen magician had waved their invisible wand. Again, I was left with a feeling of complete invigoration.
My experience of this situation was that I had been gifted something, knowledge was imparted to my that someone or something sees me, appreciates me and looks out for me. Perhaps it really is a cosmic deer or maybe it takes that form as that is accessible, apprehensible to me.
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Whatever the underlying truth, I’ve banked that happening, it is mine to cherish and keep.
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Episode 4: Vipassana — Don’t Get Attached!
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