The Power of a Spiritual Collective
Shamanic Insights & Musings with Dory Cote
Modern-Day Shamanic Initiations
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Modern-Day Shamanic Initiations

This is the third episode in a 4 part series on "Shamanic Initiations." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about Shamanic Initiation.

The episode includes the following questions:

• In your teaching of shamanism, do you deliberately guide students through initiation experiences? [0:29]

• For the initiations that you just discussed, it sounds like there was a limiting of the physical senses in order to enrich or tune into a different kind of sensing and receiving and acting. Is that accurate? [7:00]

• Is it safe to use the analogy that in some ways initiations are like intense workouts that strengthen spiritual muscles to be able to act and interact with Spirit? [8:25]

• You have worked with many students in different kinds of initiations. Do you find that there is a common set of skills, or is the way of working with Spirit unique to each soul? [9:28]

• Do students emerge from a deliberate initiation experience being altered in some way? [11:46]

• Do students continue to feel “different” after an initiation experience? [13:40]

• This completes our questions. Do you have any thing else that you would like to add at this time? [18:50]

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