Astral Travel & Visionary Experiences of Indigenous Americans
By Ike Baker
In the Western esoteric traditions there are diverse arrays of practical methods and techniques of spiritual transformation. Among the most profoundly experiential in nature are the methods of dreamwork, pathworking, scrying, and astral travel. Each of these is a technique designed to affect the consciousness of the practitioner with the goal of experiencing a specific type of vision, from which they could extract knowledge, guidance, and/or power. Many philosophies and metaphysics have been created as a result of attempting to explain such experiences, but we find these in an extremely diverse cross-section of the earth’s cultures at all times and in all places. Yet many of these are considered esoteric practices in the Western traditions, and to undertake them one is often required to be a member within an exclusive initiatic or semi-clerical body, such as esoteric schools and Orders. In Native American culture we have a rich source of historical evidence to the contrary. It is evident that vision work and out-of-body experiences were in many instances available and strongly encouraged to be undertaken by all people, young or old; male or female; forager or shaman...
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