Shamanism and Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Part 1 – Intentions
Author: Karolina, based on M. Eliade’s book Shamanism and Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Systematised release from burdens—links to texts, information about recordings, work with intentions, the bowing technique >Link.
Technical matters concerning the idea and the construction of sentences when working with intentions.
Article “800 Intentions for Cleansing” Link
“One-Sentence Pattern for Working with Intentions.” Link
Film “The Bow After Completing the Intentions” >Link
The word (–not), added to a word when working with intentions, means that it is worthwhile to mention it together with its opposite, or even, during the work itself, independently find and speak any synonyms that come to mind together with their opposites.
For example—being poor, sick; it is good to say it also together with its opposite
–being poor, sick, –not being poor, sick.
This makes it possible immediately to address a given pattern as broadly as possible in different aspects, including in its opposite. It is also worth knowing that Souls often think and claim that they do not have such opposite patterns, for example that they are not idolaters, as in the given case and the given word.
Another example:
The Soul of a woman denies ever having been a bad mother. Therefore, adding the negation—not being a bad mother—may allow her to understand the state in which she finds herself.
Being a bad mother, –not being a bad mother–
“Absolutely not, never in my life! These are not my patterns. What I am doing is my private matter.” [The Soul very often says or thinks this about herself.]
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans of every kind and sex, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being sacrificial priests of every kind and sex, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being chiefs and leaders of every kind and sex of domestic cults, shamanic cults, idolatrous cults and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being great masters of every kind and sex of techniques of ecstasy, shamanic cults and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans of every kind and sex regarded as equivalent to magicians, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans-healers of every kind and sex, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans of every kind and sex who rule over their spirits and are able to make contact with spirits, demons, nature spirits and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being chosen ones of every kind and sex who have access to the sacred sphere inaccessible to the remaining members of the community, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including influencing every kind of former and present ideology, religion, sect, mythology, ritualism, idolatry and not only these through various shamanic ecstatic experiences and techniques of ecstasy, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being people distinguished by the characteristics of a “calling” or a “religious crisis”, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including distinguishing ourselves from the rest of the community through various forms of intensity of religious experiences, techniques of ecstasy, interpretations of our own experiences and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including healing members of our community through various trances, hypnosis, techniques of ecstasy and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including accompanying the dead to the “Kingdom of Shadows”, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being intermediaries of every kind and sex between heavenly or infernal gods, whether lesser or greater, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including directing the religious life of the community and watching over the “Soul of the community”, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans-specialists of every kind and sex in the human Soul, seeing it, knowing its form and destiny, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including maintaining personal relationships with heavenly and astral gods, goddesses and divine mothers of every kind and sex inhabiting the highest heavens, as well as with their sons and daughters and with their messengers occupying the lower heavens, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including maintaining personal relationships with rulers and lords of hells, demons, succubi, beings of darkness and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being recruited as shamans of every kind and sex through inheriting the shamanic profession, through a spontaneous calling, summons or election by gods or spirits, as well as becoming shamans by our own will or by the will of our lineage, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being regarded as weaker shamans because we became shamans by our own will or by the will of our lineage, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being recognised as shamans after receiving twofold instruction: ecstatic instruction through dreams and trances, and traditional instruction concerning shamanic techniques, the names and functions of spirits, mythology, the genealogy of the lineage and the secret language, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing instruction and initiation carried out by spirits and old shamanic masters, including through possessions, hauntings and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans-psychopaths and neurotics of every kind and sex, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including inheriting shamanism through distinguishing ourselves from an early age by great nervousness and susceptibility to epileptic seizures, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing epileptic seizures regarded as encounters with gods, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including regarding shamanism as a gift from Heaven received at the moment of birth, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans of every kind and sex appointed directly by the supreme god and instructed by the supreme god through dreams, visions, possessions, hauntings and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including inheriting shamanism after the death of our father, creating a wooden representation of our father’s hand and, through this symbol, experiencing the transmission of power from the ancestors, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being identified as shamans at the moment of birth as those who are born “in a shirt” or “in a caul”, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including manifesting visions, singing in our sleep and tendencies to wander alone during adolescence, and during the “incubation” period associating with an old shaman in order to receive instruction, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being chosen by our fathers as shamans and successors, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing and holding the belief that the gift of shamanism—the sign or guardian spirit—does not disappear, or correspondingly disappears, after the shaman’s death, but incarnates in a member of the same or another family, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing madness, losing our reason, fleeing into forests, feeding on tree bark, throwing ourselves into water and fire, and injuring ourselves with knives as symptoms of becoming or being shamans of every kind and sex, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing madness and losing our reason, and being sent to old shamans for instruction about different kinds of spirits and methods of summoning, mastering and controlling them, and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing dreams involving the spirits of deceased shamans ordering us to assume succession after them, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing a considerable degree of mental disturbance as future shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including seeing in dreams various kinds of devils and dark beings performing shamanic rituals, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing, as future or present shamans, crises, hysteria and mental breakdowns followed by a period of instruction, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including becoming shamans after crises and mental breakdowns, after being recognised by the entire community and after undergoing an initiatory trial, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being born and raised to become shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing the first ecstasy in which, as young candidates, we flee into the mountains, feed on game “caught with our own teeth”, return to the village dirty and bloodstained, in torn clothing, with dishevelled hair, like savages, babbling incoherent words, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including falling into rage as a result of being possessed by spirits, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing the transmission of shamanism through a calling manifested in dreams and convulsions induced by ancestral spirits known as utcha, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing an obligatory shamanic calling, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing children being tormented by spirits, crying in their sleep, becoming nervous and withdrawn so that they are handed over to shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including becoming shamans through a series of ecstatic experiences, including dreaming of ancestors who carry candidates for shamans to the Hells, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including learning from shamans and elders the genealogy and traditions of the lineage, mythology and shamanic vocabulary as a result of taking over the functions of shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including singing shamanic hymns during ecstasy, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including becoming shamans of every kind and sex as a result of divine selection or an accident, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being future shamans who are guided and instructed by old shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being marked by lightning as future shamans and thereby indicating the heavenly origin of shamanic powers, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including becoming shamans as a result of being struck by lightning and wearing shamanic garments bearing the symbol of lightning, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including inheriting shamanism through being chosen by the Souls of ancestors and shamans from the family, and as future shamans becoming “absent”, withdrawn, fond of solitude, having prophetic visions, epileptic seizures, mental illnesses, delusions and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including the Soul leaving the body during unconsciousness and being carried by spirits towards the West in the case of becoming a White Shaman, or being carried by spirits towards the East in the case of becoming a Black Shaman, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including leaving the body and staying in the palaces of gods as future shamans, being instructed by ancestors in the secrets of the craft, the forms and names of gods, the cult and the names of spirits, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being orphans recruited to become shamans and having tendencies towards nervous illnesses, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being characterised as future shamans by sudden changes of mood, rapid transitions from irritation to a normal state, and from melancholy to hyperactivity, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing the “transmission of power” by shamans to their children, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including becoming shamans as a result of a fiery sphere entering the body, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being participants in a ceremony ending in a real cataleptic trance, including epilepsy, as a result of which the Soul leaves the body and travels to the heavens or to subterranean Hells, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including inducing a semi-trance by means of drugs, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being epileptics of every kind, sickly or weak people, neurasthenics, eccentrics, mentally ill people, hypersensitive people, people with weak hearts, ruined stomachs or susceptibility to losing their sight, as the best material for a shaman, magician or diviner, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being summoned by deities to become future shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being summoned by deities as adepts to become future shamans and feeling that we can refuse this “honour” out of fear of the anger of the gods, the consequence of which could be premature death and not only this, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being restrained, taciturn beings inclined towards meditation and asceticism, with an epileptoid and hysteroid structure, as ideal candidates for shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing initiation as shamans as equivalent to recovery after an illness or after an epileptic seizure, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans who recover with the help of spirits that become our guardian and helpful spirits, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being shamans who are distinguished by above-average memory and powers of self-control, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing a calling-illness that serves as a form of initiation into shamanism, and experiencing the suffering caused by the calling-illness, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing psychic isolation as ritual solitude during an initiation ceremony, and also experiencing agony and unconsciousness resembling the symbolic death represented in initiation ceremonies, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing ecstatic experiences in which shamans experience the dismemberment of the body, followed by the renewal of the internal organs and entrails, ascension to heaven and dialogues with gods, deities or spirits, descent into the Hells, and conversations with the spirits and Souls of deceased shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing ritual death followed by resurrection and mystical completeness, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including submitting, not only as shamans, to operations carried out by spirits, astral beings, divine or semi-divine beings, or ancestors, consisting in the dismemberment of the body and the renewal of the internal organs and bones, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing, as shamans, operations performed in “hell”, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including participating in three methods of creating a medicine person: through spirits, through the spirits of people from mythical times, and through other medicine people, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including participating in a ritual in which, inside a cave, spirits tear out the internal organs of shamans and insert other, entirely new ones, after which the candidate returns to life and behaves like a mad person for some time, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing pieces of quartz being placed inside the bodies of shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including enduring in silence an operation performed by one, two or a greater number of medicine people or spirits, consisting in rubbing the shaman’s body with rock crystals so that they strip away the skin, pressing crystals into the hairy skin, piercing an opening beneath the fingernail of the right hand and cutting the tongue, and finally drawing the symbol known as the “devil’s hand” or erunchilda on the forehead, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being “killed”, having our bodies opened and our organs removed and replaced with new organs, and finally having small snakes placed inside the bodies of shamans to grant the power of a medicine person, shamanic powers and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including, as a result of initiation, having snakes placed inside the heads of shamans and having our noses pierced with magical objects known as kupitja, which are then used to heal the sick, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including, as a result of initiation into shamanism, freeing people who are victims of spells, sorcery and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including climbing to heaven on a rope invisible to all mortals, where we are able to speak with stellar spirits and not only these, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including using caves as places where shamans have their dreams and meet helping spirits, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including inserting rock crystals into the heads of novice shamans, which devour the brain and eyes so that these organs may be replaced with new ones possessing greater powers, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including using rock crystals as the helping spirits of shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing, not only as shamans, symbolic death suggested by prolonged fainting and lethargic sleep, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including rubbing our faces, not only as shamans, until a second or even a third skin appears, a “new skin” visible to initiates, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including walking barefoot through fire during a consecration festival, not only as shamans, experiencing burns and also having our clothing catch fire, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing the first possession as shamanic candidates, manifested through a trance that knocks us to the ground, followed by being stoned with magical objects by the initiators and then being resurrected, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including “opening” the heads of novice shamans so that spirits may enter them, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing, as a result of an initiation ceremony, a magical transformation into a hen as a symbol of the “power of flight” of shamans and sorcerers of every kind and sex, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being “killed” by possessing spirits, experiencing our bones being removed from our bodies and replaced with the bones of a deceased spirit, and then being resurrected, as well as receiving the bones of a deceased spirit in order to challenge spirits, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing the “cutting off of the head” so that the candidate-shaman’s brain may be “washed” or “laundered” by the initiators in order to give us clear intelligence capable of penetrating the mysteries of evil spirits and diseases, placing gold into our eyes to make our sight penetrating and able to see the Soul, implanting toothed hooks into the tips of our fingers to make us capable of catching the Soul and holding it firmly, and piercing the candidate-shaman’s heart with an arrow to make us compassionate towards those who are sick and suffering, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including rubbing stones against our bodies until we acquire helping spirits, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including searching for new master shamans in order to broaden our experiences and create a group of spirits and shamans, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being master shamans who instruct five or more pupils and receive payment for their instruction, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including drawing the Soul out of the bodies of candidates for shamans in order to teach them and undertake great mystical journeys through space, the depths of the sea and various recesses of astral worlds, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing a “flash” or “illumination” as a result of which, not only as shamans, we feel throughout our body, in our head and in the very heart of the brain a luminous fire that makes us capable of seeing in darkness and perceiving things and future events hidden from others, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including attaining mystical light after long hours spent invoking spirits, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing rising into the air and levitation as a result of shamanic practices, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing prolonged effort of physical asceticism and mental contemplation in order to see ourselves as a “skeleton”, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including reducing ourselves to a skeleton in order to transcend the secular human condition, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing, as a result of initiation into shamanism, a period of isolation in the wilderness as a symbol of the otherworld and of the process of shamanic practices, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including smearing our faces and bodies with ashes in order to acquire the pale colouring of spectres and a funerary mask, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including being buried inside a temple or a house of fetishes, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing hypnotic sleep by consuming beverages that cause unconsciousness, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
- our own, and through us other people’s, from all causes and by all means, including experiencing initiation rituals intended to make us forget our former life, as well as our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences of this
Opublikowano: 28/08/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
Kateogrie: Religions, priests, sects, idolatry, vows.
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