Before this column was called the Transmutation News it was a different column called A Fall to Grace which was out of my visionary novel. I self-published the book before people were self publishing. I actually still have about 1000 copies in storage. I don’t have the energy to send them to Amazon or Barnes or Noble or anywhere to keep it selling. It was a very beloved book for many years, especially for teenagers. It became something like a cult classic for them.
The theme of the book was somewhat autobiographical. And the main metaphor in the book is learning how to flow down the River of Life. For those of you following my current work with horizontal journeying that is the metaphor I am using. For on a river, you need to keep moving forward you can’t move backwards. And one of the themes of the book is that the River of Life will take you to many places, but you must learn how to take care of yourself along the way.
We are living in challenging times which many of us have been through before. I apologize for having to repeat this in every column, but we are just looping. In my lifetime we have seen times as challenging as now. The dramas, the power over, the greed, and corruption were just different. But the energies were the same.
So as we go down the River of Life and wake up to the loop the collective is stuck in, it is YOUR choice to keep moving forward. And this would be a powerful journey or meditation for you to do this month is how to keep moving forward. For I think all of you who are stuck in the current illusion being played out are realizing that you are in a dangerous place on an emotional and mental level. So it is your choice of when and how you choose to move forward.
Call on all your spiritual allies in all worlds. In your journeys visit different helping spirits you have been working with and pose the questions about asking to be shown the illusion you are currently living out as if it was reality and how to shift and how to move forward.
They will help you. Call on the moon, the sun, the elements, the stars, the galaxies, the nebulae, the universe and connect with them as well as with your helping spirits. And Time is an amazing helping spirit to journey to.
I have found these journeys to be so helpful to me and my students who are participating with me in journeying to these greater forces.
I do have multiple therapy licenses and have focused so much on my work with trauma. I had the blessing to be taught Soul Retrieval by my power animal, which has helped tens of thousands of people. Now my students who I am working with are seeing how much they allowed themselves to split into different parts of the world focusing on too many struggles, really hurting them on a very deep level by doing this. As humans, we are not meant to have our attention on so many people, so many places in the world, so much scrolling on a screen. It is hurting our brains doing this.
I am now teaching it is time to call yourself back. Call back all these scattered parts you have floating all over the world. And bring them back to a centered YOU. No one is going to take care of you except you.
I am doing EMDR tapping only of positive messages I want to give to my brain and body right now. I did get certified in EMDR many, many moons ago when EMDR was first brought out into the world. I am using EMDR only to give my brain positive messages. And every day I do this, I feel a happiness growing out from what seems like nowhere. With the brain disorder I manage and the pain and discomfort I have been in for over 10 years now, this is a true miracle. So our brains can change. We can feed our brains good messages, and our brain will listen and partner with our spirit and soul to create a good life for yourself, which will ultimately help on a global level by feeding the ethers now with some good energy.
EMDR is not for people who have not done trauma therapy, as it can wake up a trauma. I have spent years clearing trauma through EMDR so I can use it solely in the ways I am using it now.
But if you are in therapy, you might ask your therapist to try this with you of feeding and programming your brain with new messages and instructions for how to create a better dimension of reality for yourself.
Spend time in Nature, as we have been doing. Nature shows TRUTH when we need to hear it and experience the natural world instead of the artificial world we have created.
We need to spend our energy on transmuting the pollution in the elements that give us life, so using spiritual methods we can absorb good nutrition from the food and water we drink and the air we breathe. There are no scientific methods that will clear pollution for us in this lifetime, so this is your work to do for yourself and your families.
I have a lot more to say and share, but I realize that our capacity to absorb right now is limited. So I will stop here and continue next month.
You do not have to crash right now. Where are the spiritual tools you have been developing for these times? Find them and use them! Trust in yourself and have faith in your work. This is so important right now.
The dismemberment on Earth will continue until more people wake up. So we have a way to go through obstacles on the River of Life if you choose to live out the drama with the collective. Take care of yourself so you don’t go down. The River of Life will take you to many places, but you have to learn how to take care of yourself along the way.
The full moon is August 9. This is the time to deepen your work with remembering the truth of who you are, the eternal spirit you are, the love you are, the light you shine. Under the costume you are wearing in this body and this lifetime, there is only a being of light. If you have been working with transfiguration, you already know this. So let go of the costume, and you don’t even need to do anything at this point. For you are just true divine light and let that light just be free to go wherever your body needs it and out in the energetic field of the Earth lifting up life itself!
If you are a new reader of the Transmutation News, please visit the homepage to read the instructions for our monthly ceremony, Creating a Human Web of Light.
Announcements:
In Sacred Mysticism of Egypt, Fotoula Adrimi explains the initiations and teachings of HEKA, what the ancient Egyptians described as the mystical power that creates and sustains all. She shares her experiences and rituals with the Egyptian Goddess Isis, who, for almost twenty years, brought Fotoula into a world where spiritual awakening was possible and whose paradigms can help all of life now. With Isis’s guidance, Fotoula leads us to a path of mysteries that have been found hidden beyond the monuments, statues, pyramids, and hieroglyphs. This book is about the extraordinary changes we can make through embracing the understanding that we are beings of divine light.
As you all know Renee Baribeau and I are in our seventh year of our podcast The Shamans Cave. I speak with Renee for 30 minutes to an hour before we record. I am always so appreciative of the wisdom she has gathered in her lifetime. Truthfully if I could still travel, I would be on this adventure with Renee and her group. Renee Baribeau is leading a 10-day pilgrimage to the Cotswolds this October 1-10 in the UK then teaching a full day workshop on Saturday October 11 in London. If this speaks to you, she’d love for you to consider joining. thepracticalshaman.com/england-cotswolds/
For this month’s announcements I am sharing my own resources for inspiration and to help you find peace and harmony in your life.
On the homepage there are a list of Resources that includes short articles I wrote on shamanism and Medicine for the Earth practices. I also have a lot of You Tube videos listed you can watch.
If you are looking for a summary of all the Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Light practices, they are all in my book Walking in Light which is available in multiple formats. And if you are looking at how to perform shamanic ceremonies The Book of Ceremony teaches how to perform ceremonies, and I also shared ceremonies you can do for all we experience in modern life. If you are lookin for how to deal with your toxic thoughts How to Heal Toxic Thoughts is a short and powerful book I wrote.
“Polishing the Path of the Soul” (my audio book) is one of the best resources I have for walking through these times from a state of grace. I was in such a deep spiritual place when I spent a week recording this audio book. I don’t remember a recording I ever did that went this deep or far or embraced so much of the energy of unconditional love!
Llyn Roberts and I wrote such a beautiful book titled Walking Through Darkness, and then I recorded on my own “Polishing the Path of the Soul. Don’t be afraid to explore the maps I shared with you for walking through dark times. For those are the times we are in. With my book and audio you are provided a clear roadmap of how to keep walking forward, exploring the amazing territory of darkness and the healing it holds, and then how to emerge on a new path feeling empowered by your journey through the times we are living in and what you experienced in your past.
I am still consistently posting inspiration posts on my Authors Page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SandraIngerman and @ingermansandra on Instagram. I have been doing this for a year now and all the posts are still up. Reading and pondering what I am sharing is very inspiring. I hope you will check in.
And don’t forget to visit our Shamans are Gardeners of Energy Facebook page to post inspirational stories and images and also to be uplifted by what our community is sharing. To join the Facebook group Shamans Are Gardeners of Energy, go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/991720834662313. The password is “Transfiguration”. “
I love going to Shamans are Gardeners of Energy to rest from life and take in so much of the beauty that people post. It is my sacred space for getting away from the conditioned world.
It is important to me to know that I created these FB pages to give inspiration. Yes, I do promote as I do have new books, audios, and courses to share about. But my reason for posting now is to help lift us all up in these challenging times. I don’t care how many people sign up for my FB pages. I am simply trying to keep our community inspired and moving forward with our work- those who want some inspiration.
Sylvia Edwards has generously compiled a list of the ceremonies that have been shared so far on the Shamans Are Gardeners of Energy website. Below is a link to that page.
Thank you, Sylvia, for gifting us with this list:
https://www.sandraingerman.com/shamans-are-gardeners-of-energy/
Renee Baribeau love recording our podcast The Shamans Cave. We are doing audio only. For more information, please visit ShamansTV.com. We are having a wonderful time sharing!!
I have some really great Evergreen courses to learn more about shamanic work. Here are some of my courses with links where you can buy a course that was once live but is now a recording you can watch in your own time.
Here are some courses I have available:
Shift Network Courses:
Cultivate Spiritual Immunity with Shamanic Medicine of the Earth: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/csiSI/ingerman/
The Ancient Practice of Shamanic Journeying (Evergreen): https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/apsjSI/ingerman/
The Dark Night of the Soul as a Portal to the Shaman’s Light: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/dnsSI/ingerman/
Shamanic Practices for Spiritual Immunity: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/spSI/ingerman/ This is actually my course Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Spiritual Light
Shamanic Journeying with the Spirits of Nature: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/snSI/ingerman/
Shamanic Journeying for Guidance and Healing part 2: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/sjcSI/ingerman/ This an audio only
Sounds True courses:
Through Sounds True I taught an in-person Medicine for the Earth and Healing with Spiritual Light Training that was recorded and is still for sale: https://www.soundstrue.com/products/healing-with-spiritual-light-online-course
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