Transmutation News May 2010
By Sandra Ingerman

One of the core teachings of the Medicine for the Earth work is that everything manifests in the spiritual before manifesting in the physical.

About 5 years ago I wrote that the fabric of reality is breaking down. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes are creating an unweaving of the fabric of life. Organizational structures are falling apart and there is a great deal of disillusionment in government and religious organizations.

We are continuing to experience major earth changes as with the recent earthquakes in different parts of the world and the eruption of the volcano in Iceland.

True shamans work on the creating new fabric of realities and continue to work on the web of life. Looking at patterns of disharmony they use art, song, dance, and dreaming to change the frequency of the patterns of the entire web.

With the work we have been doing together we are changing the collective fabric which requires changing our thoughts and daydreams as we work to create a new fabric of reality in the invisible realms which will manifest into the physical world to replace all that is unraveling. In this way we build an invisible world of substance that manifests as a new physical reality.

There are many of us who only want to look at making external changes. There are of course actions we can take to change what is happening on the planet. With some actions and healing work it is like going around and just treating symptoms without looking at the deeper level of the challenge and the illness.

When we use our thoughts, words, and daydreams to build an invisible world of substance we go to the core of reweaving a new fabric reality.

If there are not people who are willing to be the dreamers than what will our future be? And as the necessary and evolutionary breakdowns keep occurring what is the vision for the future? There must be a collective holding a new vision.

It is essential for those of us who are called to dream and reweave a new fabric of reality to keep working on building an invisible world of substance. And I wrote about the creation methods I use in both Medicine for the Earth and in my new book How to Thrive in Changing Times.

I do believe that it is important to take some time to reflect on the invisible world of substance you have been building.

In a journey I got an interesting exercise to try. I have tried this exercise before and it has been very revealing to me.

When I wrote "Medicine for the Earth" I included some of Neville's work about the power of working with our imagination in the chapter on creation and manifestation.

Neville speaks about the importance of seeing ourselves as the writer, actor/actress/ director/ producer of our lives.

The exercise I was given was to take one day and really be observant to everyone you engage with in this day. Reflect on how every person who comes into your life this day was written into this day's "script" by you.

Observe and think about what each person is reflecting back to you.
What parts of your invisible world of substance manifested for you?

With the significant relationships in your life - family, friends,
loved ones - how did you "script" them into your life story? What dream and intention did you manifest in your life? What parts of your subconscious beliefs and lessons are they mirroring?

It really takes the principle of we are dreaming our lives into being into a day to day reality.


This topic of how we build an invisible world of substance as well as looking at yourself as the writer and the dreamer of your life is very interesting and can also trigger some reactions.

For some people can feel as if they are being blamed for creating challenging situations in their lives. Guilt is not a healthy emotion and guilt only creates more challenges.

We need to replace the belief in blame, guilt, and shame. If we can understand that there are a variety of beliefs we picked up from the collective that we write into our life script. And working through these beliefs is part of our adventure in life. There are so many teachings we get through the challenges. Growth and evolution come through the letting go of old beliefs and moving into new birth.

When you really take some time to go within and examine what inner states of consciousness and beliefs are being reflected in your outer world then real change can happen. Life is simply a mirror. All that the mirror is showing is aspects of your inner self. And the more you are willing to move into a process of self examination the more you will find the mirror showing you your divine nature.


I really want to encourage you to continue to look at the core beliefs and attitudes that live in your subconscious as you continue to do your dreaming work. For as I have written many times we create what we believe.

We carry within us sabotaging beliefs that we picked up at a preverbal age. These beliefs tend to defeat our efforts to create a new life. Beliefs like we do not deserve good things or that we do not have the ability to create change are not useful to us as we continue our dreaming work.

Think about a garden. The seeds that are planted that grow and have deep roots end up blossoming into very strong plants. The roots of our dreams must have deep roots in order to grow into the world we want to live in. If our sabotaging beliefs have stronger and deeper roots than the roots of our dreams our garden will be filled with plants that hold the belief of defeat.

We must continue to examine our inner garden and work with the old plants that have been seeded with defeat and replace them with plants filled with new dreams.

For those of you who have a copy of How to Thrive in Changing Times I did write a chapter on identifying and releasing our old sabotaging beliefs and attitudes that no longer serve our inner garden.

Remember everything that exists grows from within. A plant or tree grows from a seed that is planted in the earth. A baby grows in the womb. Life just doesn’t appear on the earth. It is essential to continue to work in your inner garden and inner landscape to really examine the seeds that have been planted and that have taken root. For those are the seeds that will grow into the most vibrant and strongest plants.


The full moon is May 27. Let’s continue to transfigure and radiate love into the web of light. Let’s hold the vision and keep our focus on building a new invisible world of substance that reflects the world we wish to live in.

Let’s continue to project light and divine perfection into our global community as I suggested to all of you in the April Transmutation News.

For those of you new to this page please read Creating A Human Web of Light on this site for instructions on our monthly full moon ceremony for the planet and for each other in our global community.

“Three Tools of the Shaman”
by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman


~ Gratitude ~


The first shamanic tool in your toolbox is gratitude, an attitude and an orientation designed to open the heart. Gratitude is a high-level amplitude that is designed to open portals, windows, and doorways into the spirit world.


Shamanically speaking, in everyday reality (what a shaman considers a consensus dream), Spirit is not apparent to the naked eye. In fact this ordinary world of stone, flesh, and fiber is often quite depressing because it involves frustration, pain, and frightening circumstances and events. The pleasures are more often than not offset by the everyday survival and the constant mind chatter that is enough to drive even the most stable person crazy.

Yet a shaman knows that just behind the movie set that makes up the world, Spirit lies camouflaged, bursting with light and freedom, waiting to be recognized and resourced. Spirit has cleverly arranged portals in strategic places that if opened, lead directly past the everyday outer world into the power of the inner reality where all answers lie and where all problems are revealed to be the illusions that they are.


These portals are literally everywhere, but there are primary ones that are so close to us that they are practically impossible to miss. The one most accessible is the heart, which lies smack in the middle of your chest just below your chin, and it is so accessible that you can easily reach your heart with your hands. When you speak it vibrates, and when you breathe it is massaged all around. It is hard to comprehend how you would miss it, yet we do ignore it every day unless we should have the misfortune of a heart attack.


Shamans “see” through their hearts. Shamanic tribes like the Maori of New Zealand believe that the physical world we experience is actually a projection coming from each individual heart. The Mayans and the Q’ero tribe in the Peruvian Andes have their own versions of this basic understanding. Their shamans know that self-importance, created by the ego, is dedicated to keeping the powerful heart portal closed off enough to prevent Spirit from shining through.


The ego accomplishes this by shutting down the heart to the point where the portal remains closed to the spirit world. The portals pop open only when a certain amplitude is reached, so keeping it below a certain level prevents opening. What keeps amplitude low are all the familiar maladies: fear, hostility, self-importance, depression, self-doubt, cynicism, and frustration. Because of these, most people’s hearts are shut down most of the time, which feels bad in the chest and cuts off the main avenue of escape from pain and suffering — an open heart.


Gratitude counters these ploys by the parasitical false personality and raises the amplitude high enough to begin the heart-opening process.



~ Seeing ~


The second great shamanic tool in your toolbox is seeing. For a shaman, “to see” is to cut through the veils of ignorance, the false appearance of the world, in order to see clearly into the true nature of Spirit as it manifests through all of reality. In other traditions, it is known as forgiveness or compassion. Seeing is the post powerful method of releasing blame, guilt, and shame.


Seeing ends the war within us just as it resolves conflicts with externals and paves the way for our cooperation and extension. The false personality tries to convince you that forgiving or having compassion is a weakness, that you are setting yourself up to be taken advantage of again. It also tries to get you to believe that you and the others have no value and therefore deserve ill treatment or self-loathing. Seeing makes these terrible perceptions impossible. Seeing the truth provides relief from the terrible stress or guilt, and this results in shifting our energy in a way that allows us to open the heart and other portals to the world of spirit.


When shamans speak of “seeing,” they are actually talking about clearing away the projections and distorted thoughts of the conscious mind onto the world at large and all its forms.


Shamans and visionaries know that these projections are blinding and the source of endless misunderstandings and assumptions based on fear of the unknown.


Seeing means that we are perceiving the truth, and therefore there is no room for hostility, blame, fear, or set decrees. How does this take place? When we really see in the shamanic or visionary way, we know that we are Spirit and that we have simply become confused and are lost in appearances for awhile. The false personality is only a delusional construct created by the egoic self; in dealing with the world, it tends to create lies in which we and others take refuge.


Shamans say that when people learn to see they are able to access almost limitless power because they realize they are intimately connected to the vast web of life. For the shaman, seeing into the true nature of reality and the self is a great power; it is a required skill for self-realization and ultimately enlightenment.



~ Blessing ~


Now we come to the third great power tool in that shamanic toolbox that everyone has from birth — the ability to bless.


In general, people do not know their function as human beings, and it never occurs to them that their job is actually to bless the world. Many people have been taught to bless their food; they consider a blessing to be a few words mumbled over a meal that lacks heart and meaning. This is hardly what shamans mean by blessing.


Blessing is the act of recognizing that Spirit is coming through what we are witnessing or experiencing. It is recognizing and acknowledging the grand flow of Beingness that is present as what we eat or what we see as the landscape, through our bodies, through each moment of now and gives it indescribable vitality and life force. Yet the physical plane appears to most as a camouflage universe where Spirit does not appear to exist.


Shamanically speaking, many of us respond to the physical world by assuming a deep hypnosis, a deep sleep where we no longer recognize that Spirit is present. Not only do we go to sleep, but large parts of the world may temporarily go to sleep as well. So it is our job to wake up and to awaken all that is around us. This act of waking up could be called “blessing the world.”


Many of us have been taught to believe that only people who have gone to seminary or special training programs to become ministers, rabbis, priests, imams, or shamans have the right to bless. We invite the ordained individuals to come before us and bless ceremonies, fields, businesses, projects, meetings, and banquets, and we bow our heads while they talk to Spirit for us.


This is not a bad practice, but it is extraordinarily limiting. Many of those we invite to do the blessing for us are the most asleep of all, revealing that no one can do the work of blessing for us. Each human comes with that capacity, with that ability, and with the responsibility to bless.


So what happens when we bless, and how do we go about blessing in an effective way?


To bless means that you become conscious that you are alive and that Spirit is flowing through you. This realization allows you to see that Spirit is flowing all around and that what is coming through you is coming through everything and that it is all the same. When you see or feel this you merely say something like, “I am Spirit. Let us awake. Let us awake Spirit in everything I see.”


While saying this you can look around and bless with your hands and arms outstretched, waking everything up to the incredible power of Spirit that flows through everything with great passion and peace. In response, everything receives a boost, everything celebrates, everything is grateful, and everything forgives its slumber. There are few practices as powerful as this awakening. If you want to add a little something else to your blessing, you may bestow upon everything that you are experiencing or witnessing the gift of well-being from the bottom of your heart.


You might say, “I give you great happiness and love. May all who come here or pass this way be blessed with joy, abundance, and wellness.” What you give is what you get, so make sure you give the best you can imagine.


Blessing is incomprehensibly powerful and is perhaps the greatest tool of all because it is the pathway back to Spirit. Yet it is hard to bless if you have no gratitude and you have not seen the need to forgive. These three tools work together as a powerhouse trio. They are all important characteristics of the physical universe: Truth, Love, and Energy — or Yachay, Munay, and Llankay, the three Andean shamanic principles of living. Each tool works with all three components. Gratitude recognizes truth, transmits love, and enhances energy. Seeing tells the truth, radiates love, and release phenomenal energy.


Always remember that you have shamanic tools resting in your toolbox. They require deliberate use to become effective. These three tools, when used regularly, are all that is needed to become liberated and self-realized and to gain mastery over life. Why wait?



~ Exercise: For Blessing ~


First thing in the morning, go outside and practice blessing the sky, the Earth, the trees, or whatever elements are most visible. Then go on to bless your family, your colleagues, your students, your teachers, and all of their communities as well. Bless all their relations and on and on until everything and everyone has been included. Bless Spirit and don’t forget to bless yourself. Now experience how you feel. Do you feel more expansive, more powerful, more happy, more on the right path? This is the true shamanic way — and the way of the visionary

Awesome Solane!

Thanks GemLover


Transmutation News July 2010

When you commit to a spiritual path and stay focused on your work you begin to feel a sense of inner peace and inner joy. For that is the true nature of the spirit that resides within. The divine only experiences love and joy.

For many of us we feel pulled when we start to experience an inner state of well being while there is so much suffering on the planet. Do we have a right to feel good when so many challenges are occurring around us?

When we look at how humans have been treating the planet the behavior is similar to an addict. On many levels we have been destroying the earth, air, and water which give us life. And we have been doing that, as we have become addicted to trying to manipulate the material world instead of living in harmony with our environment and from a place of cooperation and collaboration.

If you have ever been around an addict – whether someone turned to drugs, alcohol, gambling, food, etc. there is a place where one has to hit bottom before treatment is sought after. As friends and loved ones we cannot force or save another who is dealing with an addiction.

And that is what we are experiencing with much of the collective right now. We have been addicted to an unbalanced and disharmonious way of life. We do not know how far the collective has to go before a new way of life is desired.

In the meantime for those of us who got the message and are waking up to a new consciousness, we continue to become master gardeners of the earth. We continue our spiritual work and we make changes where we can so that we treat the earth and all of life from a place of honor and respect.

We can journey and/ or meditate to communicate with the life forms that are being impacted by the unconscious behavior of humans. You might be drawn to work with the life that is being impacted by the Gulf Oil Spill. The earth including the sand, the air that fumes from the oil is swirling through, the water, the animals, the plant life, etc. are all beings that you can communicate with. You can say you are sorry for what has been done and commit to them to work in a way that creates a state of health and balance for all of life. Share that you are engaged in dreaming a new dream for all of life. And you can also work in this same way in other areas of the world that are impacted by unconscious human behavior.


Back in the early 1970’s I had a near death experience where I drowned while swimming in the ocean. As I was swimming there were huge waves that kept coming that continued to pull me under. I tried to come up for air but with each wave coming I never made it to the surface to take a breath. At first I was tossed around in the turbulence. And being in such turbulence created a state of panic for me. And then after awhile I found myself moving toward a great light and entering into a non-ordinary garden where I experienced true unconditional love and peace. And in this place I heard beautiful unearthly music – the music of God. life, love, and joy.

Many of us right now are being tossed around in the turbulence of chaotic and highly charged emotions. And we must remember that as we stay true to our spiritual path we will reach the light and love of the spirit world.

We must make a choice to stay true to our path and realize that we do not have to go to the depths of the collective that has not received the wake up call. For to go down with that part of the collective does not serve yourself, the rest of life, and the earth. There are many life forms that are sacrificing themselves so that the collective wakes up. If you have received the wake up call don’t dishonor the sacrifice that is being made.

Answer the call of spirit and say yes to living a full life. Appreciate the preciousness of life. Experience the joys of life. Feed the light of the earth that is shining brightly from joy. Don’t keep feeding the energy of despair. Of course we want to feel compassion. Make a choice to ride a wave that reflects a shift in consciousness that all can rise too.

I am not suggesting that you deny all the emotions that are coming up for you. If you don’t express the depth of your emotions they will boil over in an unhealthy fashion. Just remember to express and then transform the energy behind your emotions to an energy of love and light that radiates within and throughout the earth.

And do your personal work. For if you are projecting anger and blame onto others then you must look at your own inner state that needs to be healed. For we all have aspects within that are being played out in the outer world. We are the exploited and we are also the exploiters. So go within and look at what states of consciousness within need to be acknowledged and transformed.

You might take a look at my book How to Heal Toxic Thoughts and review some of the work we should all be doing right now if we say we wish to be a positive force in the world.

And at the same time continue to experience the light, joy, awe, wonder, and the preciousness of life. For this energy of appreciation for what we do have is such a healing force for all of life right now. Feed the light and joy of the earth.

The times we live in call us to explore our spiritual mastery and spiritual capabilities. The call is for us “to be” more than “to do”. We cannot go deeper within to accomplish this unless we slow down and find quiet times. We must slow down and reestablish a harmonious and balanced relationship with ourselves before we can accomplish this with the outer world.

And we must remember that we are not alone in our commitment to working for the planet. In the last couple of years I have not been traveling and teaching as much. I am doing a lot of writing. But I have trained such wonderful and inspired practitioners and teachers.

I have described my process as being part of a relay race. For so many years I taught between 30 –40 workshops a year. And now I need to pass the staff while I attempt to slow down and go within to dream and vision what changes I need to make in my teaching that will bring me to a deeper state of service to answer the call of the coming times.

We often forget how to take care of ourselves. We keep going, going, going. We can get caught up in our list of what we should be doing. If you have a long life ahead of you it is not possible to stay healthy physically, emotionally, or even spiritually if you are not taking time to go within, spend time in nature, regenerate, and reflect. As a friend of mine says, we must drink from the river of life. There are others in the global community who will be passionate about the work while you pass the staff and take some time to rest.

This is one of the lessons of the seasons. There are seasons in our lives and we must honor the change in seasons if we are to live in harmony with the river of life.

Are you taking time to slow down and take in the beauty of what life has to offer? If you are only lost in the stress of what is happening around you then you will certainly burn out. For we really don’t know how events will continue to transpire in our life time. We forget that we are here on the planet for such a short amount of time.

It is okay to disconnect from the news. It is okay to have fun. It is okay to slow down and take some time for yourself.

You cannot feed the light of the earth if you are burned out.

Over the years I have had the opportunity to be with people of all ages who were facing death. Every person shared how essential it is to reprioritize what is truly important. The “shoulds” are not as important as experiencing the joys of life.

Let’s get this message while we are alive! Let’s together celebrate life and life will reflect that joy back to us. This is not a selfish act. It is a healing for all of life.


The full moon is July 25. Let us continue our celebration of life by weaving together a beautiful glittering web of life within and throughout the earth.

For those of you new to the Transmutation News please take a look at Creating A Human Web of Light on this site ( http://www.sandraingerman.com/creatingaweboflight.html ) to read about the monthly ceremonies we do together.

Let us continue to radiate light into our global community and project positive qualities into our circle as I wrote about in the April Transmutation News. ( http://www.sandraingerman.com/tnapril2010.html )

For many these are challenging times when there are so many initiation experiences requiring a death of old ways of living so that a new consciousness may be born. It is so important for all of us to spiritually support each other as we keep up the spiritual work that helps to dream a new healthy world into being.

I ask that on the full moon you find some time to go outside and connect with the heartbeat of the earth. And then experience your heartbeat connecting with the heartbeat of our global community. Let us breathe love as one into our circle and throughout the planet. Let us feel the support of the collective who is committed to focus on the spiritual practices that have great power of healing and transformation.

Thank you Solane,

Your words are brilliant.

Namaste