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Animals and birds have been visiting me for a couple years now. Many in my dreams and much more in person. They always have a message for me. I have heard it said that your lifelong Animal totem can be an obvious thing. It has not been for me. When they come it is usually in droves. For days, weeks or months at a time they come. They come within 6 ft. of me and visit sometimes up to 3 hrs. They even allow me to take photos. Bear, Eagle,Owl,Flicker.You name it. Dreams include being dropped by Redtail Hawk as he carries me in his talons. I am Rattlesnake dropped from his talons to the dirt beside another. I must convince this rattlesnake I am one or be bitten. I passed the test. I have been slammed into a pack of wolves by a Native Spirit man and made to fight and defeat a shadow wolf. I did. Redtail hawk has taken me out of dreams when the fear is great. I know I can call on him.White Bear has come in my dreams. These are just a few. I can’t figure out who is my totem. There must be one but All stand out. I study and honor all that come. I accept the medicine they offer but still have to wonder who my Totem actually is.

Jim B.

Your vortex article mentions a vortex on Salt Spring Island – is it by any chance at the top of Mt Maxwell? My friends and I were up there – totally alone – and we each had some wonderful experiences. Mine was a vision of natives in full costume in a circle.

Jan M.

Hello Jan,

Regarding your visions, while on Mt Maxwell..most people that go to the lookouts on Mt. Maxell are aware of the change in energy at these sites. However I have never had them verified as locations of actual vortexes. This does not mean to say that the are not.
Your visions sound wonderful and fascinating. Occasionally, when we project the right energy;  we will draw people in the spirit realm to us, in visual form. This is called mediumship and if you are a natural sensitive, you might consider receiving training, as it is a wonderful gift. I hope that you continue to explore this fascinating subject, it can bring much pleasure to you, as you develop your gift.

Regards,

Wave Walker

Thank you for sharing your experience about how the great brown bear gives you bravery. I have had lots of losses in the last couple of years and I am very spiritual but can’t see the path ahead of me. I was told that someone would be riding on a big brown bear this spring to help me. What form of symbolism do you think this may come as and do you have any thoughts on how I can have excitement about an unknown future.

Rhonda S.

Rhonda

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield.   Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is. You are open to life. Resistance is an inner contraction, a hardening of the shell of the ego. You are closed. Whatever action you take in a state of resistance (which we could also call negativity), will create more outer resistance, and the universe will not be on your side, life will not be helpful. If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.

When you yield internally, when you surrender, a new dimension of consciousness opens up. If action is possible or necessary, your action will be aligned with and supported by the creative intelligence that you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful and cooperative. Coincidences happen in your favour. If no action is possible, you rest with the peace and inner contentment that comes with surrender. The inner joy that you feel is far more gratifying than the excitement to which you refer.

Regards

Wave Walker

I started to take a keen interest in spiritualism 16 years ago. I read every book I could find and took several courses. After taking these courses which were from very qualified people, during a period of three years, I just could not make the connection and was ready to give up.

Then I met a person who was giving a trance demonstration on healing. The spirit that was talking through this person told me how I could go out and heal. Ever since that time I have been able to heal people under any conditions and in any place.

The type of healing I do is referred to as spiritual healing. I work with those in spirit to channel energy to those being healed.

To help explain this, consider the ignition system of a car. There is the battery which leads to the distributor which has electrical wires that lead to the spark plugs. The spirit energy is the battery and I am the electrical wires or the conduit that connects to the spark plug.

I do healing on people, animals, and plants.  Basically I work on anything that needs healing.

Rather than use my own energy which can be very depleting I channel energy from the source. Not necessarily a divine source, but from an alternate source.

Alternative healing uses a channel and most often there is one person in spirit that works through them. I have several spirit workers, and I never know which person in spirit is going to work through me at any given time.

This type of work allows me to do distant healing for people around the world. One example of such healing was for a woman in Idaho who had brain cancer and was given less then a week to live.  Working with another healer we did spiritual healing for about 30 minutes.

We felt ourselves traveling all the way to Idaho and we could even see the hospital and the woman in her bed. We had never met this woman in person.

About a month or so later, I received a call from the woman.  After the fact, she was told about our healing, and decided to contact me with the good news. The day after the healing, they had done a brain scan and there was no more cancer. This is a wonderful feeling knowing that through spirit you have helped someone.

There are many ways to conduct healing. Just to name a few there are trance state, magnetic healing, distant or absent healing, crystal healing, native healing using smudging, drumming and a healing wand to pass energy, and of course prayer.

The principles of alternative healing are basically the same throughout the world and with all peoples. The one common thread throughout the various cultures is that they all know the power of healing comes from the creator.

James Henry Spencer

Wave Walker

Greetings Wavewalker, thanx very much for your reply to my question. I’d very much like to partake in the ceremony you speak of, to allow one of my power animals to make visual contact with me. Please let me know when you’re available to perform this ceremony.

Michael S.

Hello Michael,

I have no immediate plans to do a power animal ceremony. However, Dorothy Jeanne Engst suggests the opportunity for one during the retreat this summer in July. This does sound like a possibility. You can find information about the retreat on the True Blue Spirit website.

The Wave Walker

I have been a successful poet in the past. lately it seems my poetry is all not only rejected but somehow erased. I wonder if this is a sign to stop writing or just a sort of fallow time in my writing life.

Tanya K.

True  poetry is 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration. Relax and request direction from those in the realm of spirit that you were in touch with when your writing was at its’ best.
Ask that only the highest and the best qualified be your mentors.
Then, relax and pay attention as you tune in to the infinite poetry of the universe. Strive not to solve the great mysteries, just accept the fact that you play your role accordingly. With both dignity and humility. Always set a time that is convenient for you to spend with your mentors in spirit.
Then allow your soul to fly with the angels, unshackled by human critics.

The Wave Walker

Hello,  I have been reading many books on spirit and healing because as I am told something got into my system and the end result was damage to my myelin in the thorasic area, leaving it thin in two places. I know that myelin is capable of healing/ repairing itself. And, I have not had any more problems such as I did when this first happened. I now have to use a wheelchair because the message does not get to my legs because of the thin myelin. I know that I am capable of healing myself, I just know it to be true. I have found it is not wise to read too many books on the subject because of the different views and opinons and techniques. I have done my homework as to say, forgiveness, no anger, or bitterness and do have the love of my husband and children. I meditate, placing my focus on healing my myelin, but I wanted to ask f or your wisdom on healing and give me your direction. I would love to hear what you have to say to me. One night I was praying so hard , asking God to heal me so I could walk again, a voice spoke in my right ear and said, “you will walk again”. I opened my eyes excepting to see someone in our bedroom. That was nearly 6 years ago and I wonder if there is something about me, my thoughts that gets in the way.

Thank you,

Shirley

Shirley, I am very limited in knowledge of medical procedure, however I do work with those healers in the spirit realm.

As I read your letter, what is communicated to me, is that you are being offered an opportunity to develop your spiritual self, to extraordinary high levels, or not. The choice is yours.

If we choose to use the pain and suffering that we are given, in a positive way,  it is the most powerful gift at our disposal to be of service and benefit to others.  By uniting our suffering, in union with the like of Christs’ suffering on the cross, you can direct the powerful healing energy to whomever and wherever you wish.

By utilizing this new power, at your disposal, wisely, you will be of profound benefit to others, and in so doing you will facilitate your own healing.

The Wave Walker

Hello James, Firstly thanks for having a forum to be able to ask questions. To make a rather long story shorter I’ll condense this as much as I can. I have a strong desire to have dowsing (in all it’s applications, water, healing, locating etc.) as a vocation even part time. What I can’t understand is why I have no desire to learn or even the incentive to practice. I did it a few years ago and it seems I have something, talent? I don’t know what to call it. A strong ?? You’ll have to forgive me I know it sounds muddled. I find it extremely fascinating and I can’t think of anything I’d rather do but it feels like the only thing that will light a fire is literally sitting on the wood stove! I’ve been very tired for quite awhile now and I want to rejoin the world again. I don’t know if it will help but on the off chance one of my totems is Wood Duck Any suggestions?

Thanks kindly,

Sheila

Hi Sheila,

I don’t feel qualified to deal with your interesting comments about dousing  etc  etc.   I do hope that you find answers to lifes riddles,  I too am a seeker of  truth and reality…  We should always strive to complete any undertaking that we begin.

Yours truly,

Wave Walker

Michael S. asked,

Dear James,

I enjoy your articles very much. especially your last one on the bear. I connect with my power animals regularly in dream-time and waking in the wild. I’m interested in learning the practices of west coast aboriginal shamanism. however, it’s obviously not called shamanism by the coastal tribes. so asking this at a band office leads to confusion. what is your suggestion on how i can find a teacher to teach me the ways of the west coast tribal people?

thanx very much!

Due to the fact that our coast native culture, has been totally devastated over the last  two hundred years, and also that shamanistic secrets are closely guarded and passed by word of mouth, they have been mostly lost. The volumes of written information that I am aware of is misinformation to mislead a transgressor, consequetnly the limited authentic information that I have comes from one properly trained individual who learned in the old way from his grandmother. I have learned also from ancestors and ancients, on the other side of the veil.
I do a ceremony that can permit your power animal to make visual contact with you, this can be done in a group or individually.
Yours truly
The Wavewalker

Andree D. asked,

So many of us are lost today, trying to find our way back to the Creator to make love, peace and harmony real on Earth. We need the wisdom of the Elders, more than ever now, to help us purify and ‘remember’ ourselves as One Great Big Family. How can we get the First Nations people to trust us the ones who remember the Creator too. What about the ones who don’t? Who will help them? How can we come together now to help heal each other? I feel shy to approach my First Nations brothers and sisters, but we all share the same karma now, in one way or another. We all need forgiveness and healing and we need to be able to give it to others, in return. I would like to purify myself, but is this something I can do on my own, without guidance? How can I help others to do the same, if I don’t know what I’m doing?

Thank you. Many Blessings

Ask the universe for direction, regarding your own path and spiritual development. Then be aware, watch and listen for answers, often they come so softly, like a breeze in the trees, or the tide on the shore. So unless we are tuned in to the delicate music, we do not hear the lyrics or understand the message. Always remember that you are a very special individual, learn from others, but walk your own path.
The Wavewalker