Continuation of Their Own Shamans
Mastery, for me, in its highest form, is enlightenment. In Buddhism, enlightenment is called Nirvana. But enlightenment can take place anywhere, in any religion. It has no denomination for me.
In around 2006, my husband opened a martial arts school and I participated. As I learned about martial arts (and began experiencing forms of physical combat through my husband), I saw a connection between my studies in the rainforest, my studies of religion and mysticism, and martial arts practice. I saw the body moving, and that movement as meditation. I saw the body communicating symbolically, using forms even with designations that meant something between master and student. My husband studied Kung Fu, and the master martial artist studies the student in class, gets to know his or her personality, body type, view points, and challenges. With this information, he gives them their own animal form, something that enables them to greater understand themselves, their own fighting style and master themselves. Their animal form is a source of power.
In shamanism, the same things happens. You receive spirit helpers in animal form, and often the animal means something to you. It represents who you are, your personality, your strengths and weaknesses, it is a mirror into you and you use it for power. Religions have prophets, saints, gods, and characters in scripture and stories. I related very much to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-gita (The Divine Song), for example, and I used him and his relationship with Krishna, to understand myself and who I was. As I read the text, and I absorbed the imagery and meaning of the words, I received the power of his purpose, and what he wanted in his life, of his confusion, of his fears, of his desire to be fully who he was. His character gave me insight and power.
The shaman’s story in the Amazon, did the same thing. I heard this man’s story, I heard his description of what it was like to train with the spirits and how his reality was altered, and I connected to his images. They helped me bring out realities and truths inside myself, that I had not been able to face before. He changed my life permanently, and even prepared me for experiences that would come later.
Images can teach us mastery. They can teach us self-mastery. They can teach us every level of mastery. And images can guide us to enlightenment, the highest form of mastery. I am not selling the Self-Creation Process, because I don’t care. I really am not interested in doing it for money or for a living. I just know, Self-Creation can lead to the highest form of mastery, and that is how I use it in my own life. It is also how we apply it with our company and our work with our clients. We want our clients to be masters of themselves and their own domains, their own professional lives, and we set up their marketing and media creation process to allow for this.
Groundwork Promotions is focused on all the normal things marketing and media companies do, like expanding your network, improving search engine optimization, refining your branding and messaging, increasing revenues, and getting your name recognized in the public domain. We want your professional success. But our work is also guided by the desire for mastery. We don’t just want more success and revenues, we want to be masters of what we do.
