the ancesteral realm

and speaking of getting high: in LA i met a cool ass poet named molly who will be connecting me with her mother who is a shaman living in maui...been wanting to experiement with soul retrieval techniques for a while and a shaman i know who lives in seattle was telling me that it is possible to access the ancestral realm in shamanic soul retrieval ritual and heal folk who haven't been able to complete the death transition.

you know how black people have a saying that goes something like, if you die poorly you don't stay in the grave? well, i heard a very wise woman speak a few years back about how hundreds of thousands of african's have died in states of trauma and extreme anxiety over the last 500 or so years that our psychic/spiritual realm is packed with these zombie like spirits who haven't been able to fully transition to the ancestral realm. and since there has been no mass healing or transitional or even acknowledgement ritual to guide them over to the other side, basically they are stuck in a kind of purgatory between worlds. we are haunted by spirits who aren't able to do whatever regenerative work ancestors do in the ancestral realm.

this makes sense to me. char sundust (the shaman in seattle) told me that it is possible to access this in between world and heal the traumatized spirits that live there. or at least access and teach enough of them to be healers so that they can do the work themselves. i'd like to know if this is true. so i'll be experimenting soon....more later...cbell