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Date published: November 5, 2005 |
My Story in Metis Shamanism
by Charles Lightwalker
 I always liked the name my parents gave me. Charles Lightwalker had such beautiful ring to it! And then as I grew older, people call me Charlie or chuck, which I did not like. Charles Lightwalker "Shaman" is my Spirit name.
I was about seven years old or so, and I was at a campground in the woods near Grass Valley, California. I was alone in a beautiful meadow, traipsing down the path to the little pond. I felt wonderful. I remember there was a "breeze" that moved everything -except the wind or the trees.
It was a movement of delicious warm energy that rushed through and around me. I knew immediately this was the Great Spirit. There was no doubt. It was the essence of Love, the essence of Home, the essence of Peace and Understanding and Grace. It was God! It was Source! I stopped still in my tracks, and I remember putting my arms out like I'd seen some people do at gatherings, in a receptive open gesture. I remember feeling the warmth of this "breeze" without wind around me, moving my hands through the air, feeling God/Source/Great Spirit. I remember the wide smile on my face. I was ecstatic.
I heard Great Spirit say my name. He said my name - Charles Lightwalker "Shaman". I asked Great Spirit if there was something I should know, something He came to tell me. " Come from the Heart in all You Do." The message came directly into my mind along with another big gust of "wind." And I knew Great Spirit was giving me the direction for everything. I knew that all I had to do was Come From my Heart, and everything would be terrific.
After that message, I felt the completion of the experience and I felt the wind slip away, but always to live within me. I knew I never had to feel alone after that. Great Spirit was, and would be, with me and in me. Always. Since then I have followed my heart in all that I do. My heart has lead me to many wonderful shamans and medicine woman, who have all taught from the heart in the medicine work they passed on to me.
I didn't really give another thought to my name, until the day Serena and I conceived our daughter Mayah (a crystal child). Actually, it was the MOMENT we conceived Mayah. In the midst of my magical moment of rapture, I heard a beautiful voice whisper "Charles Lightwalker Shaman." By this time, I was really awakening psychically, and I was getting visions more and more often. And they were always "true." They always held an important message or truth within them, not necessarily telling the future or something linear like that. But my visions brought messages and wisdom. But by this time, I had come to the realization that my visions were real Visions, and not just daydreams or such. Anyway, in this pivotal Vision, Great Spirit called me Charles Lightwalker "Shaman" again. He/she brought be back to that day in the meadow, and showed me that this was MY name, and that I am a "Shaman".
Charles Lightwalker is a Metis shaman, author, medical intuitive, and healer. For more information about Charles, visit his web site: www.thefamilyoflight.com
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