Vision, Intuition & Shamanic Guidance: Living Miracles

“Living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding onto a vision invokes the circumstances by which the vision is achieved. Vision is the content; material circumstances are mere form.” —  Marianne Williamson

I’ve spent the entire week receiving emails from participants from my last Shamanic Breathwork Journey through the Chakras workshop on Saturday. People have been sending me details about the visions they encountered, and I’ve been contemplating how we all share this collective drive to live more purposeful and meaningful lives as soul’s having this collective human experience in these skin suits we call bodies.

When vision and intuition guide you, life becomes a canvas for miracles. In A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson cautions that manifestation emerging from ego is about trying to control outcomes; whereas real miracles come when you become a vessel for the Universe’s expression of love. 

In the sacred act of building a meaningful life, whether building a business, releasing ancestral pain, or birthing a soul’s project, the most successful people lean not on logic alone, but on the whisperings of Spirit. You only have to look at the tech founders, inventors and social leaders who have spoken of “visions” or “inner guidance” that led them to create what seemed impossible at first.

Nike’s brand name came through a dream, as did Larry Page’s inspiration to coding Google. And it’s well known that Steve Jobs frequently drew from his psychedelic experiences and Zen practices to create Apple’s design ethos.

The trick lies in surrender: not trying to control the ‘how’, but offering yourself as a channel.

A client of mine once shared that he made lucrative and astonishing stock trades following messages from his spirit guides. Another client discovered the solution to a confusing engineering problem in an altered state of consciousness. These were not wild leaps, but inspired downloads that yielded an outcome beyond logical control. That kind of guidance isn’t about forcing outcomes, but rather boldly sitting in stillness and receiving.

All of these are examples of stepping out of your own way, and opening up to a force that is way bigger than you could ever be. If you are “manifesting” through control, you resist change and perpetuate scarcity. But when you open yourself up to simply becoming a channel to express love in the way that you were uniquely designed for, the universe will give you all the resources you need to take the right actions.

What does freedom from ancestral patterns have to do with living my vision?

A participant in last week’s workshop shared this aha-energy moment:

“ I’ve never experienced that touch in my solar plexus before. What did you remove? It was my first time vocally releasing from the heart. I felt like I was letting go of 7 generations of pain and trauma. Now, I can go on to love in peace. Thank you—for me and my ancestors.”

Her experience is a vivid example: the wounds we carry are more than our own. We are an amalgamation of all those who came before us. Your ego likes to think you’re an individual, but you’re a cesspool of inherited stories. Our ancestors are literally woven into our DNA. The moments when you feel stuck and unsure of yourself come from the intergenerational streams of weight that you have been holding unconsciously your entire life. Without conscious inner work, you default to actions that are fear-based versus acting from a place of new possibility. How are you meant to create a life that you love if you are full of scarcity and fear imprints from your hidden past?

In the shamanic traditions, you are not meant to heal alone. The very word healing itself implies a connection, a remembrance of how to reinforce community and tribe. And imagine if you could do it all alone, which you can’t by the way, it would be lonely and boring. The path of shamanic healing is the work of collective alchemy. You were designed to connect to others and share your stories, so that you can compost your ancestral heaviness into a living gifts.

The Soul Speaks through Symbols

Here is another share from someone who came to the workshop:

“A voice said, ‘you speak the consciousness of love. That is the greatest gift and the greatest abundance there is.’ When I connected with these four chakras, the chess knight piece appeared, a symbol of strategic courage and grace in action.”

Her experience allowed her to realize that miracles can only happen by embodying the higher frequencies of love.

In Chinese medicine, there are two currents of energy that run through the spine: Ren Mai (top-down channel) and Du Mai (bottom-up channel). I like to think of it as a two-way highway network that gives and receives information very much like an antenna. We are all wired to receive vision from above and are meant to ground these visions into material reality. We also receive what we give out. That’s the Law of Reciprocity 101.

Most people are so disconnected to the types of thoughts, words and actions they are generating, that they often wonder why they are attracting the endless sea of drama into their lives.

When one lacks awareness, everything is dim. From the consumption of toxic food choices, to perpetuating toxic belief systems and drama-ridden relationships. If you consider every negative thought as a seed with the potential to grow; then multiply that by the amount of times you’ve had the thought in a day, you now have quantifiable proof of why your life is the way it is.

Your visions cannot flow when you are shrink-wrapped in a state of contracted anxiety and fear? Anxiety and fear disrupt the natural flow of receptivity. For miracles to truly crystallize, vision must enter into a healthy body mind and heart.

In many indigenous traditions, including the Aboriginal Dreamtime cosmology of Australia: the past and the future are woven into the present. When you’re doing envisioning practices, you’re actually downloading messages from your future self, to heal older versions of your past selves including your ancestors. Essentially, healing work can travel through time.

Neuroscience research on intuitive cognition, precognition show how symbolic downloads may be how consciousness receives guidance outside from outside of linear space and time. Dr. Julia Mossbridge, in The Premonition Code, explores how the brain is not just a projector of reality but also a receiver of future signals.
Her studies suggest precognitive and presentiment effects are not mystical outliers but phenomena to be mapped.

When you listen to the messages of your soul through the language of symbols, life responds magically. If you chalk it all up to disbelief, and live in a world of not trusting in your imagination, then life becomes overly materialistic and lacklustre.

You only have to look at beautiful buildings and pieces of art that touch the soul, and know that these were once blueprints in the consciousness of a soul who bravely listened to and dared to build it.