Wiccan shamanism
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Wiccan Shamanism is the following of Shamanism, sticking to the fundamental principles of witchcraft. Wiccan Shamans follow the Witch's code of "An It Harm None Do What Ye Will" as a fundamental and un-shakeable code of conduct.
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Similarities between the crafts
Drawing elements from Witchcraft's communication with passed love ones and the dead, and also from shamanism's raw etheric traditionalism and herbal elements including:
Frantic trances, starvation, solitary confinement to the wilderness, nakedness in rituals (optional although used by many where appropriate) Automatic Speech, Alteration of breathing patterns, and other methods by which one may extend their spiritual reaches, such as Voodoo practicioning.
The craft follows Mother, Maiden, and Crone, And Greenman, as Wicca does. Although, they are seen more symbolically, save Greenman, or the Horned God/Horned One, who is seen as a literal forest or earth sprite.
The Divine Mother is the carer and tender to her children, the people in her world and care.
Differences between the crafts
Wiccan Shamanism ignored the teachings of Gerald Gardner, And is reserved for people to find their own oracles or divine teachers (Drawing from the Hindi gods, Spiritual teachers and leaders) Anything that may better the karma of the applicant.
Spirits
Through Shamanism and darker rituals, they believe that they can contact both spirits malicous and positive, such as family members, and more sinister spirits.
The types of Spirits are Divided to Three Classes. 1. Wanderers, who haunt, and wonder freely, causing no harm except being noticed by the wary 2. Specters, who are bound to the earth by an addiction, and seek it recklessly 3. Poltergeists, malicious spirits who wish to harm us, the population of the earth realm.
Afterlife
Followers of the craft believe that when we pass on or leave our shell, we are incarnated into the aether for an unlimited amount of time, in ecstasy, and joy, visiting the earth realm on Samahains.
They follow the teaching of re-incarnation, and see it literally that we are summoned to another human form, or animal for visiting the earth world, and metaphorically, that we are incarnated into the soil and earth.