Meet Your Teacher Archetype

Also known as spirit guide or ally, this is one of the four archetypes discussed in Angeles Arriens' The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary.

While you only have one Power Animal, you can have several Teachers. Whereas your Power Animal is usually with you your entire life, Teachers can come and go as you learn whatever lesson it is that they have come to teach. Spirit Guides can include Power Animals, other animal guides, Teachers, your own Higher self, and Angels. Teachers and Angels are similar. Your Power Animal can be helpful for identifying your Teacher but is not necessary.

In this journey, based on ancient shamanic technique, you will return to your Power Place and ask to meet one of your Teachers. Teachers are usually encountered in humanoid form—i.e., they will appear to you as human in form. When you meet a potential Teacher, you can ask him or her if he or she is your teacher. Use your intuition and feelings as your guide. If you do not feel comfortable with the spirit, send it away. If your Power Animal is with you, ask him or her to “check out” the entity.

After you have met one of your Teachers, ask him or her if he/she has a message for you today. Sometimes this message can be pretty important, and it demonstrates one of the usages of Teachers—to acquire insight, information, and/or knowledge.

Teachers are called “guides” because they give you insights and information. You still make the choices in your life and are 100% responsible for those choices (karma). Teachers do not tell you what to do, use “should’s” or “ought’s, try to force or coerce you, etc.

Currently available only as audio cassette tape along with Meet Your Power Animal: (about 38 minutes)

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Shamanic journeying is a form of trance or altered-state of consciousness. Although such trance-states are usually beneficial, on a very rare occasion it is possible that unresolved psychological issues can come up as one connects with their unconscious in these trance-states. These experiences can sometimes be intensely emotional and physically stressful. Again, this is rare. Participants should NOT do shamanic journeying if you have a history of serious mental illness or psychopathology that is still active. You should NOT attempt shamanic journeying if you have a medical condition that would preclude your participation, like high blood pressure or heart disease. Although we have made great effort to avoid these problems in the way we have presented these materials, you should only proceed with the journey exercises if you accept the full responsibility for your experiences. By attempting to journey from our audiotapes, you are agreeing to assume all risks, damage or injury that might occur, and you hereby, for yourself, your heirs, your executors and administrators, release and discharge LifeQuest Press and Mustang Medicine Works, LLC, from all claims, causes of action, future or present, known or unknown, anticipated or unanticipated, which result from, or arise out of, or are incident to your following the guidelines and exercises in this audio.

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