Modern studies in psychology say that only 10% of the influences come from the individual’s background and upbringing, whereas 90% comes from our relationships to others, to nature and to God. Therefore when working with emotions, we eventually come to the big picture of interconnectedness. This connection is through energy and soul information.

Energy and Soul Psychology is a detailed method working through emotions and energy to unwind and release what are in contradiction to the true “I”. This allows the self to achieve more and more coherency, and gradually build greater strength towards the true “I”. It provides the specific steps to overcome obstacles and challenges along our path.

Shamanic teaching connects with the soul to come into the true “I”.  It provides a comprehensive picture of life through reincarnation, while keeping a clear direction and a beacon toward the emptiness, where all rise from and all is possible. This provides the strength, hope and ultimate faith in overcoming any obstacles and hindrances.

Energy and Soul Psychology practitioner Claire grew up in China and comes from a background of familial, cultural, societal lineages that came through a tumultuous and traumatic time. Learning from many teachers and practices, she has developed this detailed method to overcome challenges, integrating the physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual realms. As an emotional release method using energy and information in the body, Claire reads images to reveal blind spots in individuals and groups, and pinpoint what holding patterns may be consuming and restricting vital life force. Then she guides the practice to untangle, re-awaken, release and rejuvenate, so that cathartic change may take place, and students may be ready for the next level of wellness, freedom and vitality.

Mongolian Shaman and healer Jerigtu was born into a family, cultural and societal lineage that sustained the spiritual connection to the soul. He is among the few talented shamans who can empty their mind instantaneously, while keeping their hearts wide open, and thereby become the empty vessel for spiritual wisdom.  Throughout our teaching and practice, Jerigtu holds the big picture and the direction that we want to continue to focus on while moving forward.

When one knows what to look for, this “golden thread of truth” that is “secretly holding the fabric of our world together” may be revealed throughout history (—Adyashanti). For example the first Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddhism was recognized by the Mongolian Khan, and “Dalai” is a Mongolian word for ocean. Another example is the ancient Greek philosopher, Pythagoras, originator of the word “philosophy”, who was recognized by a Mongolian shaman as an incarnation of Apollo. Pythagoras “was saying that even though Apollo might appear to be the most Greek of all Greek gods, really he belonged somewhere else in the beyond of the beyond. And he was saying that although he, Pythagoras, might look just like a Greek man in a Greek body his real being had come all the way from Hyperborea.” (—P. Kingsley)

One more example can be seen in Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers and principle writers of the US Constitution. For over a decade, Jefferson was searching for a concrete way to implement religious freedom in the new government until, finally, he was recommended to read the French translation of the original Yuan dynasty biography of Genghis Khan.

“The final key words were close to those first attributed to Genghis Khan’s edict, ‘…That no man shall…suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess…their opinions in matters of religion.’ These words had made their way from Central Asia to the United States, translated from Mongolian into Persian, then Turkish, French, and finally English…perfectly (embodying) the spirit of (Genghis Khan’s) inclusive and expansive quest for God.” “The ideas of Genghis Khan were revolutionary in the thirteenth century, when he lived, and in the eighteenth century, when the founders of America rediscovered him, and they remain so today.” (—J Weatherford)

Just as when the original word “logic” means to prove the existence of God, but over time it became the most important product of the ego-mind, which separates us from that very Oneness. And when the ego-mind starts to create too much conflict, confusion and suffering in the world, great shamans would mysteriously appear in far-flung cultures and civilizations. There they would plant the seeds of the indivisible Oneness that we are, unmasking the illusion of separateness created by the ego-mind.  This subtle filtration and integration process has existed throughout time throughout the world and beyond.

Working with the soul as their ultimate medium, shamans will often work through the intermediate “levels” of energy and the physical body. The soul, however, is a finer distillation of who we are, and on this soul level, all information is always present, with no limits of time or space. 

Shamans work deeply with Earth, as Earth is the record keeper of our soul information, such as karma, birth, death, lessons and illnesses. Taoist teaching, which shares much in common with Shamanism, says humans are governed by the principles of Earth; Earth is governed by the principles of Heaven; Heaven by Tao; and Tao by Nature. For humans to heal and to develop spiritually, we must first and foremost understand Earth and our lives on Earth. It is our womb, our origination; it is where we are rooted, grounded, supported, and where we find our ultimate nurturing system not only physically, but also energetically and emotionally. Throughout time shamans have been our best teachers of human being’s relationship with the Earth.

Practicing one of the most ancient teachings with the simplest and most direct message, shamans may take us back to our true nature, return us to our soul’s true path on earth, and help us answer the great fundamental questions: “Who am I?”, “Where do I come from?”, “Where do I go?”, and “What is the true meaning of life?”

Shamanic teaching is not through knowledge or text that is contained within organizational structures, but rather it is learned through the visceral senses and through a direct spiritual connection. The teaching is beyond this three-dimensional world, and which therefore cannot be understood by a mind that is limited by the concept of time.

In shamanic teaching and practice, we begin to feel in our body in each moment the sense that our inner world and outer world are not separate, but harmonious and holistically connected. We come into a stream of living life in the present that does not separate the sacred from mundane. Every aspect of life is one with the spirit. The practice exists in all of our thoughts, beliefs, words, deeds and relations. Ultimately, we live a oneness, vibrating at the same frequency on the soul and spirit level, the energetic and emotional level, and the physical and mental level, sustaining balance and harmony on our journey on Earth.

 

Our fate and destiny are determined by the information that got carried on from past lives. For example if we haven’t forgiven our spouse when we die, next life we face the same karma and attract the same kind of relationship. Everything we encounter, everybody we have relationship with are determined by our karma, contained in the web of information. When we envy someone else getting great opportunities, it’s also in their karmic connections. There is no such thing as good or bad luck or accident. It simply is. When we hold a blockage such as jealousy deeply and long enough, it will manifest on the energy and then physical level, such as dementia.

The intrinsic teaching of Buddhism is to release, to let go. What we are letting go of is our karma. Once we fully see it, know it, accept it, then we can resolve it and fully let go. We no longer carry it.

Our life is like an energy wave, we experience and we release, again and again. Sometimes we believe we create new things, but there are no such thing. We are simply experiencing it for the first time, and this experience is pre-determined. But if we don’t experience it, we cannot release it.

We believe that there is meaning in life, for example to creating, to making material wealth, to striving for fame. After repeating the wave enough, we may finally realize, there is no meaning to this. It is a repetitive process of experience and release, and to stop the repetition is to completely let go.

We can also imagine ourselves being the bed of soil to many seeds. When we keep revisiting a thought, we are allowing that seed to become bigger and stronger. If we allow the seed of anger to become bigger and bigger, it could result in killing. We all have that potential. All the seeds are within all of us. Suppression or avoidance do not resolve the seed but keeping it as a ticking time bomb. Our practice is about how to see the seed, accept and release it when it’s small, resolve it, and not keep on giving it energy.

Recommended Readings:
“A Story Waiting to Pierce You—Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World”—Peter Kingsley
“Genghis Khan and the Quest for God—How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave us Religious Freedom”—Jack Weatherford
“The Secret History”—Urging Onon

Healing aims to fully acknowledge the blockages, deeply seen, accept and release the hurt, return to relaxation and ease of the innate being, and restore unimpeded flow to a soul’s natural progression. Healing is a process of integration on all levels.

Emotion is energy carrying information. In emotional realm, anything in contradiction to our true nature, to our natural development, can cause inner contortions and holdups. Pent-up emotions, like blocked energy, cause pain and illness. As a strong expression of energy, emotions can be the powerful catalyst for change and a continual guideline for healing. When emotions are fully released and our heart wide open, our life force is flowing with ease at its greatest capacity, and can expel anything that does not belong to the true self. Miraculous healing happens.

Energy and emotion are the yin and yang aspects of the same, working together in our healing and self development process. The more emotional releases, the more relaxed we can become, the more space is available for energy flow and accumulation. The more energy accumulated, the easier is to let go of our busy mind, activate our emotional flow, and usher out emotional stagnancies from the system. Energy is necessary to support the cleansing, stabilize the change and upgrade the functioning in our overall system.

Through spiritual teachings, we initially get to know on a conceptual level, that our soul is the true self, and has access to all of our life information. But because getting to know our soul requires coming into the finest energy realm; coming into the energy realm requires coming into the inner senses of our body; and coming into the inner senses and knowing of our body requires letting go of our ego mind, it may be a step by step continuing practice to connect with our soul, and to sustain this connection.

Meanwhile our ego mind may believe that it runs our life and can control our body. The ego mind holds the learned concepts received from others. It understands and organizes this extensive information through separation, isolation, classification and compartmentalization. It comes to the understanding of the world in a conceptual way, with segregated pieces of information.

The ego mind turns experiences into concepts for the purpose of communication. But based on one’s known realm of existence, communication can be misunderstood and construed. Whereas communicating through our inner senses and extraordinary senses, we understand viscerally through our whole being, and by connecting to the web of information.

Choices made by the mind may be many, and the process complex. Choice made by the heart is based in the now, and is simple and direct, because one can tap into the flow of connectivity in an instant. This is why brilliant art, scientific inventions, physical feats beyond previous limits, avant-garde thinking and spiritual teachings arise from moments of mindlessness, through intuition. (One example is Carl Jung’s paintings of shamanic worlds: “The Art of C. G. Jung”)

Healthy development of the self is from the core out. When we try to know ourselves from outside in, contradictions occur. When a soul is recognized and accepted for its uniqueness, one’s true nature is welcomed into this world. Then we learn connection to others through the heart, and we learn discernment through the mind. In this way the heart and mind are serving the soul. But when we have disconnected from the soul level, what is the heart connecting to? And what is the mind serving its judgment for?

There is a saying, technology with heart can serve humanity, without it can destroy humanity.

A mind understanding of compassion without heart connection may be “what I think others need.” When the understanding initiates from the heart, we feel how others are feeling, and experience empathy.

The ego mind operates in our three dimensional world, with separation of time and space. Our language serves in the three dimensional world. We practice to let our awareness come into the body and tap into our inner senses, then we begin to access the energy realm and the soul realm. Our awareness enters into higher dimensions of greater perspective of life, of integration and connectivity, and eventually returning to Oneness.

This is why realized teachers say, it may take a disincarnate soul eons to realize enlightenment, whereas being incarnated in a body, it is possible for us to realize enlightenment in one life time.

How to come into our body and into our heart? The practice activates our inner senses, we listen and feel our bodily sensations, our inner voice, gut instinct, develop our inner seeing and inner knowing. The increase and refinement of our energy and awareness is like a light that comes on from within.

This is the practice, as it must be experienced in the being. Mind understanding can construe, mislead and therefore even be harmful. The mind wants to get things fast. But it takes the body’s process to truly know and be. This practice is to become fully embodied as our true being.

Through the practice, we also come to feel in our body that the ultimate stability is resilient flexibility: flexibility gained from releasing constrictions; resilience gained from energy rushing back in to re-engage life.

Healing is a de-fragmentation and re-integration process of our whole being. Nature’s wisdom resides within our body in the moment of now. When what is not “I” is seen and released, the “I” grows stronger, returning to its true nature of being. As this happens, there is less and less clutching and grasping, and more spaciousness and flow. The more of “I” is seen and accepted, the more our heart will be able to empathize with a greater expanse of humanity and life on earth. Until eventually the container becomes so expansive that the boundaries of “I” is no longer clutched onto. “I” ceases the need to be separate. And the “I” return to the One.

On this path, our energy and emotion flows easier and becomes calmer as there are less and less blockages and holdings. Our vibration becomes finer and more coherent, filling into the finest grains of space. Our awareness becomes finer and stiller, our inner light brighter. Our heart gains capacity for empathy and compassion. Our soul expands in perspective and wisdom. When our awareness becomes so fine that it transcends dimensions, we return to the Oneness, the emptiness where all originates.

A complete healing would transform our soul information. We are releasing karma from many lifetimes and generations, and transforming family lineages and cultural karma. It may take a life time or life times. But once we begin, the power of change is within our own hands, within our own body, and within our soul’s record. When healing gains momentum, current and future generations change. Past is changed, too. Indeed all is one and connected.

True self is finding one’s own truth from within, aligning with our soul purpose. This truth lies in the finest grain of reality, in the subtlest vibration. When awareness distills to the finest vibration, truth reveals, our soul awakens. Universal truth is the ultimate state of all beings true to themselves.

Life is a process of releasing. Each release is a practice. And we become a greater vessel, a clearer vessel of the true meaning of life. Until we release to empty, to release back into One.

The pathway of release is through energy and emotions. The vessel of release is our physical body. The true meaning of life is from our soul. The emptiness is our God-soul, containing all universal wisdom.

At our Shamanic Retreat Center, we are honored to accompany you on the journey to your Self and to Oneness.

I followed the path to seemingly the end of the world, a place of my childhood yearning, to the vast Mongolian steppes. There I met someone who showed me his Shangri-La—heaven on earth, that was his childhood homeland. Over the next decade, as if immersed by the lightest air, in the most unnoticeable, unobtrusive and ever-present ways, I have been experiencing how harmony within oneself, with each other, and with our environment is indeed possible; how kindness, compassion and empathy can be a way of life, a way of being; how pureness and genuineness can remain throughout changes in time and circumstances. Like others who have gotten to know this culture over decades of close interactions, we are deeply touched and humbled again and again, and our reverence for life expands.

In the years, Jerigtu has gradually showed me, and I have little by little experienced, this most ancient nomadic culture as one of the most in tune with nature, and in tune with the reverence within us for all. The Mongolian word for nature is translated as “existence, being”. As humans we must learn to exist with the existence, and be with the being, and not go against what is, go against our own nature and nature itself.

It is a culture in tune with nature’s first medicine—music. And this has become my personal expression of my truth, coming into the finest vibrations for healing.
It is a culture embedded in our primal life force, which manifests in our creativity, vitality, grounding trust and perseverance.
It is a culture in tune with the divine feminine, Mother Earth energy and all her receptive, nurturing, all encompassing qualities.
It is a culture in tune with the heart, about understanding and relating to all living beings through the direct heart felt sense, beyond words and knowledge.
It is a culture in tune with one’s own divine self, each one of us directly connected to Earth and Heaven, Shamanism being one of the earliest to acknowledge each individual’s connection to the divine.
It’s a culture in tune with the grand perspective of our soul’s journey, so one would not get lost in obstacles in the physical realm.
It is a culture in tune with a trust so firm that words are unnecessary. They know that no constrictions or obstructions can bind us forever, in the physical, energetic, emotional or soul realms. The deepest faith enables miracles.

It is a culture where the enlightened is lived out in everyday life, living beyond the duality of sacred versus mundane. What may be considered miraculous healing is simply part of a way of life here. Spiritual wisdom is sprinkled in daily deeds and words.
Life is a process of moment by moment embodying the enlightenment experience.

I came here to learn and to viscerally experience, to love and to immerse with the qualities of Mother Earth, to take care of all living things big and minute, to balance a consistent stability amongst differences and changes, and to come into a genuine peace within.

It is a process of integrating my open heart with my firm and steady gut root;
A process of integrating my soul’s purpose and wisdom into my heart and body;
And a process of living out my soul purpose in embodiment on Earth.

Life and vitality are always powerful enough to expel the dead and contorted energy, in our body, in our relations and in social environments, in due time, through the cycle of process.

I am on a path of integration. Would you like to join me and experience?