On this BHNN Visitor Podcast, prepare for some religious nourishment from John Lockley as he guides us in therapeutic our hungry ghosts. After, he has a dialogue with Jackie Dobrinska on devotion, ancestors, and different viewers questions.
John Lockley is a world speaker, trainer, and healer. He runs shamanic retreats and makes use of the strategies of prayer, dream work and connection to nature to assist folks join with their very own ancestors and religious traditions. He is without doubt one of the first white males, in latest historical past, to turn out to be a totally initiated sangoma within the Xhosa lineage of South Africa. Discover out extra about John’s work by studying about his Mentoring, Zoom Classes, In-Particular person Divinations, Plant Therapeutic and Month-to-month Webinars.
Jackie Dobrinska is a beloved holistic well being educator, clever girl pracitioner, yoga therapist, minister and creator. Jackie has mentored with a number of the world’s preeminent lecturers, students and visionaries in mind-body well being, weaving collectively knowledge traditions from all over the world. She teaches regionally at universities, hospitals, studios, companies, and nationwide conferences and competition, passing on the instruments that empower people in their very own well being and transformation. Along with her her wellness packages in wellness, yoga, herbs, wholesome consuming and ladies’s well being, she is the founding director of the Higher Asheville Yoga Affiliation and core workers for SE Sensible Girls. Be taught extra at: A Easy Vibrant Life
Beccoming an Apprentice
Jackie Dobrinska invitations us into the digital neighborhood and introduces us to John Lockley. We mirror on our interconnectedness as John tells us his story of changing into a standard shaman in South Africa. He had an sickness when he was youthful which is a signifier in South African tradition of somebody known as to turn out to be a shaman. He skilled psychic consciousness and prophetic desires whereas he was very sick. After spending a while overseas in zen coaching throughout the apartheid, he discovered a Xhosa trainer. John grew to become her apprentice and commenced his shamanic coaching.
“My bodily physique was getting weaker and weaker, and but my psychic physique and my religious physique was getting stronger.”– John Lockley
Take a look at Ep. 25 of Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck for extra on shamanism: Awakening Your Interior Shaman w/ Marcela Lobos.
The Sickness of the Fashionable World (13:50)
The idea of Hungry Ghosts originated in Buddhism to explain souls trapped within the bardos. A bardo is a spot between demise and the subsequent reincarnation. These ghosts have an countless starvation that may not be crammed. Buddhist monks usually supply their scraps to hungry ghosts in order that sometime they could satiate their appetites and at last transfer on to the subsequent life. John Lockley applies this idea in a broader, trendy sense to the best way that hungry ghost vitality can have an effect on us and the atmosphere:
“This hungry ghost vitality is nearly just like the sickness of the fashionable world – the place you’re always consuming info, meals, gadgets of clothes, expertise, and at all times pondering of what’s the subsequent replace. So there’s this voracious starvation to be crammed inside.” – John Lockley
Therapeutic Our Hungry Ghosts (22:55)
John Lockley offers us religious instruction on tips on how to start therapeutic our hungry ghosts. He says that we should change the dangerous and insatiable with one thing good and light-bringing. He offers the instance of Ram Dass being so sick and sure to a wheelchair, however nonetheless using his vitality to provide again to the world. Ram Dass was changing the sickness of his physique with prayer and devotion. John performs us his drum together with a therapeutic prayer for us all.
“That is what I’m providing to all of us. To turn out to be conscious of the craving within us, after which to exchange it with some form of religious observe. After which that in itself goes to make an enormous distinction on the world. As a result of I consider within the precept of the drop of water, every one among us listening proper now generally is a drop of water within the human race. It solely takes one drop of water to show a glass of water right into a therapeutic elixir.” – John Lockley
To study extra about ghosts, try Ram Dass’ Right here and Now: The Path of the Coronary heart.
The Observe of Dreaming (47:45)
There are various kinds of desires, however the desires that wake us up, humble us, and join us with life, are vital. If in case you have a dream that shakes your world, contemplate writing it down and meditating on it. Via desires, we might even see a glimpse into the world of the nice dreamer, the world of the gods. Typically, we could even get to fulfill religious lecturers by our desires and obtain messages that we will flip into motion. We merely have to concentrate after which acknowledge the place motion is required.
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