Beyond Fear and Doubt

Beyond Fear and Doubt

There is a growing disconnect in Australia’s collective understanding of the unconscious and our intimate connection with the natural psychic environment. In the West, structured routines have often led to a diminished recognition of shamanic traditions. Yet, throughout history, all spiritual cultures have emerged from a foundational awareness of the more-than-human psychic environment.

Psychic reverence, healing, and intuition are not subjects many of us caught up in the daily push and pull of modern society take the time to seriously consider. Yet, as human beings, we are all born as psychic creations. A little time spent cultivating our connection with the natural environment can be a key element in manifesting spiritual desires.

Healthy babies are born with their psychic senses intact and functional. To some degree, we all rely on these innate abilities in the struggle for survival during the first seven years of life. Legends and myths abound with stories of psychic perception, and almost everyone has at least one personal experience with intuition that defies logical explanation.

In most industrialized nations, mainstream schools of thought regard psychic sensory perception as an extra ability, separate from the core needs of human development. As a result, these senses are often left untrained and underdeveloped. However, this is not the case in shamanic cultures around the world. These traditions hold the psychic connection with the more-than-human environment in the highest regard. More than simply retaining the natural newborn awareness, shamanic cultures have evolved through teachings that integrate the psychic, spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of human experience into a holistic vision—one grounded in the living, breathing world around us.

"The purpose of human life, in shamanic consciousness, is to be a natural part of all there is."

When psychic damage and separation occur—often due to a lack of spiritual recognition—the disconnect widens. Psychic healing then becomes essential and cannot be ignored. Respected metaphysical research indicates that the mystical traditions of shamanic cultures worldwide share profound commonalities in wisdom, practice, and understanding.

We need only open our hearts and minds to discover this common ground and advance the process of healing—both personally and collectively.

The sense of self that emerges when we immerse ourselves in the ecological reality of being offers a tangible framework of relatedness to the natural world. This framework is not something to be merely understood—it must be experienced to grasp its true power.

Shamanic researcher Carl Jung explored this concept of interconnectedness through his theory of synchronicity. "Jung used the word 'synchronicity' to characterize the significance of the simultaneity of events that could not be causally linked" (Shamdasani, 2010). Science teaches that everything relates through cause and effect, and we find many examples of this in daily life. However, Jung’s concept of synchronicity suggests that even seemingly random events are interwoven with deeper meaning.

For example, you think fondly of a loved one, and at that exact moment, your phone rings. You answer—surprised, perhaps—to hear their voice on the other end. Coincidence? Or a moment of purposeful synchronicity?

Shamanic consciousness removes fear and doubt about the unseen and allows us to experience the wholeness of what it means to be completely alive in a more-than-human spiritual universe.

With reverence and spirit – Honoring the path of the Australian shamanic way.

Stay Well & Peace To All

Darren John Maxwell BAppSocSc(Coaching)

Beyond Fear & Doubt