Life and everything in it takes resources.
This isn't a Shamanic revelation, just a universal truth.
In the old days people would bring the Shamans food, firewood or help the Shaman performing needed tasks for themselves or other people as they were taught Shamanic lessons or received services from the Shaman. Sometimes we still do the exchanges for services but most of the time these days people give us legal tender with pictures of dead people and pro government inscriptions printed on it. We use this tender to buy food, pay rent, phone, utilities, plane tickets, fuel.....and so on.
I have offered energy exchanges to airline companies and other businesses but they all seem to prefer cash or credit card.
I am always expressing gratitude for being blessed with the type of people whom I call my core group.
These are people who put their Shamanism and serving Nature and Earth community first in their life. They are the epitome of givers. They have worked their everyday jobs and then worked to help me organize and prepare various events, use their own money to buy things to help people through hard times, pay for travel to help people who could not pay for services....the list goes on. Some people on this path become exhausted and simply need to quit the Shamanic life and go back full time into the mainstream fulltime job lifestyle just to survive. This is a sad thing for me to see because these are the people who have servitude as a priority instead of monetary gain. These are the ethical people who need to quit the Shamanic life to survive as the unethical people prosper and do harm in their alleged spiritual practices.
Would you like to see more ethical, properly trained people in the Shamanic services?
Would you like to see the public benefit from balanced training programs applied by people who have proven themselves in the Shamanic platforms?
There is an easy solution for these situations.
People who have donated know our standards of ethical performance.
We show where every penny goes towards our work.
I maintain the same standards of training under which I trained.
People don't become Shamans because they pass the training, they become Shamans because they survive the training.
We strive for effortless perfection and we are always "on call" and work to be prepared to be mobilized at a moments notice. However, as mentally and physically prepared as we may be, we still need the resources to get to the places where we are needed and to the things we need to do.
The people I work with are not the type to travel to a place and only pass out holy scriptures to suffering people.
We are the type of people whose hands fit shovels and any other tools used to build shelters, gardens, fences, irrigation systems, field hospitals and whatever else is needed.
Help us help others.
We strive to be living examples of positive change and we need funding to do this as a full time occupation.
We understand that for political, religious and social reasons some people cannot have it known that they donate to a spiritual cause other that what is acceptable within their circles.so we maintain a strict code of privacy for our donors and we gracefully accept the methods of donations that work best for them.
I often find myself in a strange position where I cannot disclose a donor to a person who cannot have it known they reached out to me and my people for help.
The perfect examples of someone in the shadows helping someone in the shadows.
No donation is too small. Every act of giving can have a positive effect.
I will share a short story.
In 2016 I was staying a lot in Budapest Hungary. Every morning I would go to a bakery and get some pastries, fresh bread and whatever and outside there would be "homeless" or whatever people sitting in front of the bakery and asking for money. My attention went to the dirtiest and seemingly drunkest guy there and I gave him some pocket change. He said something in Hungarian and I didn't understand so I nodded and left. I started to do daily practice of speaking Hungarian to him. My Hungarian wasn't improving as much as his awareness but I was happy to see the change. I had to juggle visa times and bounce through countries and when I returned to Budapest I didn't see him for a few weeks. When I did I saw him in clean clothes, shaven and through a translator he told me that by me giving him spare change, my time and willingness to learn his language, he thought of himself in a more positive way. I haven't seen him since then but I have a good feeling when I think of him.
Thank you for reading my story and you can help to create more of them.
Shaman Hawk
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