A few words on Black Shamanism
Black Shamanism may seem threatening and frightening from the outside, but once you understand the principle behind it, things become much clearer.
Black Shamanism is a direction within old-school shamanic traditions. It is not black magic, although it can be used to practice black magic, just as it can also be used to break it. It depends on the person and how they choose to use it. A knife can be used to hurt someone, or simply to cut a piece of bread.
Traditional Black Shamanism works with the archaic principle that the frightening drives away the threatening. This principle can also be found in the Perchten runs in the Alps, where winter spirits were traditionally driven away through frightening masks. In a way, this could be described as a form of landscape exorcism. The same principle can be found in the Bön tradition, in Tibetan masked dances, and also in the classical Siberian shamanic traditions.
All of this is based on a completely different worldview from the Christian, or Abrahamic worldview in general. In shamanic cosmology, there is no separation between Heaven and Hell, or between good and evil in an absolute sense. There are always many nuances in between, and many different laws and principles come into play.
There is therefore no battle of Light against Darkness, where one day, after an apocalypse, the Light triumphs and a new Golden Age begins, as taught by the Abrahamic religions. Animism and the traditional shamanic path is not an apocalyptic end-times cult, and certainly not New Age, forever waiting for the Golden Age to arrive.
All the work starts within!
Light and Darkness, the Upper and Lower Worlds, are two sides of the same coin. Both sides are needed. Both have their purpose and their role — just as there is day, there is also night. Even dark spirits and spirits of illness have their purpose. It is often through them that we grow. This is why traditional shamanism also expresses gratitude toward them, just as it does toward the spirits of the Upper World.
In practical work, Black Shamans make particular use of the archaic principle mentioned above. The aim is to confront harmful dark spirits, patterns, fears, etc. that are perceived as spirits, to transform them, or, when necessary, to drive them away.
Black Shamans therefore interact primarily with spirits of the Lower World but must have strong connection to upperworld and middle world as well. They deal with the resolution of deeply rooted patterns, ancestral programs, the breaking of curses, work with the dead, and much more.
