Shamans Discuss Free Will Importance for Global Peace
A group of shaman practitioners joined together last Wednesday
to talk about free will choice. They discussed their belief that
everything was created to have free will choice, not just people
as it says in the Bible, but every tree and animal and plant and
stone. And everything created respects the free will choice of
every other thing as they will not violate this gift, this right
we were given to choose for ourselves, except man. Man is the
only being either physical or non physical who will deliberately
violate the free will choice of another. And in the Bible we see
that even the snake who tempted Eve could not go against her
free will. It could only try to influence her choice. She had to
make the free will choice to eat the apple in that story.
Some of the students in attendance were asking, well how can I
let my children have free will choice, they would run rampant
into the night causing havoc! And the shamans reminded them that
we can give our children choices. We can let them choose of
their own free will between this choice and that choice. We can
set two or three choices out for them and explain the
consequences of each of those choices and let them have the
right to their free will. Shaman Elder Maggie related how she
had taught her children. "I started this with my daughter when
she was 18 months and it did not take her long to start making
good choices and consider her options carefully. Today she is a
Director of Human Resources because she always knew how to
consider options and how to make good choices."
Respecting the free will of everything around you may sound
ridiculous. To respect the free will of a plant to be picked or
not? To respect the free will of a stone be thrown or not? To
ask the grass before you mow it for permission to do so? Yet, if
you were a plant you would want to be asked for your permission
to take a leaf, or if you were a stone you would like to be
asked before you were thrown. Why do we not respect the free
will of everything around us as the shamans do? They have seen
the free will of everything as a gift from Creator since time
immemorial.
If we think about it from the shamanic perspective, we walked
away from Eden when we violated the gift of free will choice.
When we choose to impose our power over another without their
permission we are enslaving them. When we invade anything's
right to make a choice we are creating a kind of dictatorial
relationship. If you can imagine a world where every person
respected the free will right to choose of every other person,
how different would this world look?
These shamans are not saying that every person should agree with
everyone's choices. Our choices are as individual as we are and
it is seldom that two people make the same choices but they are
saying that we need to respect a person's right to make a
choice. This is the world as Creator established it; A world of
freedom and respect and kindness and consideration and
cooperation. Many people feel that this utopia is lost to us
forever and just a dream that can never happen in our lifetimes.
But the shaman knows that we can get back to this Divine plan.
This beautiful world as Creator meant it to be can become real
right here and right now as each human chooses it. The shamans
teach that it starts with each one of us deciding that free will
is the Divine right of everything. First, you realize that you
have free will and learn to use it wisely. Next, you recognize
that everything else is entitled to make free will decisions
too, even a child, and you give others choices to make. Then,
you come together with others to recognize the Divine will of
Creator and honor that free will as well. Finally you choose
whether you accept the Divine Will for you or not, and if you
do, then peace, prosperity, gentleness, health and power are
yours. It is always your choice to choose what Creator wants to
give you, or instead, only what you can get on your own. We can
get back to what this world was intended to be. It is simply
through respecting the right of everything to make a free will
choice. This conference was held through the internet and hosted
by www.shamanelder.com for more information.