Hank Wesselman – Navigators of Light (2017)
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Experiential: Explore the garden as bardo and connect with deceased ancestral spirits.
Hank Wesselman – Navigators of Light (2017)
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Explore ancient and traditional shamanic practices to journey to subtle dimensions of light, energy, spirit and creative power.
Access information about your elemental clan, life design and soul contracts, and gain deep insight on how to navigate the path of your current life with greater wisdom and joy.
Have you marveled at the stories of medicine men and women who walk “between the worlds” and access information for healing, guidance and wisdom?
Well, it’s time to take these remarkable beings off the pedestal and recognize that their seemingly magical qualities are also within YOU. We all have these abilities… but they need to be developed.
You have extraordinary capacities for adventures of consciousness that reveal far more about yourself and the world. As you develop these abilities, you can open to exploring the world with shamanic eyes.
That doesn’t mean being naive or blind to hardship and suffering. In fact, you may see life’s challenges with ever-more compassion, and even see THROUGH them to higher truths — that this world is infused with sacredness. Everywhere. Even in the darkest of moments that challenge us.
In fact, some of the worst things that happen in life can actually be part of a higher design — a soul intention to clear residue from other lifetimes, a plan to resolve a particularly challenged relationship, or a hardship to birth an important gift.
With shamanic eyes and access to some of this higher wisdom, you can shift from feeling victimized by life to becoming a creator of your life — consciously owning your participation in each event.
By seeing the larger forces at work — including those from your own soul design, other lifetimes or contracts with your “soul pod” — you can relax into clear alignment with what wants to happen next.
You can also get clearer about who your real allies are and what you have chosen to create together.
Wisdom for the Road Ahead
In the times ahead, tapping into shamanic wisdom will be essential for all us, for it roots us in the earth, in Nature and in the higher dimensions of our consciousness, giving us a calm center and the capacity for clear, steady action in times of crisis. It also gives us specific skills and tools to foster individual and collective healing.
More than anything, it can provide a daily source of sustenance, guidance and wisdom for how to navigate everyday life and be of service in healing our planet.
A shaman is a practical mystic, bridging the heavens with earth, and shamanism is an ancient path of mysticism that is profoundly relevant for the 21st century.
By walking the shamanic path, you become someone who is committed to unifying humanity, healing ancient rifts and restoring wholeness within yourself, in others and with the planet.
The only challenge is that shamanism has often become distorted by people who want to use these lineages for selfish purposes.
And that’s why it is best to study it in-depth with a teacher who can be trusted, one who has spent decades with master guides.
Hank Wesselman is a beloved anthropologist who can be that trusted guide for you — a practitioner who is steeped in the heights and depths of the field, drawing upon lineages from around the world while also exploring the most advanced areas of what he calls “becoming a navigator of light.”
Shamanic Wisdom Is Part of Today’s Spiritual Awakening
Hank has been very influential in the rediscovery of shamanism as a major facet of the spiritual awakening that is taking place today in the Western World.
While modern spiritual traditions each have their wisdom and beauty, ancient shamanic traditions have withstood the tests of millennia.
These shamanic lineages carry essential medicine for the 21st century, a time in which we are now called to form a global community of peace, reharmonizing and shared understanding.
The traditional peoples know that the world presents itself to us in two halves — a world of things seen and a world of things hidden.
The techniques of traditional shamans for expanding our awareness provide inner explorers with an easily learned method for accessing the hidden dimensions of reality behind the world at large and connecting with sources of wisdom and power for healing and problem solving.
In the Navigators of Light 7-month virtual training, you have the opportunity to journey live and in-depth into the heights and depths of shamanism with Hank and a committed global community of spiritual explorers.
The Importance of a Skilled Guide
When you join this groundbreaking 7-month virtual program, you’ll be in the safe tutelage of a professional anthropologist.
Hank Wesselman has worked for more than 45 years with scientists investigating the mystery of human origins in the fossil beds of eastern Africa’s Great Rift Valley and has spent much of his life living with indigenous tribal people.
Hank has spent much of his professional life working with these peoples and learning their culture, cosmology and spiritual practices. For 35 years, he’s studied shamanic practices, melding shamanic principles with his anthropological insights to provide us with unique avenues for exploring the further reaches of human potential.
In the early 1970s, on safari in the eroded surreal fossil beds of southwestern Ethiopia, he began to have spontaneous visions strikingly like those of traditional shamans and he recorded them in his book The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder. He has been an apprentice and teacher of shamanism ever since.
As a result of this deep study, Hank has authored nine books on shamanism, anthropology and personal transformation, including the critically-acclaimed Spiritwalker trilogy, The Bowl of Light and Awakening to the Spirit World with Sandra Ingerman.
Hank will guide you in voyages of consciousness that can result in deep healing of unresolved emotions and profound openings to a more expanded understanding of reality.
These shamanic journeys can connect you with your Oversoul (and the many lifetimes of knowledge that reside there) as well as open you to greater transformation, healing and guidance.
You’ll explore other lifetimes, soul contracts, and realms of light that you traverse before incarnating.
Hank will draw from many indigenous lineages and traditions, particularly from Hawaiian and Polynesian teachings that he has been entrusted with.
And he’ll show you how to put these empowering teachings into practice — expanding your capacity to seek and receive guidance from these higher realms for healing and transformation.
You’ll emerge more joyful, grounded and connected to your Higher Self, with a deeper understanding of how to walk as a bridge between worlds.
During this powerful 7-month virtual program, you’ll:
- Receive an overview of the hidden worlds of spirit and the shamanist as mediator between the worlds
- Develop your skill in navigating the three levels of the dream world: The Lower World, the dreaming of Nature; The Middle World, the dreaming of humans, our everyday world and the Bardos of the afterlife; and the Upper World, the dreaming of the gods
- Explore traditional shamanic ways of connecting with power
- Develop greater mastery of the distinct functions of your three souls: The Spiritual Oversoul, The Physical Body Soul and The Mental Conscious Soul
- Reconnect with your Spirit Helper — a nature spirit that provides you with power, protection and support
- Explore the issue of created thoughtforms (egregores) as gods
- Work with earthbound spirits in the Lower Worlds — the dreaming of Nature
- Develop greater skill in shamanic journeying to meet your Oversoul and travel through with your Spirit Guide, your Oversoul’s teacher and caretaker
- Learn how to connect with one or more healing spirits in your Place of Power to seek guidance and healing
- Understand what it means to be a gatekeeper
- Discover how to open to direct experiential insights about your soul’s experience over multiple lifetimes
- Receive teachings on how to provide an invitation to the healing spirits in relationship with you to heal an ancestor
- Explore the higher organizing intelligences
- Forge a co-creative relationship between the immortal soul and the mortal soul
- Understand the appearance of your soul pod and what it’s function is
- Understand the function of the council of wise elders, who are the ones who debrief us when we return from a life just lived
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Months
Course sessions are on Thursdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
In this 7-month transformational virtual workshop, Hank will guide you through advanced shamanic practices you’ll need to successfully connect with higher realms, including explorations of elemental clans, bardos and spiritual domains.
Each weekly, LIVE teaching and training session will build harmoniously upon the next so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles to deepen your connection with your shamanic practice — a practice through which your life can become an incredibly advanced adventure.
The course sessions will take place weekly with an integration week approximately every fourth week where there will not be a live course session. We are offering these integration weeks throughout the course to provide time and space for you to absorb the richness of the teachings and deepen the practices you’ve learned thus far so you can confidently move forward to build your complete understanding of the advanced shamanic practices Hank will be teaching.
Module 1: The Modern Shaman The Re-emergence of an Ancestral Archetype (3 sessions)
Session 1: Nature Mysticism & Deity Mysticism (February 23) (Live)
It’s always been understood among traditional tribal people that each new generation had the responsibility to perpetuate and refresh a continually recreated tradition, adding to and enhancing the accumulating horde of wisdom and techniques and changing it to align with present needs.
It was in this way that this ancient spiritual path remained vital and meaningful to those who walked it. The Modern Shaman is the adventurer and investigator of the non-ordinary hidden worlds. This exploration includes the Dreaming of Nature and the archetypal mind on the planet at the beginning; the Lower Worlds of the Dreaming of Nature and the realms of light; and the Upper Worlds of Spirit, from which we came into physical life as embodied souls and to which we return at the end of life.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover the shaman/shamanist as a cosmic traveler
- Gain an overview of the hidden worlds of spirit and the shaman’s role as mediator between the worlds
- Explore the functions of the shamanist in traditional societies
- Illuminate the reappearance of the shaman in western society
Experiential: Discover Shamanic Journeywork as an ancient form of meditation into the Dreaming of Nature.
Session 2: Nature Mysticism (March 2) (Live)
Nature Mysticism is where the shamanic path begins, and you’ll visit this path as you begin your investigations of the “Other Worlds.” You’ll visit the Sacred Garden as an icon within the Middle World and explore the Dreaming of Nature at large. And, you’ll discover the Sacred Garden as your personal bardo as well as the existence of bardos as post-mortem dreams into which we travel at the death of the physical body. You’ll also discover the true definition of magic and the shamanist as the true magician.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover the four rules by which the Sacred Garden operates and why it’s so important
- Discover why everything in the Sacred Garden is symbolic
- Understand how everything in the Sacred Garden can be communicated with for guidance and healing
- Experience how everything in the Sacred Garden can be changed
- Recognize that when you change your Sacred Garden, some aspect of yourself or your life will change in response
Experiential: Journey to your Sacred Garden as the personal Place of Power and Healing and reconnection with your Spirit Helper — a nature spirit that provides you with power, protection and support.
Session 3: Levels of Awareness (March 9) (Pre-recorded)
Discover the three levels of awareness through which you operate all the time: your physical everyday consciousness, your mental-emotional consciousness, which also incorporates your psychic awareness, and your spiritual consciousness, which gives you access to the Spirit World, which is also the Dream World. You’ll also discover that psychic awareness and spiritual consciousness are not the same.
In this session, you’ll:
- Illuminate the assumptions that allow us to perceive the world through the three levels of awareness
- Explore the mystic Internet on the second level, through which everything everywhere and everyone is connected
- Expand the perception of the timeless as you turn your awareness beyond the physical plane
- Discover the cause and effect in this system
Experiential: Make connection with the matrix, the energetic web (the net of Indra), through which everything is connected, even different beings on different star systems. You’ll also make connection with a star that is attracting you and explore hybrid souls.
Module 2: The Evolution of Religion (4 sessions)
Session 1: The Evolution of Religion, Part 1
Anthropological Approaches to Religion
(March 23) (Live)
The concept of the Father-God icon was not part of archaic tribal belief. It didn’t appear in human cultures until we developed stratified state level societies. By going into the most ancient roots of shamanism, you’ll better understand this as well as shamanism’s modern expression. You’ll explore the Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri forests of the Congo and discover the Molimo Ceremony, as well as the interpretative lens of religion.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore your belief in the supernatural, the sacred and the profane
- Discover the case of Emile Durkheim
- Explore ideology as a belief system with a powerful emotional appeal
- Discover mythology (creation myths) and the power of symbols as the basic elements of human existence
- Explore Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and the monomyth
Experiential: Connect with your spirit teacher to discover your own creation myth.
Session 2: Animism (March 30) (Live)
Animism is the understanding that each manifested thing has its own personal, supernatural essence or soul. This means that everything everywhere is in-spirited. This week, we’ll turn towards the Universal Planetary Intelligence — Sophia — and the understanding that everything, both animate and inanimate, has its own supernatural essence or soul. You’ll explore your connections with the Sophia.
In this session, you’ll:
- Work with earthbound spirits in the Lower Worlds and the Dreaming of Nature
- Discover the elemental spirits as the archetypal mind of the planet
- Discover Edward Tylor and “The Origin of Primitive Beliefs,” the beginnings of religion and the perception of the soul and the inception of animism
- Gain an indigenous understanding of the nature of the souls of our world
- Discover spirits from the Hawaiian kahuna perspective
Experiential: Connect with the Spirits of Nature of the Lower Worlds for guidance and spiritual evolution.
Session 3: The Evolution of Religion & Animatism 2 (April 6) (Live)
This week, we’ll explore animatism more deeply, as a belief in an underlying field, energy, power or life force, through which everyone and everything is connected, We’ll also explore belief in ancestral spirits among agriculturalists and discover key insights from many animist cultures.
In this session, you’ll discover insights from:
- The Mana of the Polynesians
- The Manitous of the Algonkians
- Historic Christians and Pagan places of power
- The Kalahari bushmen and their relationship with power
- The Tonga Of Zambia and the Zelo — the Misimu
- The ancestors, as well as their position in extended family systems — including yours
Experiential: Connect with an ancestral or past life ancestral spirit.
Session 4: Evolution of Religion 3: Theism — Polytheism & Monotheism (April 13) (Live)
This week you’ll discover the evolution of religious beliefs in response to your perspectives of yourself and society’s. We’ll explore Polytheism, the belief in many gods and goddesses above and beyond nature; Monotheism, seen as a form of Polytheism, with a Father God on top and various rank and file angels and deified prophets and saints below them. You’ll also discover who the angelic forces really are and glimpse the worlds of the faerie folk and the Djinn.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- Guy Swanson and the Birth of the Gods
- Robert Bellah and the stages of religious evolution
- The evolution of the Father God of Judeo-Christian ideology
- The issue of created thoughtforms (egregores ) as gods.
- The issue of negative witchcraft and sorcery with relation to egregores
Experiential: Connect with an egregore — a negative being who may be connected with you as a thoughtform, and with the Oversoul to seek protection.
Module 3: Nature Mysticism An In-depth View (5 sessions)
Session 1: The Shamanist Working With the Elemental Spirits The Foundation of Nature
(April 27) (Live)
In dealing with the force that breathes life and wonder into our world, we connect with the life force from our star streaming downward and the life force from our planet channeled upwards. The place and function of the elementals puts us into relationship with the planetary soul. Connection with the elemental spirits is about connection with archetypal mind… the composite mind of the planet.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- An overview of the elemental clans from the West African perspective
- The Fire Clan people and their special qualities and abilities
- How fire will appear to you in your garden
- What it means to be a gatekeeper
- What it means to be a gatekeeper connected with fire
- The gifts conveyed through the gateway
Experiential: Connect in the garden with the spirit of fire/light and discover how fire appears to you in your garden. Connect with the Fire Clan people — in the positive and in the negative polarity. And discover which spirits work with the element of fire and the element of water as well as their function in healing work.
Session 2: The Elementals Continued
Water Clan People — Their Qualities & Abilities (May 4) (Pre-recorded)
Many people embody water as their primary elemental. This week, we’ll explore what this means as well as who the Water Clan people are.
In this session, you’ll:
- Gain a brief overview of how we embody one of the elementals in our soul essence
- Discover the elemental spirits we embody with relation to our genius
- Find out how water appear to you in your garden
- Discover what it means to be a gatekeeper connected with water
- Explore the gifts conveyed through the gateway
- Discover spirits who work with fire and spirits who work with water and how they work together for healing
- Find out how healers help others work with the symptoms of fibromyalgia
Experiential: Connect in the garden with the Spirit of Water and as a gatekeeper. Connect with the Water Clan People in the positive and negative polarity.
Session 3: The Earth Clan People
Qualities & Abilities Conveyed by This Elemental Force (May 11) (Pre-recorded)
This week, discover how earth will appear to you in your garden. Do you have a healing place in your garden in which or on which to create healing rituals for those who are in need of healing… and what will those healing energies involve?
In this session, you’ll discover:
- What it means to be an Earth Clan person
- How to connect to the gateway of earth
- The gifts conveyed through this gateway
- What relationship Earth Clan people have with healing work
- The primary focus in Earth Clan healing work
Experiential: Connect in the garden with the Spirit of Earth and the Earth Clan people in the positive and in the negative polarity and discover the spirits that work with the element of earth.
Session 4: The Stone Clan People
How Will Stone Appear to You in Your Garden?
(May 18) (Pre-recorded)
This week, you’ll explore how stone may appear to you in your garden through meditation. We’ll also explore the essence of crystals and the qualities and abilities of the Stone Clan, which will deepen your perception of crystals you may have in your own garden as well as how you relate to them and what they can teach you.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- What it means to be a member of the Stone Clan
- How stone appears for you in your garden
- What it means to be connected with the gateway to stone
- The gifts conveyed through this gateway
- The healing work of the Stone Clan
Experiential: Connect in the garden with the Spirit of Stone and the Stone Clan people in the positive and in the negative polarity and discover which spirits work with the element of stone.
Session 5: The Nature Clan (May 25) (Live)
This week, we’ll explore what it means to be a Nature Clan member. Many of us involved in shamanic work embody nature as an elemental force. Nature is a mosaic, which is vegetative, made up of both plants and animals expressing connection as well with all the elementals it comprises.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover the qualities and abilities connected with Nature
- Find out what it means to be a member of the Nature Clan
- Connect with the gateway to Nature
- Discover the gifts conveyed through this gateway
- Discover the healing work of the Nature Clan
Experiential: Connect in the garden with the Spirits of Nature and discover what it means to be a Nature Clan person in the positive and in the negative polarity… and as a gatekeeper. Connect with a nature spirit and the green man/green woman.
Module 4: Navigation of the Realms of Light
Revealing Your Magnificence (6 sessions)
Session 1: The Oversoul
The Immortal Source of the Self in Each Life (June 8) (Pre-recorded)
The Oversoul is the immortal source of the self in each life. This week, you’ll explore your Self. And we’ll explore the Oversoul as our wise spirit teacher, as well as our three souls — the “subconscious” physical body soul, the “conscious” mental egoic soul, and the “superconscious” spiritual oversoul.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover the relationship between the immortal heavenly Oversoul and the embodied physical soul on earth
- Learn the functions of the Oversoul with relation to the physical soul
- Discover the co-creative relationship between the immortal soul and the mortal soul
- Know your spirit teacher as the source of all the knowledge you’ll need in each life
- Discover the spirit teacher never tells us what to do,but provides us with knowledge in response to our need to know
- Discover the spirit teacher as the repository to which we withdraw at life’s end
Experiential: Connect with the spirit teacher on an issue of personal divination.
Session 2: Deity Mysticism
The Shamanist as the Navigator of the Realm of Light (June 15) (Pre-recorded)
When we engage with our Higher Self, we discover a new perspective on God in the new mysteries coming into being. This week, we’ll explore the Oversoul and its relationship with the Spirit Guide as its teacher. And, we’ll meet our spirit guide — the one to whom we are assigned at the beginning of our existence as a soul.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover higher organizing intelligences
- Find out who the guides really are
- Discover the guide as master teacher
- Discover the angelic forces — who they are and who they are not
- Explore the concept of alien intelligences
Experiential: Connect with the Oversoul and the three levels of reality: Nature Mysticism and the Lower, Middle, and Upper worlds. Connect with your two spirit teachers in the garden.
Session 3: The Reincarnational Cycle
The Death Experience & the Transition Into the Middle World of Dream (June 22) (Pre-recorded)
In traditional societies, it was always the function of the shamanist to investigate the realms of experience in which we travel after the death of the physical body. The shaman would scout out the post-mortem territories and report back, preparing those who are dying for what happens next. The soul does not die… so where does it go?
This week, we’ll explore the reincarnational cycle to discover what we experience between lifetimes. We’ll also explore the passage into the light and what and where that light is. And we’ll look at post-mortem dreams, which are the bardo worlds from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective – – the bardo heavens and the bardo hells.
In this session, you’ll:
- View the bardos from the Tibetan perspective
- Discover the bardo in the Brazilian Catholic perspective — Nosso Lar
- Explore the issues of suicides and the abysmal waters
- Discover your garden as your bardo when the big moment comes
- Explore your life in the afterlife in the bardo
Experiential: Explore the garden as bardo and connect with deceased ancestral spirits.
Session 4: The Healing & Regeneration Center in the Bardo Worlds
The In-Between State Between Life & the True Afterlife (July 6) (Live)
As we explore the nature of the after-death experience, we visit various localities, including the place where souls who need restoration are taken. We’ll also observe the place in the Middle World where the monsters are taken to dilute and restore their energy.
In this session, you’ll learn:
- How the healing and regeneration center appears in the realm
- What is going on there for discarnate souls
- What the surrounding environments are like
- Who is in charge of this place and what the caretaker souls do
Experiential: Connect with and investigate the healing and regeneration center and the Middle World of Dream — the bardos.
Session 5: The Spirit Guide & the Transition of the Discarnate Soul Complex to the Upper Worlds (July 13) (Live)
What happens when the time comes to leave the Middle World of Dream — the bardo — and ascend back into the Upper Worlds? This week, we’ll discover the function of the guide in this transition as well as the rapture.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The identity of the spirit guide
- The transition into the Upper Worlds — the realms of light
- The passage of souls leaving earth
- The Gathering Place
- The different color hues of the gathered souls (with their guides)
Experiential: Discover the boundary between the Middle and Upper Worlds of Dream, the gathering place of incoming s
