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The Wyrd  |
To understand the Shamanic philosophy it is important to grasp the concept of what in Shamanic terms is called the 'Wyrd' the root on which all their philosophy is based. The term Wyrd is the original form of today’s weird, which means strange, of the unexplainable. Wyrd had essentially the same meaning more than a thousand years ago in Shamanic Europe, but in sacred rather than mundane realms. Wyrd was the unexplainable force - the great mystery underlining all existence. The essence of the Wyrd is that the Universe exists within polarities of force, rather like the eastern concepts of yin and yang. According to Shamanic beliefs the Universe originally consisted of two mighty unimaginably vast force regions one of fire, the other of ice. When the fire and ice met, they exploded, creating a great mist charged with magic force and vitality. This is the mist of knowledge existing beyond time, concealing wisdom about the nature of life that maybe revealed to people travelling on the Shamanic path.
This creation cosmology was best preserved in Germanic and Norse myths and stories. The meaning of the Wyrd can also be understood through the image of a vast web of fibbers, an image that appears frequently in early European literature and artwork. The Celtic Shamans versioned a web of fibbers that flowed through the entire universe linking absolutely everything, each person, object, event, thought and feeling. This web is so sensitive that any movement thought or happening no matter how small reverberates throughout the entire web. In some of the incantations preserved in the British Museum, the journey of the Shamans soul into the spirit world was facilitated by a spider spirit. When the Shaman wanted to understand the complexity of forces affecting an individual, such as during initiations and healing, the Shaman versioned the pattern of fibres entering that person.
One of the central premises of Wyrd is that in certain states of Shamanic consciousness the boundaries between inner and outer realities becomes permeable and can be transcended.
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