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Bringing Balance Feeding the Spirits With the present crisis around North Korea, the spirits have been whispering in my ears for many days about doing something ceremonial for the situation. Here, I am offering a ‘Bringing Strength to the Spirits Offering Ceremony,’ and a ‘Bringing Balance Ceremony’ using a drum. I will lay out the form of both ceremonies - you can either copy them, or ask your own spirits for your own ceremonies. The important thing is you do something, if you feel moved to. As I go, I will explain how my ceremonies can be adapted, if you don’t have the same ritual equipment I do. A LITTLE BACKGROUND About five years ago I had a ‘big dream.’ In this dream I was working with a group of Mongolian shamans - a group I have worked with many times in my dreams. We were gathering together in Mongolia to do a ceremony and some healings, as we have before, when all of a sudden, a very ragged figure walked across the grassy steppe to us. When he reached us, he told us he was a shaman from North Korea, and he had walked across China to come to us to ask us for our help. We talked to him and he explained the spirits of the Korean people were in trouble, and so we went with him, in a group, to North Korea, and there met Generals in the Korean government. The Generals were very distressed, because they knew - on a very deep level - that they were on a road to nowhere with their regime, and they also knew they had separated themselves from the spirits of the land and their ancestors, and their sacred ways. They were desperate to be helped, and asked us to do shamanic work for them. Bringing Balance We stayed talking to the Generals for a long time - the dream seemed to go on all night - Feeding the Spirits and then eventually we made our way back to Mongolia. On the way back to Mongolia, while we were in Inner Mongolia - which is part of Northern China - I A Shamanic Offerings and Drumming Ceremony met a shaman of the Khorchin people, a Mongolian group who live for the North Korean Crisis in North Eastern China, between Mongolia and North Korea. This Nicholas Breeze Wood shaman told me that I needed to make an iron framed drum, a type of those, coloured paper could be kind of cone shaped dough offering, Previous Page: of drum the Khorchin use, and then used instead. These five colours which is called a torma in Tibetan. Chenrezig the added that I also needed to make represent the four directions and These can be made from flour Tibetan Buddhist an iron shaman’s antler crown. the sacred centre, and also the five and water. They should also embodiment of I was told the drum was to be elements. The Tibetan meanings contain blood - only a single drop is compassion used to bring balance, and that I for these colours are: needed, and your own blood is was to play it in a specific way. perfect. You are making a wrathful • Red - West - Fire offering, so it is wrathful in nature. Below: my The next day, I checked in with • Green - North - Water If you are dead set against Khorchin style my spirits, and they agreed with all • White - East - Air using blood, you can still make a iron framed that I had dreamed, and told me I • Yellow - South - Earth torma using a substitute for blood - drum and iron should also do a ceremony to • Blue - Centre - Space red wine is an easy one. antler crown strengthen the spirits of the Korean shamans, and the ancestors, and The Korean meanings are the land spirits of Korea, which I did. different to the Tibetan meanings, It is this ceremony I will share here. and my Korean shaman friend, I arranged with my human Jennifer Kim, has shared these blacksmith teacher to spend two meanings with me, which are: days in his forge, and he worked with me and helped me make both • Red - South the drum and an iron antler crown. (This has a phoenix as a symbol, When I do the Bringing Balance and it represents summer) Ceremony I wear the crown and • Green - East play the drum. (This has a azure coloured dragon as You can do this drum ceremony a symbol, and it represents spring) too if you wish, as a part of the • White - West whole ceremony. You won’t have (This has a white tiger as a symbol, an iron framed drum, or an iron and it represents autumn) antler crown, but you don’t need • Blue (or Black) - North one, you can use your own drum - (This has a tortoise or snake as a if you have one - and you don’t symbol, and it represents winter) need an iron antler crown at all. • Yellow - centre (This represents the divine ruler FEEDING THE SPIRITS and Grandmother Earth) The main part of this ceremony is making offerings to the spirits. It is not important to remember Ideally you will also sing improvised which colour is in which direction, praise songs, or make prayers to the important thing is to realise the them, encouraging them, as well. five colours includes the four You are making offering to feed directions and the centre and the the ancestors (especially the spirits five elements. The five colours are of the ancestral shamans), the part of the sacred invitation - the mountain spirits, the nagas (lu) and spirits will know what is what, you the land spirit protectors. don’t need to know yourself in Remember - not all spirits love order to do the ceremony. If you you, so it is important that when have a set of teachings about the you address the spirits - especially directions you normally use, bear powerful ones like this - you say those in mind as you set up the out loud, “those who love me (or sacred space. us)” when you address them. This is a safeguard, a check on the door For the offerings you will need: to the party, intended to stop • White foods. These can be bowls undesirables gatecrashers. of cooked rice, yogurt and milk. Whenever you call to a spirit like • Small sweet cakes or biscuits. this, remember to say that phrase. Arrange these beautifully, with care, stacking them in tidy neat For the offerings I suggest you piles if possible. get a table and lay a nice cloth on it • Incense or fragment smudge. - this is a banquet you are offering, • A bowl of water (for the nagas) so make it look splendid. You could • One, or several small candles, also use the floor if you wish, but which will burn out in a few hours. lay a nice cloth down first. • A bowl of vodka or other spirits (optional) You will need cloths of five If you want to make offerings to colours, red, green, yellow, white the protectors - who are wrathful and blue. If you don’t have cloths beings - you need to make a special HOOP ISSUE 97 2017 www.sacredhoop.org with Korea, but feel free to adapt it for your own needs on other occasions. It is a good ceremony to do for your own, personal helper spirits from time to time. If you do it for other reasons the five colours will probably not be required. BRINGING BALANCE CEREMONY This is an additional, separate, optional ceremony, but it can be done in conjuction with a Making Offerings Ceremony at this time if you wish, although it can be done on a separate occasion too Ideally, however, on this occassion, it is probably best to do it after you have made the offerings and performed the improvised praise songs or made prayers, and while the offerings are still on your altar and the candle is still alight. The Bringing Balance Ceremony requires a drum, but if you don’t have a drum, and some other form Above: pouring a Declare to the spirit world that hearted dialogue between North of ceremony occurs to you, or your strong black tea the wine is blood, and this will set Korea and the rest of the world, so spirits give you a non-drum way of offering to the your intent firmly that it is indeed that conflict can be avoided, so all doing it, go ahead and do what you protector spirits. blood. Don’t drink any - unless you beings can avoid harm, and so need to do. The bowl the tea normally drink blood - the wine you healing can happen. is being poured buy for this ceremony will not be Sing and make prayers for as The ceremony is fairly simple. into is called a wine any more once you have set long as you feel it is needed, keep You begin by calling to your serkyem, and it your intention - you need to treat it your attention on it, be heartful and personal helper spirits, and do is specifically for like the blood it is. simple - instead of clever worded. anything you normally do before tea offerings to The torma needs to be coloured Then, when you have finished you do any shamanic work. the protectors bright red. You can either do this by singing and praying, you leave the Then you ‘put’ the idea, person, and wrathful adding food dye, or you can let it dry offerings and the altar, and allow place, situation, in the centre of spirits in Tibetan a little and paint it bright red - but the candle to burn out naturally.
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