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THE PSIONIC PATH

Charles W. Cosimano

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the mid 21st Century. Computers have become miniaturized

to the point that they are now built into people shortly after birth.

Transportation consists of opening a doorway in space and walking

through it to any part of the universe. If you want to call up a friend and

invite her to dinner, you simply blink your eyelids to start the telepathic

amplifying system implanted in your temporal lobes working and think to

her.

Sound impossible? Well, remember that five hundred years ago we

traveled by foot or horse on land and by wind or oars over water. And if

someone had dared suggest that we could be entertained by watching

little people inside a box, he would have been burned at the stake. We

are on the verge of the greatest changes that humanity has ever

experienced since the days when people discovered that they could farm

as well as hunt.

Consider the flow of information. There was a time, in the not very

distant past, when governments could control what their citizens read

and saw. No longer. National borders mean nothing to satellites and

microwaves. Signals that cannot be jammed and receivers that cannot be

detected abound. The great computer information highway that has been

developed is unstoppable because it comes from so many sources and

goes to so many places. A revolution that be created by a fax machine

now comes from a personal computer.

The world is a very different place.

And it is going to become even more different.

Now this may be frightening to many people, and that is inevitable

because change is always scary. But fear not, it is going to be a better

world, a world that will set the predictions of the prophets of doom, the

Gerald Barneys of the world, to absolute naught. There is no problem

facing humanity that does not have a solution and as the level of

consciousness of the multitudes of individuals becomes greater, so does

the capacity to solve any problem. Never forget that there is no such

thing as an incurable disease. There are only diseases for which the cure

has not yet been found.

This is a much gentler book than I am used to writing, and that is for

good reason.

My books are normally concerned with the very Hobbsian human world

that we live in now, a place of the war of all against all. Now I do not

expect that to change, but there is another world out there, a world of the

spirit, where such things do not seem to apply and this work is intended

to help you the reader to journey through that world and bring back to

this one the things that you need. This is a helping book, a healing book

and for me that is something very different indeed, to say nothing of not

downright alien. I would say to my usual readers that they should not

worry, I have not “wimped out”, but I am not as one dimensional and

violent as the subjects I usually write about make me appear. This book

is merely the expression of another side of Chuck, a more private side

and one that is not usually considered part of my personal mythology.

This book, however, is going to be much different from the usual books

on Shamanism that have flooded the market. I am not writing about

traditional cultures. I am writing for a new culture and a new world. And

if I have neglected to include a great many personal stories of

Technoshamanic journeys it is simply because I want my reader to be

able to map the outer worlds on his or her own, with as few preconceived

notions of what will be found there as possible. All to often, people have

attempted to take the Shamanic Journey, only to discover that what they

have seen is not at all like what they read in the book and, assuming that

they have done something wrong, never try it again. The truth is that the

human consciousness relates to the outer worlds in as many ways as

there are people to relate it to.

So good luck. You will find this to be an interesting trip.

THE TECHNOSHAMAN

In a valley hidden from view, at a location where the vortex lines of the

earth energies intersect stands a large pyramid. Outside of the pyramid

sits a number of people in special chairs, with wires running from the

chairs to a console placed in front of a man wearing a helmet. A cable

runs from the console to the top of the pyramid. Inside the pyramid the

candidate lays on her back staring at the point at the apex of the

pyramid. Her initiation has begun.

All things change. The ways of the past served well in their time but

serve us no more. And those who dwell in the past find that dust is often

the only reward of their working. Shamanism served a purpose for ages,

but the day of the Shaman is fast leaving and the practice of Shamanism

must adapt. There must be new ways of approaching the inner worlds,

easier and more accessible ways. Yet the new must not lose sight of the

past. The baby must not be cast aside with its bathwater. Even as we

develop the instruments and techniques of Psychotronic Communion, the

mind powered devices which will be so much a part of the future, we

must never forget those things of value which have served for so long

and, with some adjustment to the coming times, can still serve.

The Technoshaman is the bridge between the two worlds. The living

body of the Technoshaman is trained to utilize the energy of the mind

and the mind of the Technoshaman is trained to create that energy. The

instruments of the Technoshaman are powered by his or her mind and

send forth their energy because of the will behind that mind.

In order that you may better understand the role that the Technoshaman

will play in the new world, you must first understand the traditional role

of the Shaman.

The Shaman is a social position. He or she functions as the society’s

mediary between the human and spirit worlds. The Shaman heals the

sick, protects the people from spiritual evil and conducts the dead to

their resting place on the other side and communicates with them when

the people have need.

Our society is different and our approach to Shamanism must perforce be

different as well. In our world, there is no recognized need to

communicate with the spirit worlds as a collective body. Indeed, the

complexity of our society makes such a concept practically impossible.

The need, when it exists, is an individual one and must be dealt with in

that way. The healing of the sick is a role taken on by many others

besides the spiritual leaders of a community and again, is viewed as an

individual need, perhaps extending to the circle of friends and family, but

rarely farther. As for the role of the psychopomp, the guide of the dead,

we operate under the not-unreasonable assumption that the newly dead

will have guides enough and no aid from the living is necessary.

For these reasons, our approach to Shamanism is an individual matter,

rather than a social one and the Technoshaman follows in that role. That

is not to say that the Technoshaman may not perform a community

function, but the fact is that this work is that of an individual, not

necessarily isolated from his or her surroundings, but usually acting on

behalf of individuals and small groups.

There is one other significant difference. In the Shamanic societies, the

Shaman is usually chosen by an outside agency. In some cases it is

hereditary, in others it is by a sort of adoption on the part of the existing

Shaman. Still others are chosen by the spirits, who expect the one so

conscripted to start learning or make life very uncomfortable until he or

she does. Native American Shamanism is unique in that it seems for the

most part to be a purely voluntary choice on the part of the candidate,

but even there the presence of social pressure and spirit election cannot

be ignored.

In our society, no such process occurs. There is no social pressure to take

the role, in fact the opposite is usually the case. And the spirits tend to

be more gentle in guiding those whom they choose towards the role,

perhaps out of fear that the candidate may seek psychiatric care and be

removed from the program permanently. This means that the modern

Shaman is faced with a series of difficulties that his or her traditional

counterpart never imagined, for free choice brings with it the need for a

type of resolve that is not present when that freedom is absent. It is very

easy in our world to try something for a little while and then turn away

from it if it does not turn out to be exactly what we think it should be.

The work of the traditional Shaman, with its long and at times

uncomfortable training is not something that is likely to be undertaken by

many in our culture.

Technoshamanism is, frankly, easier. The experience of the inner worlds

is facilitated not so much by drums as by the Psionic Helmet and psionic

instruments.

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