Shape shifting

Shape shifting is an out of body skill. 

Once in the spiritual world, the person changes their shape in order to either experience what it is like to be that thing, or alternatively in order to disguise themselves or hide. 

Few people who can go out of body have these skills these days, most find themselves as a ball of light or themselves but looking better! 

Shamans of old frequently ‘became’ an animal, in that in their trance state or out of body state they perceived themselves to be an animal. 

Generally speaking this animal shared characteristics with them – it was how they perceived themselves, brave, strong, family loving, artful, timid, courageous, fearful, clever – a lone wolf, a bear, a crow or a raven. 

Many sea faring shamans became sea creatures, seals or fish, which is where we get some of the legends of mermen and mermaids from. Oannes was probably a shaman capable of turning himself into a fish in his trances states.

Observations

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• Alain Danielou - While the Gods Play - On Siddhis [magic powers]
• Ancestors, the - Art - David Lewis-Williams from The Mind in the Cave
• Ancestors, the - Art - Ecstasy
• Ancestors, the - Art - Lion man
• Ancestors, the - Art - Therianthropy
• Ancestors, the - Art - Totemic groups
• Ancient Egyptian - The sceptre as a symbol
• Animalism DOC by Fenrir
• AwoFa'lokun Fatunmbi - And the concept of 'alien' spirits
• Beuys, Joseph - Animals and Insects
• Bodenham, Anne – 04 Shape shifts into a big black cat and admits she can fly
• Brittany - Isle de Sein - Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis libri III
• Christos - Windows of the Mind - Becoming a bird
• Claudio Naranjo: The Early Days' Ibogaine Experiments
• David Lewis-Williams - Cave paintings and animals
• Dinnshenchas – The shape shifting of Faifne the poet and his sister Aige
• Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections - Mr George Sandwith has multiple OBEs
• Druids, Celts and the Ancient Religion
• Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 017
• Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 149
• Euripides - The Bacchae and Pentheus
• Fell about in a catatonic state
• Flying [and dying] after wolf's bane tea
• Growing claws and fur
• Hans Peter Duerr - Tungus shaman
• Jennifer Isaacs - Australian Aboriginal - Song Poetry
• Keightley, Thomas - Dwarfs and Bjergfolk
• Ken Emerson - Noaidi uses of the Sámi Drums
• Lehtola, Veli Pekka - The Sámi People
• Ludlow, Fitz Hugh - Becomes a hippopotamus
• Malta - 09 Xagħra Stone Circle
• Masters and Houston - Becoming animals
• Mayan - Popol Vuh - 14 The shape shifting of Plumed Serpent
• Mircea Eliade - Bird as symbol of the spiritual person
• Mircea Eliade - Inuit - Some shamans have visited the moon
• Mircea Eliade on Sufi flight
• Mircea Eliade – The Goldi shaman and the Succubus
• Monroe, Robert - Shape shifting and out of body
• Monroe, Robert - The rubbery elasticity of the other body
• Morphing on DPT
• Mushrooms and cannabis effects
• Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - And the jackal story
• Nerval, Gerard de - Horus
• Ninjutsu shape shifting
• Paul Devereux - Num and shape shifting
• Picts – Basic truths - Shape shifting
• Ruth Warner Giddings - The Yaqui coyote woman who rolled on ants
• Sacred geography - Korean mystic shamanism – Caves – 01 The Tomb Complex of Goguryeo
• Seven Ages of Man - Thomas Keightley et al - Spiritual capabilities
• Shinto kundalini figurine
• Soustelle - Aztecs and Mexica - The building of the aqueduct
• Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism - Tiger [and Shape shifting]
• Tae-kon, Dr Kim – Shape shifting to animals and birds and flying out of body
• Tae-kon, Dr Kim – Yakutian trance possession by animal spirits
• Taino - Carribean hummingbirds
• The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
• The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
• The Ceasing of Notions – 09 Creating matter using thought
• The Owl as the Vahana of Lashmi
• The Sundering of the Veil MDMA & 1P-LSD by Brother23
• Totem group – Picts – Sign of Zodiac - Wolf
• Ursula Kollarin flies
• Uxmal - Mayan - West building the feathered serpent
• Vitebsky, Piers - healing reindeer hoof-rot
• Vitebsky, Piers - Siberian shaman
• Watson, Lyall - Nixies, sirens and tritons
• Wei Boyang - The Canton of qi
• Yeats, Georgie - A Vision - Twas said that she all shapes could wear
• Yeats, W B - Fergus and the Druid - The Hermit
• Yeats, W B - The Wind among the Reeds - Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns
• Ynglinga saga - 07 Chapter Seven