Week 4 - Anna Le
As I was reading "We Are Not Alone: The Shaman World Tells Us", I saw a sign. Before I tell you my sign, I should backtrack to why I think it is a sign, perhaps by Spirit.
Before I read for this week's readings (which was last night), I was watching a video by Dakota Earth on youtube. It was a random video that I decided to click on, and I hardly watched the whole thing except for this snippet where he mentions Starhawk. I was like "who the heck is Starhawk?" I felt this strong urge to search this person up, so I googled this person and found out that she is a professor at a school called California Institute of Integral Studies. It's a school that grants post-grad degrees that combines spirituality, psychology, anthropology, and other disciplines, but primarily focuses on integrating other academic disciplines and sciences with spirituality or consciousness. The degree I am pursuing currently is in Psychology and I often pondered what part of psychology should I go into that is even remotely related to my interests... At UCD, my options are cognitive, biological, social, developmental, and if I tried really hard, then clinical. It was clear that there was no squeeze room for the study of spirituality or consciousness, and if it was then it could possibly fall under social or cognitive. Last night, I pondered about my future and perhaps even attending this school in San Francisco. I just thought to myself, "meh, I don't know. This school doesn't seem too legit. I'm unsure." I felt that I needed a graduate degree from a more capitalistic and prominent school so that I could be a legitimate professional in the workforce. I thought that I should follow the path most traveled, because it was safer, but then... I saw this in the reading:
Weird. How did I end up here? It all started from me mindlessly clicking a recommended Youtube video, then hardly watching it and only picking up on ONE phrase, then feeling an urge to google some stuff. Is it me or does it seem like a sign from Spirit? Especially with the content of the reading how the author goes on a shamanic vision quest and ends up where he needs to be with the help of spirit. Is this some form of vision quest? I'm unsure.
Even though this sign is pretty profound. I'm still hesitant from my own doubt and insecurities.
References:
Before I read for this week's readings (which was last night), I was watching a video by Dakota Earth on youtube. It was a random video that I decided to click on, and I hardly watched the whole thing except for this snippet where he mentions Starhawk. I was like "who the heck is Starhawk?" I felt this strong urge to search this person up, so I googled this person and found out that she is a professor at a school called California Institute of Integral Studies. It's a school that grants post-grad degrees that combines spirituality, psychology, anthropology, and other disciplines, but primarily focuses on integrating other academic disciplines and sciences with spirituality or consciousness. The degree I am pursuing currently is in Psychology and I often pondered what part of psychology should I go into that is even remotely related to my interests... At UCD, my options are cognitive, biological, social, developmental, and if I tried really hard, then clinical. It was clear that there was no squeeze room for the study of spirituality or consciousness, and if it was then it could possibly fall under social or cognitive. Last night, I pondered about my future and perhaps even attending this school in San Francisco. I just thought to myself, "meh, I don't know. This school doesn't seem too legit. I'm unsure." I felt that I needed a graduate degree from a more capitalistic and prominent school so that I could be a legitimate professional in the workforce. I thought that I should follow the path most traveled, because it was safer, but then... I saw this in the reading:
Weird. How did I end up here? It all started from me mindlessly clicking a recommended Youtube video, then hardly watching it and only picking up on ONE phrase, then feeling an urge to google some stuff. Is it me or does it seem like a sign from Spirit? Especially with the content of the reading how the author goes on a shamanic vision quest and ends up where he needs to be with the help of spirit. Is this some form of vision quest? I'm unsure.
Even though this sign is pretty profound. I'm still hesitant from my own doubt and insecurities.
References:
"We Are Not Alone" The Shamans of the World Tell Us. (2018, May 16). Retrieved from https://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/05/16/we-are-not-alone-the-shamans-of-the-world-tells-us/
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