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What is Rainbow Warriors?

Rainbow Warriors is a 3 year practical course in advanced shamanism

It is about becoming a shaman. Not a shamanic practitioner but the real thing. You will know of yourself when Otherworld calls you “elder” … and that will be your initiation at the end of the 3 years. And this is why there are no certificates. It is not I who judge you, you bring yourself before Otherworld and they show and tell you where and what you are. You cannot do that in ordinary human terms of pieces of paper.

Being a shaman doesn’t mean you have to go round dressed in feathers and war-paint, although you can if you like. The people who’ve gone through the process, so far, have been all sorts … teachers, policewoman, scientist, computer boffins, artists, poets, ecologists, legal secretary, garden centre owner, anything a human being can do. They mostly still do the same sort of thing they were before but they do it a lot differently! RW has expanded how they see the world and so how they relate to it.

It’s NOT an academic course. Your main subjects of study are ..

Spiritual anatomy and engineering: including the chakras but from a place and in a way you probably never thought of before, a Celtic way.

Journeying – how to look after yourself doing this, doing it consciously, retaining choice throughout, AND learning not to harm anything else (even by accident) while you’re out there!

Biodynamics – a shamanic way of working with gardens and farming in the widest possible sense.

Healing – which is about Thread-Twining & Weaving.

Mastery – which is about SELF-MASTERY, learning to use your skills for the benefit of all creation. It includes seeing across time & space, and walking between worlds. You’ll understand this better as you go through the work.

As a part of this you discover and make relationships with ...

Your personal self and your soul/spirit, and how these two get on

Learning to sit in the seat of the soul

Learning to hear and listen to the voices of everything in the world – including cars, fridges, computers, bank managers, rats, cockroaches, cancer viri, whales, cats, trees, plants, birds … everything

Learning that animals and plants and rocks are our Elder Brothers and that humans are “new boy on the block” with regard to Earth-life and, in consequence, we need to listen and learn from our elders all the time.

Learning to make mistakes successfully

That “evil” is “live” spelled backwards

And to do all the above, and lots more, we do journeys, exercises and craft work each season, as well as reading and storytelling, which puts the student in the position of having to be there, deal with it, and so learn by doing.

Doing the Work ...

You get 8 lessons each year - one for each of the 8 seasons of the Celtic year, see diagram.

NB - if you live in the southern hemisphere you will celebrate the opposite season to us here in the north.

The work is largely experiential, about knowing of and for yourself, not parroting book learning or someone else’s experience. Then you distil, draw out the essence, the salient points of the knowing you have gained from doing the work.

You first ...

Celebrate the Season

Do the Journey

Read the Grammarye, book & story

Then you …

Tell/show me about how what you’ve done has changed you over the season. I give you a set of questions to answer that help draw this knowing out of you. It’s the changes I’m interested in J.

Create a triad poem around words I give you. Welsh Triads are similar to koans. Sit with the word(s), allow the words themselves have to give you the poem.

Taleweave your Journey into a story with a point that demonstrates the grammarye.

Craft your Hallow – send me a picture + the tale of its embodiment & enlivening at the end of the second season.

Being a Warrior ...

Warriors know themselves, and so are honest with themselves and with everyone else.

Warriors honour their commitments.

Warriors put the Planet, and all that lives and moves and has its being therein, before themselves.

The course is hard work. It is largely experiential but you also have a good bit of reading, including fiction, in addition to your course notes. Each season you celebrate the season, read and internally digest the lore; make a journey. Then you taleweave that journey into a story, write it up and send to me; you read a story and a book ; make one of the hallows, which includes journeying and ritual. All of this work you combine into a "whole" for the season and write up a report on what has occurred and changed for you. I give you a set of questions at the end of each lesson to help you realise what you know, what you’ve learned, what’s changed.

Is this what you want? If so, complete and send the application form and begin the process ...

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