{"id":4622,"date":"2012-04-26T21:41:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2012-04-26T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:46:23","slug":"the-gods-drink-at-the-heart-like-a-deer-in-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2012\/04\/the-gods-drink-at-the-heart-like-a-deer-in-a-river.html","title":{"rendered":"The gods drink at the heart like a deer in a river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/files\/2012\/04\/MartinJaguar01-clr-300R.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4623\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/80\/2012\/04\/MartinJaguar01-clr-300R-300x227.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>I come again, like a deer (or a big cat) to the water, to some lovely lines in\u00a0<em>Secrets of the Talking Jaguar<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floweringmountain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Prechtel<\/a>&#8216;s remarkable account of his apprenticeship and practice as a shaman of a Mayan tradition. He is describing\u00a0the intimate relationship between true shamans and true dreams:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prayers were all in the dreams&#8230;Simply learning a shamanic prayer without the spirit&#8217;s endorsement in a dream was dangerous and futile&#8230;Praying well as a shaman meant one had to learn to speak in a measured rhythm, beautifully, dramatically, with not pauses, and to breathe in such a way that one never lost the prayer or image being shot like bright-colored birds out of the heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Would-be shamans, take note. True shamans are poets of consciousness, master storytellers, magicians of goodly speech. First and last, they are dreamers who know that &#8220;the gods drink at the heart like a deer in a river.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come again, like a deer (or a big cat) to the water, to some lovely lines in\u00a0Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, Martin Prechtel&#8216;s remarkable account of his apprenticeship and practice as a shaman of a Mayan tradition. 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