Companions Circle Church Shamanic Shift Center & Roadscrossing S.O.U.L. Clinic Office & Sanctuary: 930 East Knapp Street Milwaukee, WI 53202 414-289-8661 Contact Us or Click HOME

Our Creed
We do our bests to be and live the following shamanic ways teachings and principals:

• There are non-ordinary as well as ordinary realms of reality and non-ordinary as well as ordinary ways of knowing


• Unlimited potential and infinite possibilities exist within the non-ordinary to be shamanized on purpose into the ordinary


• Shamanizers relate directly to Spirit and Spirits in the non-ordinary to shift reality towards better and best in the ordinary


• Consciousness and reality live and progress best according to cosmic laws of number, geometry, rhythm, resonance, harmony, and beauty; the Zero Aggression Principal, voluntary cooperation, and unanimous covenanting; adventurous questing and returning; and the Spirit of Aloha


• Each individual is a shamanic shift center in the universal companions circle of all life and being


• Shamanic ways are methods and techniques of living and being ongoing ecstasy and reality shifting towards better and best through individual direct experiences of Spirit and Spirits, spiritual companionship, and sacred circling around at living crossroads of here and now


• The universe rattles, drums, sings, and dances - all ways, always!

Shamanic Ways are a set of ecstatic, animist, gnostic, and pantheist spiritual practices known in many cultures and traditions since the most ancient ages of Lifekind for re-dreaming intention and attention in the non-ordinary and dancing new dreams and stories to life here on earth to shift possibility, potential, and power in the ordinary universe. Ecstasy is essential to the Way of the Shaman. All shamanic ways are original - unfolding as direct, spiritual experience and ongoing revelation and moment to moment prophesy though individuals, spiritual companionships, and sacred circles. Shamanic practitioners may work within and add to a tradition, tradition-blend, initiatory way, or religion, and perform some or most of the duties of ministers and counselors and healers, yet key to shamanizing is connecting and relating directly to Spirit and Spirits, expanding the here and now moment of any situation to bring into the world new knowledge and dreams, and conducting souls, stories, and gifts to the next new life experience.

A Shaman or shaman - for many prefer to use a small s - after being called through dreams and visions, crisis and ordeal, and possibly ancestral and traditional lineages after undergoing years of experiential education passed orally through mentors and taught by Spirit and Spirits, and after rigorous testing, becomes able to intervene on multiple levels of reality becoming an open passageway for spiritual shifting of beings, dreams, dances, stories, and gifts to the best new life experiences. A shaman always effects change by revealing and conducting spirit(s) and/or soul(s) in some way, no matter what other counseling, divining, ministerial, or healing interventions s/he offers. Shamanic ways go beyond the sacerdotal and clerical functions of churches or religions. A shaman always functions within a community yet nowadays a contemporary shaman's community may be an innovative and emerging one.

A shaman, shamanizer, or shamanic practitioner works and plays directly with spirits and souls of all things from the greatest to the least to benefit self, community, the wider world, and the whole universe. Shamans quest on yet always return.

Shamans know the Law Of Attraction (LOA) and all cosmic and natural laws inside-out. Shamanic ways do not work through dogmatic, fundamentalist, literalistic, or superstitious practices but through living the ways of Mystery, Consciousness, and Spirit(s) at the quantum and universal levels of being where religion, philosophy, science, and art agree. Shamanic ways are all the ways of expanding and experiencing here and now as 'all things new'!

Within the experiential practice way of our circle, we enter Shamanic State(s) of Consciousness (SSC) - like a blend of active imagination, awareness, and meditative trance, yet more - for shamanic shifting, dreaming, healing, and divining through sound, dance, expressive arts, wonder, blessing, and jesting, and many other means. In circle we usually shamanic journey to the non-ordinary and return with healing and transforming knowledge, power, stories, songs, and gifts.

Be shamanic shift!

Projects, Programs, and Activities of Companions Circle:

• Shamanic celebrations, blessings, sacraments and individualized, interfaith ceremonies


• Spacetime portals for shamanic shifting within the city, and any ordinary reality place or situation calling for shamanic assistance


• encouraging shamanic jesting, fun restoration, and healing laughter


• keeping open a circle of the universal church without hard and fast walls or set in stone dogma or requirements to "believe" without direct experience


• Multi-tradition, customized, rituals for all significant occasions


• Marriages, funerals, baptisms, dedications, passage to adulthood, home and workplace blessing, reconciliation, restorative mediation, beginnings, and endings


• Interfaith, non-sectarian spiritual, supportive, and practical counseling through Roadscrossing SOUL Clinic


• Shamanic Shift Center


• and Aloha Salem Quest (ASQ) University an oral tradition shamanic seminary teaching through mentored self-education and shamanic experience


• Spiritual practice and vocation opening, development, or deepening


• Blessing, transformation, and healing on sites of ecological and community wounding

• Experiences in shamanic journeying, dreaming, expressive arts, healing, restoring, revealing, and blessing


• Playshops, classes, presentations, and mentoring by request


• Counseling and assistance in recognizing and unfolding shamanic callings


• Consultations and presentations on shamanic ways applied to ordinary life situations


• City Beachcomber traveling studio and gallery of outsider and visionary nature and art


• Vision quests in urban and everyday settings


• Practice, teaching, and demystification of shamanic wisdom


• Shamanic 'prayers for pills' - special shamanic prayer treatments to complement any type of medicine


• Assistance setting up altars and sacred space anywhere in life


• Circle ceremonies for soul healing and honoring lifecycles


• Online shamanic community and conversation circle


• Ongoing open Shamanic Circle on Fridays at 7PM (Central)


• Schedule, events, updates, and maps are posted on this blog or at our conversation circle

• Non-sectarian ministerial counseling


• Assistance in living callings and vocations


• Self-therapy coaching


• Spiritual solutions for challenges and troubles


• Individualized supportive and advocate counseling as well as community resource information and referral


• Classes, presentations, and workshops on natural health practices


• Meditation classes, coaching, and consultations


• Confidential and compassionate refuge, respite, and peer counseling for troubled clergy of any denomination or religion


• Creative gut-, heart-, and brainstorming sessions for ministers, church leaders, mental health professionals, lawyers, managers, and other professionals as well as groups and organizations


• Outreach to the uninsured and any who are unconnected to community services (though not a substitute for psychotherapy or medical care)

Call 414-289-8661
and leave a call-back voicemail to contact The Rev. Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins if you need an ordained minister
for individualized, interfaith ceremonies - marriage, handfasting, same-gender union, space and place blessing, dedications,
baptisms, lifecycle celebrations, rites to honor events of life transition, funerals, and more!

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