Tree of Life Shrine in Northeast corner of Shamanic Shift Center Sanctuary
Companions Circle Church
Shamanic Shift Center & Roadscrossing S.O.U.L. Clinic
Office & Sanctuary: 930 East Knapp Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
414-289-8661
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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!

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


Shamanic shift light and darkness...Glow as you go!

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.


Seagulls circling around, two or three as one!
Be shamanic shift!



Projects, Programs, and Activities of Companions Circle:



Shamanic Shift Center




Roadscrossing S.O.U.L. Clinic

offered with permission of the Universal Life Church (ULC), originators of the S.O.U.L. Clinic concept
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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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