Journey to The Upper Realms to Meet your Spirit Guide
Your spirit guides have been with you your entire life. They have been whispering in your ear in the quiet moments, nudging you towards certain paths, protecting you in ways you may never fully know. Most of us simply do not have the tools to hear them clearly — not because the connection is absent, but because we have not yet learned how to turn the volume down on the left brain and tune in.
This ceremony is an invitation to make that connection conscious and direct. We journey together into the upper realm — the place of pure light, pure love, and higher consciousness — and we call for a spirit guide to step forward. What they bring you may be a healing, a piece of wisdom, an answer to something you have been carrying, or simply the felt experience of being seen and held by something that has always known you.
What Is the Upper Realm?
In shamanic tradition, reality is understood as having three layers. The middle realm is the everyday world we inhabit — this layer of waking life. The lower realm is the inner landscape, the realm of the subconscious, power animals, plant spirits, and earth energies. And the upper realm is the place we are going today: a realm of higher consciousness, of light, of the beings who support us from beyond the veil.
When I journey to the upper realm myself, I experience it as travelling into space — a vast void of darkness and then light, and within that light, beings come forward. They often appear first as pure luminosity, and then gradually features begin to form: a face, a form, sometimes even a name. The feeling in the upper realm is one of extraordinary peace and love. Whatever challenges exist in the middle realm, the upper realm holds them all in a larger perspective.
Your spirit guides in this realm may appear as beings of light, ancestors who have passed, mythical beings, angels, gods or goddesses from traditions you carry, or animals particularly associated with the sky. Trust whatever comes. They dress themselves in the form that will speak most meaningfully to you.
Who Are Your Spirit Guides?
Your spirit guides are beings of consciousness who have chosen to walk alongside you in this lifetime. They are not distant or indifferent — they are actively invested in your wellbeing, your growth, and your ability to live your purpose. They are always trying to communicate. We simply need to become still enough, and open enough, to receive them.
This may be the first time you consciously connect with your guide. Or you may already have a sense of their presence and wish to deepen the relationship. Either is completely welcome in this ceremony. If you have a specific question or challenge — a decision to make, a path to choose, a healing you are seeking — bring it with you. Your guide will meet you there.
One of the things I also keep on my altar during this ceremony is my mesa — a collection of sacred stones, each one representing a connection to one of my spirit guides. When I want to commune with them, I hold the stone and meditate, and the connection comes more easily. This is one of the practices I teach in my longer trainings if you feel drawn to working this way.
The Left Brain, the Right Brain, and the Shamanic Journey
Most of us in the Western world have been trained, since childhood, almost exclusively in left-brain consciousness — the linear, analytical mind that lists, plans, remembers, and categorises. This brain is enormously useful. But it is also, when overactive, the main obstacle to shamanic experience. It chatters. It questions. It wants to know if what you are sensing is ‘real’.
The right brain — the shamanic brain — works differently. It does not need language to know something. It perceives through feeling, sensing, images, and direct knowing. It does not recognise the boundary between self and other, which means it can feel into the quantum field, into other dimensions, into the intelligence of the spirit realm. This is not a special gift reserved for certain people. It is simply a different mode of consciousness that we all carry and can all develop.
The gongs are extraordinarily effective at quietening the left brain. Their complex, multi-layered frequencies — each gong producing twelve or thirteen distinct vibrations simultaneously — occupy the analytical mind fully enough that it begins to release its grip. The right brain wakes up. The shamanic dream begins. If your left brain is particularly chatty at the start of the journey, do not worry. It will settle. Give it fifteen or twenty minutes, and trust the process.
What to Expect on the Journey
Everyone experiences shamanic journeying differently. Some people are highly visual and will receive clear imagery. Others are more kinaesthetic — they feel the journey as physical sensation, warmth, pressure, or tingling. Some people receive an auditory experience: a voice, a tone, a sense of knowing that arrives as words. All of these are valid ways of perceiving. You do not need to see clearly to receive the medicine of this journey.
After cleansing our energy field and calling in the seven directions, I will guide your consciousness out through the crown chakra — carried by a golden mist across the landscape — to a place in nature where you feel safe and familiar. From there, you will look for a way to travel upward: perhaps a tree to climb, a rope ladder descending from the sky, a mountain path. You ascend, moving through the cloud layer and out into the upper realm, where you call for your spirit guide to come forward.
Be patient. Be open. Call with your inner voice, and then wait — with genuine curiosity and no fixed expectation. Your guide will come in the form that is right for you today, not necessarily the form you imagine or hope for. The most profound journeys often begin with something very simple: a light, a warmth, a quiet knowing that you are not alone.
Shamanism should not be a serious or heavy thing. We are here to raise our vibration, to be happier and freer. Come with lightness, and your guides will meet you there.
How to Prepare for the Ceremony
Two things to settle before we begin:
Your place in nature — choose a real place you know and feel safe in. It should feel peaceful, ideally without too many people. This is where your consciousness will land before you travel upward
Your intention — what are you coming with today? It can be as simple as ‘I would like to meet my spirit guide’. Or you may bring a specific question about your path, a decision you are facing, or a request for healing
Practically:
Prepare your ceremonial cacao before we begin if you are choosing to drink it — or bring a cup of tea or water
Create a comfortable, supported space — lying down or seated with cushions. Have a blanket nearby
Use good headphones or speakers for the full depth of the gong frequencies
Have a journal ready to write immediately after the journey
Drink water after the ceremony — the gongs shake every cell of the body, and it is good to flush the system clean
Give yourself quiet time to integrate. The more you can write down, the more you will be able to work with the experience
Continue Your Journey with Me
Your spirit guides are always there, always speaking. This ceremony is simply one way of learning to listen. Whether this is your first meeting or a deepening of a long relationship, I hope the upper realm offers you exactly what you need today.
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