I am a shamanic healer based in the UK. I work worldwide, and my clients vary in age from 7 months old to 90 years old and are from all races, religions and backgrounds. Some are familiar with healing methods and are on a spiritual path but many - the majority perhaps - are new to any form of healing or therapy.

Many are conscious of the changes upon the planet and life as we know it and aided by the current financial and economic climate, many clients are coming face to face with their deepest fears, and have experienced what is commonly known as “a dark night of the soul.” Some clients have heard snippets about the importance of the year 2012, and yet many remain in the dark about it.

The 21^st of December 2012 has been calculated as the completion date of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, a time when the Mayan Civilisation believed their world - our world, would end. I am constantly asked “What is going to happen to us?” and I believe this is an impossible question to answer.

Predictions vary as to the severity of the changes. At the upper end of the scale, some predict that a huge percentage of people - varying between 75% and 90% of the global population - will be wiped out in some way. At the lesser end of the scale, people talk of 2012 heralding the end of the world as we know it - a time when there will be a massive shift in consciousness. The view is that the Earth herself is evolving, raising her vibration, and in order for our bodies to manage this shift in frequency then we have to raise our consciousness too, in order to survive.

A general view is that society will no longer be focused on material gain and profit, hence the current collapse of the financial and economic structures - and it is expected that governmental collapse will follow. It is thought that we will live more simply, more shamanically - respecting other people, animals, nature and the Earth and that we will once more live in small communities.

We have slowly been working towards this change since 1990. Many of you I’m sure will have been affected by the energy shifts, even though you may not have understood what was happening to you. And my guess is that many of you will have faced significant challenges, particularly over the last couple of years.

The Inca prophecies state that 21.12.2012 heralds the Golden Age of Peace, the beginning of Heaven on Earth, which is set to last for 1,000 years. It is important that we all focus on this positive aspect of the shift. Yes things may get very tricky, may get worse before they get better, but we need to rise out of our ego selves and try to see the bigger picture. When we come through all this, we will be in a much better place, and that is the ONLY purpose for these changes - to raise our consciousness and therefore our vibrational frequency.

It does not take a genius to figure out that we cannot carry on the way that we have been doing, acting selfishly and believing we can live the way we do without consequence, letting the majority live in slavery to the minority. We cannot go on treating the Earth - this beautiful planet which gives us all we need, with so much disrespect. And we cannot go on treating each other with disrespect either.

My understanding is that these disasters, if indeed they do occur, have one purpose and one purpose only – to bring us all together as a community, to break down the barriers that keep us locked up in our own little bubbles. And yes, I am of course talking about respecting those of other races, colours and religions. The Shamanic viewpoint is that the Divine is, literally, everywhere - in each blossom, each stream, each tree and rock, each grain of sand, each creature of the Earth and of course, in everyone. We are all an aspect of the Divine; we all contain deep within us a Divine spark. This is why the Shamanic way is to treat everything and everyone with respect, because everything is an aspect of the Creator, everything is Holy.

So when my clients ask, “What is going to happen to us?” my answer is “I honestly don’t know” and I also tell people that I feel it is impossible for anyone to know for sure because I believe that our destiny shifts every day with each decision we make. My wish is that we all wake up quickly so that nothing catastrophic happens. Do we really need to wait for a great big slap around the face? Or can we change now, today? This will mean considerable changes in the way we live our lives and a rethink about what is, truly, important.

How many rich and really, really happy people do you know? My hope is that we all wake up, we stop looking for a quick profit at the expense of a fellow human, stop thinking about me, me, me, start treating the Earth and each other with respect and start, at last to use our common sense! The medicine people of the Andes who I trained with, known as the Q’ero, do not even have a word in their language for “I,” as they are aligned with the collective.

You are likely to hear much more about 2012 as time goes on. Please do not go into fear, because this is a waste of your energy. Instead, address your own healing needs to raise your vibration, open your hearts, respect ALL life, be kind to others, help someone if you can, go out into your communities and meet your fellow humans, “pay it back” if you can. We are all the same; we all want the same things. I believe our future and the future of the planet is in our hands. We can all come together now, work together now, to create heaven on Earth without first having to go through hell to get there.

Dawn Paul is a Shamanic Healer of the Inca Lineage, a Theta Healer, EFT Practitioner, Life Coach, Reiki Master and Spiritual Teacher. She can be reached by email at dawn.paul@btopenworld.com , via her website at www.liberate-online.co.uk/ or on 01727 845514 /07748 361210.

Read other articles by Dawn Paul in Ps-Magazine.com:

Shamanic Soul Retrieval: The Journey Back to Wholeness Dawn Paul writes: "As a Shamanic healer of the Inca tradition , a significant part of my work involves journeying into the Lower World in order to bring back to my clients their lost soul parts a healing method called Soul Retrieval. Soul loss sounds terrifying, but it is extremely common and all of us have suffered soul loss in some form or another, either in this or a former lifetime."

The Candle, A Poem by Dawn Paul
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The Quero And the Knowledge of The Incas, by Shaman Dawn Paul
Dawn Paul spent the last seven years searching for the perfect healing method and was able to learn the amazing healing methods of the Quero of Peru. In this article she describes a vision that she had at Machu Picchu, that lead her on this path, and the importance of the Q'ero, who are the surviving keepers of Inca knowledge.