Christ Consciousness AND Shamanic Practices?

When many people think of the word Christ, they associate it directly with what our society deems Christianity and that Shamanic practices are the polar opposite of anything to do with Christ.

What is Christ Consciousness then?  Well, to me, Christ Consciousness is the “New Age” term for the embodiment beliefs that are the core of what Yeshua, Jesus, was teaching when he walked the earth: how to be a damn good human, aligned with God and God’s will. Some may call my beliefs to be more aligned with a group that call themselves “Red Letter” Christians, meaning they follow only the direct words of Jesus in the Bible, highlighted in red letters in some versions, or that of Gnostic Christianity.

To be honest, I don’t “know” scripture or even frequently read scripture from the Bible, but when I do, there is ALWAYS a message for me.  I am diving in more and more.  I am a person of experience and I started experiencing Christ as an Energy some years ago through plant medicine, and Jesus, the Human that walked this earth, as an ascended master/personal guide. He was actually the first Spirit Guide that came through for me in meditation and has been the biggest influence for me as a man, teaching me what it means to embody Divine Masculinity, balance my masculine and feminine energies and come into/maintain internal Divine Union.  When I say “maintain” internal Divine Union, I mean he is my biggest accountability partner, because I am human and I am susceptible to the ongoing influence of our society and maintaining balance is and will forever be an ongoing practice.

Did you know that at the time that Jesus walked this earth, there was no such thing as Christians or Christianity?  Jesus was a Jew, he was a rabbi.  At the time, Jesus’s followers simply identified as Followers of the Way.  The term Christian was actually a derogatory label given to his followers by people that thought they were freaks and rebels against what they knew to be God’s word and breaking all of “God’s rules.”  Jesus was the biggest rebel of the time.  He said “oh you are telling me I can’t heal people on the Sabbath, that rule is not from the God that I know, watch me.”  He literally came here to break down old systems that we still see in play today, playing out on the world stage in constant war and destruction like what’s going on in the Middle East right now.  This constant bickering and battle of “My Way is the Way.” “No my Way is the Way.”  All of which is just the biggest distraction to keep people from becoming empowered, keep people in the box and, foster the divide between populations and therefore seperate from the Divine Source of All.  Empowered and Unified people are difficult to control. 

About a year ago, in the months leading up to Easter 2025, I was going through a personal experience that made me question everything that I believed.  I walked away from the plant medicine path and dipped my toes back into Christianity.  I began going to church again and was experiencing a personal existential crisis.  As easter grew nearer, I began to wonder if the resurrection story was applicable to me, like was I going through a personal resurrection, a death of an old version of me and a rebirth into a better man.  Through my journey, I have experienced many deaths and rebirths, but this one felt greater.  So, I took it to God.  I prayed about my path, how I was meant to serve and to whom I was meant to serve.  God told me to sit with psilocybin.  I was confused because I thought it was God who was leading me away from plant medicine.  I wrestled with God, resisting what I was being told to do, but as I have been on a constant path of learning to trust God deeper, never being let down when I followed as led, I did as I was told.  That Easter, I experienced the resurrection story through that journey, in first person, as if it was me.  During that journey I was shown all kinds of Native American images and beliefs from many tribes.  I was shown a path, a road, the Red Road, by Jesus himself.  I began singing a song that was a word “A-teco-way” repeated over and over again, meaning Aztec way.  Through this experience, I was shown, once again, there are many roads, but there is just one way.  All paths lead to home.

Shortly after that experience, I met my Divine Union Partner, who was raised within the constructs of Orthodox Judaism.  As an adult on her journey, she chose to break free from those constraints many times, but made that concrete decision final about the same time I was having my experience with dipping my toes back into Christianity, then being reborn.  One of the most beautiful things about her being brought up within that system is the deep Spiritual knowledge, teachings and intentional practices she received, pumped into her, her entire life, from that system.  She began to give context to experiences I’d had etherically through my medicine journeys and Spiritual routines/practices.  Together we began having medicine journeys that were experiences of the written word of the Bible AND because of her upbringing, she was able to teach me about what we were experiencing.  I personally was, and still am, moving through many Archetypes of characters in the Bible.  One of the biggest realisations we have had is that Jews forever awaiting the arrival of the Messiah is no different than Christians awaiting the Second coming of Christ.  She too now has, and is still, experiencing the embodiment of Christ energy, and we both know in our beings, our personal truths, that the second coming of Christ is an internal job, the embodiment of Christ, as an energy and a way of being.  To not only talk the talk, but to walk the walk in all ways, as Christ like as possible, AND have grace and compassion for ourselves because after all, we are human.

There is a Gnostic belief that in the years that Jesus disappeared from the bible, between 12 and 30, often referred to as “the hidden years,” that he was traveling the world to places like Egypt, Tibet, and India, mastering himself on a deep spiritual journey, studying different cultures’ healing modalities and preparing himself to return as the healer we know him to be, fully tapped in and a conduit for Divine Energy and healing.  Obviously, I have no idea if that is true, as a human walking the earth now, however, my experiences with, and my personal understanding and embodiment of Christ Consciousness energy makes it quite believable to me.

So yeah I met and developed a personal relationship with Jesus and experience the embodiment of Christ Energy THROUGH Shamanic Practices and meditation.  To me, they are not two seperate paths, they are one and the same, my personal path showing me “the Way.”

Is it possible that Jesus himself would be considered a medicine man, curandero or shaman by today’s definitions of those labels, I think so.

I’m no Guru and my path is personal to me.  However, I am most definitely not alone in experiences similar to mine.  

If this share of this component of my journey resonates with you, let’s connect!

Jeffrey Powers

PowerFlow Healing