FINDING YOUR SPIRIT HELPER

Finding Your Spirit Helper

In Vilturj, you do not find your spirit helpers. There are no specific journeys one can make in the otherworlds that will guarantee you walk away with a perevrnija, and meditations are useless - as they generally take you to internal visualisation states, which are not the same as true walking through the otherworlds.

Perevrni find you when they feel you are ready, and not before. You cannot rush the process, nor is it a matter of simply announcing 'I'm ready', without truly being ready within your heart or spirit.

Over time, a shamanic practicioner will acquire more than one spirit helper, and there is quite a skill to know how to make offerings to each, while knowing who to appeal to for help, or resources. It is also possible, over time, to piss off existing spirit helpers and drive them away. If you rarely offer your respect, offerings or time to the perevrni, they will leave if you are lucky, if you are unlucky, they can make life quite difficult for you in the otherworlds, flat out sabotaging efforts to journey. This depends on the nature of the practicioner, and the types of perevrni they attract.

The relationship between the shamanic practicioner and the perevrni is precious. If they leave, the shamanic practicioner is helpless. If they leave the practicioner while in the otherworlds, it can be very dangerous.

Perevrni are not crucial in the practice of those who simply incorporate indigenous or native practices (often simply called 'shamanic practice' which can be a problem, as it reduces many cultures into one vague, inaccurate culture) in to their own eclectic practices. Like the totem and animal energies, they are not collector's cards to be paraded around as a sign of status that you haven't actually earnt.