Ken Eagle Feather — Death as Your Advisor

You have to blast yourself out of complacency

and realize that you are going to die.

I don’t care if you believe in reincarnation or not—

you are going to die.

Then you take that power and decide

how you are going to use your death to bring yourself to life.

This is what don Juan taught as “Using Death as Your Advisor.”

You ask yourself,

“If I am going to die today, what is it that I want to be doing?”

At that point, you start examining everything all over again

, and all of a sudden going out and partying, getting high,

getting drunk, doesn’t make it anymore.

That’s not worth dying for.

As soon as you start asking yourself, “What do I have to do?”

you allow yourself to become quiet.

As soon as you allow yourself to become quiet,

you start hearing outrageous things.

Good stuff!

Crazy stuff!

Stuff that awakens your heart

and makes you feel connected with the world.

Ken Eagle Feather

quoted in:

Hillary S. Webb

Traveling Between the Worlds: Conversations with Contemporary Shamans