http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ek6aNZiiqY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
John Perkins website (johnperkins.org)
http://www.johnperkins.org/?page_id=2
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/johnperkins3.html
Excerpt:
For definitional purposes we can talk about Shapeshifting occurring on three different levels:The first is cellular, and that is when a person of an indigenous culture shapeshifts into a plant or animal, or in our culture when a cancer grows in someone and then miraculously disappears.
The second level is personal Shapeshifting. That is when we decide to transform our personality -- and usually that means becoming more of what we most expect in ourselves. It might mean when a person honors themselves as a good writer or a better dancer or politician. It could also mean transforming an addiction.
The third form of Shapeshifting is about transforming the society that we live in, whether its at the town or city level, or the corporate level -- the place where we work -- or the institutions that help shape our lives.
During the process of writing the book Shapeshifting, I found that many people had the opinion that cellular shapeshifting, where people become jaguars and plants, was important years ago for indigenous peoples and cultures that had to escape from enemies in the forest, or hunt down buffalo and other animals -- but was not important in this day and age and probably doesn't occur anymore.
I disagree. I have seen a lot of very significant cellular Shapeshifting around the world. There are lamas in Tibet who fly across mountains and melt snow with the heat of their bodies, and shamans in the Amazon who become jaguars, and people in this country who miraculously get cured of cancers. I think cellular Shapeshifting is very important, because when we cellular Shapeshift, we realize that we really are one with everything.
If you shape shift into a tree, for instance, you really feel that you truly are a part of that tree. It helps us integrate everything around us.
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