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Florida Shaman, Jack Alexander ("Golden Feather")
 Shamanism is based on the belief that a universal web of power supports all life. It is the world's oldest spiritual path. Because shamans have no fixed dogma, ethnicity or religion, estimates of the origin of shamanism range as far back as the Neolithic and Paleolithic periods, some 14,000+ years ago.
The word shaman is from the Tungus; saman, meaning priest or magician (Webster). Much like being a gifted mentor, a true artist, a genuine prophet, or a bona fide healer, being shaman is an art. To qualify as shaman, one must not only accept the innate calling but also receive recognition and training from a recognized shaman elder. Jack Alexander is a shaman elder in the Lakota tradition. In 1992, Chief White Feather recognized him as having exceptionally rare "Serpent Medicine." This gives Jack the ability to transmute poisons of a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual nature. Jack lived
for 16 months on Water’s End Reservation in Northern
Nevada and trained under White Feather and his wife, Crawling Bear Claw,
as their last Caucasian shamanic initiate. It was White Feather and Crawling Bear Claw who gave Jack the name Golden Feather. Along with being a shamanic technician of the sacred, Jack is an intuitive counselor, a visionary artist, a spiritual guide, and an ordained healing minister. Since birth, he has been actively seeing auras (the electro-magnetic energy fields that surround all
animate and inanimate objects). As a result, he is particularly adept at recognizing and interpreting the auric energy
fields that emanate from rocks, plants, minerals, and animals, including
humans and prenatal children.
Because shamans are born, not made, being shaman is often as much of a curse as it is a blessing. If you, for example, answer yes to 3 or more of the following life experiences (traits that signal a shaman's calling), you too may have shamanic gifts:
Having epilepsy
Surviving a fire
or shipwreckSeeing apparitions or UFOsHaving vivid and
uncommon dreamsHaving been on
the verge of drowningHaving a sense
of contact with Spirits Parents who have
paranormal abilitiesGlimpses of the
future or verifiable deja-vusThe urge to
learn how to become a shamanSurviving a deep
coma or an apparent deathBeing eccentric,
“different” or a loner as a childExperiencing and living through multiple snakes bites
Ability to
relieve physical pain/illness by touch or prayerMeeting with the
same animals repeatedly in this realityChildhood urges
to go into the wild alone for long periodsDreams that
depict the future or unknown, verifiable eventsBeing born with
a caul, an impairment or extra fingers/toes Being struck by lightning or shocked by high-power electric
Encountering the
same animal or teacher in different dreamsFalling sick
from a serious illness or from unusual symptoms
With a true sense of joy and respect that helps guide people on their life paths, Jack eagerly shares his insights on a professional basis, He is available by appointment for readings/consultations and by pre-arrangement to tutor groups and individuals in the art and practice of shamanism.
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