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Chapter 8. The Making of a Seiðman 223<br />
no sense of humor like the Little Red Man and is there simply to do a job. I doubt<br />
if she even cares if the seiðman himself lives or dies. With the Little Red Man there<br />
exists a personality to interact with; with Toloache and her warrior, there is none.<br />
The question often comes up as to why a seiðman would use psychoactives during<br />
a curing session. The question is wrong, however, because the asker is forgetting<br />
that the seiðman is part of a team. The one who calls the shots on how to go about<br />
gaining a cure is rarely the seiðman. I play an important role, for sure, but being the<br />
planner of a scheme is not one of them. My job is primarily to put the cure together<br />
here on Midgard after the cure has been designed and after the ‘backgound’ has<br />
been managed, i.e. those arrangements which need to be made in the Otherworld.<br />
My role is really that of liaison between the worlds. The question about why the<br />
seiðman would use a psychoactive plant really has no better answer than asking a<br />
nail why it is hit by a hammer. In both cases the ‘design’ is everything and neither<br />
the nail nor the seiðman play any significant role in the design stage.<br />
8.6. On Cleanliness:<br />
When I first began being visited by the ghosts back in 1991, I knew nothing of<br />
‘cleanliness.’ For sure, I took a bath every day and brushed my teeth twice a day,<br />
but I did not understand what it meant to be clean. I did not understand that the<br />
Waters must flow unimpeded; in fact, I did not even know what the Waters were.<br />
Here I should take a little time and review this concept. As the Waters flow<br />
through the three (or nine) homes from well to well making a complete circle so do<br />
they flow through man. There is an inflow and an outflow area. On many, at least<br />
when I am working with them, the Waters flow in through the top of the head an<br />
main course of the internal river flows through the trunk, splits at the crotch and<br />
exits through the feet. The arms can either be inflow or outflow estuaries depending<br />
upon the need at the time. Usually, when I am working with a client, I will watch<br />
the flow of Waters. I will put their hands down along their sides (to make an outflow<br />
area at the hands), then I will watch how the efficiency of the flow increases and<br />
decreases as I point their head in different directions. While one may have the<br />
most efficient flow with his head in the east, another will do best if the head is in<br />
the southwest. The directions have no significant meanings as they do for Native<br />
Americans and Wiccans at least not for this work.<br />
Secondly, I will watch their insides to see where the flow becomes constricted.<br />
Often, this is noticed most in the joints especially the the shoulders and hips, but<br />
constrictions can occur anywhere in the system. When I locate these constrictions<br />
(everyone will have a few) I will rearrange their body to improve the flow. Before I<br />
do any other work on them I want to maximize the flow of the Waters.