Dimensions and Inter-realms

Lower World (Underworld) Below the Middle World is an inner earth, an underworld that truly has nothing to do with the Christian concept of hell, but is a place of the ancestors and primal beings. This Lower World is a place of testing and facing fear. Beings of…

Upper World Above the Middle World is the realm of the gods, the heavens, the sky heroes and star gods. These beings are detached in their viewpoint and give guidance and information from their perspective above, seeing the greater picture, but they are unattached to the personal details. This Overworld is said to be the home of those who are no lo

As you enter the first dimension, you find an underground world, like the primal first lands of Earth. It is like a primordial jungle or forest that humanity has never touched. Here within the first dimension are all the animals that have ever lived in the world, all the species that are extinct and all that reside in the world now. The same holds

In the shamanic worldview, the first dimension would have less to do with the terrestrial, material Earth, the nature aspect of the Goddess, and more to do with the depths of the Underworld, the realm of the ancestors and the Dark Goddess, whose actions transform us.

We start in the depths of time and soul, in the collective archetypal lands of equally bright light and darkness, the depository of humanity’s psychic inheritance.

Thought forms and elemental beings also inhabit the lower astral realm which is why it is dangerous territory for the unwary. Many of the beings to be found here are mischievous and untrustworthy (elemental spirits and the like), some of whom have evil intent (often called 'demonic beings'). Such beings may have been formed from the powerful though