Soul Blueprints & Path of A Modern-Day Shaman With Lou Reed

Lou Reed is a modern-day Shaman who has supported 26,000 women in 86 countries to walk the path of a modern-day Shaman. Lou's life was filled with challenges, initiations, violence, betrayal, and pain. She transformed her wounded stories into sacred medicine, which she shaped into a reproducible scientific method for transforming all dimensions of her being. The Energy Medicine Institute or EMI was born and offers global online training for women who are curious about walking the path. Lou explains that enlightenment means living consciously and bringing in the light, which means being in the present moment and living through all 8 senses.

Music: An Mhaighdean Mhara, Margot Krimmel, solo harp from Ever the New Time Comes. /boulderharp

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You're listening to Women's Dream Enlightenment.

Dream decoding,

Deep discussions,

And spiritual stories of self-discovery to inspire your personal enlightened journey.

I'm your host,

Megan Mary,

Founder of Women's Dream Analysis.

Let's bring in the light.

Welcome.

Today,

We have Lou Reed.

She is a modern day shaman.

Lou Reed's life was filled with challenges,

Initiations,

Violence,

Betrayal,

And pain.

Lou's healing journey saw her transform her wounded stories into sacred medicine,

Which she shaped into a reproducible,

Scientific,

Step-by-step method for transforming all dimensions of your being.

The New York City Medicine Institute,

Or EMI,

Was born and offers global online training for women who are curious about walking the path of a modern day shaman.

Lou is an inspirational speaker and has supported 26,

000 women in 86 countries to walk the path as a modern day shaman,

Transforming their lives and those of their community.

Welcome Lou.

Thank you,

Honey.

Hi,

Everybody.

I'm so glad to have you here today.

That is an amazing introduction.

That is a lot of women whose lives you have touched and changed.

I know.

It's just such a joy.

I now don't work with the lovers one-on-one,

My team does that,

But just witnessing the transformations and seeing how one change in your life has this incredible ripple effect out into the world.

Yes.

It's beautiful.

Well,

One of my first questions that I love to ask everyone,

Because it's such a juicy question,

Is what does enlightenment mean to you?

Enlightenment for me means living consciously.

So being an enlightened being,

Working the path filled with light.

Because when we look at our wounded stories or our challenges in life that has reshaped our soul and reshaped the way that we express ourself in light,

Then we're absent of light.

So if we look at wounded stories or less than optimal behaviors being absent of light,

It's simply the light has moved away and we're looking in another direction and we tend to put it in a little Pandora's box and not look at it.

So enlightenment means living consciously.

Yes.

I love that explanation and I love how you were talking about the light,

Because I feel like bringing that light in is what going from 3D to 4D is all about,

Or 5D,

Is really bringing in that light.

And that's actually why I have that as my intro to the podcast,

Because I feel like we all need to bring in that light.

It's such an important piece.

Consciously to me means being in the present moment and living through all of our eight senses.

Quite often people look at our five senses,

Which is a very masculine way of living.

And for women,

The other three senses that have become so important working with the women that I have around the world is creativity,

Because creativity is a bridge between our five senses and our sensuality and sexuality,

Which are the other two.

So feeling it on all levels.

Now we can only feel the light when we have light in our being.

So raising our light consciousness in the now moment,

For me,

Is the key to enlightenment.

I love that explanation.

I haven't really heard it explained that way before.

So let's talk about your enlightenment journey.

Did you have a pivotal moment that brought you to realize this type of work that you're doing now?

I definitely had a pivotal moment.

And I also had a lot of shadow leading up to the pivotal moment.

Again,

Talking about that absence of light,

Of experiences where I chose a path that wasn't a soul path and took me off path.

So I see the path as light.

And I see when I step off path is absent of light.

And so as I walked my healing path,

Or as I walked my life path,

I started to surgically remove aspects of self that I felt were not acceptable,

That society or my community or the people around me mirrored back to me that that was not okay.

And so as I surgically removed aspects of self and left them on the side of the highway of life,

I move forward in life,

And then I got to a place where I felt like there should be more to life.

And what had happened is I'd removed so much of self,

There was hardly anything can be left.

I was a shell of who I was,

Again,

Shadow,

Rather than light.

And I had a near death experience,

There was nothing left inside of me to guide me.

And that near death experience allowed me to move into the world between world and see it's kind of the best I can explain it is I was me,

But I was everything all at once.

And so all of these questions I had during my life up to that moment,

It's all as everything sort of dropped in place like a jigsaw puzzle,

And I had a clear picture.

And what became very clear to me is,

I had been working on my third dimensional character,

My behaviors,

But the true change comes from working with our soul blueprint.

Because our soul blueprint is the piece that is designed in the bardo or the spiritual waiting room with source and my high self at the birth of my soul.

And I had been working with everything that had happened in this body,

In this incarnation,

But it wasn't fixing the things,

It was like I was peeling away another layer of the onion.

But I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere.

And then in that near death experience,

In that instant,

I saw everything.

I saw how my soul blueprint was created.

I saw all the moments in time,

Almost like a highlights of a movie trailer,

Where I could see all the key pieces,

Where I'd made decisions to turn away from light in the now moment.

And so that's when I started to focus on the spiritual roadmap,

Which is our blueprint.

So that's where we can make deep soulful transformation for the evolution of our soul,

Not just this lifetime.

That's fascinating.

Yes.

I heard you say in our private conversation that the way you explained the soul blueprint just sounded really,

Really interesting that it is basically when we,

When our soul split from source,

What was encoded at that time and reconnecting with that and reconnecting ourselves,

Reconnecting with source,

But also reconnecting with our true selves,

Essentially,

Which is what so many of these modalities aim to do is to create that connection back to the higher self,

Back to the source of ourselves.

And dreams is just another way,

But that's one of my pathways that I feel is very powerful,

But there are so many ways that that can be done.

Dream is an important tool because one of the tools that my spirit showed me as a tool for my modern day shaman toolkit is lucid dreaming.

Being able to learn how to be conscious inside of a dream and reshape things because as we reshape it in the dream,

We come back and we've actually reshaped it in our blueprint.

So it's another way to work with the soul blueprint and get to that deep soulful transformation.

Yes.

Because there's such synergy and there's such a reflexive nature when you start to be able to connect with that ability in your dreams,

It then influences your waking life in a positive way,

Which then changes your dreams in a positive way,

Which it's that creates this whole positive cycle and synergistic energy that can be extremely powerful in restoring confidence and in providing direction and just giving people that connection that they're missing,

That feeling of purpose in life.

I also found that learning to be conscious in a dream state was the first step for some people to enlightenment.

They weren't able to learn how to be conscious in their waking state.

But as I learned how to be conscious in their dream state,

It just naturally transferred over and they became more conscious.

Consciousness to me is being present in the now moment and experiencing each now moment through the eight senses.

When we do that,

We are pure light and we don't create wounded stories to have to work with down the track and transform.

And so learning that level of consciousness is a key to transforming our soul codes because they do become corrupt.

Each time we make a choice that leads us off path,

Every time we make a thought that takes us off path,

Every time we choose to not clear a wounded story,

Then we're taking in more shadow.

And so we're removing the light from our being and then we're not able to be present in the now moment.

Yes.

Shadow work is a never ending process.

It's not just one and done where you confront your shadows and you dissolve them because like you said,

Life doesn't work that way and you're constantly being inculcated with all sorts of energies and experiencing all sorts of challenges.

And that work of clearing that energy and of approaching that shadow is something that's ongoing,

Just like your dream work.

It's never,

Oh,

Now I understand it all.

It's a journey.

It's a continual process.

Yes.

And a lot of people fear shadow work.

And the invitation is to transform your shadow into golden shadow.

It isn't to erase it,

Eradicate it,

Ignore it,

Bury it.

The invitation is to,

And this is where it's really aligned with the soul blueprint,

Because what we do is we are given 12 soul codes when our soul splits from source,

And they are 12 of the 22 creation codes which created the world.

And science confirms that,

Science works in the same principle.

And each code has a lesson and initiation and a gift and a talent.

So what we do with our soul blueprint is we explore the shadow.

And so think of it as a continuum,

Each soul code is shadow,

Light.

In an ideal,

The path of a modern day shaman,

We toggle the two worlds.

So we have one foot in shadow and one foot in light.

And we work with bringing more light into specific areas.

And what can happen is we can get lost in the symptoms.

We can feel the symptoms because they give us the immediate fix of an emotional hit.

And so we say focus in the symptoms rather than getting down to which soul code is corrupt here.

What am I actually working on?

And let me get to the root cause,

Dabble around in that shadow and start to move light into it so I can transform it into golden shadow.

I like that actually,

That it's,

It's not dissolving it necessarily,

It's just transforming it.

I do want to talk about the word shaman and how it,

I want you to talk about maybe misconceptions about that word and how you think of that word and how that might be different from previous incarnations or other people's conceptions of that word.

And also about medicine and the different types of medicine,

Because essentially my medicine might be dreams and other,

Another woman's medicine might be something else.

And so I'd like you to talk a little bit about that.

I think that's really key here.

Absolutely.

Shaman,

You're born a shaman.

You're not created as such.

We're all created medicine women.

I believe we're all created with our own energy healing,

With our own medicine.

And we all have in our soul blueprint,

The journey from shadow to light or from corrupt soul codes to transforming them into our gifts and talents.

That's our medicine.

The journey,

The step-by-step process that we take to embody who we were born to be or who our soul was birthed to be is the medicine that we share with others.

And it's a really important message because so many people think that they need to look at the external world and fit into a hole somewhere.

My invitation is to let go of everything you believe to be true,

To unlearn so that you can become teachable and not teachable by me or you or another human,

But by spirit.

Spirit is light and flows through us,

Comes down from the divine in our crown energy center,

Through our energy centers down into Mother Earth.

When we're birthed,

Mother Earth has sent the blueprint and she says,

Got it,

Thanks.

I realize you're here.

Here's the first thing that you need.

And so then we start wandering through life and then it then goes straight up through our energy system,

Where we came from,

Wherever that may be,

Wherever your belief is.

And then it says,

She's arrived,

She's here and she's on a path.

And then they go,

Fantastic.

Thank you for that information.

This is her next step.

And there's this constant inpouring and outpouring of light from Mother Earth up to where we came from or to high self source,

Whatever our belief is,

It doesn't matter.

It's the same in science or in religion or in ancient wisdom.

And so when we have an uncomfortable feeling and we block that feeling,

We contract and we stop that inpouring and outpouring.

And whatever that emotion is,

Has a frequency.

So if it's anger,

It's anger,

It's fear,

It's fear.

And that then starts to taint the energy flowing up and down.

And so as a shaman,

What we do is we bring balance into the world.

So by standing in the middle of that continuum of absence of light and light,

We're always asking yourself,

How can I bring balance to this moment?

How can I bring balance and balance of light so that it's not shadow down this end and I'm lost.

It's the beautiful dance between shadow and golden shadow.

Shamans are a different kind of beast.

We are all born energy healers and medicine women.

And the training is specifically designed for women to identify who they are and what their medicine is in this lifetime,

How to language it and how to share it with others.

And those that become a medicine woman,

Some of those will be shaman.

And the difference is that a shaman is taught by spirit.

We're not trained by third dimensional beings.

In saying that,

At some point in a shaman's path,

There is a place where they require guidance on how to integrate the spirit world with the third dimension world so they can be of service.

And that's where I come in.

So I identify the shamans as they move through the training.

And then once they identify themselves that they actually spirits been with them all their life,

And spirit has been showing them and guiding them and teaching them.

And now their place is what I understand who I am.

But how does that translate into the third dimension,

Then my role is to support them in that.

That's a very important role,

Because there are,

As you said,

Even though we may be making that connection,

And we may be receiving that information.

And we may even have an idea of what our,

Our path is supposed to be and what our medicine might be.

It's figuring out how to articulate that and channel that and get that out to the people that need it,

That I think is sometimes one of the biggest challenges.

After you've overcome all your other challenges to,

To figure out to get to that point to figure out,

Okay,

You've already done the acknowledging you've already done the connecting,

How do you do that last step of that transformation.

And the interesting thing is,

Is it's not a training.

It's an awakening.

It's a remembrance of who you are.

And so my role as the shaman for initiates is to support them in removing everything that is not them.

I don't teach people how to be them.

Spirit does that beautifully.

I teach them how to gain confidence in the messages that are coming through,

To trust the messages that are coming through and find their own unique way of then expressing it.

Because we don't realise how shaped we are by the overculture.

Well,

By the time we get to the place where yes,

This is my medicine,

The biggest challenge is unlearning to relearn and to allow that latent wisdom that's in ourselves of our being to just awaken and release the ancestral medicine.

And a lot of the ancestral medicine,

If I can just clarify is not third dimensional beings.

It's celestial beings.

I mean,

That's how we were birthed that earth was originally in a galactic library,

Where races would come and exchange information.

And humanity was birthed.

This is through my teachings from spirit,

Humanity was birthed through the combination of 12 different races coming together and donating a DNA strand.

And so we are now have awakened two to three DNA strands.

But the evolution of humanity will be an invitation to awaken all 12.

And so there's this star beings in our cells and people are starting to awaken on the planet have been for now maybe a year or two.

So the light language is coming through and a lot of different things.

And they don't know where to put it.

So they feel wrong.

So they discard it.

What?

No.

So the path of a modern day shaman is to unlearn all of those things,

You know,

Like Leonardo,

Leonardo da Vinci,

They said,

How did you create David?

He said,

Simple,

I just removed everything that wasn't David.

And that's my role as the shaman to the initiate spirits already trained you,

You have that connection.

My role is simply to support you in connecting in with those things that aren't third dimensional,

That don't make sense and allow you to really lean in and trust that.

Yes.

And that,

That is exactly what I think is happening so much right now.

I hear so many people talk about it.

And I think that so many,

So many women are waking up to remembering and it is a remembering is at the core of the experience.

And it's the way you put it where they don't know where to put it is exactly is exactly right,

Because it doesn't make sense.

It's not part of this cultural experience that we're used to having.

And we don't really,

It doesn't fit into the trajectory that we've either been told that our life is going to take,

Or that we've preset in our minds that our life should take.

And we don't know where to put that,

How to embody that,

To even allow that.

And it's that challenge of saying,

Okay,

There is something I know there is something I don't even know what it is.

And I can't even name but you feel called,

You feel driven,

You feel like you have to do something.

And you're not even really sure how to make that in.

It's already part of your reality,

But you're not really sure how to how to formulate that and get out of your own way is what I always say.

And with everything that's happened on the planet in the last few years,

More and more medicine,

Women and shut like the medicine woman archetype has been coming through and awakening in us for quite a few years now.

And what I found is with the 1000s of women that I've worked with,

There's always a common thread.

And that common thread is that the modality,

Whatever it is that they felt was their calling,

Is no longer sufficient.

It's not fixing the problems.

It's not covering everything,

Everyone is starting to wake up and see that whatever it is,

So I've had metaphysic people,

I have psychologists,

I have scientists,

I have all sorts of people coming,

And their teaching is no longer covering everything that's happening in the world,

And in their world and their beloved's world.

And so they're looking for more.

So the sign that you're waking up is that you feel like there should be something more to life,

Or that you're missing something in life and you can't language it.

You just know it on some deep cellular level.

And all of this beautiful medicine that's coming through you that everyone is discarding is the answers.

I'm going to just say that again.

All of this really crucial information that is medicine for this time on the planet,

That people are discarding because it's different,

Is the medicine.

And what's happening for those that have the shaman call,

They have this real sense of urgency.

They don't know why or what or how,

They just know they have to have,

They've got to,

Got to,

Got to,

Got to,

They've got to do this and they've got to,

They don't know what,

But they've got this real kind of almost panic.

And that panic is Mother Earth calling us to step up and to step in.

I really do relate to that path because for the last 10 years,

I couldn't say,

Well,

You know,

Earth used to be a galactic library because it doesn't say it anywhere in the planet.

But I've had the pain of holding my medicine in made me so physically ill that I've had to let it out.

I've had to just start expressing it.

So I started expressing it with people I trusted and then I looked for a community and I couldn't find one,

So I created one.

And so all of the lost souls that are finding a home,

Particularly star beings,

You know,

A lot of my beloved started to bring through light language and they were ashamed of it.

And I'm like,

No honey,

This is your medicine,

Shout it from the treetops,

Come into the tribe and start sharing,

Which is why we invite our beloved to start in sacred circle and just put your toe in the water,

Start to listen to the healing,

See if you connect.

And if you don't connect,

Reach out because someone in the tribe will go,

I know what that is.

That's this.

And you could go to see this person.

Like I'm not the answer for everybody,

But I'm the answer for those that at the beginning of their journey who are a bit lost to help them find the path,

Which is why it's a path of the modern day shaman.

Meaning it could be an energy healer.

It could be a dream.

It could be medicine woman.

It's a path.

And those who aren't shaman will,

We will help them find their,

Wherever it is they're meant to be.

That's beautiful.

So wonderful that you're offering that.

Normally what we do is we dive into the 12 soul codes because they are everything.

Then they tell us about the four key areas of our life.

And we start to see the patterns because the reason why soul codes when they're corrupt are a bit tricky to find,

Because we have different personalities.

So think of it as when we're with a family,

There's dominant soul codes that will come out.

So we might be the black sheep.

We might be the golden child.

We might be the only child.

There's these roles that we sort of slot into in the third dimension.

And so then you find that with friends,

You have a completely different personality.

You might be more relaxed,

More open,

More you.

Then when it comes to money,

Generally we take on the story of our primary caregivers unconsciously.

And then we start living out this way of being in the world around money and don't even realise that it's not even our story to fix,

Which is why a lot of women in particular struggle with money when they start to set up their own business.

Because they will find that in our genes that you're a nurturer,

You nurture others.

But to be a soulpreneur,

We're in our third dimensional construct of a masculine,

We need to take that feminine out into the world.

So different soul codes create different patterns in different areas of our life.

We're not schizophrenic,

Good news.

We just simply rely on,

We become stronger in certain soul codes in particular areas.

Now,

In an ideal world,

To be enlightened,

We want to live through the light aspect of all 12 soul codes in every area of our life.

That's how we become our true self,

How we become raw,

Real and authentic.

The personal owners that a lot of people live through are just the ones they've created to exist and survive in their environment.

And what we want to do is move out of that shadow and into the light.

And to start the path,

My invitation would be to start in our sacred circle.

So you can just feel into come in and be you engage with other beloveds who are either beginning or have been on the path for a while.

And each Monday I do a teaching in there so that you can start to explore different aspects of yourself.

Wonderful.

Thank you,

Honey.

And I just invite all the women who are listening,

All the men who love them to really start to listen to that intuition.

It has a message for you.

Your inner shaman is speaking.

Are you listening?

I couldn't agree more.

Everyone needs to quiet the mind and listen to that inner voice.

It has so much to tell us.

Well,

Thank you so much for being here today,

Lou Reed.

I really appreciate everything that you are doing for women everywhere and your gifts and offerings as well.

Thank you,

Honey.

Let's see you on the path.

Let's do this.

Yes.