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The Rainbow Bridge Society was created in December 2006 to make available a spiritual and ceremonial pathway process that catalyzes personal freedom and alignment with Grandmother Earth and self-governance.

The Rainbow Bridge Society offers a guide to ceremony and knowledge for spiritual growth and evolution in a self-directed framework. The ceremonial pathways are dedicated to the possibility of people transforming themselves and their relationships to life and Grandmother Earth. Each person is individually committed to his or her own balance and empowerment. The Rainbow Bridge Society is governed for and by the people. It is a collective of individuals that promotes the values of self-care, self-knowlege, self-awareness, self-authority, self-responsibility, self-respect, self-discipline, self-forgiveness, and self-integrity. In this way the RBS is honorable to life and of service to the Greater.

The Rainbow Bridge Society was created by a group of individuals desiring a pathway process that was not hierarchal within it's structure. They desired to create a way for individuals to find their own relationship to Spirit and to be able to study and engage in ceremonial ritual without the need of a teacher or a Guru guiding them. Their task and challenge has been to create a ceremonial pathway in which the individual can participate in ceremony and be guided by spirit rather than being guided by a teacher. The ceremonial pathway process consists of 22 pathways and within each pathway there are 22 individual ceremonies. They follow the steps of the major arcana as seen in Tarot decks. The major deck that is used as guidance for the ceremonial pathway process is the Xultun Tarot Deck created by Peter Balin and published by Lotus Press. The ceremonies itself have been "dreamed" or intuited and then tested to ensure the ceremonial intent is the outcome. The ceremonies themselves use the backdrop of nature, meditation, breath, action and the power of dreaming so a person discovers both their light and dark aspects within and in their actions. Shamanic process creates freedom in that a person is able to make conscious choices and be accountable for their actions. This is at the heart of becoming self-governed.

The two greatest questions for the Rainbow Bridge Society are, "Can human beings govern themselves and journey on a spiritual path without needing a hierarchal structure or a teacher? Can human beings allow for creation or spirit to speak to them directly as their guidance"? The ceremonial process seeks to answer that question. As a person progresses within the pathway process the challenges of internal balance, power, and seeking the light increase allowing the seeker to fully reconcile their shadow and walk in balance self-governed yet walking out their destiny guided by their destiny and spirit. The ceremonial process is based on shamanic work throughout the world as the way to see the truth within and without helping the seeker peel off all masks and illusions, self-importance and self-pity so what is left is called the transcended ego or no ego. The seeker is guided within and not at the effect of the world around him/her.

The Rainbow Bridge Society is producing a book, "Shamanic Ceremonies for a Changing World: A step by Step Pathway Manual for Spiritual Enrichment and Personal Healing". This book offer the ceremonies of the first 3 pathways in a self-directed self-guided framework. The book is due out in March 2009.