The work of the South and West are about doing. The work of the North is about non-doing. The shamanic leader learns to drink directly from the vast well of knowledge to become a teacher and mentor toe employees, co-workers, customers, suppliers, and other leaders. The internet, with its hyperlinked organizations and communities, has made it easy to find the right flower to deliver the nectar of life-giving knowledge. The internet is a physical manifestation of the metaphysical world shamans view as energetic connections.

In the South, shamans shed the past; in the West, fear; and in the North, shamans begin to link to the lineage of shamanic knowledge and to their destiny. In the "real" world, people focus on the arrow of time, linear time. In the North, shamanic leaders shift to another kind of time that Jung called synchronicity. Native people live in circular time. This is what Peter Senge calls systems thinking.

Practices of the Teacher

• munay - compassion and gifts of teaching
• simplicity
• consequence - shifting relationship to time, from linear to circular
• invisibility - having nothing left to hide, being open
• not-knowing - beginner’s mind

The Shadow Teacher

The dark sides of the teacher archetype are the:

• Pedant - know-it-all
• Fool - ignorant by choice

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