This is the second episode in a 4 part series on "Shamanic Initiations." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about Shamanic Initiation. The episode includes the following questions: • A listener wrote and said she had been experiencing a “dark night of the soul” for a few weeks and wondered if this is a shamanic initiation. Can you speak to that? [0:30] • Lots of bad, scary and challenging things happen regularly to people; are they all initiations from a shamanic perspective? And how can a person tell the difference between dark night of the soul and depression? And knowing when finding a teacher would be helpful? [4:57] • For some Shamanic initiations, I’m hearing that some of it is non-ordinary reality breaking through ordinary reality. Is that true? [9:11] • If a person does not consider themselves to be on a spiritual path, can they still experience non-ordinary reality breaking through ordinary reality—that kind of initiation? [11:00] • So Spirit is trying to blow through your bones, and make you a conduit for them? [15:00] • This completes our questions. Do you have any thing else that you would like to add at this time? [13:35]