Connecting to the Lowerworld 1

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The Lowerworld is often associated with the Sidhe, the Fair Folk, and the faerie folk.
Traveling by means of the World tree, we can work with the Fair Folk as well as the ancestors in the Lower world.
The ability to be open, to open our perception, is key to traveling between the worlds.
We also have some ritual tools to hand, such as the staff or wand (which symbolizes the World Tree), herbs, charms, potions, and more which can help us on our journey.
Each person’s journey will be different, each person’s encounter with Faerie is unique.
We will each perceive these beings in a different way, as we ourselves are perceived as different from each other.
The one constant that remains is that these beings exist the world over, throughout cultures and religions all across our planet.
There is a shamanistic thread that binds humanity together, which is not primitive, not simple or reductionist, but simply unifying in its weave.
As Corby Ingold writes in the essay “Shamanism in the Celtic World”. The final problem remaining to us is identifying the Celtic shaman.
We have no word from an ancient Celtic tradition that is exactly cognate with the word “shaman”, though there are plenty of terms for religious and magical practitioners of various types.
Some scholars have suggested the Old Irish word fili, meaning a kind of poet/seer, as the likely term for a shaman in ancient Irish society.
Opinions on this are, however, far from unanimous.
Without knowing what an ancient Celtic shaman might have been called within whichever of the Celtic societies he existed in, and precisely how his role as a shaman was defined within those societies, it is very difficult to say with any certainty that there were Celtic shamans.