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Shape Shifter
Full drawing based on the 30 inch high cave wall painting (left) of a shapeshifting shaman at les Trois Freres, southern France, circa 8000 B.C Shapeshifting is likely an activity which is being perceived on the astral plane, where the spirit body can be moulded by the thoughts of the veteran explorer. The shapeshifting shaman, or sorcerer, served as a mediator between humans and their venerated animal kin, and is a prototype for Kernunnos, forest god of the later Celts. But the term sorcerer is also often used derogatorily by astral philosophers such as Emanuel Swedenborg to denote spirit beings who are adept at skills of image manipulation, skills which unless put to good uses are distractions from real spiritual growth.
(image ref. Transformations, Mysteries of the Unknown series, Time-Life Books, 1989)

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