The Word “Shaman” Got Dragged Through the Mud — But I Still Believe in the Real Ones

 

 

Psychic Medium, Trance Channel, Healer Riz Mirza-He Is Not an Influencer. He Is a Healer, Teacher, and My Husband.

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I’ve been inside spiritual work long enough to watch entire movements rise, reshape, and distort under pressure. I’ve seen breathwork become a trend, plant medicine turn into a business model, and sacred titles tossed around like festival wristbands.

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But nothing has been repurposed faster — or more carelessly — than the word shaman.

Somewhere along the way, a word that once described those who walked between worlds on behalf of others… was reduced to a brand aesthetic. People started claiming the title not through initiation or endurance, but through attendance. You host one journey, pour one cup, burn one bundle of sage — and suddenly the title gets printed on a business card.

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Shamanism didn’t die. It got dragged through the mud. Not always from malice — often from misunderstanding. But impact is impact.

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And yet… I still believe in shamans. Or perhaps more precisely —

I believe in those who do the work that word was originally meant to describe.

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I Know What That Work Looks Like — Because I’ve Walked Beside It

For over a decade, I co-led transformational journeys with a man who never needed a title to prove his capacity. He simply did the work until people started giving him names out of gratitude.

His name is Riz Mirza — a healer, teacher, and my husband. A man who has spent over 20 years guiding individuals and groups across the invisible terrains of fear, grief, identity, loss, and rebirth.

He is not soft in his power, nor performative in his wisdom. He is 56 years old, a step-father to five grown children, and loved by thousands not because he acts enlightened — but because he lives awake and grounded at the same time.

 

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Look at him. Look at his laughter in the photographs. Look at how his shoulders rest — like a man who has carried the weight of hundreds of people’s tears… and still has joy left over.

He didn’t become trusted because he marketed well. He became trusted because people walked out of his sessions whispering:

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“I don’t know what just happened… but I feel like myself for the first time in years.”

“He didn’t just tell me what I wanted to hear — he told me what my soul had been trying to say.”

“I came in with panic attacks. I left with peace.”

Those are the kinds of testimonials no PR agency can fabricate. Go look at his YouTube — over half a million subscribers tuning in to his live trance channeling broadcasts weekly on The Mystics Podcast, which I co-host with him.

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Go look at his private schedule — booked months in advance, not just by spiritual seekers, but by CEOs, nurses, actors, veterans, single mothers, celebrities and heartbroken men who never trusted anyone before.

That is not trend culture.
That is earned resonance.

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If We’re Going to Use Spiritual Language, Let’s Use It Honestly

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If you guide people through altered states of consciousness, you are more than a “coach.”

If you speak to energies beyond the physical, you are more than a “facilitator.”

If you are dismantling emotional armor and rebuilding a person’s sense of existence from the inside out — you are doing soul engineering.

We need language that reflects the gravity.

Call it frequency guidance.
Call it spirit engineering.
Call it dimensional mentorship.
Or call it nothing — and let your work speak for itself.

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The Invitation

I’m not here to police titles.

I’m here to protect the sanctity of real transformation.

If you’ve been searching for someone who doesn’t just “hold space,” but holds you…

If you’re tired of surface-level spirituality and you’re ready for someone who can see through your defense system without judgment…

If you want clarity without fluff, truth without performance, love without theatrics —

Then experience a private session with Riz.

Not because I’m married to him.

But because I’ve seen what he can do for the human soul.

And I refuse to let language stand in the way of someone finally finding peace.

Let’s clean the mud off the sacred words — not by fighting over them, but by embodying their original meaning.

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Not softer.

Not harsher.

Just truer.

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— Oriah Mirza

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To contact: info@rizmirza.com

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Riz Mirza is a world-renowned trance channeler, healer, author and spiritual teacher with over 20 years of continuous service leading thousands of private sessions and over 8,000 hours of live group channeling. Based in Los Angeles and teaching internationally, he is known for delivering high-accuracy messages with a rare combination of grounded emotional intelligence and multidimensional insight.

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He has served clients from every walk of life — CEOs, therapists, military veterans, artists, terminally ill, doctors, grieving parents, and spiritual seekers — and is consistently booked months in advance.

As co-host of The Mystics Podcast (alongside his wife, Oriah), Riz reaches over half a million subscribers on YouTube, where his live channeling broadcasts have cultivated a rapidly growing global following.

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His work bridges psychology, metaphysics, ancestral healing, and high-frequency trance communication, offering not just spiritual inspiration — but life-altering clarity, emotional liberation, and profound nervous system reset.

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About the author:

Oriah Mirza is a transformational intuitive, spiritual teacher, and author known for her courageous first-person accounts of consciousness awakening and extraterrestrial contact. For over a decade, she co-led high-impact spiritual journeys and group ceremonies alongside her husband and collaborator, Riz Mirza — guiding thousands through deep emotional healing, intuitive activation, and self-reclamation.

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A former trauma survivor turned multidimensional voice, Oriah blends raw human honesty with advanced metaphysical insight, making her work resonate with audiences seeking authentic, embodied spiritual leadership rather than performance. She is the co-host of The Mystics Podcast (with over half a million subscribers on YouTube) and the author of Alien Upgrades, a groundbreaking memoir-style disclosure on etheric surgery, contact phenomenon, and soul recalibration.

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Oriah’s teachings live at the intersection of emotional truth, spiritual technology, and radical self-liberation. She does not soften the journey — she dignifies it.

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Together, Riz and Oriah Mirza are the guiding force behind Sacred Earth Retreats — a series of deeply immersive, spiritually catalytic journeys hosted in some of the world’s most energetically charged locations, including Sedona, Mt. Shasta, Egypt, Japan, Tulum, Phuket, and beyond.

Far beyond tourism or surface-level wellness, their retreats are designed as initiation chambers — blending trance channeling, psychic transmissions, ritual practices, shadow breakthrough work, and real human connection to create irreversible energetic shifts. Participants don’t just attend — they shed, remember, and reclaim.

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With Riz’s raw channeling and healing transmissions and Oriah’s intuitive guidance and emotional integration work, they create environments where defenses dissolve, laughter mixes with revelation, and long-held burdens finally release. Their retreats attract seekers, leaders, skeptics, teachers, and everyday people who are simply ready to wake up to themselves again.

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https://www.rizmirza.com/