My Journey into White Heaven Mongolian and Buryat Shamanism
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7/2/20264 min read
White Heaven Mongolian and Buryat Shamanism is one of the oldest surviving spiritual traditions of Inner Asia. Rooted in reverence for the Eternal Blue Sky, the living spirits of nature, and the wisdom of the ancestors, it is a path devoted to harmony between Heaven, Earth, and humanity. In many lineages, White Shamanism is associated with the benevolent celestial spirits of the Upper World and is centered on healing, blessings, purification, prosperity, and the preservation of balance in both the visible and invisible worlds.
Unlike traditions that are learned solely through study or personal choice, White Heaven Shamanism is traditionally understood as an ancestral calling. According to the beliefs of many Mongolian and Buryat families, the path cannot simply be chosen—it chooses the individual. The spirits, together with the ancestral lineage, call upon a descendant to continue the sacred responsibility carried by previous generations. While the calling may remain dormant for many years, it is believed that it cannot be ignored forever.
Within my own family, the essence of this ancient tradition was preserved through my maternal grandmother's ancestral line. For generations, that inheritance remained dormant. Then, one day, it awakened and chose me as its next bearer.
My story
From the age of five, I felt drawn to worlds beyond ordinary perception. I was fascinated by magic, spirituality, and the unseen mysteries of existence. For the next twenty-seven years, I devoted myself to the study and practice of esoteric and spiritual traditions, following the path of a master magus. Looking back, I now see those years as preparation for something far older than myself.
According to my understanding of my spiritual journey, the spirits first called me when I was twenty years old. At the time, I was not ready. My mind, my heart, and my consciousness had not yet matured enough to embrace such a profound transformation, so I declined the calling.
When I turned thirty, however, the path returned and could no longer be ignored.
What followed was one of the most challenging periods of my life. I experienced persistent pain throughout my spine and back, along with an overwhelming exhaustion that no ordinary explanation seemed to account for. Those symptoms remained with me for almost ten years, until the moment I finally accepted what I believed the spirits had been asking of me.
New life
The initiation that followed was unlike anything I had ever imagined. It was painful, disorienting, and deeply transformative. At times I believed I was losing my mind. I feared there would be no way back to the person I had once been. I walked through this experience alone. There was no elder shaman to guide me, no teacher to explain what was happening, and no community to support me. From my perspective, the spirits simply arrived and made it clear that the time had come.
When the initiation was complete, the person I had been no longer existed. It felt as though my former identity had died so that a new one could be born. The pain that had accompanied me for years disappeared. The fear dissolved. The mysterious exhaustion lifted. I experienced a profound sense of freedom and inner peace unlike anything I had known before.
My consciousness changed in ways that continue to shape every aspect of my life. The world became brighter, lighter, and filled with a quiet sense of belonging. For the first time, I felt that I had truly come home—to myself, to my ancestors, and to the path that had always been waiting for me. Perhaps the most remarkable part of this journey is that it united two paths that might appear incompatible. Through my ancestral bloodline, I accepted my calling as a White Heaven Mongolian and Buryat shaman. Through the consciousness of my soul, I have remained a magus—an Architect of Lyra.
To me, these are not opposing identities but complementary expressions of the same spiritual journey: one rooted in ancestral memory, the other in the evolution of the soul. Together, they have shaped who I am and continue to guide the work I offer to the world.
As part of my initiation, the spirits gave me a shamanic name: ASA.
I was born and raised in Lithuania, a land whose cultural landscape has long been shaped by Baltic traditions and influenced by the mythology of both the Baltic and Nordic peoples. Because this was the world in which I grew up, the spirits did not give me a traditional Mongolian or Buryat name. Instead, they gave me a name that resonated with the land of my birth and the symbolic language through which I had learned to understand the sacred.
The name ASA carries two letter As, a detail the spirits emphasized as essential rather than ornamental. To me, the first A represents the descent of Heaven into the human world—the wisdom, blessings, and ancestral calling that flow from above. The second A represents the awakened soul rising to meet Heaven through consciousness, devotion, and service. Between them stands the letter S, symbolizing the living bridge, the flowing current of spirit that unites the celestial and earthly realms.
ASA therefore became more than a name. It became a symbol of the path I was asked to walk—a meeting point between my ancestral White Heaven shamanic lineage and the land that raised me. Although my blood carries the Mongolian and Buryat shamanic inheritance, my life has unfolded among Baltic and Nordic traditions. Rather than seeing these influences as separate, I experience them as different expressions of the same sacred relationship between humanity, nature, and the Divine.
Receiving the name ASA affirmed that my path is not one of abandoning one heritage for another, but of honoring both. It reminds me that while my ancestral roots reach across the Mongolian steppes, my soul also speaks through the forests, rivers, and ancient myths of Lithuania.
白 — ASA/Sagan Murgel