Drum-books – How to receive them and use them

22 July, 2025Henkinen opetus, Shamanismidrum-book, sámiArje Sakari Silander

On June 2012 I traveled to Lapland with a friend of mine. I have wanted to visit Lapland for a very long time and to get to know the Sámi culture and enjoy Lapland’s nature, which all my friends have praised.

So, when the opportunity presented itself, I jumped in my friend’s car and traveled to Finnish Lapland. Unfortunately, the weather was very wet and it didn’t stop raining for our whole trip, but that didn’t stop our enthusiasm.

I remember how excited I was when we were driving north. When the first reindeer has started to show up on the side of the road we stopped for photographs with them.

After driving for many hours, we reached the camp-site near Inari were we were planning on staying and were finally able to stretch our legs after the long car drive.

Our plan was to visit Inari and Ivalo (two villages in Lapland) and climb on top of the Kiilopää-mountain.

When we were in Inari, we visited the Siida-museum, and got to know the Sámi culture better. There was an old shamanic-drum in the museum and I remember that the text next to the drum said that the Sámi believe that all their history and culture is recorded inside their drums. That it is like a book for them.

We had a really good time in Lapland and I remember how nature felt really alive over there. It felt like there was a natural power place every fifty meters or so. It was really easy to hear what nature has to say.

On our way back, on June 21st 2012, we stopped at a random place in the forest and celebrated the longest day of the year with a drum ceremony. The idea of the ceremony was to help the Finns and the Sámi people come together.

During the drum-ceremony, a Sámi Shaman spirit, all dressed up in the traditional Sámi clothes, has joined our circle and helped us with the drumming. Afterwards he gifted us the Sámi drum-book. After which he would show up from time to time, when I needed help.

At that point in time, I already had a shamanic drum, but I didn’t have a drum-book, from which receive information. So I was very grateful for this magnificent gift and when I got home, I begin meditating with the drum-book I was given.

When my mind became quiet, I opened the drum-book and I remember that the first page was all about the history of the Sámi people: How they have migrated all the way from Siberia to where they live now days in Northern Finland.

The next page was about the culture and music of the Sámi people. I meditated with the drum-book for a while more and then connected it to my shamanic-drum. Ever since then I could connect to Sámi culture every time I use my drum, and the Sámi drumming beat has become my favorite!

The flower of life at the Masada fortress.

A few months later I flew to Israel to visit my family over there. When I was in Israel, me and my brother visited the famous ruins of Masada. Masada is an ancient mountain top fortress, whom the Jewish king Herod has built in the south of Israel. When the Jewish people have rebelled against Rome, at the year 72, they escaped to Masada from the Roman army and remained defiant inside their well protected fortress for a very long time. In the end the Roman army has built a dirt ramp all the way to the fortress and conquered it. On the eve of the Roman’s final attack, the Jewish defenders have come together and decided that the Romans will not catch them alive. So the Jewish fighters first killed their women and children and then themselves until there was but a few fighters left and they committed suicide too.

So there was a strong energy of fanaticism and death in Masada, that we have decided to clean out with my brother. The Jewish fighters could have spared the women and children and let them fall into Roman hands. The Romans would have probably freed them after a while.

We found a nice place to sit down, just outside the fortress and started drumming together. We saw how the old energies leave the place and how new energy starts to flow from the earth through Masada. After the drumming we also received the drum-book of Karelia (which is a region in south east Finland).

I don’t know why we have received the Karelian drum-book in Israel, but whatever the reason was – we were very thankful for this great gift!

That was when I began realizing that every tribe on Earth probably has its own drum-book and they can all be received from Mother Earth!

When I got home, I meditated with the Karelian drum-book and it had a leather cover with a big gemstone embedded in it.

A few years later, my ex-girlfriend and I had arranged a shamanic drumming evening in Kuusamo, which is a city in north east Finland. During the ceremony we received knowledge that the drum-book of Kuusamo has been damaged during World War 2 and we could help restore it during the drum-ceremony.

While drumming, a white reindeer has joined our circle and together we managed to repair the drum-book of Kuusamo. Kuusamo has its own tribe of people, that has stayed more or less isolated, because of its desolate location. It is so desolate that it is one of the only city’ in Finland without railway service… 😉

The Kuusamo drum-book was the third drum-book I had the good fortune of working with!

After that I have started teaching people how to receive and work with their drum-books and I came to know many more drum-books: The Estonian drum-book, the Russian drum-book (there are probably many of them), the Hame drum-book, the Ostrobothnian drumbook, etc. There are also the Viking drum-book, The fairy drum-book, The Giants drum-book, the Gnomes drum-book, etc.

The last drum-book I have received was the drum-book of Israel. I have lived most all my childhood in Israel, so I wanted to get to know the Israeli drum-book too. So I asked Mother Earth for it and she gave it to me. Now days I make music in Finnish, English and Hebrew, so it’s great to I’m able to receive inspiration from the Israeli drum-book!

What are drum-books?

They are virtual books, onto which the history, culture, way of life, beliefs, music, art and other information is recorded. To me they look like real books: The Sámi drum-book had a white leathery cover, The Karelian drum-book had a thick leather cover with a large gemstone on it and the Israeli drum-book was also bound in leather.

How can I receive a drum-book?

It is very easy. All you have to do is meditate with Mother Earth, in your own way, and ask her to give you the drum-book of your tribe. When you receive it from her – just let it enter your heart consciousness and stay there. Now when your drum-book is safely stored inside your heart you can access it by connecting to your heart consciousness. Even though I have received many drum-books, I noticed that I only really use three of them: I use the Sámi drum-book for shamanic ceremonies and I use the Karelian and Israeli drum-books when composing music.

The Karelians have a very rich and merry culture and music, and it’s been a great inspiration to me when I compose my own music. Maybe one day I will also compose a song in the Sámi style, but it hasn’t happened yet… 😉

How to use a drum-book?

When your drum-book has been safely stored inside your heart consciousness, you can meditate with it and “read” it with the help of you soul. Just ask your soul to connect you to your drum-book and help you understand it in your own way: Drumming, singing, dancing, painting etc. You can also open it and then “dive” into it and it will connect you to the energies of your tribe and it’s history.

You can also connect your drum-book to your drum, so that each time you use your drum, the book will inspire you. You can off course connect it to other musical instruments as well, it doesn’t have to be a drum. You can also download the drum-book into a crystal of your choice and then the crystal will help you access the information stored in the drum-book.

I like playing with my drum-books and having fun with Mother Earth!

That was it. I hope you enjoyed this article and that it has given you some new ideas about shamanism and Mother Earth. If you have any questions, I will gladly answer them if I can.

It will be great if you could share your experiences with your drum-books here, so that our knowledge of them will grow bigger.

Peace and Love, Arje Sakari Silander

A guide for loving yourself

29 March, 2024DNA-programming, Love, Self-love, Spiritual teachingArje Sakari Silander

Many people have periods in which they don’t love themselves. These periods can be very difficult, because love is the force that keeps us hopeful and vital. I also had periods like that in my life and these were very hard on me. I was lucky that the universe has helped me through these bad times, and that is why I decided to share my experiences on how I was able to love myself again.

First we have to understand that love in not a concept that we should be learned somehow and understood, it is only an emotion, a feeling. A very simple and straight forward emotion. We have all felt it before. It could have come from our parents, our friends or from our pets. But the most reliable source for love is actually God, or Mother Earth. So if one day you will be left alone without love, then all you have to do is ask God, or Mother Earth for love and you will receive it immediately, without any conditions or judgement. This is why I don’t believe in any religious sect that teaches that Gods’ love has conditions to it. From my experience I can tell you that it is unconditional. Try it for yourself if you don’t believe me!

So the first exercise I suggest you try, is going outside to nature, lying flat on your back on Mother Earth, opening your arms and legs to your sides and asking for Mother Earths’ and Gods’ love, so that it will fill your whole being. Enjoy!

Now, that you know what unconditional love feels like, it is your responsibility to take care of your self love, so that the feeling will always be present when you need it.

I have many beloved albums that I listen to, when I need love. One of my favorites is the Leonard Cohen live concerts. Or the Beatles, all you need is love. Bob Marley’s songs: One love, Positive vibration and Is this love are also great.

Love is an emotion that should be expressed and shared with the people around you, so that you are surrounded by the people you love, and who loves you back. When you are surrounded by people who loves you, no one can “own” your love. Try to fill your world with as many loving beings as you can: People, animals, plants and even rocks. There are no limits to how much love you can give and receive… 😉

Love should be expressed openly: If you love someone – let them know that you love them. They will be happy to know that somebody loves them, and you will enjoy giving love as well, love is endless!

There are many people how don’t love themselves, and it is futile to expect love from them. They cannot give you something that they don’t have. It is usually the case that persons who love themselves, finds other persons who love themselves too. And then they share the love they have between them and create their life out of that love.
And then there are people who have not found self-love yet, and they usually find other people who don’t love themselves yet either and together form a partnership based on the scarcity of love. Until they learn to love themselves, and the relationship ends…

So what can be done if you haven’t found love yet?

It is time to examine our family’s rules of love and ponder if they make any sense.

Reprogramming the family’s rules of love

Every family has it’s own rules for how to express love and whom it should be given to. Rules about who deserves love from the members of the family and who doesn’t. Usually every family has their own rules, so your mother’s family’s love rules will be different from your father’s family love rules. That is why I suggest you take a paper and a pen and divide the paper into two columns:

My father’s family’s love rule & My mother’s family’s love rules.

When I say rules, I mean:

What kind of person you should be, so that you will receive love from your parents?

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Sun discs – how to activate and use them

24 April, 2023Ascension, Mother Earth, Sun-disc, Sun-portaldna activation, Sun-disc, Sun-portalArje Sakari Silander

A few weeks ago, I was asked to release all I know about the sun-discs to everybody, so that other people would be able to activate their sun-discs and use them for the good of all mankind. So here we go…

At around 2010, two ladies approached me and asked me if I can help them activate their sun-discs. We scheduled a meeting and activated our sun-discs together. They told me that they have received their sun-discs in a previous life in Egypt. When we started investigating the sun-discs together, I noticed that I also have a sun-disc, although I received my sun disc in a previous life as a Mayan sun-priest. My sun-disc was a bit rusty, because it wasn’t used for hundreds of years. Still it shined in gold.

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A story about rape

2 June, 2022DNA-programming, Emotional release, Emotions, Energy centers - Chakras, Spiritual teachingArje Sakari Silander

In order to understand this story, I will need to tell you about my background first. I was born in Turku, Finland, but my family moved to Israel when I was three years old. We spent our first year in Israel in a Finnish village near Jerusalem, called Yad Hashmona. After that my family moved to a kibbutz in northern Israel called Merom Golan. Kibbutz’s differ from a normal village by its communist ideology: All the members of the kibbutz work for the kibbutz and for their work, the kibbutz provides them with all their needs: free housing, food, furniture, clothes, education, etc. As children, we gathered every year in the Kibbutz’s clothes department, where each one of us was allowed to pick clothes for themselves: a couple of trousers and a couple of shirts. We also got two pairs of shoes and one pair of sandals every year. Everyone ate together in the dining hall of the kibbutz, where food was free for the members of the kibbutz and their children. Once we were thirteen, we also began working for the kibbutz for one day a week. For the rest of the week we studied in the local school.

When I was a child, the kibbutz was still based on communist ideology: All the members of the Kibbutz got equal pay, no matter what job they held. Every job was equally important for the community. And the kibbutz, took care of all the members equally. For us children, this was like paradise, if we wouldn’t take into account the negative sides of the kibbutz.

Namely, we as children, had to live and sleep in the kibbutz’s kindergarten by ourselves, and not with our parents. This was really difficult for many of us, both mentally and emotionally. We lived and slept in the kindergarten, and every evening we got to see our parents for a few hours. Later on in the evening, our parents took us back to the kindergarten, where they would help us fall asleep. After that, we were left alone in the kindergarten. Once every hour or so, an armed guard would come and do his round in the kindergarten and check that everybody was OK. (The kibbutz was located near the Syrian border, so there were armed kibbutz members guarding the gates and the places were the children slept). So as children, we had to basically raise ourselves up and solve our problems by ourselves, without adult supervision. We became independent, but, as they say in Hebrew: “scratched” children.

I started going to the kibbutz’s kindergarten when I was four years old, when I didn’t even understand Hebrew yet. I remember the first night I slept in the kindergarten: I got into a fight with a Israeli boy, after which several children attacked me. Probably the whole fight was due to a misunderstanding. I just didn’t understand what they were saying, and got into a fight. And the other kids just tried to keep us apart until we calmed down. However, to me it felt like I was being attacked, first by one child and then by the rest of them. First night without mother… ☹

My little brother was also born at that same time, and since he was a baby, he got to sleep at home with my parents, and I didn’t. This seemed really unfair to me and I always felt like I did something wrong and that’s why I was punished and thrown out from my parents’ home. It wasn’t until many years later that I realized that my parents were just too insecure and didn’t have the courage to say no to the authorities of the kibbutz. They should have told the kibbutz that their children needed time to learn the language first, and only after they have learned how to communicate in Hebrew, they can be put in a kindergarten, with the rest of the children. (Today, children no longer sleep in the kibbutz’s kindergarten. The children sleep in their parents’ home until they are 16, at which point they move into a youth center, and get their own apartments). Although sleeping in the kindergarten was difficult at first, it also had a positive side: I escaped most of my father’s violence and humiliations. But I’m going ahead of myself, we will get to that part later on in the story.

When I was six, I moved to the kibbutz’s elementary school, where I continued to grow up. Each age class had its own building, where we lived and slept, two or three children in each room. In the room, each child had a bed, a night lamp and a small cabinet, where we could keep our things.

The school house in kibbutz Merom Golan.

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Black and White – Darkness and Light

20 March, 2022Angels, Archetypes, Curses, Devil, Devil's archetype, Dualism, Energy centers - Chakras, Ghosts, Kabbala, Karma, Meditation, Soul, Spirit, Spiritual teaching, The Dark Child, The Dark Man, The Dark Woman, Tree of Life TarotArje Sakari Silander

Since talking about darkness is a big taboo in spiritual peers here in Finland and there are no good articles to be found on the subject, I decided to share my own experiences on darkness and light with you. Maybe than the mist over the subject will be cleared and the taboo will be lifted…

Tarot card journeys on the Kabbalistic tree of life and confronting the devil

My first experience on the subject was when I made meditative journeys with the Tarot cards of the major arcana. I’ve read in some kabbalah book that it is possible to make meditative journeys on the tree of life using the tarot cards as your guide. So I decided to try it out myself.

The tarot cards represent the spiritual journey each one of us can take during our lifetimes. Each one of us can take the journey from being a Fool to being the whole universe. When we meditate with the tarot cards, we can get acquainted with what will lay a head on our spiritual journey. According to the book I’ve read (I forgot its name), we should begin every journey on the kabbalistic tree of life, from the bottom of the tree, from the Malchut Sephira. And we most also finish each journey in that same sephira. Because the Malchut Sephira represents the physical plane, so it’s good to return to our physical bodies at the end of each meditation.

So I began doing meditative journeys on the kabbalistic tree of life, using the tarot cards.

The first journey I made was: Malchut -> Yesod -> Hod -> Malchut.

I choose the following cards for my meditative journey:

10 Wands -> XXI The World -> 9 Swords -> XIX The Sun -> 8 Cups -> XX Judgement -> 10 Pentacles.

Pentacles represent the physical realm, so I wanted to end the journey with a pentacle card. For the number cards you can choose cards from whichever suit you prefer. Each suit (Pentacles, Cups, Swords and Wands) will have a different feel to it. So, choose your cards intuitively depending on the journey you want to make.

During the journey, I picked the first card I have chosen, and imagined for a second that I am the hero of that card. I then moved on to the next card, and again imagined that I am the hero of that card too. And like that, I went through all the cards I have chosen until I ended back in Malchut again. With each card I got a vision or a sensation and it felt like I’m actually making a physical journey.

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