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Table of Contents

Foreword
Chapter 1:
Shamanism Basics
Chapter 2:
The Roles Of The Shaman
Chapter 3:
Shamanism Beliefs
Chapter 4:
How Shamanism Beliefs Fit With Soul And Spirit Concepts
Chapter 5:
Understanding Entheogens
Chapter 6:
Related Music And Songs
Chapter 7:
Tools Used In Shamanism
Chapter 8:
Shamanism In Folk Tales
Chapter 9:
Variations Per Region
Chapter 10:
What The Critics And Proponents Have To Say

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Chapter 2: The Roles Of The Shaman

Synopsis

The social role of a shaman may be defined through a set of interrelated rights, obligations and behaviors as conceptualized by individuals in a certain social circumstance and an expected behavior in an individual in their social position and cultural and social status. Today, there are a lot of misconceptions related to shamans and their roles.

The Roles

Healer

A shaman has various roles in the society. Shamans may actually serve the role of a healer in various shamanic societies. They obtain their knowledge and their power to heal through accessing the world of spirits. They make their journey into the realm of spirits and obtain their knowledge in it. Most of the time, they acquire or has one or more assistant or helper entities in the world of spirits. These entities are mostly spirits in the form of an animal or spirits of healing plants. Sometimes, such entities are also those who departed shamans or some of their other ancestors.

In their way of healing, they are entering the body of the sick individual in order to confront the spirit that causes the patient to get sick. They heal their patients through banishing that infectious spirit. Also, there are a lot of shamans who are knowledgeable about the plant life within their area. They also use herbal regimen to heal the sick.

Mediator

Shaman also acts as mediators within their culture. Shamans are viewed as individuals who communicate with the some spirits on behalf of their community, which include communicating with the spirits of the dead. In various cultures, their role as mediators can be well illustrated through some of their symbols and objects. Shamans mediate between religious entities and ordinary people. In some cultured, they are also referred to as seers or soothsayers, astrologers, mediums, palm readers and many other diviners. They have different roles in the society and in some societies, they are able to perform great miracles.

Other Roles of the Shaman

As being practiced by Siberia’s Reindeer Tungus, shamans are also those individuals who have amazing power to control some mystic entities such as spirits. They can also prevent such spirits from causing any harm to people and on some occasions, they serve as mediums for spirits.

The Tungus shamans, who can either be men or women, are using some special tools of paraphernalia like tambourines, mirrors, costumes and so many other equipments. As being said, they make journey in the world of spirits and do some function for their individual clients and even groups as a whole. They are also able to find lost objects, determine the cause of one’s illness, confer a special power in some conflicts and predict some events in the future.

The primary role of shamans is actually to maintain and restore balance in their community. They are conducting rituals of protections, blessings, divination and hunting magic. They are also curing illnesses with spiritual causes like spiritual pollution, spiritual intrusion, curses and soul souls. Shamans are also referred to as caretakers of the traditional culture. Due to their knowledge with regards to ancient tradition, throughout various ages, their counsel has actually been sought by many people.

Chapter 3: Shamanism Beliefs

Synopsis

Shamans interact with spirits and deities not only through prayer but also through offerings and rituals and by direct contacts with those spirits themselves.

They have also been found in each period of history all over the world and they perform different functions that are essential to the society of community where they belong. There are also some shamanism beliefs that all shamans all over the world hold in common. These core beliefs are really important because these give comfort, wisdom and meaning to many people from the different parts of the world.

One of the most common shamanism beliefs is that everyone and everything is part of a certain pattern and thus, they are all interrelated. Things around us are connected with each other. Shamans also believe that an alternate reality exists. This is often referred to as the dreamtime of the spirit world by the traditional individuals or as nonordinary reality by the modern mystics..

The Beliefs

Shamans likewise believe that some individuals have the ability to obtain the transcendent state of consciousness and to enter the alternate reality for healing of self as well as others and for problem solving. Such belief is mostly accompanied by a powerful and really strong desire to experience personally an alternate reality.

Also, one of the most evident shamanism beliefs is the existence if spirit teachers and helpers who lives in an alternate reality. Though most modern mystics does not tend to affiliate with some organizes religion, they regard Jesus of Nazareth as powerful spirit teacher.

Most of shamans also profess their belief in various forms of supernatural godlike beings and consciousness. Also, for them, everything, both inanimate and animate is imbued with soul or a personal supernatural essence.

Another shamanism common belief relates to the existence of a vital force or an impersonal power that is pervading in many things and is being expressed as a life force in some inanimate beings – the chi of the Chinese, mana of Polynesians, prana of yoga, Baraka of Muslims and the num of Kalahari bushmen.

They also believe that personal energy body exists and it can be perceived by others as an aura. This can also be improved through some energy that centers inside it which is called meridians and chakras in the Eastern thought.

Shamanism is actually base on a principle that our visible world is pervaded by spirits or invisible forces which create great impacts in the lives of human beings. Shamanism also requires special abilities and individualized knowledge and it operates outside those established religions. There are also different variations of shamanism all over the world and some of the most beliefs are also shared by the entire forms of shamani.

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