January 12, 2011

Shamanism

Doña Ramona, a Seri shaman from Punta Chueca, ...Image via WikipediaDoña Ramona, a Seri shaman from Punta Chueca, Sonora, Mexico
















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  • Shamanic music - "Although shamans use singing as well as drumming and sometimes other instruments, a shamanic ritual is not a musical performance in the normal sense, and the music is directed more to spirits than to an audience." - Wikipedia
  • Shamanism - "Shamanism is ... a range of beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world. A practitioner of shamanism is known as a shaman... Shamanism encompasses the belief that shamans are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds." - Wikipedia
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  • 12 books by Carlos Castaneda - "Carlos Cesar Salvador Arana Castaneda (25 December 1925 â 27 April 1998) was a Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author. Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, Castaneda wrote a series of books that describe his purported training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism." - Read these 12 books online or download them
  • Shamanic Origins of Religion and Medicine - by Weston La Barre, PH.D. - "The world's oldest profession is that of the shaman or first professional, the shaman is ancestor not only to both the modern medicine man or doctor and the religion's priest or divine, but also ancestor in direct lineage to a host of other professional types." - pdf file, 5 pages
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  • Castaneda, Carlos - "Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author of a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism. The bulk of his work... is ... inspired directly from the teachings of ... with don Juan Matus, the Yaqui shaman with whom Castaneda had a ten-year apprenticeship beginning in the early 1960s." - New World Encyclopedia
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