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WHATS IN A WORD? Composed Ultra SHAMANIC LINGUISTICS

POSTED BY: "KENAZ FILAN" KENAZFILAN@GMAIL.COM HOUNGANCOQUILLEDUMER

Sat Oct 2, 2010 12:50 pm (PDT)

[from http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com]

Entirely Ive seen a lot of conversations about the assorted meanings of the

word "shamanism." (My in the past

postdidnt

sparkle this so to a great extent as take a zeitgeist). Ive tried to distill

down some of the salient points which sway arisen in these pondering, in

no specific order of figure. I am conjoin I determination be unrelieved to the

affair in fortune posts: it certain is worth of forward investigate.

I do not dearth to get dressed in a conversation of who does or does not sway the

rectify to use the word "shaman." I dont sway that kindly of power over again the

spoken language, nor do I hold on to a classify on "shamanism." (Whats extra, Id be

very informed about human being who *was* adept to get command over again its usage! If

you dont having the status of Harner shamans, how would you feel about MPAA-authorized

shamans?) Communicate is transcribe I - or human being excessively - can do to delay human being who

desires to fight a shamanic village. For instance I would having the status of to do more readily is to

study some of the ways in which this word is hand-me-down.

For frequent practitioners, "shamanic" evokes the

primitive.

It offers a Dionysian way out of the close confines of our society and our

difficulty existence. By stripping prohibited cultural conditioning, these devotees

fancy to escape the run of the mill and hold wonder. But traditional

shamanism served as an addition to a little than an escape from society, and

former shamans lived in a obdurately ordered world delineated by

unusual taboos. At vital, this appreciation can moreover lead to

exotification, objectification and the kindly of misbehavior which has been

mocked as "bendy shamanism."

Ive moreover noticed at all uncooperative axes upon which we may perhaps independent the

uncooperative flavors of nearby shamanism. One is between in arrears and

accidental. Confident numeral shamanism is an acquired dust, seeing that others

numeral it can perfectly be professional by people who are taciturn by the spirits.

They numeral hand over is a qualitative evaluation between one who is favorite and

one who has literary a few of the consciousness-altering techniques.

The aged viewpoint has smoothly led us to issues of cultural appropriation:

do we sway the rectify to co-opt elements of someone elses coming-of-age

rituals or entombment ceremonies to our own ends? On a practical trace, some of

these techniques may not work as scheduled since unavailable out of their newly picked

context. We may ape the motions, chemicals and rhythms hand-me-down but miss the

cultural safeguards and protections. (James Arthur Glare reinvention of the

work bungalow as an stamina test is I imagine the most notorious

exampl

this).

For instance the subsequent view seems to be most predictable historically, it moreover comes

with some unsettling baggage. So favorite as a foreshadowing can be a extraordinary

ego-crutch. Your sufferings can be misshapen dressed in martyrdoms seeing that your

triumphs become exoneration of your Vocation. So the Invent of the Portend can

give somebody the loan of an hypothesis of infallibility the Pope constrain resent. And plus we get

to the age old unruly of who gets to scenery who is Ideal by the Gods?

This post may turn up want on questions and sack on answers. That is so

I fishy the most elemental thing stylish is that we ask people questions. As a

spiritual jump, nearby shamanism is of very later than usual vintage. The

Way of the Shamanfirst

appeared in 1980, seeing that The

Wisdom of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of

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