what do you mean? A shaman, someone who communicates with spirits, and goes on spirit journeys to recieve knowledge
and eats nutmeg to try n get wasted n trip n doesnt know how much should be taken or anything else????.... interesting
oh ok, sorry, that kind of shaman. I thought you meant that you were the visionary member of the Tungus tribe of Sibera. Fuck I'm retarded, my bad. (ha ha snicker snicker)
Yeah. I'm a neo-shamanic new-ager, post-evangelist christian missionary, pickin up the latest best sellers on all the shamanic rituals. Yeah. It's the in thing now. Pick and choose, pick up or loose. Insta-Shaman! Even Insta-Christian! Well, at least the Christians have that whole fast-soul-food service: "Accept the Savior and be SAVED, INSTANTLY! No long lines, no tedious, life-long journeys. Do it in your office, do it on the phone, do it on the net!" When you choose a path, Know where you are walking. When you are walking, The journey itself is the lesson. When learning the lesson, live it. To declare you are something means nothing. Roots run deep.
well i don't presume to call myself anything, just an awairness that observes and trys to avoid deceiving myself. i'm not sure if anyone raised in the kind of doctoring traditions of their people would be comming here and announcing themselves. people who see and learn real things arn't usualy too much for putting themselves forward like that among a mix of people who might not want to understand what their learning is about. an honored elder who has studied the 'medicine' of nature and his people, that would be someone to learn from, but you would have to be ready to dicipline yourself and really listen carefully, and then also go out in the woods and learn from what your spirit guides want to teach you too. this much i know, even though i don't have that kind of teaching myself and don't know if i ever will. you know this kind of learning is not an instant gratification kind of thing, not like video games, or even community college. more like lifelong learning at the university level only getting part of it too, from the spirit beings out in the woods or whatever. =^^= .../\...
Well most likely a true shaman wouldn't be on the internet or even have a computer for that matter. Maybe the new age Terence Mckenna style shaman. But not the true shaman of third world cultures or ancient history. Anyone can dive into shamanism though, if your a success now thats another story for another time.
So, true christians shouldnt have computers and internet, because the christians of the old third world countries and ancient history walked around in sandles and fish all the time?
you'd think a shaman would have better things to do than hang out on hip forums of all places. to the origanal poster...theres a big difference between a shaman and one who is interested in or practises shamanism. calling yourself a shaman is a pretty bold statement. shamanism is not a path one chooses to walk. it is a calling guided by the logos. iv been told by the one shaman iv met in my life that it is also nessesary for an individual to have physically died in this lifetime to be shaman, which i didnt know and found interesting.
So shamans have no personallity or seek entertainment? they sit in caves everyday of their life? Nice stereotyping everybody. I know native shamans that have emails and make newsletters, and all kind of shit. Granted, like I said, chances are they arent "shamans" all running around on here, but you can use such a general brush in your argument as to why.
