What is a Shaman?

This Is MY answer to the Clarion CallNapoleon

THE WORD SHAMAN ORIGINATED FROM A WORD IN SIBERIA AND EVENTUALLY CAME TO BE APPLIED TO ALL MEDICINE MEN AND WOMEN OF INDIGENOUS CULTURES WHO’S PRACTICE INCLUDES FLIGHT OF THE SOUL. ANTHROPOLOGISTS STUDYING INDIGENOUS CULTURES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, BEGAN TO FIND THAT FOR DIFFERENT CULTURES, THERE WERE SIMILARITIES IN THE WAY THE MEDICINE MEN AND WOMEN WORKED WITH HEALING AND CONNECTING TO THE SPIRITUAL ASPECT OF PEOPLE AND THE WORLD. 

This is for the warrior…this is for you and I!Napoleon

WHILE THERE WERE DIFFERENCES SPECIFIC TO CULTURE, REMOVING THE CULTURAL REFERENCE REVEALED A CORE SYSTEM OF PRACTICE. SHAMANISM IS THE PRACTICE OF THESE CORE TECHNIQUES, EITHER FOR HEALING OR TO GAIN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE. 

SO WHAT THEN IS SHAMANISM? IT IS THE DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE OF THE DIRECT NATURE OF THE WORK, IT TENDS TO FACILITATE GROWTH IN EVERY RELIGIOUS FAITH. AS A HEALING PRACTICE SHAMANISM HAS BEEN VERY POWERFUL FOR BOTH THE PEOPLE OF TODAY AND THOSE REACHING BACK INTO THE BEGINNINGS OF RECORDED HISTORY.

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