Jacob's Ladder
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Death and Resurrection Experience
The chamonic ritual involves dismembering the body of a novice. The bones are then covered with new flesh, and in some cases, he is also given new blood. It's only on this condition that the future shawman will obtain the power of healing. We are here in the presence of a very ancient religious idea which belongs to the hunter culture. Bone symbolizes the final root of animal life, the mould from which the flesh continually rises. From the bone that men and animals are reborn.
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