The Relationship Between Shamanism and Religion

I came to Rita with a broken heart because I never felt like I could ever find my brother beloved in this life. My upbringing is actually diminishing and declining faster than it ever has before. At my we went to church this Christmas day, last Christmas day just gone, and there was about six people there. However, I now go to shamanic circles and there is 100 people there. And if you look at the similarities between our religions, they all have very similar patterns of connecting with divine or consciousness. So shamanism is the art of entering into various states of altered states of consciousness through whatever means you need to.