Initiation Is the Birth of the Spirit

The shamanic initiate exposes himself to names and functions of the spirits. The fact that we can be honorable under conditions of life and death, right of suffering is a testament to the human spirit. Those among them who had been ill become shamans precisely because they had succeeded in becoming cured. It's not the descent into this strange, subterranean psychological state that constitutes transformation,. but it's the emergence back out of the underworld and a rebirthright?