The Big Bang Is a Tough One

The shamanic experience is that the shaman has the experience of being reduced to a skeleton first, so death. Then he finds himself in a place where he's communing with his ancestor, the ancestral spirits. And then after that, there's the climbing of something like the ladder, jacob's ladders, say, and an encounter with god,. It's very widespread a phenomena. It's the world tree. I've thought about this a lot, trying to figure oit with this, what this represents. According to a yakoot informant that's in siberia, the spirits carry the future shaman to hell and shut him in a house for three years. So i don...