
Talking Shamanism, Animism & Community Building | Langston Kahn
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The Importance of Shamanism in Contemporary Western Culture
I think humans are designed for ceremony or built for ceremony everywhere call it right. You can work with spirits because they're there also in relation to you and archetype of forces and so on. And then we get Michael Harner, who comes in and creates the foundation for shamanic studies and core shamanism which I have all sorts of problems with but in his divorcing of these technologies for engagement with a shamanic world view. From their cultural context and making them palatable to Westerners. He manages to start reviving in some ways that the use the active use of these tools. The people hold these roles in cultures all around the world the specialist role and it's part of our human
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