1.The spirits can play important roles in human lives.
2.The shaman can control and/or cooperate with the spirits for the community's benefit.
3. The spirits can be either good or bad.
4. Shamans get into a trance by singing, dancing, taking entheogens, meditating and drumming.
5. Animals have an important role, acting as omens & message-bearers;
6. The shaman's spirit leaves the body and enters into the supernatural world during certain tasks.
7. The shamans can treat illnesses or sickness.
8. Shamans are healers, psychics, gurus and magicians.
Its practitioners claim the ability to diagnose and cure human suffering and, in some societies, the ability to cause suffering. This is believed to be accomplished by traversing the axis mundi and forming a special relationship with, or gaining control over, spirits. Shamans have been credited with the ability to control the weather, divination, the interpretation of dreams, astral projection, and traveling to upper and lower worlds. Shamanistic traditions have existed throughout the world since prehistoric times...read more>>>...
2.The shaman can control and/or cooperate with the spirits for the community's benefit.
3. The spirits can be either good or bad.
4. Shamans get into a trance by singing, dancing, taking entheogens, meditating and drumming.
5. Animals have an important role, acting as omens & message-bearers;
6. The shaman's spirit leaves the body and enters into the supernatural world during certain tasks.
7. The shamans can treat illnesses or sickness.
8. Shamans are healers, psychics, gurus and magicians.
Its practitioners claim the ability to diagnose and cure human suffering and, in some societies, the ability to cause suffering. This is believed to be accomplished by traversing the axis mundi and forming a special relationship with, or gaining control over, spirits. Shamans have been credited with the ability to control the weather, divination, the interpretation of dreams, astral projection, and traveling to upper and lower worlds. Shamanistic traditions have existed throughout the world since prehistoric times...read more>>>...