02-15-2017, 07:45 AM
Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.A shaman is a person regarded as having access to the world of good and bad spirits, who typically enters into state of hypnosis, meditation and prayer and practices divination and healing.
Shamanism encompasses the doctrine that shamans are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Shamans are said to treat ailments/illness by mending the soul.
Alleviating traumas affecting the soul/spirit restores the physical body of the individual to balance and wholeness. The shaman also enters supernatural realms or dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community. Shamans may visit other worlds/dimensions to bring guidance to misguided souls and to ameliorate illnesses of the human soul caused by foreign elements. The shaman operates primarily within the spiritual world, which in turn affects the human world. The restoration of balance results in the elimination of the ailment.
Shamanic beliefs and practices have attracted the interest of scholars from a wide areas of knowledge. Stories of spirits malevolent or benevolent is a subject of research but since ages, our life 's existence to some extent revolves around this interesting aspect of life.Nothing concrete seems evident, though some claim to have gone viz a viz with spirits and had face to face deliberations with them. Hard to believe though but subject creates interest because it relates to our very existence in this world and seems to have some connect, though a dicey proposition. The spirit world is having human bondage with the existing world and researchers having done lot of research to find out implication of spirits and its different avatars in humanity. The basic question still stands with whether these supernatural powers does exist??
Shamanism encompasses the doctrine that shamans are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Shamans are said to treat ailments/illness by mending the soul.
Alleviating traumas affecting the soul/spirit restores the physical body of the individual to balance and wholeness. The shaman also enters supernatural realms or dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community. Shamans may visit other worlds/dimensions to bring guidance to misguided souls and to ameliorate illnesses of the human soul caused by foreign elements. The shaman operates primarily within the spiritual world, which in turn affects the human world. The restoration of balance results in the elimination of the ailment.
Shamanic beliefs and practices have attracted the interest of scholars from a wide areas of knowledge. Stories of spirits malevolent or benevolent is a subject of research but since ages, our life 's existence to some extent revolves around this interesting aspect of life.Nothing concrete seems evident, though some claim to have gone viz a viz with spirits and had face to face deliberations with them. Hard to believe though but subject creates interest because it relates to our very existence in this world and seems to have some connect, though a dicey proposition. The spirit world is having human bondage with the existing world and researchers having done lot of research to find out implication of spirits and its different avatars in humanity. The basic question still stands with whether these supernatural powers does exist??