A brief overview of what a shaman is.

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Shamans


The meaning of a shaman is the following :

A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits.

Shamans are people that are not part of any mainstream religions. They are rare and unique people with abilities to access the realms of spirits and other psychic abilities.. Not all of them are involved with spirits though.

Becoming a shaman isn't something that everyone can do. Shamans are granted their titles through heritage and some are chosen by the spirits themselves.

The shamans that are bestowed by heritage go through extreme rituals that are considered to some extent immoral and brutal..

For example in some tribes when a shaman dies his children sculpture his hands in wood to use them as a tool to access the spirit realms.

When a shaman is chosen he has to go through some rituals at first.

One of them is going to the woods for seven days to survive, eating animals by hunting, having nothing more than his bare hands as a tool. But there are different rituals amongst all the different cultures.

After the rituals they start training by the previous shaman, whom introduces them to the spiritual realms and all the gods.

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The spirit realms and the role of a shaman


It is said that the shaman controls spirit helpers, using them as a bridge to the realms as he can't be permanently there.
If a shaman requires to go to the spirit realms his soul must firstly exit his body so he may make a connection to the divine and travel to heaven or hell.

His role is to be a bridge between both realms, bringing balance between good and bad.

With the expansion of society a new wave of shamans are being brought forward, know as the neo shamans. Ordinary city people, seeking abstract and altered way to gain access to the spirit realms.

The neo shamans are the ones that don't go by the rigid structures of the religious teachings. You could say they are anarchists or atheists.


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Sources :A bit of personal experience and some books I've read in the past.

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