Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Shaman

". . . the shaman was neither the madman nor a charlatan, as other scholars had regarded him, but a gifted (if, indeed, often unwell or mentally unstable) individual who entered into a trance in which he climbed up to the world of the gods and the animals, and brought back knowledge that was useful to his whole tribe."

--Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade

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