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The Cross-Cultural Evolution of Shamanism
Shamanism is the most ancient and most enduring spiritual tradition known to humanity. It predates and constitutes the foundation of all known religions, psychologies and philosophies. It originated among nomadic hunting and gathering societies. These ancient shamanic ways have withstood the tests of time, varying little from culture to culture. Over thousands of years of trial and error, primal peoples the world over developed the same basic principles and techniques of shamanic power and healing. Shamanic practice is so widespread that it can be deemed a human universal.
So why did shamanism evolve in cultures all around the world? A recent study by one of the foremost scholars on shamanism today reveals that shamanism evolved all around the globe because the shamanic narrative is hard-wired in us all. In his book, Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing, Michael Winkelman presents the shamanic paradigm within a biopsychosocial framework for explaining successful human evolution through group rituals. According to Winkelman, shamanism is rooted in innate functions of the brain, mind, and consciousness. As Winkelman puts it, “The cross-cultural manifestations of basic experiences related to shamanism (e.g., soul flight, death-and-rebirth, animal identities) illustrates that these practices are not strictly cultural but are structured by underlying, biologically inherent structures. These are neurobiological structures of knowing that provide the universal aspects of the human brain/mind”
Winkelman’s groundbreaking book extends our understanding of the evolutionary origins of humanity’s first spiritual, healing and consciousness tradition. Though shamanism has been conventionally considered a spiritual practice, it has ancient biological, social and psychological roots. Shamanism has its bases in innate aspects of human cognition, engaging the use of altered states of consciousness to integrate information across several levels of the brain to produce visual symbolism exemplified in visionary experiences. This explains why shamanism evolved cross-culturally and is still relevant to the modern world.
Shamanism is in your biology. It is not restricted to one culture, one pantheon, one creed, or one tradition. It is HUMAN.
The Shaman's Horse
My drum can connect me to the earth or carry me like a flying horse. Sometimes I send my spirits out, but other times I must go myself, alone or with the spirits. ―Tania Kobezhikova, Khakass shaman
The shaman’s horse, namely the single-headed frame drum, originated in Siberia, together with shamanism itself thousands of years ago. Shamanic drumming is considered one of the oldest methods for healing and accessing inner wisdom. Practiced cross-culturally, this technique is strikingly similar the world over. Shamanic drumming uses a single, repetitive rhythm played at a tempo of three to four beats per second. Although sounding quite simple and redundant, the unique connection between the drum and the shaman gives this drumming great power, richness, and depth.
According to Tuvan musicologist Valentina Suzukei, “shamanic drumming is not monotonous at all. Constant changes in timbre and volume keep them interesting. The healing quality lies in this variation, which tracks and directs the patient’s energies. If you don’t listen for timbre, but only for pitch and rhythm the music is boring, monotonous. But the player’s every smallest change of mood is reflected in timbre.”
Through the many frequencies and overtones of the drum, the shaman communes with the normally unseen energies of the spirit world. By changing and listening to the tones, pitches, and harmonics of the drum, the shaman is able to send messages to—and receive them from—both the spirit world and the patient.
The shamanic drum is a time-tested vehicle for healing and self-expression. A shaman may use the drum to address any number of health issues including trauma, addiction, depression, and chronic pain. Additionally, the shamanic techniques of extraction, soul retrieval, and journeying, can all be performed with the drum. According to Mariko Namba Walter and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, authors of Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture, “The drum is used in a variety of ways in shamanist rituals; it may serve as (1) a rhythm instrument, (2) a divination table, (3) a "speaker” for communicating with the spirits, (4) a spirit-catcher, (5) a spirit boat, (6) a purifying device, (7) the shaman’s mount.“
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Friends! Acquaintances! Each and every one of you! Lend me your ears for a moment, please. I love those whom I follow, but I only see a few of you regularly on my feed. If you post:
Witchcraft information of any kind
Tips
Tricks
Spells
Actual witchcraft!
Celtic/Gaelic paganism stuff
I need to follow you! So yeah. I need more witchcraft blogs to follow and by that I don’t mean aesthetic blogs (even though they’re so gorgeous and give me feelings). If you post any of the aforementioned, like or reblog this and I’ll check you out.
Embodying the Practice
Whatever that practice may be for some, it is important that we actual do just that: practice.
Whatever path you are walking down, and no matter what you do with that knowledge you gain on that path, you must embody those things. Embodiment is crucial to sustain a healthy interest and continuation of a modality, whether that be Buddhism, Atheism, Witchcraft, Shamanism, or any other spiritual discipline out there.
I’m guilty of thinking about things to death before I actually do them. Knowledge and revelation won’t just come to you by thinking about spiritual concepts. We could think about them and talk about them for years and years to come, but the real power and change inherent in these practices comes by doing them. And part of that requires taking a leap of faith.
Faith, in my experience, is nothing more than an intention for things to work out even if they go south. It’s a leap we all must take in order to get to where we want to be. This goes for anything that we do.
Don’t just talk the path. Walk the path, and allow the proof to be in the walking. It’s a beautiful thing to realize if you stay true to what you do, then you can do anything you want. Take it into your body and your temporal existence and make it real for yourself.
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OKAY but i just reblogged this last night and guess what i got today from my workplace’s self-audit!
THANK YOU PATRICK FOR FREE MONEY
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PATRICK I HAVE NEVER STRAYED YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVED YOU
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Can i just *Gets in line*…there
Y'all I reblogged this and got $240 in tips in one day at work so 🤔🤔🤔
Traits of Extrasensory/Hypersensitive people
Let me preface this by saying that we all have inherent extrasensory abilities. Through the process of socialization, we tend to forget and become numb to these sensations and impressions. For someone like myself, I was extremely sensitive to the environment and to people. Words and thoughts had a tangible impact on me, and still do. I was put into occupational therapy for a while, and even diagnosed with ADHD (a common trait in artists, thinkers, and clairvoyants). As I grew up, I had dismissed it as me just being "too sensitive", which was mostly just my parents and teachers talking through me. When I suppress this aspect of myself, I become very miserable. It's only until recently that I realize my hypersensitivity is something that needs my presence, and it's another thing I need to take into account in any situation, which is what most people tend not to do. Guess what? That makes us feel unhappy. I've found I need to embrace what others may deem as New Age crap, and actually be confident that I am not making up any of what I'm seeing or feeling. So, we all have these abilities. Some have more than others, and they may manifest themselves in one, a couple, or all of the ways: 1. That shimmering glow you see around someone or something? That's an aura, and you can see it! Everything has one. It can be seen as bright colors to fuzzy glows to full on images. This is an energy field, and you are a composite of that energy field. People may go through life being able to see them and then suddenly stop seeing them or vice versa. 2. Can you hear certain things that may sound like chatter or static noise of some kind? Those are thought and energy forms. Some people can pick up energy expressed as sound. Remember that energy is synaesthetic in nature, and some humans can pick up one or all aspects of the many expressions of energy. 3. You know things before they happen. Or you can feel things before they happen. You can also feel into the collective vibration of a particular person or group of people or situation. This is called clairsentience. This trait is my strongest, and is a trait that's often utilized in performing artists or public figures of any kind. Sometimes impressions can come after you leave a situation or person. 4. Can you taste an idea or emotion? Stones will often tell me their properties through taste and smell. If it tastes "good", then I'll take it and work with it. 5. As mentioned before, can you smell energy? This trait isn't as common as clairvoyance or clairsentience. If it smells "good", then work with it. It makes you look at the phrases "I smell a rat", "that idea smells" or "you stink" in a whole new light, because indeed those things carry a signature. 6. Does touching objects relay information, feelings, and impressions to you about them? This practice is called psychometry. Clairkinetics find that their sense of touch is highly acute and sense the world through it. 7. Do you receive encoded knowledge about a subject? These can also be described as "flashes of insight", where you'll be able to know the ins and outs of a situation through feeling memory and not necessarily through cerebral memory. This another aspect of clairsentience. 8. Premonitions about upcoming events? This is a glimpse into the quantum field of potential realities. No matter where your strength lies or how advanced you are, extrasensory people will experience this at least once across all of the senses. 9. Empathic? Hypersensitive people tend to be extremely privy to succumbing to other people's frequency, making them vulnerable to spirit intrusions, psychic attack, and psychic vampirism. 10. Vivid dreams? Because of your heightened state of perception, dreams are highly vivid in sound, color, and images, and can also be prophetic in nature. These traits are part of a spectrum, and one person will encompass an array of them with certain emphasis on one or another. It's highly rare, but possible, for someone to come into this life with all of them. These traits can be cultivated and unlocked within each of us. The question one must ask before developing is why do you want to be that way? This isn't a put-down question, it's simply one that begs asking. The why is important for anything that we do. People who are born with these abilities or developed them early on in their childhood usually come from a place of abuse or dysfunction, or had experienced an extreme lack of support.
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Evening thunder brings the rain Eggs of ice are man kind’s bane I speak the spell, the clouds rescind To bring down wrath from Heaven’s end The darkest reach of Niflheim Freeze the fields, or tend the rime For man kind’s end forever lies Not with fire, but with ice
Attuning to Nature
We are the most attuned to nature through the senses, including the subtle bodily cues that sometimes go unnoticed to the waking consciousness. In a society that has been overrun by technology, we as a race of organic beings have lost touch with these very rhythms and forms that govern us. We’ve lost touch with the blueprint within us. In a time when global climate is it at a critical danger zone, I propose the only way we can begin to reverse the effects is changing our relationship to the planet at large. That starts with recognizing that we are of nature and that we are not exempt from it. And it starts by getting back in touch with the blueprint within us. We depend on it, just as our ancestors had for so long.