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- From: mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Shamanism
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:13:36 GMT
- Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
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- References: <1993Jan20.174755.8847@e2big.mko.dec.com> <1993Jan20.221011.17349@rock.concert.net> <1993Jan21.033316.18889@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.033316.18889@wam.umd.edu> bast@wam.umd.edu (Jaguar) writes:
- >
- >For books on shamanic practices, I would suggest :
- >Michael Harner, The way of the shaman
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- Psychological Pseudo-Shamanism.
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- >John Matthews, the celtic chaman (OOPS>> shaman... the cleltic shaman.)
-
- New Age Wannabe crap. There is very little pointing to the Celts having
- shamans, just shamanic techniques (which are two DIFFERENT things).
- Matthews work is full of BIG holes. For example, the names he attributes
- to the "totems" in his book are wrong for all but (I believe, I can check
- if people care) except for two. The man can't even get NAMES right, let
- alone ideas and history.
-
- This is fine if you are into crystals and let's-pretend, but it isn't
- shamanism.
-
- Wassail,
- Grendel Grettisson
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