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- From: txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu (Angela KAY Rolling)
- Subject: Shha hamanism
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:50:41 GMT
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- there is a lot of new age crap around. Can't comment ofn on Matther ews
- book, but I like Michael Harner.
- I one\c ce attended a shamanism-in-art lecrture at Iowa State U
- in which the lecturer said ths at shamanism is a worldwide phenom
- enon, including in Europe and the British Isles. Pweeople here know
- about Eastern mysticism ansd Native American, Australian and African
- shamanism, but don't realize that British and European tribes parac
- ticed exactly the same spirituality. Grendel sounds like a prime
- example of that one.
- Of course Celts had religious leaders that could be described as
- shamans. They went through the same otherworld initiation of dismem
- berment and reconstruction tht is described in other cultures.
- If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
- ps I am into crystals which are also surrounded by new age bs,
- but several of my subjects can cou\ vouch that it is not all 'lets
- pretend'. Mooncat
-