World Religion Unit 2-Part 2 5. How might a modern shaman explain the endurance

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World Religion

Unit 2-Part 2

5. How might a modern shaman explain the endurance of her tradition and the attraction of shamanic practices by those living in modern industrial societies?

7. Scholars who have studied tribal peoples now counsel sympathetically imagining indigenous religions as “lived through the body” and involving the entire spectrum of human perception. Explain why this approach has value, given, the practices of Kung shamanism.

8. The scholar of comparative religions Joseph Campbell once suggested that the dominant world religions all differed from the indigenous religions by the requiring followers to distance themselves from the powerful personal religious experiences that were routine in many indigenous societies. While you were invited to test this assertion in the following chapters, can you see any problems with the traditions that invite everyone to have regular immersion into the sacred as described in this chapter?

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Introduction

Shamans are spiritual beings with the ability to heal, work with energies and 'see' visions. The essential characteristics of shaman are mastery of energy and fire as a medium of transformation.

How might a modern shaman explain the endurance of his tradition and the attraction of shamanic practices by those living in modern industrial societies?

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