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http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/75860-shamanism-and-spirituality
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/11/23/shamanism-and-spirituality/
Información:
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/75860-shamanism-and-spirituality
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/11/23/shamanism-and-spirituality/
Información:
'Man is a spiritual creature, always searching for meaning. But for many people in the so-called “western world,” there is a feeling of disenchantment with the world as it is: Wake up, do your job, get a mortgage, buy a house, pay your taxes and eagerly await the weekend. Perhaps you’re one of these people.
Traditional religions don’t fill the gap. People become exasperated. They start drinking alcohol or using drugs. They see no meaning in their routine days of drudgery.
Watching some documentaries about shamanism over the last few months has gotten me thinking. A lot of these so-called “primitive” peoples appear happier than we “westerners” are. They have a sense of community, a sense of belonging and a sense of responsibility to those around them.'
Shamanism and Spirituality
Man is a spiritual creature, always searching for meaning. But for many people in the so-called “western world,” there is a feeling of disenchantment with the world as it is: Wake up, do your job, get a mortgage, buy a house, pay your taxes and eagerly await the weekend. Perhaps you’re one of these people.
Traditional religions don’t fill the gap. People become exasperated. They start drinking alcohol or using drugs. They see no meaning in their routine days of drudgery.
Watching some documentaries about shamanism over the last few months has gotten me thinking. A lot of these so-called “primitive” peoples appear happier than we “westerners” are. They have a sense of community, a sense of belonging and a sense of responsibility to those around them.
Spiritually, they don’t seek to find a “god” outside of themselves. They don’t have rigid religious doctrines that attack all non-believers.
In traditional cultures all over the world, and in places as diverse as Siberia and the Amazon jungle, shamanic mysticism is integrated into the culture. Spirituality is integrated within each individual, and every day is considered a spiritual day. Spirit is everywhere. It is not something they do once every week on a Saturday or Sunday when the kids are out of school.
Their spirituality is experiential and visceral. They live it.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in their use of psychotropic (mind-altering) plants to affect changes in themselves. These “primitives” actually have very sophisticated ways of inducing psychological changes. Using various mushrooms, green leafy plants and plant mixtures that affect the brain, and rituals that include dance and music to affect a trance on the participants, their spiritual practices are designed to help people discover and face their dark sides, their fears and their anxieties.
Researchers who have a lot of experience studying shamanism and participating in the rituals, such asTerence McKenna, have found that this attempt to communicate directly with the spirit and emotions can transform people’s lives. Through these rituals, nature, spirit and life become unified. People become more free to express themselves. Substances are essential parts of a ritual and are not used as recreational drugs or as substitutes for television, as they are in many industrialized countries. Drug addiction is unknown in these ancient and traditional societies.
As with the sufi poets, shamans compose poetry, which they later chant. Here is a poem by the Peruvian shaman Kestenbetsa, which I have translated from French:
I will open, I will open your thoughtsby opening them, I will fill you with joyby filling you with joy, I will straighten your thoughtsstraightening them, I will do it joyouslyI will straighten your bodynow, I will heal youto the depths of your heartopening your heart, I will give you an immense feeling of joyin this way, I will return life to youI will return life to your bodyI will return life to your thoughtsI will heal your being, I will heal your bodywith the powerful scent of the treesand with the faultless scent of the universein thought… for you to be joyousremember my wordsso that you may remember them, I chant them to youalthough I am unimportant, I have made you shineI have made your thoughts shinethe universe harmonizesmy words have fulfilled their promiseand that, ’till infinity.
To me it’s obvious that there is a way to be spiritual without being religious and without following a strict, dogmatic code of conduct.
After all, research in biochemistry and biophysics has shown that the world is not nearly as simple as most “scientists” have thought: DNA has electromagnetic qualities. It is not merely a chemical-reaction-generator. There are snake-like bodies inside of cells that nobody understands and whose function nobody knows. Most of the “stuff” of the universe is theorized to be “dark energy,” an energy that nobody knows anything about.
Could coming back to living a more natural life actually be a way out of our modern-society-induced disenchantment?
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America is just a land mass in the middle of the ocean. A land mass with may beautiful, natural, aspects, never the less a land mass.
It is the people of America that are the "BRAINS OF THE OPERATION". What makes America tick.
As you say, your nation has been hijacked & by self serving lowlife.
Look around & see this "fungi" everywhere & welcome to the collective.
But nothing has happened to the fabric of the American people. You are all still there & intact, albeit, barely & as a result of the onslaught of "the greedy opportunistic low life".
It is not the leaders of the nation that make that nation great, but the heart & soul of it's people.
We can only hope that the elected, or self appointed leaders of our nations, reflect US & the hopes & dreams & all the hard work that we have put into growing up our homeland.
Alas - to often our hopes are dashed.
Jack Kennedy's killing was a reminder that the bad guys have stomped on our all our efforts & good intentions once again.
But we the people are great & resilient in the face of it still. Your article shows that you are still in the right place.
[Return of the King]
in order to save the village "WE" had to destroy it...
http://hardylaw.net/waco.html
FRODO LIVES....
Carlos didn't make it, though he tried...he really tried..
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/death.html
get the mordor mugshots...{currency printers}
media owners...truth haters...hasbara trolls
For them to accomplish this meant that the creation of a 'trade-off' would occur in order to provide an illusion of freedom. This came in the form of the Constitution.
Some early Europeans who came to this 'land mass' were sincere in their intent to leave all the 'Old World' ways behind and sought to welcome and embrace what might become an entirely NEW way to live their lives. This manifested itself in what would become a successful relationship with the native peoples who had been here for thousands of years.
Unfortunately, there were other Europeans whose intention it was to impose their sick ways on this new land and the rest as they say, is History.
The bottom line is that a genuine understanding of living a life of true freedom can only come by learning from those who for so long had not been subjected to the European scourge.
Americans never got it and blew their chance to be TRULY free. Where we go from here is anybody's guess.
@ Matthew 13.
"The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization." - Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, after Lincoln's assassination