Shamanism

Shamanism Shamanism is is a complex of practices, beliefs, values and behaviors that enable the practitioner to elect a shift from ordinary consciousness into a trance state with a specific goal in mind, such as healing, obtaining information, power, vision, divination, contacting the spirit of the deceased, soul retrieval or guidance for right action. Shamanic work is done with the aid of a helping ally of some sorts that the shaman has befriended. They work together as a cooperative team, with the ally being an intermediary between different levels of reality and the shaman, an engineer of altering states of consciousness. Shamans throughout the world and throughout time, recognize that the universe is alive, conscious, and filled with spiritual power. Shamans know how to access this web of power and work it skillfully and effectively to address their, and their community's needs. Shamanism is the intentional effort to develop ongoing relationships with personal helping spirits by journeying into realms where the spirits, consciousness, ordinary, world, work, spiritual, spirit, shamanism, reality, power, helping, way, universe, throughout, state, shamans, shamanic, shaman, non, nature, gods, goddesses, dwell, different, deceased, animals, ancestors, altering, ally, shamans, web, vision, view, various, values