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The Shamanic Journey: Where Shamans Go

WHERE SHAMANS GO ...

All forms of shamanism, whether traditional or Core Shamanic, describe the ‘journey’, 'soul flight' or ‘spirit travel’. The shamanist scholar, Mircea Eliade, described this as,

"the pre-eminently shamanic technique [of] the passage from one cosmic region to another - from earth to sky or from earth to the underworld. The shaman knows the mystery of the breakthrough in plane."

This ‘breakthrough in plane” which has been described, in physiological terms, as shifting from the left brain to the right brain via the corpus callosum, refers to the moment the shaman’s consciousness shifts from the here and now and enters worlds visible only to him. These worlds, which vary with each culture and tradition around the world, may be described as 'alternate reality', 'the realm of the spirits' or 'non-ordinary reality'.

Although often considered ‘primitive’, part of a pre-modern heritage modern people seem to prefer to forget, or seen as the ‘religion’ of less developed peoples and cultures, shamanism is both sophisticated and paradoxical. The ‘worlds’ of shamanic journeys, are utterly real – they exist and can be felt, smelt and experienced in every way as clearly as this ‘ordinary’ reality. At the same time they are qualitative spaces, states of mind that reflect and support the reason for the shaman’s journey. This geography of worlds, Piers Vitebsky suggests, ‘can be seen as a topography of mental states’.

Different shamanic cultures perceive the world, seen and unseen, in roughly three different ways. Some traditions of the Arctic, sub-Arctic...

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FILM REVIEW: Snow blindness - Taipei Times Taipei Times, Taiwan - Dec 11, 2008 FILM REVIEW: Snow blindness ‘Beyond the Arctic’ tracks a trio of athletes as they journey toward the North Pole, braving polar bears on the way. A pity then that the result is myopic

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One man's splendid isolation - Indianapolis Star Indianapolis Star, United States - Nov 23, 2008 One man's splendid isolation It is east of the Bering Strait, south of the Arctic Ocean, west of the Alaska-Canada boundary, and north of Mount McKinley. It's called Brooks Range and it

Art Exhibit Captures Beauty Of Polar Exploration - WBZ WBZ, MA - Dec 09, 2008 Art Exhibit Captures Beauty Of Polar Exploration Before changes in the Arctic and Antarctic became an alarm bell for rising global temperatures, polar explorers viewed the icy landscape as constant and