Shamanism & Mental Healing

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"The Shaman as Healer
Shamans play numerous unique roles in the cultures in which they work. They function as doctors, seers, visionaries, dreamers, mystics. On a superficial level, they serve to cure disease. On a metaphysical level, they serve to protect the culture against malevolent forces. They act on a spiritual as well as a physical plane. In doing so, shamans claim to understand many levels of reality apart from regular, day-to-day awareness. The shaman can cure disease because of a deep familiarity with non-ordinary reality. They can draw on powers deeper than themselves and act as a conduit between the physical and spiritual realms.

Western cultures might view shamanism as superstition; however, the peoples who accept shamanism believe in the existence of the alter.."

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