Shamanism

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This report aims to provide specific examples, similarities and differences among the various shamanic or native cultural accounts of shamanism. The main focus is to hone in on how shamanism has historically dealt with areas such as the healing of man's suffering through shamanic journeys and the exorcising of evil spirits.

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"Shamanism can be considered one of the, if not the, oldest forms of healing. The art may go back as far as the beginnings of human kind. "Our human bodies have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years through their relationships to the physical environment." (Wangyal-Rinpoche, 1980) Traditionally, a Shaman would utilize an understanding of the spirits that are believed to be all around us to receive their help in healing or in the situations requiring some type of needed skill for problem solving. The basic principles of shamanism seem to be a pretty universal phenomenon. This has been discovered through the studies of shamanic practices over many diverse cultures that seemingly have had no interaction with one another."

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