No shamans are allowed in Afghanistan, once a Buddhist country now overrun my militant Islamists and pessimistic Muslims that has also displaced even a trace of its mystical, Buddhist-influenced Sufi school. The Pashtun, Tajik, Kazakh, and other ethnic or tribal minorities are not the Indian (Gandharan, Indo-Greco), Iranian (Ariyan/Persian), Central Asian people who thrived in the area before and after the time of the Buddha and the birth of Buddhism.
(AFP) Devastated Afghans keep searching for victims' bodies after a landslide in northern Badakhshan province above Kabul that entombed a village, killing thousands of people and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. See Another Tragedy in Afghanistan(AFP, May 5, 2014) There are estimated to be thousands of shamans or "spirit healers," who are called on as medicine men and women in traditional ethnic villages in China, but mass migration to cities has meant the prospects for the profession are looking bleak. Of course, those people will be back when their health deteriorates using super toxic Western (allopathic) chemicals and medicaments.
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| Dancing shaman (hamidsardar.com |
Earliest known depiction of a Siberian shaman -- by Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, who authored an account of his travels among Samoyedic- and Tungusic-speaking peoples in 1692.
Russian boy dies in shaman ceremony [783,936 Americans die in a year being prescribed pharmaceuticals and taking them as directed by an M.D. and no one says anything, which is called iatrogenic death]
Traditional shaman healers, who have practiced in some areas of Siberia and the Far East for thousands of years, have experienced a revival since the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union ended repression by the Communist... [Their track record for healing disease and saving lives is much better than it is for Western doctors, but don't tell anyone.]
Coldest place on Earth: shaman paradise Monday's Geo Quiz is cold, cold, cold. We're looking for the name of a cold Siberian city. It's the capital of the Russian Republic of Sakha [as in Shakya? Sakka? Buddhist Kalmykia?] It has on average the coldest winter... |
| Training eagle and horse (hamidsardar.com) |
"Be Your Own Shaman" (April 5th Party) Our friend and energetic healer Dr. Deborah King is holding an ONLINE party to celebrate the launch of her new book, Be Your Own Shaman...
VIDEO: The Shamans of Mongolia Much of our American Xmas lore comes not from Israel and Christianity but from Scandinavian shamans, like the Swedish Sami, and European Pagans. "Santa Claus" was originally a magic mushroom harvester who...
The World's oldest form of spirituality The Buddha rejected the ultimate authority of the Vedas, ritual priestcraft, and Brahmanism. He returned to the oldest form of spirituality, shamanism (as part of India's ancient Shramana Dharma Movement). By rejecting the dominant Brahmin priest mediated...
Is Shamanism a Path to Enlightenment?
According to Harner, "The shamanic path is not a path traditionally intended to achieve enlightenment. It has been a path... In essence, shamanism both is and isn't a path of transformation and enlightenment. Global Medicine...
Buddhism and Shamanism Today
Modern shamans, while less formal than Buddhist shramanas or Hindu sannyasins, are not a reaction to Brahmin temple priests as Buddhism was. Nevertheless, even urban shamans are trying to directly connect with the...
Beyond Coping: The Buddha on Illness
An anthropologist once questioned an Eskimo shaman about his tribe's belief system. After putting up with the anthropologist's questions for a while, the shaman finally told him: "Look. We don't believe. We fear." In a similar...
Is Shamanism a Path to Enlightenment?
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| Last shaman of the Oroqen (Richard Noll) |
Buddhism and Shamanism Today
Modern shamans, while less formal than Buddhist shramanas or Hindu sannyasins, are not a reaction to Brahmin temple priests as Buddhism was. Nevertheless, even urban shamans are trying to directly connect with the...
Beyond Coping: The Buddha on Illness
An anthropologist once questioned an Eskimo shaman about his tribe's belief system. After putting up with the anthropologist's questions for a while, the shaman finally told him: "Look. We don't believe. We fear." In a similar...
Master healer and urban shaman [and sexual abuse survivor] Deborah King (DeborahKingCenter.com), was a successful attorney in her 20s when a diagnosis of cancer sent her on a search for truth. It radically changed her...
New research suggests that many of the first artistic masters (as well as the majority of shamans, intuitives, and "medicine men") were women, not men. Woman shaman (Elende). (IFC Films) Documentary filmmaker Werner...
