At 05:54 AM 7/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Jerome Blondel:
>>Leaving aside other special abilities, what's left is the practice of
>>contacting the spirit world through ecstatic worship. Perhaps shamans
>>are specialists of it.
>
>Perhaps they are - but what does it mean to be a Shaman then?
It means you have a fetch and can travel freely, and escape from, the
Otherworld.
>We
>have a pretty good idea of what increasing levels of theistic worship
>involve (the sacrifice of the Self to the Divine Powers) but we don't
>have a similar equation for animist religion,
The parallel is the relationship that you have with the spirit or spirits.
>nor what distinguishes
>a shaman from other animists.
He has a fetch and can travel safely in the Spirit World.
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