shaman

doctor

shamanism

occultism

is built upon a logic whereby one is a great shaman not because he has cured his patients, but rather, he is one who cures his patients because he is a great shaman.

Queslid himself went on to become a great shaman. 'Quesalid did not become a great shaman because he cured his patients,' Levi-Strauss assures us... rather, 'he cured his patients because he had become a great shaman' (1963:180, italics added). (in alexander 2004...)

is not a shaman on the basis of curing his patients. Rather, it is the other way around. The shaman cures his patients because he has become a great shaman.

is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself. Mircea Eliade

is very often only someone who is deprived, but who takes an astonishing revenge on destiny, as a result of his being absolutely the only one who is hand in glove with the spirits.

In certain respects, he reminds one of the shaman, who, originally, is verey often only someone who is deprived, but who takes an astonishing revenge on destiny, as a result of his being absolutely the only one whi is hand in glove with the spirits' (leiris in 'the college of sociology' : 28)

is, along with the psycho, the only one who creates reality for themself.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. Only he knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

is the central figure in the archaic revival.

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

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shaman