The Shaman 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.
The Shaman 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.
The 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 Shaman 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.
A Shaman 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.