03/04/2021

Notes: Le chamanisme, une expérience de l'invisible

The shaman, with the help of songs and rituals,undergoes spiritual journeys and has two basic characteristics: if he can be invaded by an external force, he also masters it. What is the role of shamanic thought and what are the functions of the shaman? To heal? To predict ?

Dialogue between the visible and the invisible Does the shaman have access to the spirits? He is both invaded and possessed but in control.

Siberia -> Shaman comes from a Siberian language

Chants -> important practice

Defines himself -> expert of the invisible.

Relationship with nature, -> healing

They see what others do not see.

Relationship with fire There is a spirit. He manages the relation of the family to the fire eg. or in the mountains. Social evolution -> first hierarchy

Testimonial: Visions start during childhood. Able to perceive what others do not see. Cannot put a name. Obsession and estranged from the family. Crises and furies and isolate themselves. The mind becomes a real character and companion. It can be an evil spirit and it must be cast out or this person is a shaman -> inherited skill . Vision blurred, then more and more precise. Process takes years.

There is no term for spirit in these societies. There are different entities that we classify as spiritual yet they do not distinguish in their societies.

power of metamorphosis ,Power of nature -> see the idea of the Sublime ??

Perception of the landscape -> education of the gaze The invisible can manifest itself in an auditory way, from touching to feeling the wind caressing skin.

SYMBOLS -> and see Kandinsky

The drum has an effect on the body-> metamorphoses into a wolf, has no control. Trance Another way of seeing the world

What we see in the world is what our brain makes us perceive. Effects of trance on the brain -> finds out through trance that she is a shaman. Lineage of a talented shaman that connects him to the invisible, a fact transmitted by the ancestors. They have a different body from the others, a different skeleton.

Improvisation on the drum. The script is not written in advance. New every time and instantly. Oral tradition.

Imagination is characteristic of humans. Mental and collective journeys, can be translated by language.

pt.3 RESEARCH page 2

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