Concept
Shamanism
Overview
practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world
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Philosophers who discussed Shamanism
Related ideas
- Ritual
- Afterlife
- Galilee
- Language shift
- Abrahamic religions
- Animism
- Ethnography
- Mircea Eliade
- Inuit
- Lübeck
- Cultural appropriation
- Western world
- Native Americans in the United States
- New Age
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Mediumship
- Knowledge
- Russian language
- Rat
- Sanskrit
- Soul
- Śramaṇa
- Semiotics
- Snake
Place in the tradition
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