Find Shamanism

...And Everywhere!

In this high-rise, maze-gridded world shamanism is alive and well in every field of human endeavor and shamans are living and shifting life for the better in every neighborhood. Most modern shamans are known by another word besides (or instead of) 'shaman' and this is to be expected.

I practice everyday shamanic shifting as a neighborhood (and universal) shamanizer on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and on the Internet.

The word 'shaman' has been popularized by anthropologists studying aboriginal tribal cultures and religions. But among the peoples anthropologists were studying few shamans were or are called shamans.

Shaman, shamanic, and shamanism - like most words - have many changing meanings and will always be problematic because these s-words were superimposed generally and anachronistically, for the sake of convenience, by scholars and researchers upon too huge and diverse a set of (shamanic) functions to sum up in one word. Shamanism is too widespread, age-old, and global a set of purposeful reality shifting ways to be a proper '-ism' at all.

I continue to use the s-words (and even the -ism, now and then) because, I've learned though experience over the years, that coining new words - as fun as it is and educational as it can be - usually causes mostly unproductive energy-drains into confusions and distractions when it comes to shamanic ways. So I switched to a small 's' and press on with shamanizing.

Finding shamanism is easy once the word 'shaman' is demystified or set aside. Look for amazing reality shifts, tiny to gigantic, happening at the frontiers and fringes of life on earth and you will probably find some kind of shamanism at the center of it.

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Photo: Wand Tree in the Neighborhood, by ImageAfter.com