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a one-person hospital, church, and DJ booth, fueled entirely by drums and questionable plants.
means A person in certain cultures believed to access the spirit world through trance, healing the sick, divining the future, and guiding souls.
from From Russian shaman, borrowed from the Evenki word šamán of the Tungusic peoples of Siberia, naming their trance-healers. Western scholars carried the term out of Siberia and stretched it to cover similar figures worldwide. There's an old, tempting claim that it traces all the way back to Sanskrit śramaṇa ('ascetic, one who labors spiritually'), but most linguists now treat that as a coincidence rather than a real ancestor.
- word origin
- From Siberian Tungus, meaning one who knows.
- trance tech
- Drumbeats near 4-7 Hz sync the brain into trance.
- oldest job
- Burials suggest shamans worked 30,000 years ago.
- fly agaric
- Some used the red toadstool to journey skyward.
- wounded healer
- Many were chosen after surviving severe illness themselves.
ayahuascero in peru — traditional plant medicine practitioners in the amazon rainforest of peru who conduct ceremonial ayahuasca rituals for healing and spiritual purposes
sami noaidi — indigenous sami shamans of northern scandinavia (finland, sweden, norway) who used drums and spiritual practices before christianization in the 17th century