The wild field.
Shamanism is a species wide practice. No one group owns or has
privilege to engage with the forces of the earth and the cosmos
exclusively. No one owns, death, magic, healing, illumination. We have
been shamanic longer than we have been "civilized" and cross cultural
pollination has been going on for ages as we continue to do so now. We
are natural born for wonder and knowledge. There is an investment by
certain intellectuals to be unloving towards folks who practice this path
without the credentials they think are required for validation in
communing with the earth and supra sensible dimensions. Hilarious. There
are all kinds of "concepts" out there that move beyond what these kinds
of thinkers offer. Here are a few shamanic concepts : Heterotopia,
Immanence, Inter-civilizational Dialogue, hybridity, geophilosophy,
rhizome. These concepts offer novel ways to situate subjectivity,
ecology, politics and the cosmic. Even with the aforementioned horizons
the live wild goes on. Folks who attempt to restrict what genuine
shamanic practices are have an agenda that, while admirable in
attempting to protect certain groups from the perpetual predation humans
inflict on each other and other sentient beings, nevertheless, miss the
ontology of what controlled transcendence is pointing to.
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