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shamanism 1. the religion of certain peoples of northern Asia, based on the belief that the world is pervaded by good and evil spirits who can be influenced or controlled only by the shamans 2. any similar religion involving forms of spiritualism http://www.shamanism.co.uk/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/shamanism/overview/ How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Disco at its best is a neurological event, a shamanistic vehicle of space-time travel. The shamanistic power is not really acknowledged in Western medicine. Whether one sees his pictures as communiques from the id, visionary shamanistic artifacts, or a form of whistling past the graveyard depends on one's chosen model of the psyche, but viewed through any filter, he and his cohorts revealed a realm with which the "advanced" West has never been comfortable and which until the twentieth century had only sporadically made its way up to the surface of our collective picture plane. |
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