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The Shaman Reborn in Cyberspace (view source)
Revision as of 11:56, 17 May 2009
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The [[power]] to evoke images in one’s [[mind]] - to see and believe something that is very different from what one normally sees and believes, or what one thinks one should see and believe - is a [[process]] of coming to new [[knowledge]]. When one’s view of how things happen is temporarily challenged and suspended, a doorway opens - a doorway where anything seems possible. The shaman is someone who lives permanently in a state of [[wonder]], and tries to understand these [[things]] without fear. With understanding comes knowledge, and with knowledge, power.
The [[power]] to evoke images in one’s [[mind]] - to see and believe something that is very different from what one normally sees and believes, or what one thinks one should see and believe - is a [[process]] of coming to new [[knowledge]]. When one’s view of how things happen is temporarily challenged and suspended, a doorway opens - a doorway where anything seems possible. The shaman is someone who lives permanently in a state of [[wonder]], and tries to understand these [[things]] without fear. With understanding comes knowledge, and with knowledge, power.
For the [[shaman]], [[seeing]] is an active power and imagination is a [[sense]], which brings information on different dimensions of reality. Common reality is as much a function of one’s imagination as dreams are. The shamanic [[adventure]] works on all levels of reality.
For the [[shaman]], [[vision|seeing]] is an active power and imagination is a [[sense]], which brings information on different dimensions of reality. Common reality is as much a function of one’s imagination as dreams are. The shamanic [[adventure]] works on all levels of reality.
Dreams take place outside of [[spacetime|space and time]] - therefore are perceived as ‘unreal’ - a liminal arena in which no-space and notime and now-space and now-time overlaps.
Dreams take place outside of [[spacetime|space and time]] - therefore are perceived as ‘unreal’ - a liminal arena in which no-space and notime and now-space and now-time overlaps.