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. |