No shamans are allowed in Afghanistan, once a Buddhist country now overrun my militant Islamists and pessimistic Muslims that has also displaced even a trace of its mystical, Buddhist-influenced Sufi school. The Pashtun, Tajik, Kazakh, and other ethnic or tribal minorities are not the Indian (Gandharan, Indo-Greco), Iranian (Ariyan/Persian), Central Asian people who thrived in the area before and after the time of the Buddha and the birth of Buddhism.
(AFP) Devastated Afghans keep searching for victims' bodies after a landslide in
northern Badakhshan province above Kabul that entombed a village, killing thousands of people
and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. See Another Tragedy in Afghanistan
(AFP, May 5, 2014) There are estimated to be thousands
of shamans or "spirit healers," who are called on as medicine men and women in
traditional ethnic villages in China, but mass migration to cities has meant
the prospects for the profession are looking bleak. Of course, those people will be back when their health deteriorates using super toxic Western (allopathic) chemicals and medicaments.
- Doctors are third leading cause of death in US, killing...
- DEATH BY MEDICINE (by Gary Null, Ph.D.; Dr. Carolyn Dean M.D., N.D.; Dr. Martin Feldman, M.D.; Dr. Debora Rasio, M.D.; and Dorothy Smith, Ph.D.)
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| Dancing shaman (hamidsardar.com |
Earliest
known depiction of a Siberian shaman -- by Dutch explorer Nicolaes
Witsen, who authored an account of his travels among Samoyedic- and
Tungusic-speaking peoples in 1692.
Russian boy dies in shaman ceremony [783,936 Americans die in a year being prescribed pharmaceuticals and taking them as directed by an M.D. and no one says anything, which is called iatrogenic death]
Traditional
shaman healers, who have practiced in some areas of Siberia and the Far East for thousands of years, have experienced a revival since the 1991
break-up of the Soviet Union ended repression by the Communist... [Their track record for healing disease and saving lives is much better than it is for Western doctors, but don't tell anyone.]
Coldest place on Earth: shaman paradise Monday's
Geo Quiz is cold, cold, cold. We're looking for the name of a cold
Siberian city. It's the capital of the Russian Republic of Sakha [as in
Shakya? Sakka? Buddhist Kalmykia?] It has on average the coldest
winter... |
| Training eagle and horse (hamidsardar.com) |
"Be Your Own Shaman" (April 5th Party) Our friend and energetic healer Dr. Deborah King is holding an ONLINE party to celebrate the launch of her new book, Be Your Own Shaman...
VIDEO: The Shamans of Mongolia Much
of our American Xmas lore comes not from Israel and Christianity but
from Scandinavian shamans, like the Swedish Sami, and European Pagans.
"Santa Claus" was originally a magic mushroom harvester who...
The World's oldest form of spirituality The
Buddha rejected the ultimate authority of the Vedas, ritual
priestcraft, and Brahmanism. He returned to the oldest form of
spirituality, shamanism (as part of India's ancient Shramana Dharma Movement). By rejecting the dominant Brahmin priest mediated...
Is Shamanism a Path to Enlightenment?
According
to Harner, "The shamanic path is not a path traditionally intended to
achieve enlightenment. It has been a path... In essence, shamanism both
is and isn't a path of transformation and enlightenment. Global
Medicine...
Buddhism and Shamanism Today
Modern shamans, while less formal than Buddhist shramanas or Hindu sannyasins, are not a reaction to Brahmin temple priests as Buddhism was. Nevertheless, even urban shamans are trying to directly connect with the...
Beyond Coping: The Buddha on Illness
An anthropologist once questioned an Eskimo shaman about his tribe's belief system. After putting up with the anthropologist's questions for a while, the shaman finally told him: "Look. We don't believe. We fear." In a similar...
Is Shamanism a Path to Enlightenment?
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| Last shaman of the Oroqen (Richard Noll) |
Buddhism and Shamanism Today
Modern shamans, while less formal than Buddhist shramanas or Hindu sannyasins, are not a reaction to Brahmin temple priests as Buddhism was. Nevertheless, even urban shamans are trying to directly connect with the...
Beyond Coping: The Buddha on Illness
An anthropologist once questioned an Eskimo shaman about his tribe's belief system. After putting up with the anthropologist's questions for a while, the shaman finally told him: "Look. We don't believe. We fear." In a similar...
Master
healer and urban shaman [and sexual abuse survivor] Deborah King
(DeborahKingCenter.com), was a successful attorney in her 20s when a
diagnosis of cancer sent her on a search for truth. It radically changed
her...
New
research suggests that many of the first artistic masters (as well as
the majority of shamans, intuitives, and "medicine men") were women, not
men. Woman shaman (Elende). (IFC Films) Documentary filmmaker
Werner...
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