| And I found out that jimson weed is also called Datura and has been in use as a shamanic psychotropic substance, and a folk medicine forever. |
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| His journey, basically the apprenticeship stage of the shamanic pattern, becomes a discovering, testing, learning process. |
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| The meditation was conducted while listening to a CD of shamanic double drumming. |
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| The healing touch attributed to European kings does not make those kings very shamanic. |
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| Before his departure, he will present a film he made in October 2003, during his last shamanic adventure. |
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| The shamanic practitioner was interviewed on a TV programme about comparative religion. |
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| Many of my most profound mystical experiences were in drug-induced shamanic states. |
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| It also made a great counterpoint to the shamanic stuff I've been immersed in, as initiations so often feature a ritual death and resurrection. |
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| I had to change my world view to actively learn shamanic techniques from Nepal. |
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| Wouldn't Odin's hanging from the World Tree for nine days and nine nights until he found the runes be a description of a shamanic initiation or a vision quest? |
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| Would it be easier just to try a shamanic trance and go hunt them down? |
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| I ate a macaroon so I would have something to chew on during my first shamanic journey. |
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| Performance contexts include manioc-beer-drinking rituals, shamanic rituals, funeral rites, lullabies, love songs, and laments. |
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| Both rely on Jones's shamanic presence, unabashed sincerity, and catlike movements to weave stories about crises in our culture. |
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| Khöömei literally means pharynx, and it is believed to have been learned from birds, whose spirits are central to shamanic practices. |
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| His years in the morgue parallel a descent into the shamanic underworld. |
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| Healing is done at night, an ideal moment for the effective practice of shamanic healings. |
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| For some, like Mr Madoff, it is the belief in the trickster's shamanic stock-picking skills. |
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| Playing of the khomus, or mouth harp, once an accompaniment to shamanic ritual, has also experienced a resurgence. |
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| It is known that shamanic practices can take place only in a fresh environment. |
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| A rationality often unable to answer key questions in contrast to shamanic rituals that seem to sprout intelligence closer to pure intuition. |
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| Because of that he felt free to inform Rasmussen about his shamanic knowledge. |
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| They generally had two sets of clothing: one for hunting and daily life, the other for special occasions, dances and shamanic ceremonies. |
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| European folklore preserves remnants of early shamanic traditions that also came from Siberia. |
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| The essence of the shamanic rituals has been preserved and linked with our present scientific knowledge of the brain and of the human psychology. |
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| Angutimmarik was not only an excellent hunter, but he was also known for his shamanic powers. |
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| Ritual trance journeys have been a vital part of shamanic and eastern dance cultures for thousands of years. |
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| During shamanic counselling, the client is taught how to put themselves into a trance-like state so they can ask questions of their spirit helpers. |
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| Indigenous and shamanic healers speak about the presence of and use of such tutelary spirits which are often personified and summoned while working with a patient. |
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| Maya performance contexts include shamanic rituals for curing, house blessing, and protection of crops and livestock, as well as calendric observances honouring ancestral deities. |
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| This applied equally to the palace presbyter for shamanic rites when performing sacrifice. |
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| Behind her piano, this young native of Basel, with her biblical name and quadruple A's, prefers invoking the name of shamanic healer David E. Edwards, as her only declared inspiration. |
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| She could point to several reasons: the similarities between traditional shamanic ceremonies and Canadian Aboriginal practices, a holistic world view and above all, the anchoring and healing connection to the land. |
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| Early Taoist movements developed their own institution in contrast to shamanism, but absorbed basic shamanic elements. |
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| But the witch's flight is connected to a legitimate shamanic tradition and is not simply the delusions of ecclesiastics and demonologists. |
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| This ambivalence explains the attitude of the eiders who, white positively valuating shamanic traditions, still strongly resist today the idea of a return to these practices. |
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| By the early 21st century, throat-singing was once again used to lull babies to sleep, lure wild and semidomesticated animals, help gain the favour of the spirit of the place, and summon shamanic spirits and Buddhist gods. |
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| This artistic representation of axis mundi opens the mind up to a new visual dimension both energistic and shamanic. |
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| This dramatic case confirms the need for the supervision and surveillance of this type of shamanic, detoxication or initiation course, as they may lead to other similar circumstances. |
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| Some traditional shamanic headgear had animal hides, plaits, and feathers, particularly in East Sapmi. |
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| Definitions that emphasize unitive ideologies are able to include Daoism but exempt shamanism from consideration, even though many Daoist visions are variants of shamanic soul flights. |
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| Further to this is the embedding of the shamanic methods into rituals and the worldview of natural processes and awe for nature, of the soulfulness of all which exists. |
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| Zhuangzi was the best known of these, and it is significant that he lived in the south, where he was part of local Chinese shamanic traditions. |
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| From the moment they wound their way through the crowd to the stage, chiming a primal rhythm from mini glockenspiels, this was an hypnotic, shamanic experience. |
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| From the second half of the 17th century, beliefs and cults in the shamanic form were displaced by Buddhism, which became widespread in ethnic Buryatia. |
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| A common shamanic concept, and a universally told story, is that of the healer traversing the axis mundi to bring back knowledge from the other world. |
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| I learned later that a couple of Wiccan groups and a Shamanic Drum circle use the same area for activities on the weekends. |
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| Even today there are Shamanic practices and rituals performed, and Medicine Men dispense ancient cures for many disease processes. |
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| Shamanic thought is gradually infiltrating the greater Pagan community. |
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| Shamanic and other ritual may effect a psychotherapeutic cure, leading anthropologists such as Jane Atkinson to theorize how. |
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| They were markedly influenced by Chinese folk religion and retained only some Shamanic customs. |
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| Apart from the Shamanic shrines in the Qing palace, no temples erected for worship of Manchu gods could be found in Beijing. |
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