receptive believers

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The tribal shaman is not physically much different from tribe members, but
has aditional perspectives on the average beliefs held by the group at
large which focuses mostly on the physical attributes of living in a hostile
natural environment as a mortal being. Recognised by the tribesman as a
person with abilities and wisdom, it is the application of the wisdom and
knowledge of organic chemistry that inspires the faith tribesman has in
shamans and their practice. Shamans could possibly do anything and
administer anything of a wide range of practical rituals, and still have the
same effect seeming as the root of the healing is in the believers themself.
Seeming as shamans know this, it is kind of absurd that most yuppie wanabe
shamans run around with beads and nose rings trying to imagine or portray
what makes a shaman unique. It is the knowledge and the wisdom that sets the
shaman on a path of solitude from where the perimeter perspective can shed
light on concealed methods that has not been apparent to the ones facing the
fire in the centre of the circle. The shaman is a mirror and a source of
light at the same time, and it is the faith of the one that suffers that
generates the healing process which is stimulated by the energetic vibration
of the shamans touch. The ritual is a symbolic activation of the process of
healing and usually goes hand in hand with a story that appeals to the
visualisation of the change required to align the one that suffers with his
or her own inner source of balance - the flow of energy that alligns the
body, the mind and the spirit.

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