Friday, May 7, 2010

Aperrantly trance music comes from the shamanists which has the same trance-inducing effect. Shamanism is a term refering to a range of beleifs regarding to communication with the spiritual world. A shaman is a messangers between the human world and the spiritual world. It is said that shamans would treat illnesess by mending the soul by bangin a drum sort of object which supposedly put the people that heard it into a trance and the trance would restore the body and soul to balance and wholeness. The Shaman could also enter supernatural relms to find solutions to problems afflicting the human world. The Shamans could also visit other relms or dimensions to bring guidance to misguided soulsThe term shaman comes from the Turkic word saman the term for such a practitioner which also gained currency in the wider Turko Mongol and Tungusic cultures in ancient Siberia Shamanism played an important role in Altaic mythology Tengriism which was the major belief of Xiongnu Turkic Hungarian and Bulgar peoples in ancient times incorporates elements of shamanism.The shaman's social role may be defined by a set of connected behaviors, rights and obligations as conceptualized by actors in a social situation and the expected behavior in a given individual within their cultural social status and social position.
Shamanism is a calling. Individuals who are called typically experience an illness of some sort over a prolonged period of time. This illness will prompt the individual to seek out spiritual guidance and other shamanic healers. Such illnesses are usually not healed curable by physicians and western medicine. The shaman heals through spiritual means that consequently affect the human world by bringing about restored health.

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