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• n  in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination

• What does the 12,000-year-old animist grave of a female shaman tell us about the progress of human civilization?.
• The old shaman placed a bamboo shoot filled with hallucinogenic snuff against Mark Plotkin's left nostril and blew into the tube.
• A picture released by Israel's Antiquity Authority shows some of the 50 tortoise shells alongside a 12,000-year-old skeleton of a female shaman during excavations in the Galilee .

• priest-doctor

News & Articles

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• Shamanic healing has a foothold in Lawrence
  Shamanic healing has a foothold in Lawrence, and followers of the practice say it seems to be growing here as it grows in Western culture as a whole. Shamanism is not widely accepted as effective, but those who practice it say it's filled voids in their lives they previously couldn’t quite put their fingers on. By Sara Shepherd
  June 10, 2013 - Lawrence Journal-World

Quotes

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• Tan Dun in International Herald Tribune
  I had three essential aims in mind when making changes,Tan Dun said in a statement released by the Met. "I wanted to enlarge the traditional Chinese elements: the Peking Opera-style scenes and the character of the Shaman. Secondly, I aimed...
• Ray Manzarek in So Hood
  What a wild Doors night,adds Manzarek. "We never knew what was going to happen when the shaman went over the edge. And this night is over the edge. He's beyond the pale, like Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Like Dean Moriarty in On The Road."
• Carlos Delgado in Setanta Sports
  I'm not aware of it and I'm no shaman,said Carlos Delgado.