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The shaman as poet of consciousness
By
Robert Moss
Poets, it’s said, are shamans of words. True shamans are poets of consciousness. Journeying into a deeper reality with the aid of sung and spoken poetry, they bring back energy and healing through poetic acts, shapeshifting physical systems. When we dream, we tap directly into the same creative source from which poets and shamans derive…
A singing shaman called by Owl, and dreams
By
Robert Moss
One of the classic accounts of how shamans are called to their practice by dreams comes from Isaac Tens, a Gitskan halaait (shaman) in the Pacific Northwest. The French Canadian scholar Marius Barbeau recorded his narrative and his songs at Hazelton, British Columbia, in 1920. This is a fierce story, in which dreams spill over…
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