the shaman's calling (or "the call of the spirits") "is often a direct consequence of an actual illness, misfortune, or danger" (61)
"the shaman's initial crisis" (63)
Akawaio Indian saying: "a man must die before he becomes a shaman"
> from I. M. Lewis' Ecstatic Religion (2002)
> tagged with #disease, #spirituality, #magic, #death
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