Posts tagged "shamanism"
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September 11
‘The Yanomami shaman doesn’t distinguish between the fate of his people and the fate of the rest of humanity. Whilst desperately seeking to preserve his beliefs and his rituals, the Yanomami shaman believes he is working towards the salvation of even his cruellest enemies. Expressed in metaphysical terms with which we are no longer familiar, this concept of humanity’s solidarity and diversity, is strikingly important. There is a message here. For it is the responsibility of the last spokesman of a society that has been endagered, together with so many others, through our own actions, to express such wisdom. There are, however, still too few of us who understand that our own survival depends on such philosophy’ - French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss

‘The Yanomami shaman doesn’t distinguish between the fate of his people and the fate of the rest of humanity. Whilst desperately seeking to preserve his beliefs and his rituals, the Yanomami shaman believes he is working towards the salvation of even his cruellest enemies. Expressed in metaphysical terms with which we are no longer familiar, this concept of humanity’s solidarity and diversity, is strikingly important. There is a message here. For it is the responsibility of the last spokesman of a society that has been endagered, together with so many others, through our own actions, to express such wisdom. There are, however, still too few of us who understand that our own survival depends on such philosophy’

- French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss