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 |  Subject: The Shamanizing of Modern America  Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:07 pm | |
| The Shamanizing of Modern America Published 2 days ago by Cris Putnam  Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut, Dr Kenneth Ring employed the tools of psychological research to  document the dramatic worldview shift in the West resulting from transformative encounters like NDEs and “alien” abduction. He concluded these phenomena are instigating a paradigm shift entailing the “shamanizing of modern humanity.”[i] As postmodernism deconstructs Christian morality and demonic power structures increase in influence, more and more people in the West are “called” into shamanism.Of course, a shaman is typically a tribal leader who contacts the spirit world and practices magic. This typically entails the use of psychoactive herbs and substances to acquire an altered state of consciousness, Although it has ancient roots, Ring frames it as an extension of evolution. The new pagans see this as a progression toward the omega point. Ring has tabulated a lot of data that suggests we are within “a major shift in the levels of consciousness that will eventually lead to humanity being able to live in two worlds at once—the physical and the imaginal.”[ii] He concludes that humankind is merging with “Mind at Large.”[iii] This corresponds quite neatly with the converging monistic aspirations of the new paganism. Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon have an interesting article on the call to shamanistic service of the spirit realm: - Quote :
- Shamanism – Spiritual Blackmail
The phenomenon of spiritistic intimidation is common to all categories of occultism. Thus, shamans who are “chosen” by the spirits as “healers” must either submit to the spirits or become ill, or even die.
The person called to be a shaman must learn to shamanize, that is, must take his powerful experiences and find a way to share the power with his people. If he does not shamanize, he will become ill again and may die, for the shaman is called to a certain kind of life, and if he does not lead it properly, his power will turn against him and kill him.[iv]
In other words, to the spirits, human life is cheap. If their chosen host will not obey their wishes, they will destroy it and find another. Dr. Nandor Fodor discusses a similar condition among mediums. He observes that when a person neglects his mediumistic powers, illness results. Thus “mediumship, if suppressed, will manifest in symptoms of disease.”[v] He cites the following illustration:
The spasms seized the whole body; even the tongue was affected, blocking the throat and nearly suffocating her. When the patient mentioned that in her youth she tried table tilting, the doctor thought of the possibility that the mediumistic energy might block his patient’s organism. A sitting was tried. The lady fell into trance and afterwards slept well for a few days. When the sleeplessness became worse again the sitting was repeated and the results proved to be so beneficial that the chloral hydrate treatment previously employed was discontinued.[vi]
This woman discovered that, like many shamans, she too had been “called” to her profession, and that unless she gave in to the process, she would suffer immeasurably.
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http://www.supernaturalworldview.com/2014/06/06/the-shamanizing-of-modern-america/%20%20%20%20%20http:
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