One point of view I don't see reflected here is the idea that almost ALL cultures can trace their religious roots back to indigenous, often "shamanistic" practices. From Wordnik.com. [Video Resource on Cultural Misappropriation] Reference
'shamanistic' dances that interrupted them were more conventional. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The only model that fits is a shamanistic initiation. From Wordnik.com. [Rak Razam: True Conversations: An Interview With Dennis McKenna | Disinformation] Reference
We turned to a specific discussion of shamanistic ceremonies. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Badt: The Disturbing Vision of Director Carlos Reygadas : "Life is Magic!"] Reference
Now, universal single payer shamanistic death panels - forward!. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Schweber: Universal Single-Payer Shamanistic Death Panels] Reference
Llosa's film is in effect this shamanistic journey of recovery. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Badt: Accepting Trauma: Berlinale Golden Bear Winner Milk of Sorrow] Reference
The shamanistic voyage depends on a social contract, says Levi Strauss. From Wordnik.com. [Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman?] Reference
Look, Southwestern procedures of that kind are basically shamanistic, musical. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
He makes a reasoned connection between shamanistic beliefs and modern science. From Wordnik.com. [After thoughts on Barr] Reference
Apparently the hallucination of extra digits is common during shamanistic trances. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
The new shamanistic story -- Levi Strauss suggests -- has the actual power to heal. From Wordnik.com. [Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman?] Reference
Daniel's is musical at its core; emotional too and strangely forensic while shamanistic. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Vella: The Art of Visual Improvisation: Interview With Adam CK Vollick] Reference
But these Crow book are special because of the way they incorporate shamanistic beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » Eyes of Crow] Reference
Tie these two ideas together with the shamanistic concept of the Power Animal, and voila!. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » Early Christmas – day three – Voice of Crow] Reference
It's a nice shamanistic flourish considering the subject matter of dreams, death, and waking. From Wordnik.com. [A review for INK] Reference
I told him I had had a good friend who is a shamanistic healer "drum" me with her giant four-foot drum. From Wordnik.com. [Claudia Ricci: Why Bad News is Bad for the National Psyche] Reference
James was to perform the shamanistic ritual in a week's time and she was to administer the sacramental brew. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
Caroline, as I'll call her, is a commanding presence, with high cheekbones and quick-moving, shamanistic eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Nickel and Dimed]
Hyper-literate narrative song-writing in the service of an act of stingingly efficient shamanistic cultural recall. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
In World of Warcraft, Thrall is the warchief of the shamanistic Horde and ruler of the red land of Durotar in Kalimdor. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
The art reflects new religious beliefs and shamanistic practices that were to underpin centuries of Andean civilization. From Wordnik.com. [b. Chavin] Reference
These are diverse; some believe in faith healing, some promise benefit in this life, and some have shamanistic practices. From Wordnik.com. [History of Showa as a Phantom City » Japundit Blog] Reference
They argue that the shamanistic religious world also dominated the lives of the first farmers of the Near East and Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Neolithic Spirit Realms] Reference
Apparently each tribe had an old woman who performed shamanistic functions and was referred to as “the angel of death.”. From Wordnik.com. [Eaters Of The Dead]
When discussing how he got the idea of a talking fox, he noted that he had had a shamanistic experience where he met a red fox. From Wordnik.com. [Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman?] Reference
The alien rulers, accordingly, showed interest in the Chinese shamans as well as in the shamanistic aspects of Mahayana Buddhism. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
And then Samantha Bee capture the zeitgeist of the moment in a single pithy phrase: "universal single-payer shamanistic death panels.". From Wordnik.com. [Howard Schweber: Universal Single-Payer Shamanistic Death Panels] Reference
Mons Graupius but I'm not interested in self finding stuff and healing dreams, that looks too close to those shamanistic Boudica novels. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn Stag, by Jules Watson. Book review] Reference
The half-animal, half-human figurine, only the second of its kind ever found, may be evidence of shamanistic practices among early humans. From Wordnik.com. [Fetching Figurines] Reference
(As well he might be - his record company bio describes him as an almost shamanistic figure, "a global traveller and pathfinder in realms of the soul."). From Wordnik.com. [Mercury Falling] Reference
If our amalgam of shamanistic Orphism, Enthusiasm, and Gnosticism can mask so successfully as Christianity, why cannot it as adroitly impersonate Buddhism and Hinduism?. From Wordnik.com. [‘The American Religion’] Reference
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