| div cl | | | | a variety of things, such as magical specialties of |
| The Way of the Shaman: The Science of Shamanism | | | | control over the elements, levitation, also called |
| Shamanism, which from here on in will be referred to | | | | âmagical flight,â or even shape |
| as the âWay of the Shaman,â has | | | | shifting. However, the most necesarry and universal |
| recently been distinguished as an archaic | | | | characteristic of the way of the shaman would have |
| magico-religious phenomenon. The way of the | | | | to be the state of ecstatic trance during which the |
| shaman has received a wide variety of attention and | | | | spirit of the shaman is believed to make it's way out |
| has been studied to decipher the process of | | | | of the body and travel the many dimensions, ascend |
| shamanic ecstasy. The way of the shaman had been | | | | into the heavens, descend into the underworld, or |
| defined as an technique of ecstasy by Mircea Eliade. | | | | travel into the depths of the planet, becoming one |
| Characteristics of the way of the shaman can include | | | | with it's energy. |