[UA] Authentic Shamanism

[Tom McGrenery]

There was a nicely postmodern bit in his talk, actually.

"I always carry these herbs with me, because if I accidentally eat pork, or 
beef, then I trance... the herbs help me to drive out the spirit. But then 
I came here to England and found out it is an allergy."


The drum, by the way, looks a lot like a bodhran, and is played in a 
similar way, but with only a single-headed stick.

Tom



>Just a thought: to make this more or less postmodern, relace the jaguar
>in the ritual with the car jaguar (ie, the goat must have been killed
>by being hit by said car, the "Jaguar Birth Day" refers to the day the
>car was bought, or the anniverasary of the jaguar appearing on the
>market, or the release date of Apple's Mac OS 10.2).  You know, to keep
>the urban shaman guy from PoMoMa happy.
>
>Mr. Teapot
>keeping away evil spirits



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