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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8292175" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Yeah. </p><p></p><p>In the animistic perspective, a "community" includes all of the human members, and also includes all of the nonhuman members as well.</p><p></p><p>The role of a shaman is to help resolve any difficulties within the community. If a conflict breaks out between two human members of the community, one or both might ask the shaman for help, or the shaman can intervene to help resolve the conflict. Identically, if a conflict breaks out between a nonhuman member and a human member, or a conflict between two nonhuman members, one or both members of the community can ask the shaman for help. A nonhuman member of the community might show up in a dream to ask for help, or the shaman can discover that a nonhuman member is involved while investigating a difficulty.</p><p></p><p>The animism is egalitarian − there are no masters and there are no servants. Both the features of nature and the humans have a say in what goes one within the local shared community. The shaman has the skills and the training to help resolve any community difficulties. The shaman can function as an advocate for any of the community members. Effectively, the shaman functions as an advocate who helps explain the needs of the nonhuman members. But other humans will also be interacting in a mutual relationship with the features of natures, via annual ceremonies, family traditions and personal experiences, such as dreams and sightings.</p><p></p><p>The relationships between the humans and the features of nature are ongoing and vivid. It is typical for certain families to believe one of these features is an ancestor, and their family partly descends from nonhuman heritage.</p><p></p><p>Every stone, every tree, has a mind, and a say about what is going on within the community. However, they are not equally significant. As a rule, the more prominent a natural feature is to the community, the greater the mental influence it has among the community, and the more present and vivid its mind is. A mountain literally looms large, and is an important part of the communities ways of life. Likewise a watersource. In the case of a mountain, the mountain itself can be understood as a great ancestor, and the other notable features being members of the family of the mountain. The less significant features such as pebbles here and there, can also be part of this family, but tend to be "quieter", less prominent, and tend to go along with whatever the ancestral mountains decides.</p><p></p><p>As time passes, new features can gain in significance within the community and old features can decline in significance − comparable to humans being born and dying within the community. But everyone remains part of the community, even if the memory about them can become misty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8292175, member: 58172"] Yeah. In the animistic perspective, a "community" includes all of the human members, and also includes all of the nonhuman members as well. The role of a shaman is to help resolve any difficulties within the community. If a conflict breaks out between two human members of the community, one or both might ask the shaman for help, or the shaman can intervene to help resolve the conflict. Identically, if a conflict breaks out between a nonhuman member and a human member, or a conflict between two nonhuman members, one or both members of the community can ask the shaman for help. A nonhuman member of the community might show up in a dream to ask for help, or the shaman can discover that a nonhuman member is involved while investigating a difficulty. The animism is egalitarian − there are no masters and there are no servants. Both the features of nature and the humans have a say in what goes one within the local shared community. The shaman has the skills and the training to help resolve any community difficulties. The shaman can function as an advocate for any of the community members. Effectively, the shaman functions as an advocate who helps explain the needs of the nonhuman members. But other humans will also be interacting in a mutual relationship with the features of natures, via annual ceremonies, family traditions and personal experiences, such as dreams and sightings. The relationships between the humans and the features of nature are ongoing and vivid. It is typical for certain families to believe one of these features is an ancestor, and their family partly descends from nonhuman heritage. Every stone, every tree, has a mind, and a say about what is going on within the community. However, they are not equally significant. As a rule, the more prominent a natural feature is to the community, the greater the mental influence it has among the community, and the more present and vivid its mind is. A mountain literally looms large, and is an important part of the communities ways of life. Likewise a watersource. In the case of a mountain, the mountain itself can be understood as a great ancestor, and the other notable features being members of the family of the mountain. The less significant features such as pebbles here and there, can also be part of this family, but tend to be "quieter", less prominent, and tend to go along with whatever the ancestral mountains decides. As time passes, new features can gain in significance within the community and old features can decline in significance − comparable to humans being born and dying within the community. But everyone remains part of the community, even if the memory about them can become misty. [/QUOTE]
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