and it's been ten unsuccessful land as northern nationalists look to exit the three hundred year old getting in the favor of an oil rich future. as we have lined up next our special report and we're off to siberia were the ancient tradition of shamanism is still alive learn more about it in our special report. the sun sets and siberia a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced shamans east of lake by count begins his shamanic rituals today's ritual is designed to invoke the spirits healing abilities and thank them for their powers at one point during the ritual a spirit penetrating by his body is expected to help the shaman deal with people's issues as well as heal them when a shaman becomes aware of the onset of the state of trance he puts on a cap that covers his eyes the cap protects the shaman from evil spirits and safeguards the onlookers according to popular belief ordinary people are not

supposed to see the shamans eyes at such moments because this might cause them harm then the shamans crown comes into play this headgear is fashioned out of iron and has horns on top chum and say that as soon as the invoked spirit makes its appearance in the form of a cloud the horns help guide the spirit into the shamans body. as a drumbeat quickens the nervous tension of the people gathered in the year quickly begins to peak then the drum abruptly falls silent the shaman falls to the floor and begin spinning on it this means the spirit has entered his body video camera switched off filming a shaman in this state poses a threat to him and his audience. work at the russian academy of sciences is drawing to a close up valentino had a ton of

a head of the unit for the study of shamanism is inspecting the new exhibit displayed at the institute's ethnographic museum they have been supplied by scientists returning from this year's field expeditions valentino has spent years studying humans extrasensory and. extra sensitive potential. of an hour all the way at a third. d. for a dependent on the ethnicity of the schelm would do here each ethnic group has its own interpretation of the spirit is. in this particular case the spirit penetrates the shunts body in a somewhat unusual way that what it already i told this young man's mind undergoes a change which is the result of deep immersion eve cock with them i mean scenarios he saw as it were and sublimate energizing powers the market of the soul leaves the body at some point to make room for the spirit in the bottle but then

watch the keys as though the spirit occupies the shermans body while he's still leaves out the video from other. shermans are a rare or unusual sight until a major industrial city in the urals even so sharman by the name of cured get income has managed to balance sharman as with life in the big city here's the latest representative of the planet sharman spawning seven generations for centuries siberians have become shamans when called upon by the spirits apart from his spiritual activities to again come practice his music in the morning he goes to his small studio in central chile where not performing his duties as sherman at the entrance to the small backyard there is an over a century for the spirits who are regarded as the local masters to again praise to them and offers them gifts chairman's highly valuable support. to me is a friend of show again he's a soloist at the local opera house it took the two men

a great deal of effort and time before they found a unique musical knowledge since then they have been creating a new trend in clubhouse music folk instruments in combination with throat singing against an electronic background the musicians feel it. it's now too late to develop a taste for folklore and young people consequently they're trying to pave the way for them to traditional music through mountains sounds less the national media that when you find yourself in a trance during a ritual you suffer spiritually so to speak. after that the music helps me withdrawal from that state it isn't i can't set sharman ism and music apart i can't focus only on music or sharman is i'm alone and as you must move i distance myself from music each time i perform a ritual and vice versa. the resulting symbiosis helps me live life to the full

rather than eke out an existence and he's. the modern who is their instrument of choice in the mongolian language modern that means folks who work means violin quite often this instrument is referred to simply as the horses fiddle each violin by as a horse's head symbolizing that the instrument is a living creature the strings are traditionally made of forced tail two strings symbolized in manhood and womanhood for that reason one of them is made of the hair of a stallion the hair of a mare is used to make the other the two strings produce a unique comedy legend has it that once upon a time there was an invincible epic hero who had a wind horse and he fell asleep enemies chopped off his horse's wings the wingless horse died the hero commemorated takes like using his skin and bones to make the first mornin who are as soon as he started playing the instrument he recognized the voice of his divorce as they strung the songs on the mourning for mongols movie out

some two millions dedicate to their beloved steeds. to. go over the throat singing begins here in the diaphragm. each time i try to produce this. sound green my belly to send it up boards i make my vocal chords vibrate a little just you know the result is something like a rorschach. i believe but sherman's were the first to practice throat singing someone it's because this sort of sound board soft evil spirits which are trying to take control of sick people. by year inching off regularly host his patients in his little house situated close to the shamans yet many of them live hundreds of kilometers away. probably more hear what's wrong there isn't much help in the end and in general

there is something wrong with my life and me was what. borders and when were you born nine hundred sixty three have you had headaches yes when did you first feel them not long ago as far as i can tell. when were you x. rayed last last spring please give me any number between zero and twelve six. that was on the fourth and fifth vertebrae. your body's cold energies are blocked by the neck bone it should in over the. course of. your kidneys and although your region is organs are not in the best shape sheen of course but when you get it to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed in the x. ray photograph of it together with the descriptions. i've brought some vault kept at home like you told me to do. ok i'll have a look. for

a job where was your mother bone somewhere in the crib on reachin or do you know were there any priests among your forefathers in the maternal line. they were cossacks convicts i think they were churchgoers anyway. you would just say that men in the maternal early. yes they die earlier than women do. and your great grandmother lost and protecting your clan's males when you wish to discuss the matter with the priest what you should. do i suggest you have the i can restore you and consecrated new tissue q-q. it will help you in your life which will of course the one born at the right time to believe in all that but i am telling you that if you keep that i can in your household your son might father of four boys and two girls.

by year in chino finishes consulting his patients late at night his followers meanwhile get ready for a ritual to lift the curse which is weighs heavily on the men of a body at clan for many years the rituals principle target is a seventeen year old boy the youngest of the clans males according to the shams the spirits imposed the curse in mongolia when one of the boys ancestors broke a holy birch tree many years ago. birch trees cut down beforehand have been put in the ground near the shannons as a sign of peoples request for forgiveness for several hours these people will perform sophisticated rituals festooning the trees with ribbons and sacred objects wetted in milk and fema gated with fragrant juniper smoke. with never take off your cap go down on your knees to the sound of the drum beat.

watch a source to turn their own clockwise. run around the trees and stand behind them. run around the trees three times. now circle to come three times. i went. down on a nice here. from pick up the grass from the ground put in the cup and drink at home from. people dig up the birch trees and again pray to the spirits asking them to accept their gifts as an atonement for a tree desecrated a long time ago the procession then heads to the sacrificial bonfires and step all the so-called white food like bread cakes cookies butter and cheese is tossed into

the fire milk and vodka to a considered offerings to the spirits the flames of another bonfire lick birch trees decorated with multi colored ribbons all this has to be reduced to ashes but the spirits are to meet people's requests you think of. folks in the shop with the shell monson had to have extraordinary skill that's what they need to display as super sensitive reaction after the end enormous powers to influence people that the big question is how they do it now that it's in the scientists my have to wreck their brains over the problem for a long time to come the most difficult part of it is explaining it in scientific terms. as a misnomer just an psychologist i can say that most of these things have a psychotherapeutic effect with in this sense any showman is an excellent psychologist and psychotherapist. being the traditional sharma in

a city is a difficult task sometimes chegg and come jokingly refers to himself as a degraded schama because he can't afford to drop out of the fast tempo of modern day civilization but whenever the opportunity presents itself he heads for the holy glade he set up in the forest. before entering the forest the sherman pauses before birch tree. she supposed to protect his blade from intruders i mean with the news that you can just walk past this place you should give the spirits a hotdog it's a blue scarf that takes your wishes and prayers to the sky and salmon ism is not an entirely native religion and. that's why i made a point of looking for such places you played when i was performing a ritual that this bird told me to come here to do this birch tree has four trunks sharing one root and that is this is the holiest and most revered place as for the birch tree it belongs to a higher world with little yes no new. although the shamanic ritual continues well

into the night by you inching off gets up early in the morning as always he wants to make sure he has a good supply of firewood before the onset of winter winters in the egg in six step can be bitterly cold. so i first started seeing my own sisters when i was still a child about the same age as my grandson is now. and i began studying shamanism around one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. my first guru was to become it i woman who lived here in the against district of the slope of life she suggested me to aid the old style retrials which no one else practiced at the time it was. after she died i went to mongolia where i found another guru. it was some time later that spirits began entering me. absolutely the fact is that each generation of my ancestors included tellings the chairman's even all the way back

to the twelfth generation of paternal relatives cars the book and so the spirits began entering me to see whether i had a mark identifying me as a sham and or. need the year. by year in chin off as a successful farmer as well as a showman he has spent a lifetime working on a farm when he could afford to buy a plot of land he did so without hesitation it is a place where several generations of maternal relatives have been buried they built a shaman's yurta and started to farm chairman ism and farming together is not an easy task by a has to work hard he can't remember when he last had a day of rest but he considers himself a happy man despite the rigors he now has more than one hundred fifty sheep and goats by years even playing with the idea of buying a felt making machine by years farm was ravaged several years ago by fire but even that never stopped him from abandoning the land of his ancestors building

a new house took him a lot of effort he set up a set get a traditional boria tethering post name his house it indicates that this land has an owner. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money mentoring is a should be a lot of people at various supporters of the stop online piracy act claim they are losing billions of dollars a year to them on the internet opponents of sopa worry creeping into. a grand gathering of by year's followers is scheduled for noon guinea billick lives

near the border with china has covered three hundred kilometers in order to see as good. and i revealed some talent when i was still a child but i thought everybody could do what i could of there when i was thirty three years of age something began tormenting me i decided to give vent to my gift i turned to people i knew priests some lamas the lamas made some calculations and told me that my ancestors were bodhi at sharm and they also suggested i find a guru for myself if they were there but time i didn't have an idea who shermans were i had only seen some in films i had serious doubts about my future when i came here after all i was a thirty three year old christian russian but i thought i must respond to the call of my ancestors for the sake of the children and their future or you know it was my turn to do the work. today sherman's get together to discuss current issues share plans for the coming week and find out details about the journey they're going to

make soon once the meeting is over they will set out on a journey to a mountain shermans regard as a holy place a ritual will be performed there as always by year in chain off is happy to see his followers all of them have taken different paths before they face the group black shamans communicate with the spirits there to the right of by then they need to lose the tambourine why charmin is established contact with the gods there to the left by their hands rest on ritual canes with bells. by ear inching off was the first to begin reviving shamanism beyond lake baikal after a long period of oblivion during the first russian congress for the study of shamanism with michael hahn a legendary american anthropologist an organizer of the foundation for sure manic studies on it was so impressed by his talent that later his foundation. ordered the siberian sharman the title of living treasure sharman is. now the gathering

is over the shamans are about to set out on a pilgrimage to mount such an eye they will cover at least a hundred kilometers the lowlands mountain passes and heavy go in forest parts. of by followers has been here before this is one of the most private places to give the guru his show money powers it has been considered one of the sacraments of barrier chairman ism for a very long time a total cliff there's what looked like too dry and palms carved out of rock legend insists the shamans will live as long as these ten fingers so that. the legendary female sharman. is buried on the opposite side of the slope the grave of czar in bor a great chairman who went through all nine stages of the initiation procedure is found by they say that in the old days such shamans merged with the spirit during the ritual to control the weather travel over long distances here even levitation of

the streets. after a ceremony by here and to aides go to the base of the giant weaker and less experienced chairmans about from here and with good reason this area's spirit is too powerful. and long lost the chelyabinsk shaman to again come has reached the sacred glade here in the thick of the forest he has built a set of ritual installations with his own hands and summer time the season packed with chamonix rituals stays in a tent just outside the glade for weeks on end. and various receive food in this special place here we light up a bonfire made of a certain number of branches for example is seven layers of branches symbolize the lower world since it is just a ritual to exercise the souls of sick people. choir seven such layers. the sick person uses a spoon to offer the spirits whatever is in the pulley holds in his hands as the

sham and sings to invoke them. to prison. and when there is milk in the bowl the sick person's thoughts are focused on what he could get in return he might as the spirits to get rid of his ailments give them luck or wish him a good journey. or with a new. shamans regard the place where bomb fires a lit is sacred to again comes here in here before the onset of winter to clean it up and remove the ashes left over from the summertime rituals. after the cleansing procedure again spreads a mixture of rice and beans across the clean spot and this way the shaman asks the earth and local spirits to forgive him for the inconvenience before he is about to leave the forest again collects fir tree branches and carefully covers the on gone with them the on gone is an image of the tighar as ruler carved out of

a pine trunk the symbol of a spirit is supposed to guard the blade against intruders. we see to it that he keeps warmer winter we don't want him to freeze when we want him to stand on guard even though he never sleeps unlike other spirits they rise to the sky to live there until the arrival of spring is in the. modern day scientists have not given up their quest to understand what happens to shannon's when they're in contact with the spirits they want to know whether shamanism is not some sort of myth created by a group of mentally imbalanced people research was done several years ago with both the institute of neurophysiology and higher nervous activity and the institute for ethnology and anthropology for the russian academy of sciences but it's only shelly the so-called neo shamans and urban shamans who were involved in those special experiments to me ocean. represented and your generation option mannix tradition all in the mix here is a demonstration of an experiment in the presence of

a large audience just what you'd see these experts start in shamanism represent a number of countries living in someone is my. instruments are attached to the body of a new year sharma the pre-board a goat or a bull they will record the state of his blood vessels he gets us words this is not this cell what all do guys and he said and is a special catch up designed by one of our offices dr skidoo and some months creative act it is an act of affectation that is to say he needs to work himself up into a state of ecstasy. after that all processes inside his brain slow down specially those connected with speech in the city too easy then the brain begins to function in a fashion which is not characteristic of its normal activity in the city in other words the man activates the brain's right hemisphere particularly its frontal lobes which are responsible for his creative thinking rationally em. put themselves in

a state where they see a pattern of personages they met power to program a law in the existence of such personage as models and picture them in their minds . it's a persona it's more that the later the person ingests overpower the show months. would say however the key thing is not to lull the personages to gain the upper hand on them their new viewer cannot that way. to get the showman chelyabinsk is in for a hectic day he will travel five hundred kilometers to. the site of the ruins of the legendary town across the boundary separating europe asia perform a show manic ritual near the site of an ancient settle in recent years has become popular. with followers of all the satiric schools they believe that this is the site of the world's largest geological rupture some are even competent the mountain

which again is going to perform the ritual is actually a volcano that erupted millions of years ago but she again takes a skeptical view of those theories he is more interested in the energy generated at the juncture of europe and asia he will try to invoke the local spirits here his hope is that they will help resolve a problem affecting a sick amount. on the ritual follows a standard scenario the shaman gradually enters a trance the tambourines rhythmic tempo quickens and the shamans movements become ever more abrupt and church people fall. back on the clock compaq on. the tambourine full silence the shaman rides with convulsions this means that a spirit has entered him as a rule the showman knows which spirit is invoking what he can expect of it this

time however something has gone wrong. blood begins trickling from the shaman's mouth sagging legs hardly supports him has a limp surround the bonfire producing in comprehensible sounds like a beast. somebody has fainted everybody becomes jittery no contact with the spirit is likely to take place today. the tension dies down a few minutes later when a spirit in the shape of a shaman accepts a gift and begins gesturing as he squats near the sick man soon he rules again and vanishes in the dark. soon she again is found lying face down in the snow he has absolutely no idea of

what happened to him only a short while ago. stephen so the ritual has to go on a spade with a hundred full of red hot coals taken from the bonfire is moved close to the shaman's face as the sick man looks on the shaman grabs the coals shoves them into his mouth and change them and spits them out into the snow how many ailments have been defeated in today's ritual depends on the number of coals to choose by the showman. through to the four door to again manages to overcome his left the g. to go to mt show monk up to thank the local spirits and pray to the sun mother earth and above all else be eternal blue sky this is how boreal epic literature describes it the eternal blue sky is without beginning or end it moves without the support of limbs it brings peace welfare and happiness to the land below it prevents poor and disease and tames fire and floods which is the mode of earth and

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