and the shermans 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 shaman's 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 fulls 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 valentina how to tone of a head of the unit for the study of shamanism is inspecting the new exhibits 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 course they've been out all the way it. rituals de ferney dependent on the ethnicity of the shell who here each ethnic group has its own interpretation of the spirits or in this particular case the spirit penetrates the seans body in a somewhat unusual way that what it already i told peter and sums the show man's mind undergoes a change which is the result of deep immersion you quit the moment she narrows he saw as it were and sublimate he's energizing powers the market of the soul leaves the body at some point to make room for the spirit of the god but then what it is as though the spirit occupies the body while he's so elise out with

a video camera. charmian's or a rare or unusual sight until a major industrial city in the urals even so sharman by the name of childe get income has managed to balance sharman as a life in the big city he is the latest representative of the clan of sherman spawning seven generations for centuries siberians have become shamans when called upon by the spirits apart from his spiritual activities to comfort just his music in the morning he goes to his small studio in central chile where not performing his duties. at the entrance to the small backyard there is an over a century for the spirits who are regarded as the local masters tour again prays to them and offers them gifts chairman's highly valued 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 meech 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 is 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 modern sounds less. when you find yourself in a trance during a ritual you suffer spiritually so to speak. after that use it helps me withdrawal from that state if i can't set sharman is i'm a music apart i can't focus only on music or sharman is i'm alone and. 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. 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 to force tail two strings symbolize guinn and yon manhood and womanhood for that reason one of them is made of the hair of a stallion hair of a mess 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 who had a wind horse and he fell asleep enemies chopped off his horses wings when the schools died the hero commemoration takes like using his head skin and bones to make the first morning who as soon as he started playing the instrument he recognized the voice of his divorce as they strung the songs on the morning floor mungo's body at some two billions dedicate to their beloved state to.

go over the throat singing begins here in the diaphragm. each time i try to produce the sound i strain my belly to send it upwards i make my vocal chords vibrate a little. the result is something like a rorschach. i believe that shot once was the first to practice throat singing on them it's because this sort of sound boards off 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 you many of them live hundreds of kilometers away. here i was wrong there isn't much health in me and and in general there is something wrong with my life to me was the name with lana. 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 should your fourth and fifth vertebrae. or your body's cold or g.'s are blocked by the neck bone or sit in the oval. for city two of liquor stores your kidneys and although your agenda's organs are not in the best shape sheen of course . when you get to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed you'll in the x. ray photograph of it together with the descriptions. i've brought some bolt kept at home like you told me to do. ok i'll have a look where to where was your mother bone somewhere in the crib on reachin.

were there any priests among your forefathers in the maternal line and. 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 i suppose. your great grandmother lost something like unprotecting your clan's males when you. discuss the matter with the priest which is. i suggest you have the i can restore you and consecrated with you it will help you in your life which 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 principal target is a seventeen year old boy the youngest of the clans males according to the sharpens 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 before have been put in the ground near the shamans as a sign of peoples request for forgiveness for several hours these people who perform sophisticated rituals festooning the trees with ribbons and sacred objects wetted in milk and female gaited with fragrant june at the smoke. of humor take off their cap go down on the knees to the sound of the drum beat. turn their own clockwise. run around the trees and stand behind them.

run around the trees three times. now circle to come three times. coming. down on a nice here. from pick up the grass from the ground put in the cup and drink it. home. 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 bomb fires 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 bomb fire lick but

trees decorated with multi colored ribbons all this has to be reduced to ashes of the spirit so to meet people's requests you think of our deeds or folks with the shell monson have to have extraordinary skill that's what they need to display as super sensitive reaction and enormous powers to influence people that the big question is how they do it that the scientists may have to wreck their brains over the problem for a long time to come the most difficult part of it is explaining in scientific terms as in a slow much as dense i call it just i can say that most of these things have a psychotherapeutic effect with in this sense any shame one is an excellent psychologist and psychotherapist. being the traditional sharman in a city is a difficult task sometimes chug and come jokingly refers to himself as

a degraded schama because he can't afford to drop out of the fuss tempo of modern day civilization whenever the opportunity presents itself he heads for the holy clay he set up in the forest. before entering the forest the shaman pauses before but straight which is supposed to protect his glade from troopers in with the news that you can't just walk past this place you should give the spirits a high duck it's a blue scarf that takes your wishes and prayers to the sky schemin islam is not entirely made of religion in chillag. that's why i made a point of looking for such places when i was performing a ritual this birds told me to come here this birch tree has four trunks sharing one root is this is the holiest and most revered place as for the birch tree it belongs to a higher world the. ritual continues well into the night by 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 against steps 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. i'm against audience shamanism around one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. my first group was to become it i woman who lived here in the district. she subjected me to eight style rituals which no one else practiced at the time which it was after she died i went to mongolia where i found another group. it was some time later that spirits began entering me. the fact is that each generation of my ancestors included telling the chairman's even all the way back to the twelfth generation of paternal relatives as the book and so the spirits began entering me to see whether i had

a mark identifying me as a sham and. or. it is. by erin chin of is a successful farmer as well as a sherman 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 go to sherman's years and started to farm charmin ism and farming together is not an easy task viii 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 year is even playing with the idea of buying a felt making machine by year's 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 serger

a traditional boria tethering post nice house it indicates that this land has an owner. british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. a grand gathering of by year's follow us is scheduled for noon. lives near the border

with china has covered three hundred kilometers in order to see. i revealed some talent when i was still a child but i thought everybody could do what i could 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. they also suggested i find a guru for myself all the time i didn't have an idea who shot ones 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 get together to discuss current issues 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 of god as a holy place a ritual will be performed as. always by year inching off is happy to see his followers all of them have taken different paths because 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 late by cal after a long period of oblivion during the first russian congress for the study of sherman ism with michael hahn the legendary american anthropologist an organizer of the foundation for sure manic studies on it was so impressed by his talent that later his foundation awarded the siberian sharman the title of living treasure sherman is. now the gathering is over the shamans are about to set out on

a pilgrimage to mount such a night they will cover at least a hundred kilometers to lowlands mountain passes and heavy go in forest parts. of by followers has been here before this is one of the most private places that give the guru his shine money power as it has been considered one of the sacraments of boreal chairman isn't for a very long time a total cliff bears what looked like too dry and palms carved out of rock legend insists shermans will live as long as these ten fingers so that. the legendary female sharman in gym on is buried on the opposite side of the slope the grave of zarin bore a great charm who went through all nine stages of the initiation procedure is found nearby 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 in two aides go to the base of the giant weaker and less experienced cha. from here and with good reason this area's spirit is too powerful . and long lost the shaman to come has reached the sacred plate here in the thick of the forest he has built a set of ritual installations with his own hands and some of time the season packed with show money rituals stays in a tent just outside the glade for weeks on end. and. receive food in this special place here we light up the bonfire made of a certain number of branches. seven layers of branches symbolize the lower world see it is a ritual to exercise the souls of sick people who choir seven such layers. the sick person uses a spoon to offer the spirits whatever is in the bully holds in his hands as the

shaman sings to invoke them. at the prison. when there is milk in the bowl the sick person stops are focused on what he could get in return he might ask the spirits to get rid of his ailments give them luck or wish him a good journey. with a new. place where it is sacred to again comes here in cheer before the onset of winter to clean it up and remove the ashes left over from the summer time rituals. after the cleansing procedure again spreads a mixture of rice and beads across the clean spot in 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 gone with them. is an image of the tighar as ruler carved out of a pine trunk symbol of

a spirit is supposed to guard the played against intruders. we see to it that he keeps warm in 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 sharpens when they are 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 at both the institute of neurophysiology and higher nervous activity and the institute for ethnology and anthropology at the russian academy of sciences the buddhist. the so-called neo shamans and. i were involved in those special experiments you shall months 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. of these expert studies shamanism represent a number of countries. downwards instruments are attached to the body of the new the bee board they will record the state of his blood vessels this is now this somewhat all devised on his and is a special catch up designed by one of our offices doctors try months creative act is an act of affectation that is to say she needs to work himself up into a state of ecstasy. after that all processes inside his brain slow down especially those connected with speech in the city choice. then the brain begins to function in a fashion which is not characteristic of its normal activity in the city or in other words the man activates the brain's right hemisphere particularly its frontal lobes

which are responsible for his creative thinking. showmance put themselves in a state where they see a pattern of personages they met to program a law in the existence of such personage as models and picture them in their minds . it's must be said that later the person ingests all the power of the châlons. would say however the key thing is not to lull the personages to gain the upper hand on them their new year that the boy. children shall mention 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 from asia perform a shamanic ritual near the site of an ancient settlement in recent years are a must 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 that 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 evoke the local spirits here his hope is that they will help resolve a problem afflicting a sick man. 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. my mom. the tambourine falls silent the shaman rides with convulsions this means that a spirit has entered him as a rule the shaman knows which spirit is invoking what he can expect of it this time

however something has gone wrong. it's. begins trickling from the shamans mouth is 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 rose 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 choose 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 . to forward to again manages to overcome his left a-g. to go to mt show monk up to thank the local spirits 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 wealth and happiness to the land that prevents school and

disease and tames fire and floods which is the world of earth and water multiplying the texans.

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