it's safeguards the onlookers according to popular belief ordinary people are not supposed to see the shermans eyes at such moments because this might cause them harm then 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 shermans 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 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. part of an hour although the way it. rituals de ferney dependent on the ethnicity of the shell means who here each ethnic group has its own interpretation of the spirits or in this particular case the spirit penetrates the shunts body in a somewhat unusual way that what it already i told peter in 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 energized and powerless the market of the soul

leaves the body at some point to make room for the spirit of the garden but then what is as though the spirit occupies the shermans body while his solely at the video camera. shermans are a rare unusual sight in a major industrial city in the urals even so sharman by the name of should 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 come practice 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 mountains sounds less than. 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. i can't set sharman ism and 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 he's. the modern who is their instrument of choice in the mongolian language modern that means folks who means violin quite often this instrument is referred to simply as the horses fiddle each violin by the horse's head symbolizing that the instrument is a living creature the strings are traditionally made a forced tail two strings symbolized in 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 iraq had a wind horse and he fell asleep enemies chopped off his horses wings the wingless horse died the hero commemoration takes like using his head skin and bones to make the first mall in poor as soon as he started playing the instrument he recognized

the voice of his divorce as they strung the songs on a morning for 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 up. boards i make my vocal chords vibrate a little. the result is something like a rorschach. i believe that sharma's was the first to practice saying someone it's because this sort of sound boards off evil spirits which are trying to take control of sick people. by ear inching off regularly host his patients in his little house situated close to the shamans yet many of them live hundreds of kilometers away. well

remember here i was wrong there isn't much health in me and and in general there is something wrong with my life and it was so with lana. 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 should your fourth and fifth vertebrae. or your body's cold or g.'s are blocked by the neck bone or should in over. forty two of liquor stores your kidneys and although your agenda's organs are not in the best shape sheena. when you get to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed unit in the x. ray photograph of it together with the descriptions. i've brought some balticon

kept at home like you told me to do. ok i'll have a look. for a job where was a mother bone somewhere in the crib on reachin. were there any priests among your forefathers in the maternal line and. they were called sex convicts i think they were churchgoers anyway. would you say that men in the maternal early. yes they die earlier than women do i suppose. if your great grandmother lost and protecting your clan's males you. discuss the matter with the priest. i suggest you have the i can restore you and consecrated. 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'm telling you that if you keep that i can in your household your son might father

of four boys and two girls. by you off finishes consulting his patients later on 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 sham 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 had been put in the ground near the shah as a sign of peoples request for forgiveness for several hours these people will perform sophisticated rituals by festooning the trees with ribbons and sacred objects wetted in milk and fema gated with fragrant juniper smoke. never take off their cap go down on the knees to the sound of the drum beat.

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. 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 bum 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 licked 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 folks from 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 the scientists may have to wreck their brains over the problem for a long time to come to the most difficult part of it is explaining it in scientific terms as an astrology is dense i call it just i can say that most of these things have a psychotherapeutic effect with in this sense any shonen is an excellent psychologist

and psychotherapist. being the traditional sharma in a city is a difficult task sometimes chad can 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 but 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 blade from intruders in with the news that you can just walk through. ass this place you should give the spirits a high duck it's a blue scarf that takes your wishes and prayers to the sky and shamanism is not entirely made a religion and. that's why i made a point of looking for such places when i was performing a ritual the spirits 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. 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 sherman ism around one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. my first guru was to become it i woman who lived here in the district. she suggested me to eight style rituals which no one else practiced at the time which 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 the chairman's even all

the way back to the twelfth generation of paternal relatives. and so the spirits began entering me to see whether i had a mark identifying me as a sham on. he is. chin off as a successful farmer as well as a shaman 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 you hurt and started a farm charmin 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 serger a traditional tethering post news house it indicates that this land has an owner.

a grand gathering of by year's followers is scheduled for noon. lives near the border with china has covered three hundred kilometers in order to seize good. 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 both charmant but they also suggested i find a guru for myself at the 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 now is 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 sharman through god is a holy place a ritual will be performed there as always by year in chin 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 white chairmans establish contact with the gods there to the left of their hands rest on ritual canes with bells. by ear inching off was the first to begin reviving sharman ism 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 and organizer of the foundation for sure manic studies on it was so impressed by his talent that later his foundation awarded to

siberia and sherman the title of living treasure sherman is. now at the gathering is the shamans are about to set out on a pilgrimage to mount such they will cover at least a hundred kilometers to lowlands mountain passes and heavy going for its parts. followers has been here before this is one of the most private places that give the guru his shine money it has been considered one of the sacraments of chairman ism for a very long time a total cliff bears what looked like to dry and ponds carved out of rock legend insists sharman to live as long as these ten fingers so that. the legendary female sharman. is buried on the opposite side of the slope of the grave of zoran bore the great charm who went through all nine stages of the initiation procedure is found by they say that in the old days such shermans merged with the spirit during the

ritual to control the weather travel over long distances he'll even levitate fly over the streets. after a ceremony by here into a go to the base of the giant. less experienced chairmans of barred from here and with good reason this area spirit is too powerful. and long lost the chelyabinsk shaman to come has reached the sacred glade here in the thick of a forest he's built a set of ritual installations with his own hands and some of time the season packed with show money rituals. in a tent just outside the glade for weeks on end. and. receive food in this special place here we light a fire made of a certain number of branches. seven layers of branches symbolize the lower world just a ritual to exercise the souls of sick people were 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 shaman sings to invoke them. at the prison. when there is milk in the bowl the sick person stalls 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. or with a new one. the place where it is sacred to again comes here in the year 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 beans 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 she again collects fir tree branches and carefully covers the gone

with them. is an image of the thai gods ruler carved out of a pine tree a symbol of a spirit is supposed to god played against intruders. we see to it that he keeps warm a 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 charlatans 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 at the russian academy of sciences but it's only shelly the so-called neo shamans and. were involved in those special experiments you

shall months represented and your generation option on extradition 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 often near shomer the border they will record the state of his blood vessels this is not this cell what all devised in his head is a special catcher designed by one of our offices doctors try 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 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 a city 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 power to program a law in the existence of such personage as models and picture them in their minds . it's much beset that later the person and jess overpower the châlons. with xan say however the key thing is not to lull the personages to gain the upper hand on them their new year the boy. children become 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 from asia perform a shamanic ritual near the site of an ancient settlement in recent years a must become popular with followers of all the satiric schools that 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 affecting a sick man. 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. the tambourine falls silent 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. it's. begins trickling from the shaman's mouth is sagging legs hardly supports him around 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. it's even 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 sharman 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 shaman. through to four to again manages to overcome his left the jeep to go to mt show monka 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 and it prevents pool and disease and tames fire and floods it is the lord of the earth and water multiplying the texans.

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