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 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 valentino had a ton of

a head of the unit for the study of shamanism is inspecting the new exhibits to splayed 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. the way it. d. fernery dependent on the ethnicity of the shell means to hear each ethnic group has its own interpretation of the spirits or in this particular case the spirit penetrates the shuns body in a somewhat unusual way that what political radio until appearances on 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 garden but then what he

is as though the spirit occupies the shermans body while he's solely a video camera. shermans are a rare or unusual sight until a major industrial city in the urals even so sharman by the name of income has managed to balance sherman 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 again come back to see 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 church again prays to them and offers them gifts chairman's highly valued support. to mir 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 neech 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. as the national media when you find yourself in a trance during a ritual you suffer spiritually so to speak. after that. helps me withdrawal from that state. i can't set sharman is i'm a music apart i can't focus only on music or sham and this 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 work means violin quite often this instrument is referred to simply as the horses fiddle each by the 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 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 hero who had a wind horse and he fell asleep enemies chopped off his horses wings wingless horse died the hero commemoration takes like using his head skin and bones to make the first mall in pool as soon as he started playing the instrument he recognized the voice of his divorce as they strung the songs on

a more than four mungo's movie at some two billions dedicate to their beloved students asked 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 sham ones were the first to practice throat singing someone 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 yet 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 everyone smith line borders and when we're born nine hundred sixty three have you had headaches yes but when did you first feel them not long ago as far as i can tell. when we x. rayed last last spring please give me any number between zero and twelve six should your fourth and fifth vertebrae. all of your body's cold energies are blocked by the neck bone it should over full. force of the two of me just as your kidneys and although your genital organs are not in the best shape sheen of. when you get to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed unit x. ray photograph of it together with the descriptions. i've brought some bolts kind of 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 crowd beyond region. were there any priests among your forefathers in the maternal line. they were called sex convicts i think they were churchgoers anyway. i would just say that men in the maternal early. yes they die earlier than women do i suppose. if your great grandmother lost an icon protesting your plans miles you. discussed the matter with the priest. i suggest you have the i can restore you and consecrated. to 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 year in chino finishes consulting his patients layton and 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. birds 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 will perform sophisticated rituals by festooning the trees with ribbons and sacred objects wetted in milk and fumigated with fragrant juniper smoke. never take off a cap go down on the knees to the sound of the drum beat.

to turn our 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 praise of 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 bomb fire lick birch trees decorated with multi colored ribbons all this has to be reduced to ashes at the spirits or to meet people's requests you think of our deeds folks but this shall monson have to have extraordinary skill. which 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 to the most difficult part of it is explaining it 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 schama 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 fuss temple 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 blade from intruders in with the news that you can't just walk. asked 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 an entirely need of religion and. that's why i made a point of looking for such places when i was performing a ritual this bird 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 and. 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 began studying shamanism 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 it was. after she died i went to mongolia where i found another guru. 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. by a chain of is 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 sherman's yurta and started to farm chairman ism and farming together is not an easy task and 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 a traditional tethering post name his house it indicates that this land has an owner. a grand gathering of by year's followers is scheduled for noon if gainey billick

lives near the border with china has covered three hundred kilometers in order to see his 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 bloody at sherman's they also suggested i find a guru for myself at that 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 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 inching off is happy to see his followers all of them have taken different paths will they face the group black shamans communicate with the spirits there to the right of by them aim 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 elan chin 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 showmen ism 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 decide derian sharman the title of living treasure sharman is. now the gathering

is the shamans are about to set out on a pilgrimage to mount. 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 show money powers it has been considered one of the sacraments of chairman isn't for a very long time a tall cliff there's what looked like too dry and palms carved out of rock legend insists the shermans will 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 zarin bore the 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 into a go to the base of the giant weaker and less experienced chairmans about from here and with good reason this area spirit is too powerful. along with the chelyabinsk shaman to come has reached the sacred played here in the thick of a forest he's built a set of ritual installations with his own hands and summer 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. are made of a certain number of branches. seven layers of branches symbolize the lower world it is 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

sham and sayings to invoke them. 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. the 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 summertime rituals. after the cleansing procedure again spreads a mixture of rice and beads across the clean spot in this way the shaman asks the 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 with them. is an image of the tiger carved out of a pine trunk the symbol of

a spirit is supposed to god played against intruders. we see to it that he keeps warm winter we don't want him to freeze we want him to stand on guard 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 shamans when they're in contact with the spirits they want to know where the shamanism is not some sort of miss. created by a group of. people research was done several years ago at both the institute of neurophysiology and higher activity in the institute for ethnology through apology to the russian academy of sciences the buddhist third initially the so-called neo shamans and. were involved in those special experiments neo shell months represented and your generation of shamanic tradition told them look the humor is

a demonstration of an experiment in the presence of a large audience. of these experts start in shamanism represent a number of countries. instruments are attached to the body of a new shomer the pre-board they will record the state of his blood vessels this is this cell what all devised in his hand is a special count designed by one of our offices dr skew from month 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 whole process is inside his brain slow down especially those connected with speech in the situation. then the brain begins to function in a fashion which is not characteristic of its normal activity. in other words the man activates the bring in right hemisphere particularly its frontal lobes which

are responsible for his creative thinking. non-sport themselves in a stage where they see a pattern of person a chance. to program along when the existence of such personages model and picture them in their minds. that the later the person adjusts overpower the seans. say however the key thing is not to love the person is to gain the upper hand them your. the show. is in for a hectic day he will travel five hundred kilometers to. the site of the ruins of the town cross the boundary separating europe from asia. ritual near the site of an ancient settlement in recent years i must become popular with. 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. cain of the to rock to millions of years ago but 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. on. the rituals of. the shaman gradually enters a trance the tambourines rhythmic tempo quickens and the shamans movements become. common. back. the full silence the shaman rides with convulsions this means that a spirit has entered him. which spirit is invoking what he can expect of

it this time however something has gone wrong. it's just. begins trickling from the shaman's mouth is sagging legs hardly supports him around the producing in comprehensible sounds like a beast. it's. 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 where a spirit in the shape of a shannon accepts a gift and begins gesturing as he squats near the sick man soon he rose again and vanishes in the dark. soon 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 shamans face as the sick man looks on the shaman grabs the coals shows them into his mouth a 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 the four door to again manages to overcome his left a-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 wealth and happiness to the land and it prevents

school and disease contains fire and floods it is the lord of the water multiplying the texans.

well from the fukushima it's technology innovation all the us developments from around russia we've got the future covered. with the blood still flowing at a body count growing the arab league reportedly wants a carry on monitoring in syria despite being slammed for being totally ineffective . silence and thrown out a ron's english language press t.v. news program gets kicked off british airways for a falling foul of broadcasting was something the chalice dubbed a clear act of censorship. for medians one their president out protest against corruption and low wages turned on what hundreds arrested and dozens injured in clashes with police.

it is one of the and the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie the arab league is reportedly leaning towards prolonging its monitoring mission in syria for another month and widespread accusations it's failed to curb violence the final decision is expected on sunday after the observers report comes under scrutiny at the gathering in cairo has the details the arab ministers are going to be meeting to present their findings the what's been happening in syria and to discuss what their next move will be the arab league mission which in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace but by syria's government that among other things that included the release of a political prisoner the withdrawal of the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful this tired league mission has been it's just basic will.