and a man is not just stepping on the moon he could be going there to stay russia plans to build a permanently mounted research base right there on the lunar surface. all right now to our special report we take you to siberia to learn about the local sharman and the mysterious rituals to stay with us here on out. the sun's 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 sherman's 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 that the spirit has entered his body video cameras is 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 sherman ism 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. cost of an hour although the way it. rituals different dependent on the ethnicity of the shell means or do here each afternoon group has its own interpretation of the spirits or in this particular case the spirit penetrates the shuns body in a somewhat unusual way the quick political body i told peter in the shell man's mind undergoes a change which is the result of deep immersion you quit the moment she narrows his soul as it were and sublimate his energizing powers the miot of the soul leaves the

body at some point to make room for the spirit of god but then what it is as though the spirit occupies the shermans body while he is solely at the video camera. shermans are a rare unusual sight until a major industrial city in the urals even so sharman by the name of children come has managed to balance sharman as with life in the big city here's the latest representative of the clan of sherman's spawning seven generations for centuries siberians have become shamans when called upon by the spirits apart from his spiritual activities children come practices music in the morning he goes to his small studio in central chile where not performing his duties sharman 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 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 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 the national media that when you find yourself in a trance during a ritual you suffer spiritually so to speak. after that so using helps me withdrawal from that state. and i can't set sharman ism and music apart i can't focus only on music or shamanism 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 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 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 take flight using his head skin and bones to make the first morning who were 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 dedicated to their beloved steve's . goal would be no throat singing begins here in the diaphragm. each time i try to produce the sound i strain my belly to send it up boards zouk i make my vocal chords vibrate a little. with the result is something like a rorschach. i believe that sherman's were the first to practice don't sing a song and i'm still 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 probably more hear what's wrong and there isn't much help in the end and in general there is something wrong with my life and he was watching the name with lana waters and when were you 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 were you x. rayed last last spring please give me any number between zero and twelve six should you look at what was on the fourth and fifth vertebrae. all of your body's cold energies are blocked by the neck bone sitting over full. force and you just watch your kidneys and although your region is organs are not in the best shape sheen of. mean you've got to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed you little 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 a mother bone somewhere in the crowd beyond reach in the us for you know were there any priests among your forefathers in the maternal line. they were called sex convicts i think they were churchgoers anyway or you 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 protecting your clan's males you wish to discuss the matter with a priest what you. can do i suggest you have the i can reach toward you and consecrated with new tissue q-q. 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 inching off finishes consulting his patients late at night his followers meanwhile get ready for a ritual to lift the curse that has weighed 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 impose the curse and mongolia and 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 shermans year as a sign of peoples request for forgiveness for several hours these people will perform sophisticated rituals but festooning the trees with ribbons and sacred objects wetted in milk and female gated with fragrant juniper smoke. with never take off a cap go down on your knees to the sound of the drum beat. what

a source to tell their own clock wise. i run around the trees and stand behind them . after a long. run around the trees three times. now circle to come three times. down on a nice here. pick up the grass from the ground put in the cup and drink it on. 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 two are 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 but the spirits are to meet people's requests you think of our deeds our folks. 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 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 yum-o. go about it as an astrology is dan psychologist i can say that most of these things have a psychotherapeutic effect with in this sense any shaman is an excellent psychologist

of yours. and psychotherapist. being the traditional sharman in a city is a difficult task sometimes children 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 clay he set up in the forest. before entering the forest the shaman pauses before but st which is supposed to protect his glade from intruders i mean with a mist if 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 entirely made of religion and. that's why i made a point of looking for such places you put it 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 with little yes no music. although the shamanic ritual continues well into the night by ear 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 steps can be bitterly cold. smiling a little at go that low and that's when i first started seeing my own sisters when i was still a child about the same age as my grandson is now. and i'm against audience shamanism around one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. my first guru was to become it i woman who lived here in the against district with us a little like she suggested me to eight old style rituals which no one else practiced at the time it was. after she died i went to mongolia where i found another group. it was some time later that spirits began entering me. souls the

fact is that each generation of my ancestors included talented chairmans 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 and or. year. by year inching 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 i'm starting to farm chairman ism and farming together is not an easy task and by it 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 boria tethering post near 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. 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 sherman's they also suggested i find a guru for myself if they were there 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 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 sharman through god 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 parts because 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 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 sherman ism play in met with michael hahn a legendary american anthropologist an organizer of the foundation for sure manic studies on it was so impressed by. he has talent that later his foundation awarded the siberian sherman the title of living treasure sherman is. now the gathering

is over the shermans are about to set out on a pilgrimage to mount such an eye they will cover at least a hundred kilometers to lowlands mountain passes and heavy go in forest parts. none of by 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 berea shamanism for a very long time a total cliff there's what looked like to dry and ponds carved out of rock legend insists shermans will live as long as these ten fingers so that. the legendary female sharman engine man is buried on the opposite side of the slope of the grave of czar in bor a great chairman 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 and to aides go to the base of the giant path weaker and less experienced chairmans about from here and with good reason this area spirit is too powerful. and long lost the chelyabinsk shaman to organ 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 some of time the season packed with chamonix rituals stays in a tent just outside the glade for weeks on end. and there it's received food in this special place here we light up the bonfire made of a certain number of branches for example seven layers of branches symbolize the lower world seem 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 for you to preserve i do. but when there is milk in the bowl the sick person's thoughts 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 as a lid 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 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 she 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 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 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 at the russian academy of sciences the buddhist certainly shelley the so-called neo shamans and urban shamans were involved in those special experiments to me 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 just the lucy and of these experts started shamanism represent a number of countries giving him some money as my. instruments are attached to the body of the new year shomer the border guard they will record the state of his blood vessels this is not this somewhat all devised on his and is a special catch up designed by one of our offices dr skewed on someone's creative act 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 yes 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. shall non-sport 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 with their new it's a percentage of it's must be said that later the person ingests overpower the châlons. with it does not say however the key thing is not to lull the personages to gain the upper hand of them view that 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 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 affecting a sick man. down the ritual follows a standard scenario the shaman gradually enters a trance the tambourines rhythmic tempo quickens on the shamans movements become ever more abrupt and shit. follow. the. mom back on my own back on. 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. blood begins trickling from the shaman's mouth is sagging legs hardly supports him has a limp surround the bonfire producing in comprehensible sounds all ruling 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. suit 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 shoved them into his mouth a choose them and spits them out into the snows how many ailments have been defeated in today's ritual depends on the number of coals to choose by the showman . through the before door to again manages to overcome his method to go to mount sherman cut to thank the local spirits pray to the sun mother earth and above all else be eternal blue skies 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 below

to prevent school and disease and tames fire and floods which is the mode of earth and water multiplying moons with it since.

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