garry's 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 the 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 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 the shell man's mind undergoes a change which is the result of deep immersion you quit the moment there as 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. with them which is as though the spirit occupies the showmance body while he's solely a video camera. shermans 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 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 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 to again praise to them and offers them gifts chairmans highly valued their support. to me is a friend of shared get 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. when you find yourself in a trance during the ritual you suffer spiritually so to speak. after that use it 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 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 i need. 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 forces head symbolizing that the instrument is a living creature the strings are traditionally made of forced 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 iraq had a wind horse he fell asleep enemies chopped off his horses wings the wingless horse died the hero commemorated takes like using his head skin and bones to make the first mall in cool 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 movie at some two billions dedicate to their beloved students . 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 yet many of them live hundreds of kilometers away. oh really i'm here what's wrong there isn't much health in me and and in general there is something wrong with my life and he was not still name with lana orders 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 it over full. force and you do of course was your kidneys and although your region is the organs are not in the best shape sheen of. 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. for a job 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 but you would just say that men in the maternal early. yes they die earlier than women do muscle problems. if your great grandmother lost some protests in your clans males you. discussed the matter with the priest. i suggest you have the i can reach toward 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 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 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 sharpens the spirits impose the curse in mongolia and one of the boys ancestors broke a holy birch tree many years ago. 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 gated with fragrant juniper smoke. you might take off your 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. 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 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. 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 in a slow dance 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 schama 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 glade he set up in the forest. before entering the forest the shaman pauses before but strain which is supposed to protect his glade from troopers 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 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 shamanism around one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. my first guru 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 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. or. it is. by erin chin 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 go to sherman's years 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 the 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 name his house it indicates that this land has

an owner. sure is that so much. money here the biggest and most expensive elections money can buy this is how many americans see what's called political action committees or super pacs. 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 charm and 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 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 is a holy place

a ritual will be performed there as always by you and chain off is happy to see his followers all of them have taken different path. well they face the group black shamans communicate with the spirits there to the right of by their main tool is 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 and chin off was the first to begin reviving shamanism beyond late by kal after a long period of oblivion during the first russian congress for the study of showmen ism 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 awarded the siberian sharman the title of living treasure sherman is. now the gathering is the shamans are about to set out on a pilgrimage to mount such an eye they will cover at least

a hundred kilometers through lowlands mountain passes and heavy going forest parts . of by 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 shamanism for a very long time a total cliff bears what looked like to dry and palms carved out of rock legend insists the sham ones will live as long as these ten fingers so that. the legendary female sharman in jim on 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 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 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. at long last the shaman to come has reached the sacred plate 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 stays in a tent just outside the glade for weeks on end. and parents receive 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 scene 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 bully holds in his hands as the sham and sayings 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. or with a new rule. the place where the lead is sacred to again comes here in sheer 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 thai gods ruler carved out of a pine tree a symbol of a spirit is supposed to guard the 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 at both the institute of neurophysiology and higher nervous activity and the institute for ethnology in anthropology at the russian academy of sciences the buddhist certainly shelley the so-called neo shamans and. were involved in those special experiments you shall months represented and your generation option an extradition all in the mix here is a demonstration of an experiment in the presence of a large audience. of these experts start in shamanism represent

a number of countries. downwards instruments are attached to the body of the new york the pre-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 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 yes in the situation. then the brain begins 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 overpower the châlons. would say however the key thing is not to lull the person is to gain the upper hand on them their new view that the boy. children 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. 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. from. the fall silent the shaman rides with convulsions this means that the 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 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 and 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. true to form. just to overcome. to go to mount to thank the local spirits pray to the sun. above all else the eternal blue sky this is how epic literature describes it the eternal blue sky is without beginning or end it moves without the support of limbs it brings peace and happiness to. the prevent disease and tames flubs which is the load of. multiplying since.

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quite. roundup of the week's top stories in today's headlines the arab league calls on syrian president bashar all of saud to surrender some of his powers to his vice president and form a national unity government with the opposition this comes as the league extends its observer mission despite a lack of progress and doing almost violence. early results show croatia has voted in favor of joining the european union this comes as yet another member of the financially stricken union rumania against its governments and certain measures. and other stories that shape this week tension over iran's nuclear program reaches

new highs as the e.u. debates an oil embargo and the us up to its military presence in the region. thank you for being with us on karen terror at six o'clock here in moscow the arab league is demanding a series of reforms in syria to stabilize the country in the wake of almost a year of violent uprising that has called on president assad to cede some of his powers to the vice president as well as work towards a formation of a national unity government arab league official says that their monitors will continue to implement a peace plan in the country despite saudi arabia withdrawing in contingency and as r.t. surf earth reports there's a desperate need for mediation in the region conflict crucially also expected to happen is that they're going to be bolstering this mission by.