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What is the religion of a shaman? Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. 

How is a shaman chosen?

He does not become a shaman simply by willing it, for it is not the shaman who summons up the spirits but they, the supernatural beings, who choose him. Adolescence typically marks the point when the spirits begin to take an overt role in the shaman's life, although variations in the age of onset do occur.

What are the 9 shamanic gifts?

These abilities, often termed "charismatic gifts", are the word of knowledge, increased faith, the gifts of healing, the gift of miracles, prophecy, the discernment of spirits, kinds of tongues, interpretation of tongues.

What can a shaman heal?

Can a woman be a shaman?

Some female shamans have spirit husbands to assist them, just as male shamans may have spirit wives. This is particularly the case among Burmese shamans, the vast majority of whom are women. A woman becomes a shaman when a nat (a spirit) falls in love with her and wishes to marry her.

What are the 7 stages of shamanic initiation?

He defines initiation as an archetypal process consisting of the following seven stages: 

1) spiritual education and psychic liberation, 2) engagement and disengagement, 

3) descent and ascent, 

4) death and rebirth, 

5) incarnation and release, 

6) coniunctio (marriage, union and spiritual illumination), and 

7) submission