What Is A Shaman?

A shaman is a term westerners use to describe tribal healer and spiritual leader. It is not a term many tribal spiritual healers like to be called. In respect, call them by what they want to be called. Here, shaman will be used for this teaching.

A true shaman is of tribal culture. There is teachings that tell one can only be a shaman if the helping spirit comes to ome, which well known "calling" This is not always the case, it is also known shamans in the South America just seek to be shamans, with no calling. The calling is more of spiritual duty, like the true healer or psychic. But in ture spirituality, there is never one healer, but many. Since all living beings are healers, and all beings need healers. There is never one important hearler like it is in tribal culture.

There is of a New Age practice of shamanism called Neoshamanism, which are not true shamans, only people calling themselves shamans. These people stold spiritual practice that were not meant for outsides, an mimicking the spiritual practice that is seen as disrespectful to those tribes spirituality. Even Seekers and healers see this too as disrespect. Seekers only learn the teachings and practice for wisdom, and that might be helpful. There is not mimicking a practice of a traditional. A true healer will not call self a shaman, nor wear shaman clothing. Unless the psychic is of that tribe. Also, for one to be a shaman, the people have to give that tilte, not the one calling themselve a shaman. Keep meditating on this for clarity.