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Hi Paul,
This is the place I am referring to:
The piece was edited in a sound studio in Canada by an individual who has gone to Mayantuyachu many times.
About ayahuasca ceremonies. I would also recommend the following healing center near Iquitos in Peru, where I have been, which works explicitly with the divine feminine and with male and female indigenous Shipibo shamans.
http://www.templeofthewayoflight.org/
Rebecca, the shaman is not a private mystic, but exists to serve a community. For the shaman, the community is generally a fairly small-scale society in which ideas of the soul combine with the cyclical view of natural processes, so that an important part of the shaman's role is to regulate and assist the conservation of the community's soul force. The Evenk of Siberia believed in a clan river which ran around the earth, sky, and underworld and along which the souls of deceased clan members passed on their way to being reborn in the same clan. In some Eskimo cultures the name soul is distinct from a person's other souls and return with the name of a new living being who may or may not be related.
The inclusion of some people in a community or group implies the exclusion of others. One interesting society is the Achuar who inhabit the jungle of the Peru-Ecuador frontier in the upper Amazon. Here there are no fixed communities, but widely separated single households in an almost permanent state of conflict.
So, to respond to your question about leadership, some shamanic communities do not even recognize the concept of leadership---they only know the concept community. I can recommend a few books:
Secrets of the Shamans by Piers Vitebsky
Shamanism by Mircea Eliade
Jung and Shamanism by C. Michael Smith
Shaman: The Wounded Healer by Joan Halifax
The Gift of Life by Bonnie Glass Coffin
None of the books in my library address the leadership issue, so perhaps a journal article would speak more to what you are looking for. Good luck, Rebecca. Lynn
Sorry I"m late to the party! Wonderful posts. I'm up to Joe Elenbaas and others re: wounded healer: Jung talks about the "collisions" that we must encounter to build self-awareness/ego strength, et al. How could anyone not be wounded on the path to individuation? I think the consciousness of our wounding is what allows us to understand (a little better) the human condition, and give our gifts when needed by others and to use for ourselves.
Wow to Britta! What a gift to be healed by a shaman in Nepal and one who was clearly marked w/ 4 thumbs that work! I think he would be honored in any group except modern medicine and "civilized" cultures. I also didn't know about the flaw in Navajo weaving although I was allowed to watch a group many years ago. Happy to be back! DPA is always full of wonderful discussions and surprises. I have a small collection of shamanic medicines that a friend brought me from Peru. It and my Huichol art/feathers, et al hold a sacred space in my home!
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